Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1892-01-20
RUSSIAN ATROCITIES.
low tho Jews Wore Cleared Out
OF q Muscovito Town.
Driven from Their reds In tho Dead OF
Night tho Half-Nsked. Outcast5.
Tako Refuge In tho
Cemeteries.

The story Of the clearing of Marina
Rost3cha is perhaps the most cruel and
repellant episode in the whole record of
last springs barbaritics, says London
correspondent of the New York Times.
Tho Jews were of the lowest class
artisans, petty traders and street hawk
crs, porters and day laborcrs. They
had congregatcd here, it is true, to
avoid the police, but this involves no
suggestion Of wrong doing on their
part. Their object in getting as far
away as possible from the police was
not that they were criminals, but that
they could not raise the money to pay
them for permission to live unmolcstcd
in the town. There is no record Of an
arrest ever. having been made among
the Jews of Marina Rostcha for u GRIM
inal offcnsc The heads of families
all the, men, in fact-wcnt daily to Mos
cow to work, returning in the evening
to their homes. Some of their children
came into the technical or handicraft
school maintained by the Jewish COM
munity of Moscow. Most of them,
however, studied their primers and
elementary books ut home.
OF sudden, without warming. on IN
Indictment wintry night, Il troop of POI
lice and CosSackS surrounded this out
of thc-way country suburb. and, form
ing an engirding Gordon, proceeded to
carry out Princc Golitzyn's written Or
der to cXpcl the entire community.
This order was executed with what
Russians regarded us incredible brutal
ity. The lights had been cXtinguished
in almost every house, and the unsus-
pceting people were asleep. They
were awakened by the crash of
their doors being broken open, and
the boistcrous entrance of Cossacks
with torches and drawn swords. The
terrified inmates were routed out, and
driven with curses and blows into
the night, without being given time
even to dress. The Gnatchcd such gar
mcnts rs they could and ran. The
tales that are told arc TOO narrowing to
dwell upon. At least three hundred
families were thus dragged from their
beds and chased ot:t into the wiutry
darkness on this first RIGHTS raid. Bare
footed, half-naliCd, frightened out of
their senses, t,icsc oItcasts wandered
hclplessly through the black woods,
moaning in their misery or raising
shouts in tho effort to keep together.
Some of them, "t least, were able to
build fires il the forest. and gather
around these TIC old and irlirIn. and the
women with nursing babies ut their
breasts, or little children. who J al
made their way thus far with bare feet
over the snow and frozen ground. The
soldiers pursued them Eithcr and
stamped ont these fires. Others did not
step in their flight until they reached
the cemeteries, lying just outside the
town. Here they fonnd refuge, and,
crouching for shelter among the tomb
stones, waited for morning.
No nllusion to this amazing event has
ever appeared il any Russian paper
There was no editor who dared SO rauch
as to mention it. Although many
deaths resulted, directly and indirectly,
from the terrible shock and exposure Of
that night, there were no inqucsts, no
Investigations, no official reports.
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