The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-08-17
FLEEiNG JEWS.
Pathetic story OF russian Persecution of
jewish FamiIy-TheIr Home Burned aud
They Wore Hunted Like CrImInnls.

| PntnetlC Story OF hUsbluu EeTNOSueeV"O W. ~
jewish FamiIy-TheIr Home Burned aud
They Were Hunted Like Criminals.
New YoRK, Aug. l6.-The story oil
Feiye and Hinde Zlabowsky, boy
teen years old and girl twelve years,
Hebrews, and their escape from Russia
to America reads like one Of the old
abolition stories OF the underground
railway. They belong to II despised
and prosec uted race, but there is sim
pie heroism about them that commands
respect.
was butcher in the little town OF
Hruskoy, in the government OF Kursk:
The anti-SemitiC troubles drew on, and
July 10 OF last year, eight OF the fifteen
Hebrew iamilias were ordered to leave
within twenty.four hours. Where they
we're to 90 the authorities didn't care,
only they were to leave Russia. Abra-
ham Zlabowsky fortunately had enough
money TO buy steerage ticket TO San
| Antonio, Texas, where he has q sister.
Incautiously he let it out to some one
of the countless spies that he intended
TO 90 to America and leave his family
behind until lie could gctenough money
to send for them.
The night after the father had gone
their house was set on fire by somebody
who was determined that the whole
family must 90 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 Bar
detski in the town OF Kanatop, twenty
English miles distant. The mother
walked there, carrying the youngest OF
the children. They fed by night rs
though they had been criminals. They
were lucky that no one challenged them
and had them put into prison. When
people came along the road they hid i'll
the bushes.
This is the story told by Feive, the
boy, and translated from the old Ger
man and Hebrew iargon which Russian
Hebrews speak, by Mr.. Reinherz, the
representative OF the United Hebrew
Charities, at the Barge Office.
For eleven months this mother and
five 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. There
fore he pnt 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 n
letter to the house OF Joel Bardet2ki, in
Kanatop, and this letter tod the NUM-
Der and name OF a ticket for each one
that could be found at certain office
in Hamburg. Then began the modern
passover, out Of the house OF bondage
into the new laud OF Canaan.
There are menwho correspond to the
conductors of underground railways OF
ante-bellum days. He didn't bother
with passports. He took the mother
and the little ones in wagon by night
through Poland, and passed them from
one place to another. Feive, the sturdy,
lad, and Minde, the girl of u, 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 interested in in
quiring. All he knows is that they had
10 wade through river to get into
Neustadt, Germany.
They got mired and were nearly
drowned, more than that they got
separated from their mother When
they arrived in Hamburg they expected
to lind 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, per-
haps 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 Wednes-
day on the Veendam, and were put into
the detention pen. Nobody knew them
and they knew nobody. ltisn'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.. Rcinherz had them
put into boarding house and it won't
be long before there will be great doings
in the house OF Abraham Zlabowsky,
in San Antonio.