Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-05-27
TORTURED AND surcHEaEu.
Statements Of Some Jews who Escaped the
rerrible Slaughter In Bessarabia.

Paris, May 16.--[By M. Myerson, Di.
rector Baron Hirsch Colonization So
ciety. have just returned from Kis-
| chineh. Here are statements from VIC
Tins in the Jewish hospital. Joso Takar,
"A, father OF family of eight, stated:
"When the riots against the Jews be-
gan took refuge In tho cellar with my
wife and children. We took with us
pillows, bed clothes and necessary uten-
sils. About l O'Clock in the afternoon
some forty men, armed with sledges,
crowb bars, bludgeons, commenced break
ing in the door; Entering they smashed
into the street. They broke into the
cellar. Several mon attacked and robbed
me of s roubles 1 had In my pocket.
They dubbed me, after which I remem-
Der nothing. don't know how 1 was
brought TO the hospital"
Thelma Moueld, another victim in the
hospital, says: 81 have deep wound in
my head. don't know how was
brought to the hospital. One OF my
arms is broken. In the house whore I
lived jew, Hersh Bolgar, father of six
children, was killed. Hersch Liss, like
wise. was killed in the same house. 1
heard the victims implore the assasins to
spare them. Alter Liss, who lies here
next to me, with deep wound in his
head, IL son of Hersh Liss. He does
not know yet of the death of his father"
Here are some individual Victims:
Secoul, SO years, attacked in the street;
two men held him while third gouged
out his eyes and threw in among crowd.
He was left for dead on the ground.
Anchel Kormitz, 81, is horribly mutt
lated. His face is cut open, his eyes
torn out, the skin shaved off his neck,
and his jaw and teeth broken.
Bilgrai, attacked by mob of two hun
dred, who tortured him by striking him
on head until he paid them 800 roubles,
all the money he possessed. They left
him for dead.
Fifteen families, who took refuge near
the slaughter houses, they pilaged, and
about dozen men and several women
and two children were killed. Fockman
had his arm broken by blow from a
crowbar. Kecker's skull was fractured
Wisman's eyes were torn out. The num-
ber killed was about forty-four.
In the jewish hospital are eighty-four
desperate cases under treatment. Three
hundred and fifty-four wounded have
come to the hospital for treatment. The
inhabitants havanot yet recovered from
the panic. Most of the Jewish shops
are still closed. The city is like a ceme-
terry. The Jews, if they appear, glide
through the streets like shadows. AL
most all bear marks of the recent attacks,
such as wounds on the face and bandaged
heads. On the third day of carnage the
rioters attacked Jews wherever found
When jew was seen in cars the cry
was raised, "Throw him out? Let us
have the JewP Several were dragged
out and horribly mangled by the crowd
and finally killed.
The sight at the cemetery was horri-
Bile. On entering you saw three women
with their wombs cut open in the form
of cross. Another has nail which
enters the nose and pierces through the
skull. A school boy has his teeth broken
and his tongue pulled out. Further on
lies child with cord around its neck,
strangled. The bodies are being thrown
into sinks.
Three thousand persons attended a
meeting at Baltimore Sunday and sub
scribed several thousand dollars for the
relief of tho prosecuted Jews in Russia