Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-05-30
BLACKER THAN THE DEEDS or
NERO'S REIGN.

Russians. The cry Don't hurt MINI
he's Christian" was nearly always
Needed, ,. l..
surely the statement Of the people In
Klshenev that first came from the
stricken town was not exaggerated
wrhey fell on us as hungry locusts.
They have broken and destroyed what
thew could not take away with thcm
Not a single jewish store waa left un-
demolished. They began at the bridge,
going through the city Ike q scoulBe
dealing death 20 every Hebrew shey
found. The dead were scattered
through the streets as after q bloody
battle"
Ne slaugter and pllage lasted for "a
hours. when It lcsFened because OF the
wearnegs of the muperers. Iheh the
Russian government concluded that u
had gone far enough Il stretched torlh
It's hand and the whole dreadful afro
cities stopped at once,
The best adyces show thar IS per-
sons were Killed outright and that up.
ward of SO have since died Of their IN
iurles, There are at least ~ more VINO
are likely to Gle The injured numbered
about GOO OF whom many are crippled
for life, .
The property loss is about SOVOO0O
The restitution following the Out
break was fiightfuL although money y
pouring In from all over the world,
Even Russia shows signs OF remorse
and Is sending money to relieve the I'M
mediate suffering,
Also has the government awakened
to the necessity Tor showing its disap-
proyal Of tho massacre and u Is report
ed that 500 arrests have been made
(New York SUM-
A number of letters describing the
Jewish massacres at Ksheney were re-
ceivcd IN this city yesterday says the
New York Sun. one Of them, made
public by the Jewish Journal last night,
gives an account Of the beginning Of
the trouble and tells OF eight bodies be-
ing found In a slaughter house several
days after the massacre, The letter
was dated April Is, or May by our Gale
endar
Some Of the descriptions Of outrages
cannot be printed, but a part reads
| To My Dear Cousin Joseph Samuel and
wife to live in happiness;
Dear Cousin. IN my last letter ] haro
| already stated to you about the terrible
outrages committed against our hreth'
| rem In Kishenev II started first By u
| group OF small boys who openM bl
| throwing stones into Jewish house%
| These boys Were encouraged by the po-
| lice Later a band OF ruliians dressed
In red shirts arrived on the scena
They looked as II they were organized
by the police. az the police followed
| them without molestng them
They commenced their assaults by
outreging little girls IN the public
streets and torturing them to death
The hands and feet OF one carpenter
were sawed of; legs Of other were cut
| on, tongues torn out, etc, as | have
| written TO you In my last letter.
, The lieutenant colonel Of the garrison
| In Kisheney. a Christian, but a humane
| person. went to the governor for in
| structions but he was told not TO Inter-
| fere lie protested and went % tele-
| graph to st. Petersburg. His message
was not accepted by the telegraph au.
| thoritles, He then went TO Dendcre, q
| neighboring town, and telegraphed
| from there to st. Petersburg The reply
came within Is hours after, to the gov
| ernor, 70 suppress the riot and use force
II need be. II took but few minutes
! TO suppress II.
Now the governor general, II. Poush.
kin. Is here from odessa and Is con-
Quoting an Investigation OF the massa.
ere. While | am closing this lettAr I
find that the butchers who went 10 the
slaughter house for the FIRST time since
the riots have Just returned with eight
Jewish corpses which were found hang.
ing in the slaughter house
SHAE DAVID CHAINOWITZ.