The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-06-24
kISHIyIFF HORRORS
,,oeFg,s GREwsOME STORY OF
The MASSACRE.
.,s suferings Worse Than Death
Wore Endured by the Victims.
s.iObtfuI Scenes Witnessed

III HaA -
Truthful Scenes Witnessed
.,ong the Hebrews who landed the
AniOn aorning at New York from the
nsl Ryndam was sucher Acker-
salu'l agpd forty years old, entered on
an nassenger list as a resident OF Dam
sritz, Bessarabia' but who' accord
Wv b;s declaration, is actually a
sooIpr of Kishineff and one of the
ns r u were in Kishineff at the time
y racept massacre to reach these
.,s saws the New York Tribune.
w. "a with his wife and baby, who
over with him, in a relatives
w. n New York, Ackermann gave.
srh an interpreter, the following
rVu somp account of the horrors of
:" massacre, from which. according
-. statement, he owed his own ex-
n vi and that of his family to the
,aoos of a gentle friend who gave
u ~ sanctuary in his chimney.
q cannot begin to tell the horrors OF
ROO days that followed the Pass
81 Kishineff," said Ackermann,
{. 10 mo and to my family it was the
~ terrible because we did not see,
I only heard. no,. ,.,,uo
:. had done a good business, al
snrb selling liquor was a govern
"nt monopoly and the punishment
snld have been severe. was hurry
along the street about 5 O'Clock
N nv wife and the baby, hoping to
70 Dambrowitz before it was very
~ Suddenly | heard from a nearby
root the cry Of the Jews and the
onting of a mob of men. All day be-
- the children of Christians had
Don stoning the Jews in the ghetto
A the sense of trouble brewing had
Zen in me.
NV wife and I stood and consulted,
Milo the noise of the mob around the
lrror grew louder. The door of the
brsp in front Of which we stood
ened. A young man came out fully
essed. In the light Of a torch In
hand recognized him; he was the
n of a Christian friend. He ran at
hit before he could do us harm
father, an old man, came to the
MT and. recognizing me, rescued us.
brought us into the front room OF
house. The Russian home has but
10 rooms, one in front and one be-
nd It.
FIN the front room was a large fire.
ace as wide as a man is long. There
las no fire in the hearth. The old
an babe US crawl up into the chin
b and stay there until he told us 1t
ould be safe for us to come down.
anwhile the cries on the street be-
me greater and more fearful.
I'VE sickened as we heard the brutes
sting over befouling women and
ung girls. We heard the maddened
reams of men and recognized the
ices as those Of the husbands whose
ives were in the hands Of the fiends.
BID both wives and husbands pleaded
death as a boon.
Some whispered that sixteen girls
tween fourteen and sixteen years old
ere dying from the excuses of the
ob, committed amid bowls of
unken glee before the eyes Of the
rents before the parents were torn
pieces.
Then one man told of butcher.
was the strong man Of the Jews
Ashineff. The mob burst into his
ace. He had q revolver. Six of the
OO fell dead on the threshold; then
flung the weapon into the mob and
cSed up a cleaver But the mob
empowered him. His wife, who was
Werlng behind him, they drew into
street and, holding the man, they
lhe clothes from the woman and
Wished her. Some one searching the
ans house found his twelve year old
IAd In the cellar. She, too, they
ought before the father and half
au mother and misused her. By this
e Tie butcher was fOaming at the
Vuth and struggled with the ten men
% held him.
oue or the mob stuck q knife into
mans stomach, and in q moment
was disembOwled. Then they
pped him and mutilated his body
u II could not be recognized. Be
LIS Wife's eyes they hung him on
VI The meat hooks in front of his
SHOP They then killed his wife
Ueaung her to death and left the
~ ~ lor dead on the bloody street.
4 was the same with the home of
~ Jew who sought shelter in Chris
muses.. AS soon as the refugees
slowed away the Christians hur-
away to houses of the refugees.
Tue soldiers came on the third
went out into the street. 1t SEEM
Ull erent place. l counted up to
OouleS Of men, women and chill
most Of them mutilated hideous-
s'iloSt unrecognizable. Eighty Of
were hastily buried, but they
s,. eAnumed and photographed for
'Selce day later"