New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-05-15
FLED FROM KISHINEFF.
.SuruaUor Relates Story of Massacre
of Jesrs.
DISPATCH TELLS OF ATROCITIES.

Escob Freedman, the fugitive from kishnen'
the scene OF the massacre OF Jews last rnoH"i -
Russian Christians. who arrived WEDNESDAY Oh tho
Friedrich der Crosse told his story yesterday a.
Office OF The Jewish Daily News. No As0 f-aS'
Broadway. J. Ffshman was interpreter, -,
Three years ago" said Freedman VINO IS sO0u'
,hi,rv-fve wears old. Il moved from Sape'Ah "
E<shgreff 10 help my grandfather in MS glass Jus
-. a., vent fairly well for Russia. tn last
month when the Russian Christians started tnei'
Tofstering IN celebration OF Easter ihes So =
gan attacking the jews The mop rusheu o.
u,+je sbop and grandfather tried TO holc the oooi
They broke in tore of his arm and beat MIN LII
he ,,ecar,e unconscious He died in the nospite4.
u escaped and went TO frenoly IN 80 20.
woman who hid me in the cellar ano "oulu mo-
LET me go out till after dark Then crept ~ -i''
housa and saw nv wife and children At the VIII
dow They warned me away. and Wen' "aI , -
nv hiding place. Later in the night sousn'
Christian man, who paid me a debt ana heiie" ~
20 the railroad station My family joined me- an
yve went TO Sapetkia. Poland. my nauFe Guy, ny
z,5ee's mother gave me 100 rubles, with winch
..o,,va+ massage for this free America On poaro
7 was kindly treated by a wealthy Hebrew VINO
gave me money and instructions about landing Last
night slept in a synagogue in Chrystie-st
In Kishinerf We asked some policemen ano SOL
6gsrs he said. escort us TO the edge OF Ihe
ci.1 and they only laughed. The police are faise
20 the Jews When my grandfather begged lot pro
lection he was jeered at and told to go nome anu
go 10 sleep. I the mob lootinE taiior SNIP
An
property n man stabbed him through the hearI
Freedman escaped on a Sunday. at the beginning
Of the riots which were far more serious the lo'-
loving day A eel dispatch to The Jewish News
saws q were killed outright. % died afterNard anu
800 were injured crippled for life
Mr. F1shuan said the Central Relief Committee
for The btsbnsff sufferers would take care OF Freed
man and find work for him. He il a glazler- lie
saws he shall stay this country and SEND Tor mas
wife and family.
A cable dispatch from st. Petersburg yesterday
gave more details Of the massacre at kismnen,
II was said that a woman and her UNBORN chiiu
were horribly mutated and killed. and that scores
OF young girls were at the mercy Of the mob- All
sorts of excuses were committed by the IahduCaA
Russian peasantry. and some of The aristocIacS
seemed TO enjoy the sport of killing.
The race riots II was said are traced TO an olo
Russian tradition that the Jewish ritual demands
human blood at the Passover 40 ,-.<., 80
The American Hebrew" No 4SS Fl1tn- -{yor
published yesterdsy an article on the saws te
r1ble Deeds in kisninef The deoIe f 80 80 due
information received indicates that the riots; ous
O religious fanaticism. We're prearraneeS4 a
servant girl who had taken poison cleo IN ,;,Ig f
hospital The anTi-Senites Saic she was hlleu LOT
"a rrifcial r1lrposes This aroused the peasantry'
and they killed and manned. and also mutiiated the
dead. The TiOting lasted two Gays ule ponce HAN
ing feeble efforts to protect the people -. :.
The State Bank. Of this city. announces tnat II
has received from Brown Bros & Co check 10
cover a remittance Of fifteen hundred rubles con-
iributed by the Jewish residents OF baItiliole no
the relief of the Kshinef sufferers. This amount
was immediately transmitted by cable TO the heaos
of the Jewish congregations, Perlmutter ana hiues-
man. for distribution - - 1yaY, Con-
eraI Committee Of the Nth Assembly )lstrlc1 anu
the John z Ahearn Association. at No. ~ EaaS
calling on the Secretary Of State ito voice 10 me
government of Russia in the name OF Tue p e1pf
sgainst this latest attack on civilization ltse' anu
subscribing 500 TO the relief fund