The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-17
TELLS OF KISHINBPF HORROR.
RUSSIAN AUTHORITIES DLAMED
FOR THE SLAIGHTER.

Letter Received Yesterday says Fight
More Bodies We're Found In Slaughter
house-The Jewish Residents 81
Other Towns Fear More Massacres
A number Of letters describing the Jew.
ish massacres at KishineH were received
In this city yesterday. One Of them, made
public by tn Je,rish journal last night
gives an account OF the beginning OF the
trouble, and tells OF eight bodies being
found In q slaughterhouse several days
after the massacre. The letter was dated
April IS. or May by our calendar. :.
Some OF the descriptions OF outrages
cannot be printed, but part reads ,
To NV Dear Cousin Joseph Samuel and WHe
10 lire in happiness:
DEAR COUSIN: In my last letter ] have
already stated to you about the terrible out
RACES committed against our brethren In
Kishinefr 1t started first by a group OF
small boysf~ho opened by throwing stones
into Jewish houses. These boys were en-
coura ged by the police. Later n band OF
ruffians dressed In red shirts arrived on the
scene. They looked MS II they were organized
by the police. as the police. followed them
without moestng them
They commenced their assaults by out
ra ging little girls in the public streets and
toIturing them to death The hands and
reet Of one carpenter were sawed OF: legs
OF others were cut of. tongues torn out. DC.
IS | have written to you in my last letter.
The Lieutenant C lonel of the garrison
in Kishinev. a Christian, but humane person.
went to the G overnor for instructions but he
vas told not to interfere. He protested and
went TO telegraph to st. Petersburg. His
message was not accepted by the telegraph
authorities. He then went to Bendere.
neighboring town and telegra phed from there
to ST. Petersburg. The reply came within
twenty-four hours after to the Governor. to
suppress the riot and use force If need be.
II took but n few minutes to suppress it.
Now the Governor General NJ. Poushkin. Is
here from Odessa, and is conducting an in
vestigation Of the massacre. While | am
closing this letter find that the butchers who
went to the slaughter house for the first time
since the riots. have just returned with eight
Jewish corpses which were found hanging
in the slaughter house.
SHAE DAVID CHAINowITA
One of the letters received yesterday
expresses fear that further trouble is COM
ing. The letter says that Jews are
leaving other Russian towns by the scores
fearing new outbreaks.
terday a letter from Kieff, dated April 80,
telling of the agitation at that place. 1t
was written by NJ. Rabnowitz. a Russian
writer and says in part
The old holy city of Kier with her 50, 600
Jews has come in now for suffering. and the
are running away as from the black plague:
Without H1s purposeM f away to save their
lives, And do you know why? A rumor-
only rumor.unTyas spread That the butchery
foreign countries the middle class % Warsaw
sd n
Not Jew is TO be seen there and there were
1000 iames ptdd least s,, 1900 , 1ews The
Yesterday the chief OF police went to the
River Dnieper where crowds Of Jews were
ba To come no back the
of the military forces. The Jews promptly
that the sod den. a. ks sh hepied
young men fully armed and prepared for
an emergency.
MD. Hermalin, editor Of the Daily Jevish
Herald, 1872 Canal street. had this to say
about the statement which Count Cassini,
the Russian Ambassador at Washington.
made on Friday. He said
Count Csssini says the Russian Govern
ment was in no way connected with the riots.
At Il meeting of the Russian Cabinet Min
istry about three months ago there was a
discussion regarding the restrictions against
Jews within the pale OF settlement. After
NJ. de Witte, the Minister of Finance, had
spoken against adding to the restrictions.
NJ. Won Plevhe, the Minister of the Interior,
said that the more Jews were restricted
and driven away from their usual occupa-
tions the better it would be for the Gov
eminent.
prince Uchtomsky, editor of the st.
Petersburg Vedonsosty. said in a late issue
of his paper that If the peasants were asked
why they killed the Jews they would answer:
We do not know They were ordered to
kill. and did SO.
And when Count Cassini says the reports
OF the massacre are exaggerated comment
is useless. The official messenger Of the
Government reports that forty.fve Jews
were killed, few hundred injured and
GOO homes were demolished
The Jevish Daily Herald received also a
letter from its correspondent in Buhusi,
Roumania. who had been to Kishineh.
The correspondent wrote that at least
twenty city officers in civil garb were
recognized among the villagers.
The letter adds:
When some Of the Jews who we're well
acquainted with them asked them for pro
For eisht days afteryaEd the Jews Vere
s" had ana arSed %hn that to
the Kishiner police did not deem 1t neces-
sary to distribute it.
,ectnn tS hS shouted: wait nntil orders ar
lc ss, .1s k Thsfher few thousands of you
1t was estimated yesterday that $4,000
had been collected and sent abroad for
the relief fund. Money for the sufferers Is
now coming in at a rate OF about 1000
a day.
Special performances were given at the
Windsor Theatre on the Bowery yester-
day afternoon and evening. the proceeds
Of which will 60. to the relief fund. In
a speech Cow 'Odell telegraphed that
he was unable to attend because OF illness
in his family.
The Yiddish newspaper Vorpaerts has
circulated a Petition calling on the. Presi-
dent to interfere. and demands that the
prosecutions in Russia cease. II calls at
tention to the fact that this Government
interceded on behalf of the prosecuted
Roumanian Jews, and points out that there
Is much greater necessity for action in
the present case. go
A theatrical performance will be given
on the evening of June at the Grand
Theatre for the benefit of the sufferers
Tickets may be secured from Robert Smith
4 Co., So West Fourteenth street. Mr..
Smith has charge of the arrangements.
ZIONISN THEIR HOPE.
London Jews Say That q. the Only Escape
From Oppression.