Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-05-11
Letter From Traveller In Rus
sian Arabia Tells of Horri-
ble Details
AWFUL MASSACRE AT KIsHINEY
Thirty eight corpses Photographed in
One eroup-over Four Hundred
Wounded in the HospitaIs-The Jews
Driven From Their Homes, which are
Burned or Demolished.

New York, May 11.-The massacres
of the Hebrews at Kishiney, Russian
Arabia, have Mortified the world as the
particulars become known. Mrs. Yetta
F'eldman, Of this city, received letter
today from her husband, who recently
went on visit to relatives in Russia,
his health being the object of the trip.
He was at Ilishiney when the massacre
occurred, and wrote from there the
letter in watch he described the hor
rible brutaIities of the Russian fam
atics. Only a part of the letter can be
published. 1t is as follows:
MY heart trembles my brain is on
fire and my Thoughts are confused as
write these lines. am i'll with the
blows have received.
Dear wife, since the world has beer
in existence and as long as it will ex-
list, may God preserve the Jews from
such massacres as this one in Kishiney.
There have been massacres in Odessa.
in Bake, but never has there been such
kishiney A great battle was fought
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AS soon as he left me, l ordered car
riage and drove to the hospital. In this
place are ass wounded. May God grant
recovery for even one hundred of
them.
"'The doctors say that those who do
recover will be crippled for life.
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etery There lay thirtyeight corpses
which will be inferred today. These
thirty eight We're photographed before
they were dressed for their last rest
| ing place. Those in the hospital who
are expected to die will also be photo-
graphed. This calamity is greater than
the calamity of the temple. Three quar-
ters of Kishihey has been destroyed.
People were slaughtered in their
own houses. Furniture was chopped
to bits, clothing was torn up, houses
were burned, bricks from the houses
were scattered and even the chimneys
were torn down. A waste was made of
all Kishiney The city now is as white
as after hard snow storm from the
feathers from beds scattered around.
Eight thousand families are lying on
the streets With nothing but the sky
over them.
Brands We're put to the houses and
men, women and children, all nearly
naked, barely escaped.
ITO every ten persons five pounds OF
bread are given. My sister Esther with
her two children, We're brought to my
fathers house in their night clothes.
They were terribly bruised and beaten.
Her condition was frightful. May God
pity them.
I'm the surrounding villages. Jews
shared similar fates.
"In the beginning, one could not real
ize the havoc wrought. Even while
writing this letter, eight dead bodies
were brought in from one village, and
how many more will be brought in
from other villages, God only knows.
The house next to ours was RACED. All
the stores We're battered in and pillaged.
All clothes were torn to shreds. Ali
the synagogues We're burned and the
scrolls OF the mosaic law We're scattered
thru the streets, thrown into cess pools
and in other ways defiled.
Ruin! ruin! ruin! In fifty years
kishiney will never recover. AT the
first outbreak, the judges and people
in the district We're in sympathy. 1t
seemed as il they all conspired the
massacre. The police officers and the
priests took part in the looting and
melted the mobs to fall upon and kill
the Jews.
when / saw the massacre begin,
fastened to the priest Of Itchostek and
gave him fifteen roubles and five more
roubles given to the police secured a
guard for the house. When the mob
came to my house / shot at them with
pistol, but the soldiers took the pis-
toll from me.
With boards, my father and several
neighbors bravely kept the mob from
the house l went thru the back door
to the priest, who ordered ten horse
men to send the mob off. Not one per-
son in the city was left with a coat or
dress to wear 1t is a city of nakedness.
The number of killed is not rightly es-
timated as yet
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