The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1903-06-03
KISHINEFF HORRORS.
A Refugees Grewsome Story
Of the Massacre.
FRIaHTFUL SCENES WITNESSED.

Friend Who Hid Them In a Chim-
ney, Describes sunerings Worse
Than Death That Were Endured
by the Victims.
Among the Hebrews who landed the
other morning at New York from the
steamer Ryndam was sucher Acker-
mann, aged forty years old, entered on
the passenger list as a resident Of Dam
browitz, Bessarabia, but who, accord
ing to his declaration, is actually
wine dealer Of Kishinefr and one Of the
first who were in Kishineff at the time
of the recent massacre to reach these
shores, says the New York Tribune.
Seated with his wife and baby. who
came over with him, in a relatives
house in New York, Alderman gave,
through an interpreter the following
grewsome account Of the horrors of
the massacre. from which, according
to his statement, he owed his own ex-
emption and that of his family to the
kindness of a gentle friend who gave
them sanctuary in his chimney.
II cannot begin to tell the horrors of
the three days that followed the Pass
over at Kishineff,7 said Alderman,
"for to me and to my family 1t was the
more terrible because we did not see,
but only heard.
"The feasts OF the Passover were
over. / had done a good business, al
though selling liquor was a govern
ment monopoly and the punishment
would have been severe. l was hurry
ing along the street about o'clock
with my wife and the baby, hoping to
get to Dambrowitz before it was very
light. Suddenly heard from nearby
street the cry Of the Jews and the
shouting Of a mob Of men. All day be-
fore the children Of Christians had
been stoning the jews in the ghetto
and the sense Of trouble brewing had
been in me.
i'ATy wife and I stood and consulted,
while the noise Of the mob around the
corner grew louder. The door Of the
house in front Of which we stood
opened. a young man came out fully
dressed. In the light Of torch in
his hand I recognized him; he was the
son of a Christian friend. He ran at
us, but before he could do US harm
his father, an old man, came to the
door and, recognizing me, rescued us.
He brought us into the front room Of
the house. The Russian home has but
two rooms, one in front and one be-
hind it.
eIn the front room was a large fire.
/ place as wide as a man is long. There
was no fire in the hearth. The old
man bade us crawl up into the Chin
/ ney ana stay there until he told US it
would be safe for us TO come down.
I Meanwhile the cries on the street be-
came greater and more fearful.
eve sickened as we heard the brutes
/ testing over befouling women and
young girls We heard the maddened
screams Of men and recognized the
voices as those Of the husbands whose
wives We're in the hands of the iends.
And both wives and husbands pleaded
for death as a boon.
.Some whispered that sixteen girls
between fourteen and sixteen years old
were dying from the excuses of the
mob, committed amid bowls of
drunken glee before the eyes Of the
parents before the parents were torn
to pieces
"Then one man told Of butcher,
He was the strong man Of the Jews
Of Kishineff. The mob burst into his
place. He had revolver, Six Of the
mob fell dead on the threshold; then
he flung the weapon into the mob and
picked up a cleayer. But the mob
overpowered him. Ills wife, who was
covering behind him, they drew into
the street and, holding the man, they
tore the clothes from the woman and
ravished her. Some one searching the
mans house found his twelve year old
child in the cellar. She, too, they
brought before the father and half
dead mother and misused her BY this
I time the butcher was foaming at the
mouth and struggled with the ten men
| who held him.
zone of the mob stuck a knife into
the mans stomach, and in moment
he was disembowled. Then they
! stripped him and mutilated his body
until it could not be recognized. Be-
! fore his wife's eyes they hung him on
one OF the meat hooks in front Of his
own shop. They then killed his wife
1 by beating her TO death and left the
child for dead on the bloody street
1T was the same with the home Of
every Jew who sought shelter in Chris
tan houses. AS soon as the refugees
were slowed away the Christians hur-
ried away to houses Of the refugees.
After the soldiers came on the third
day went out into the street. 1t SEEM
ed a different place counted up to
100 bodies Of men, women and chill
dren, most Of them mutilated hideous-
", almost unrecognizable Eighty Of
them were hastily buried but they
were exhumed and photographed for
evidence q day later"
Bare Dining Tables the Vogue.
The fashion az the bare dining room