The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-06-04
A JEWISH FUGITIVE
TELLS OF TIE
MASSACRE
Reaches St. Paul in His Flight
From Russian Oppression
Scenes During Perpetra-
ton Of Atrocities Are Be-
yond Description or Com
prehensi0n.

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dered by Russians, Herman Weisse, a
Jew, who smuggled himself out of the
country north of Bessarabia, arrived
in St. Paul yesterday, en- route to Hell
ena, Mont, where his brother in-law,
M. Eisenbrock, lives. In his haste to
get away from Russia he did not dare
wait for his wife During the six
hours Weisse was in town yesterday
he was cared for by Court Commits
sioner Henry Gallick to whom he had
been directed upon his arrival at the
depot.
Weisse explained that he was not
an eye witness to the atrocities. but
that he had talked with those those
who were, for many of the frightened
people took refuge in the village in
which he lived as they fed northward
from their prosecutors.
Weisse is a miller by trade. He said
that for some time prior to the upris-
ing in Kishenev there were rumblings
of ill-will among the Russians. AS a
matter of precaution he made ar
engagements with influential relatives
to take care of his wife in case flight
became necessary.
THE Russians did not kill our peo-
pie by shifting them in sudden wrath"
said Weisse. mo; they were more de-
liberate. They deemed it a triumph
to torture strong men whom they over
whelmed by force of numbers and then
laugh as they expired.
mo matter what l might say, I do
do not think I could make a stranger
realize the terrible state of unrest the
Jews are in. They burn with a desire
to get out of the country, to America,
England, Germany-America is the
first thought-but anywhere to get
away from Russian rule. They know
there is sympathy here and justice.
There my people are Disseminated
against until they have learned to ac-
cept the worst and be silent, for no
Jew dare speak out in Russia.
1.-Two or three days after the out
RACES in. Kishenev began the poor vic
| TINS, men, women and children, scarce
ly able. to stand from the fatigue of
flight, came to Ceremenec. But they
were happy to get to the village where
they could could close their eyes to the
indignities -heaped upon them. I talk
ed with these people and at first could
not bring myself to believe that even
Russians could be such brutes.
Killed One Family of Twelve.
zone man, a shoemaker, about fifty
years of age, said that a Jewish fam
| lily of twelve living near him in Kish-
eney, had all been murdered after they
had been tortured. The Russians
| amused themselves by striking the two
male members of the family with clubs
| until they were too weak to resist,
~ IL
The wives of the men and their chill
| dren fought with all the strength left
them to resist athes assault of the mob
For their bravery sthel1Women were
| treated even worse than the men. They
! were mutilated with rough knives and
! they were stabbed to death. The chill
dren were thrown from the windows of
the house and their lives dashed out
on the hard pavements below.
zone of the most horrifying features
of the whole uprising was the indis-
criminate slaughter Of the helpless
women and inoffensive children. Their
killing of these little ones only exem-
plifies the fanatica1 state of mind Of
the Russians. The children were new
er spared when the mobs entered a
house. The strongest members of the
dtldChluS party Slew pcdI GLIS, Willie
their less muscular companions chose
the aged of the family and the chill
dren.
zone old man who was kicked and
cuffed by the Russians had the temer-
ity to turn and strike one of his tor
mentors. That justifable but indis-
| Greet act proved a terrible thing for
| him. They pinioned the aged victim
/ forming a semi-circ1e, those in the
mob who had pixies, threw them at
him like spears. One cruel stroke sew
cred the old mans head.
From the beginning 1T was appar-
ent that the government and petty
officials were against US. In Kishenev
the police pretended they were afraid
of the mob and said it would be as
much as their lives were worth to in
| terfere, but every man who has ever
travelled in Russia knows that an en-
| ploye Of the state or government fears
nothing. They have too much sway at
| all times"
| Mr.. Weisse is a Jew Of more than
| ordinary intelligence and is not de-
! pendent upon charity. He left last
| evening for Helena, where his wife's
| brother resides. AS soon as it can be
arranged he expects to get his wife
| out of Russia and fetch her to this
| country.