The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-05-31
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RUSSIA is EXPOSED
Her CrueIitieS Leading to Ter
ribIe Crisis

Odessa. May 3O.-That Kishinef is still
a city Of sorrow and still the scene Of
heart-rending incidents related 10 the
awful massacres is proved by the state
merit of a correspondent of the Novosti
who has reached this city from Bessara-
ba
Il went to Kishineff expecting to find
that the unbelievable stories of murder
and outrage had been exaggerated, but
the actual conditions that came under
my observation far worse than those
described in the reports" said the cores
pondent.
THE bodies of the victims Of the wild
mob have been buried. the broken furni-
ture and the remains Of the plundered
goods have been removed the feathers
from the bedding have been washed away
by the rain, the WINDOW panes here ard
there have been replaced And yet kish-
inen looks like a city that had been in
vaded by a furious enemy. The houses
half destroyed people with bandaged heads
and with broken arms and legs-does all
this not remind one of a Macedonian set
Element or a Slavonic town, invaded by
AIbanians or by Bashi- Buzuks?
destruction. ! went to the Jewish Hos
ptaI and to the temporary barracks where
thousands of homeless men, women and
children are sheltered / saw there wo-
men bereft of their husbands, Of their
sons. of their brothers. / saw there chill
dren bereft of their parents. l saw a
poor cripple, whose only eye had been
gouged. and who now implores the ply
sicians to end his life, as he is no longer
in a position 10 support his little ones. /
saw a ninety-year- woman who was
dsfgured, having been struck with the
legs Of an iron bed and who now kept
repeating automatically the vile abuse
which had been hurled at her l saw dis
figured old and young people whose minds
have grown dim because of loss of blood
from their wounds, and who keep mutter-
ing disconnected words. I saw girls who
had been most hideously attacked That
which 1 could not see with my own eyes
had been told to me by the physicians OF
the Jewish Hospital. The senior physi-
clan. DR.. Slutsky, and his assistant, Dr.
Yoelson, who had witnessed death in
time of war could not without shudder-
ing relate to me The terrible details of
the brutalities committed in Kishineff.
THE entire hospital, all the wards. the
yard. the staircase-ali were covered
with streams of blood Of the victims.
Forty-two. dead and 800 wounded were
registered, not counting those victims
that were not brought to the hospital and
the bodies that were found from day to
day in the garrets, in cesspools and in
the fields. Many disappeared without
leaving any trace behind them
''One Jewess ran from the Infatuated
mob to the village of Bosnia. but death
followed her footsteps. Riots were start
81 in Bosnia. and the KishineT Jewess
was one of the victims.
Many rushed to the depot in search of
shelter in the cars Of the trains, in the
hope Of leaving Kishineff for the neigh
boring towns but they were driven back,
and thus they fell into the hands of the
pursuing ruffans, who butchered them
right on the square by the depot. The
Jews were taken away, not on the trains.
but in trucks driven To the hospital
The Bessarabetz, the Znamya and the
Novye Vremya are considered everywhere
in Kishineff as the direct instigators OF
this massacre.
There were several cases OF interces-
sion for the Jews. The priest Lashkov,
whose son is connected with the anti
Jewish newspaper Bessarabetz has shell
tered many jews i'm his house; the Co
rodskoy Golova City Mayor Schmidt and
the Marshal If Nobility Krupenslly took
great interest in the fate of the Jews
one intelligent Christian girl begged &c
be permitted TO nurse the wounded vic
Tins that she might thus atone. she said
Tor the crime of her people.
Many Kishnen Jews have resolved Il
emigrate 20 America