Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-09
FANATICS TO TRAIN
CIasdian MOUNTED POLES Finally Brsak Up
DOakhobsr Pilgrimage.
STRUGGLE IN BLIZZARD TO REACH JESUS
RusSihns viii Not strike slows. hut
Resist with All Their What
EGorts 80 send Them home
by Force.

MfNNEDOsA. Nan. Nov. S.-Atter one Of
he most exciting incidents in the history
NJ the northwest. the Doukhobor fanatics
have been forcihly sntrained. loaded in cars
like cattle AMI are nov guarded b. 4 large
detachment o. mounted police, who arr
Kept busy preventing them from throwing
themselves from the windows.
The special will leave here tonight for
Iorkton. where the mounted police will
rive the Doukhobors to their villages. thus
ending the moct remarkable pilgrimage in
Canadian history.
The Doukhobors arrived here last night
enroute 20 Winnipeg. This morning they
attempted to resume the journey with the
mercury standing a. 10 below zero.
Government ~oflcials held them with diff
hculty in a skating rink until the military
special arrived this evening with 09
mounted police.
The fanatics we're addressed By officials
and told they would have TO go home. They
cried: NO We go 10 seek Jesus"
zeibroh. their leader. h~arsngued his fol-
lovers, instructing them not to resist
carry fanatics I'm Their Aprons.
Two hundred farmers vho gathered at
the train TO zee them and 500 other citi-
zens surrounded them and offered assist
Ance. Fifty Of the fanatics got out and
made a rush on the road to go east. Sur
rounded by the rovd. they resisted des-
p~erately till the police ~grsppled with the
leaders and carried them bodily 70 the
.ars. Zeibroh. chief Of the fanatics. had
10 be carried 500 yards in q wagon.
When the rink vomited forth its frenzied
ienizens an indescribable scene followed
Farmers, townspeop1e and police threw
k.-u..r-.. -. a.. n.-Nh1N-rg ,,H > ,ZreT
or carried them TO the station. The latter
encircled each other with their arms and
seemed linked together as by bands Of
steel. While they struggled they gave
voice to their weird chant. Some struggled
20 hard that their clothing was literally
torn from their backs. For over an houl
the road 20 the station was crowded with
people and the excitement was intense
The Doukhobors refused 20 strike, bui
struggled bliudly for freedom.
Police Fight In Blizzard.
Their captors. with blood warmed by III,
strange struggle, shouted and cursed a
The bloodless battle became more exciting
and when the cars arrived another struggl
ensued. The stalwart police handed ri
the kicking Russians. who we're thrust int
dark. cold coaches like cattle, where the,
threw themselves against windows an
doors. barred to prevent their escape. Dur
ing the enforced ~entraining a blizzar,
sprang up and the weather became intensel,
cold.
The Doukhobors have been living Of
wheat and raw oatmeal. Tonight small
quantities OF bread was thrown to them
Many are physical wrecks.
Only about twenty Of the 500 escaped an
they are on the prairie in a temperatur
that means death. The action taken to
night was on instruction of the Domin
ion government, which said the pilgrim
must be sent home il they had to be car
ried.
At a late hour the Doukhobors are locke
in the coaches struggling vsinly for free
dom to look for the Messiah. They sin
and pray necessarily. asking divine as
sistance 10 turn the hearts Of their car
tors and release them.