The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-17
Forty Murdered in Gold Blood and the Hospitals Filled
 With Wounded
ATROCITIES IN RUSSIA
 ARE COMING 10 LIGHT
Letter Says That Dead Bodies Are Daily Found in Cellars and Side Streets-Glrls Are Assault
 ed and Bodies Mutlated.

Minneapolis, Minn., May 16.-Russian Jews in Minneapolis are beginning to re- ceive letters from their friends in the Russian province of Bessarabia, telling of the recent massacre at Sishinen.
 s. M. Margulis, a resident of Binder, a town not far from Kishlneff, has writ ten a letter to q relative in Minneapolis. part of which describes the outrages as follows:
 "A great massacre took place on Easter Sunday, In which not only the Ciens of Kishineff took part but also the Rus sians of the neighborhood, showing that 1t had been organized by some anti-sem- etlc leader. One third of the Kishineff Jews have fled to Binder, others to Odes- sa, and the only trouble is that there is nowhere to run. Naked and bare footed hungry and thirsty, they came here. Forty Jews have been killed outright; over four hundred are in the hospitals, many of them lying between life and death.
 Number of Children Killed.
 "A large number of children are among the dead and injured. Girls of tender age have been ravished and mutilated in the most brutal nanner. Many Jews are missing. Every day dead bodies are found in cellars and side streets. A great calamity has befallen us Jaws in Russia. The Russian all over tue state are boasting that they will do the same. Business is at standstiil. We are afraid to leave our homes. Stores are closed and so are the banks. Parents do not know the whereabouts of their children. Brothers are looking for their sisters. The rich became poor and the middle class is starving There has been raised in Kishineff up to date over 100000 rubles but this only Is drop in the bucket for the losses will accumulate to millions.
 "On Sunday after the mob heard the sermons in the churches on brotherly love and on love your enemy they began to murder right and left They robbed the stores, and on the goods they poured kerosene and burned them.
 Police Did Not Interfere.
 ''All this time the police stood quiet as if nothing had happened. Many of them aided in the acts of vandalism and mur- der.
 ',rhe rich Jews went to the governor for aid. and his answer was, I have no orders
 Baron Kicking, not a friend of the Jews, but an honest man, sent telegram to St. Petersburg telling of the affair. and on Wednesday afternoon orders came from St. Petersburg to stop the massacre.
 "As soon as the governor ga orders to shoot the rioters dispersed. Martial law is declared In Kishineff. Many of the murderers are arrested, among them high police officers"
 Home In Palestine the Solution.
 London, May 16.-At a meeting of Jews held in shoreditch this evening, under the auspices of the English Zionist federal ton, Israel Zangwill. the author, seconded a resolution declaring that the establish- ment of a home In Palestine was the only practical solution of the Jewish question.
 MT. Zangwill said President Roosevelt's remonstrance with Roumania was an ex- ample for all Christians. and recited de- tails of horrors that had occurred at Kishineff Dessaraba. He declared that uniformed state functionaries mingled with the mob there and that police and soldiers participated in the pillage. The governor, he added. had ordered a Jewish deputation which had waited upon him for the purpose of demanding protection to be driven out of the courtyard and that many so-called fashionable people drove fin their carriages to see the fun"
 The resolution was carried.