Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-16
FLYING FROM RUSSIA.
Pathetic Case of Russian Persecution
of a Hebrew Family.
THEIR DWELLING BURNED DOWN.
Hunted Like Criminals. They Are Com
PEELED to Flee by Night.
MOTHER AND CHILDREN GET SEPARATED

NEW 1ORh, aug. lo.-Ine story OF felV'
and Hlnde Zlabowsky, boy 10 years ole
and girl of IL years, Hebrews, and theil
escape from Russia to America, reads like
one of the old abolition stories of the under
ground railway. They belong to despiset
and prosecuted race, but there is simple
heroism about them that commands respect
Their father, Abraham Zlabowsky, was 6
butcher in the little town of Hruskoy, in
the government of kursk. The anti
Semitic troubles drew on, and July
10 of last year, s out of the 10 He.
brew families were ordered to leave within
"a hours Where they were to go the au-
thorities didn't care, only they were to
leave Russia Abraham Zlabowsky for
tunately had enough money to buy steer
age ticket to San Antonio, Tex, where he
has a sister. Incautiously he let it out to
some one of the countless spies that he in
tended to go to America and leave his
family behind until he could get enough
money to send for them.
THE HOUSE BURNED DOWN.
The night after the father had gone their
house was set on fire bv somebody who was
determined that the whole family must go
too. The house the Zlabowskys had paid
for and every stick of furniture and every
rag of clothes, except what they had on
their backs, went up in smoke and not one
of the village turned hand to help put out
the fire.
They had an uncle named Joel Bardetzki
in the town of kanatop, 20 English miles
distant The mother walked there, carrying
the youngest of the children. They fled by
;nh@ fho,,rI l,oI
They were lucky that no one challenged
them and had them put into prison. Wheu
people came along the road they hid in the
bushes.
This is the story told by Feive, the boy,
and translated from the old German and
Hebrew jargon which Russian Hebrews
speak, bv Mr. Reinherz, the representative
of the United Hebrew Charities, at the
Barge Office.
THE FLIGHT FROM RUSSIA.
children lay hid, and were fed and clothed
in their uncle's house.
Meantime Abraham Zlabowsky was very
anxious to get his family from Russia and
over to San Antonio. Therefore he put
money in his purse until there was enough
of it to buy tickets for the mother and the
five children.
One day last month there came letter
to the house of Joel Bardetzki, in kanatop,
and this letter told the number and name of
a ticket for each one that could te found at
a certain Office in Hamburg. Then began
the modern passover, out of the house of
bondage into the new land of Canaan.
There are men who correspond to the
conductors of underground railways of ante
beIlum days. He didn't bother with pass
t. &lo o,l @ho
ones in a wagon by night through Poland
and passed them from one place to another
Feive, the sturdy lad, and Hinde, the girl
of II, no less sturdy than her brother,
trudged along afoot, carrying what few
traps they had. The boy doesn't remember
the names of the towns. He wasn't inter-
ested in inquiring. All he knows is that
they had to wade through a river to get into
Neustadt, Germany.
SEPARATED FROM MOTHER.
They got mired and were nearly drowned,
more than that they got separated from their
mother. When they arrived in Hamburg
they expected to find her. But she had not
come. They didn't know but she had gone
on to America. They didn't know but she
had been caught at the frontier, perhaps
thrown into prison, and their friend sent to
Siberia. But there was nothing for them to
do but come on to America
They arrived in New York Wednesday on
the Veendam, and were put into the deten-
tion pen. Nobody knew them and they
knew nobody. 1t isn't much wonder that
when Mr.. Reinherz spoke to them the girl
burst out crying and the boy had all he
could do to keep his chin from trembling
and the water from coming into his eyes,
Their sorrow was turned into Joy when
they were told that their mother and the
other children were coming on the next
boat. Mr.. Reinherz had them put into a
boarding house and it won't be long before
there will be great doings in the house of
Zlabowsky, in San Antonio.