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Bodies Of the Dead A1tfIsted-Mobs
Waited at the Railroad Station
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in Kishineff." the American Hebrew Of
New York prints an article of which
the following Is q part:
I Jewish blood Is running in the
I streets OF KishineG. human life is q
/ sacrifice 70 religious Hznaticism. homes
{ destroyed. the scrolls Of the law de-
( filed. the house of God profaned- II II
I b the Russian MouJik whose hands
/ have been bathed IN Jewish blood and
7 TO whose homes have been transferred
I the possessions Of the Jews, IL is the
/ educated class that has stirred up their
I latent evil passions 70 the highest
I pitch The Russian journals now
Z reaching this country bear out the Wild
I est statements that have come over the
I cable. One Of these that brings US
I news Of the most horrible deeds is Der
I Fraind. 2 jargon daily OF St Peters
/ burg. which is considered especially re-
/ liable.
From the information thus gathered
! IL appeals that there was prearrange-
nnents as 70 the riots, for they started
I in many places al the same time, all
/ under control OF trained leaders from
/ other towns.
Not only did the rioters kill and
main people, but they vented their
\ british instincts upon the bodies Of the
1 dead. Nails were driven through their
| nostrils. bodies were opened and stuff
l ed with feathers, tongues pulled out,
/ breasts cut OF from the bodies Of worn-
/ en-. Nor were these the only ghoulish
acts perpetrated.
| In the streets one comes constant
| ly across injured Jews. Boys sell bits
| of the Scrolls Of the Law for kopecks
/ apiece. Presumably they are bought
by the Jews in spite Of their poverty.
| probably TO save some Of the pieces
/ of their precious scrolls from further
/ dissertation.
Jews tried to save themselves in
/ every way. Many sought safety in
I flight, only to find. as they reached the
I railroad station, that mobs were await
I ing them, who tore them from their
| carriages and beat them to death. 9th
! ers were cared for by Christians in
I their houses. or went to hotels. The
| poorer people could not leave and hid
In cellars. They were taken forth from
their hiding places and treated bar
barOusly.
THE Bessarobetz writes that on
April 26, Arseni Soloviov, who was
charged with taking part in the riots,
and then robbing the Jews, hung him
self in the cell in the police station.
| The property loss is placed at 100000
rubles.
HI VIC cary AdsS VI Nhc AAON NAAE
wealthy people slung to the poor, feel
| ing a debt 10 their unfortunate broth
ers, and il was believed that they
would open wide their purses, but as
| the days rolled by each began to feel
individually the terrible affair and
| learned the exact extent Of their losses.
| Then it was discovered that rich and
| poor alike suffered severe financial
| losses. Local subscriptions. therefore,
/ cQazed rr1Pffnalfw n n al
900 rubles were received. Aside from
this money all that has come in is
| from Etzabethgrad TO the extent of
500 rubles through Rabbi Tempkin.
MANY Christians, il is said, realize
the gravity of the sin committed by
them or their brothers-in-faith and
they seek to palliate their sin by hber-
ally subscribing for the relief funds"
The first of the fugitives to reach
| New York from Kishineff is Jacob
Fishman, whose life was saved by a
| Christian friend, and who arrived on
! the Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse We'd
/ nesday. Fishman, who cannot speak
English, tells the following story of the
rioting, as TRANSLATED by Jacob Freed
man of the Jewish Daily News:
Il served three years in the Russian
army, as we all have to do, but this
did not save me and mine, when the
| soldiers might have protected US. I'm
| til three years ago l lived in Septkin
| Poland. My grandparents lived in
| Kishinef. When my grandmother died.
! being all alone. my grandfather sent
for me, and l went there with my wife
and four children. We were glass mer-
chants, and l took with me 500 rubles
| Our shop was on Alexandriski street.
| We were doing well.
"On Easter Sunday last noisy crowds
went running around breaking win
| dows. We were frightened, and l beg
| ged my grandfather to hide. He would
not, saying that it was a usual way
with the Christians at Easter. To show
me that there was no danger, he went
| into the street. The mob beat him,
! breaking his arm. We carried him into
| the house from the gutter, where they
| had left him. He was 70 years old, AMI
! died before morning. We hid in the
rafters.
Ivan Fiodor is a Christian. He
owed me money, and came with 1t to
| the house to pay me, and then drove
me and my family in a wagon through
| the back streets. We asked the police
and soldiers to help us away, but they
laughed. The last thing 1 saw was an
old man, a Jew, dead in the gutter.
! We reached Bdbionka, a neighboriag
village, and rested five hours. Then
Ivan. the good Christian, took us on a
| railroad to Grodna. We went on to
| Septkin, where my wife's mother took
care of us. She gave me 100 rubles,
| and l started for America in the hope
! that / could establish home for my
| dear ones.
81 am IS years old, and can work
hard to support my family. On the
ship l met a rich Jew who helped me
with money and advice, so that 1
hope TO have my family with me even
sooner than I had hoped. 1t is a free
country, where everybody gets a
chance. I have been told since COM
my poor people"
The American Hebrew, in speaking
of the accounts of the anti-Jewish riots
in Russian newspapers, says:
From the information thus gathered,
| IL appears that there was pre-ar-
rangement as to the riots, for they
started in many places at the same
time, all under control of trained lead
ers from other towns.
Many stories are given for the incit-
ing cause of the outbreak. The No
vosti, a reliable publication, says that
a servant girl who had taken poison
was placed in the Jewish hospital of
Kishineff, where she died. The anti
| Sennites, of course, claimed that she
was klled for sacrificial purposes.
Not only did the rioters kill and
main people, but they vented their
british instincts upon the bodies Of
the dead Nails were driven through
their nostrils, bodies were opened and
stuffed with feathers, tongues pulled
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