Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-05-15
FEAR MORE MAssAcREs.
Desperate Situation in Southwest Rus
sia Causes Alarm.

London, May 15.-The desperate eco
nomic situation in southwest RUSSIA,
between Odessa and the Roumanian
frontier, has beeil brought 80 4 crisis
by the recent ma assacres of Jews, which,
it is feared, will be repeated. as the
racial and labor conflict in that region
remains at a complete deadlock.
The Jews have. in the course of years,
acquired not only control of trade. but
of employment in all the principal
towns. After much street violence
against the Jews and scenes OF blood
shed, they retaliated by withholding
both employment and trade, as we'll as
credit.
A letter received In a Jewish philan-
thropic center in London today from
the leading Jews of Kishiney states
that after the recent outrages the pres
ident of the workmen's guilds, which
were organized on the old paternal
lines, complained to the governor of
Kishiney that the Jews refused to re-
instate the workmen. The governor,
thereupon. called the Jews together
and told them in few words that in
their own interests they had better re-
instate the workmen, which they We're
aSerSe TO DONG.
The Jewish authorities in London
construe the action of the governor as
q direct threat, and they fear that fur
ther troubles are imminent.
The newspapers Of London have con-
tanned practically nothing on the sit
uation, which is considered more or less
chronic. The only dispatch concern
ing the massacre at Kishiney TO be
printed in the London newspapers today
lis from the ST. Petersburg correspon-
dent OF the Telegraph. This dispatch
states that the newspapers OF st.
Petersburg publish horrible details of
the massacre. One carpenter had both
his hands sawed off by his own saw
Some women had their eyes gouged
out and others We're ripped open. Some
Jews had their arms pulled assunder
from their bodies several children
We're flung out of the windows into
the streets. Four thousand families
are said to be in want.
Authentic accounts from kishiney re-
ceived at Jewish centers describe the
slaughter which, it is stated, continued
for nearly week. On the first day ten
persons were killed and eighty injured
The market was destroyed. On the
second day the hospitals We're filled
with the victims. Many others We're
lying in the streets. The town was
without bread and was short of meat
A writer who sent this story says:
This was not a riot: it was a slaugh-
ter They have killed and robbed the
Jews outraged the women, and pillaged
residences in all directions. The police
4 tn. tx, lr
behind their backs and do not attempt
to interfere. beyond telling the mob
which are Jewish and which Christian
houses. The police also prevented the
Jews from helping each other. One
Jewish carman brought q murdered
Jew TO the hospital. The carman was
carried thither himself twenty minutes
later with his skull split open. This
is the only one instance tending TO show
the careful organization of the affair,
which was due principally to the anti
Semitic newspaper Bessarabitz.
another evidence of the organize
ton was the fact that many of the
participants in the atrocities wore the
distinguished red snoclos of the sol
diers and police and stole whatever
they could lay their hands on.
There were many students among
the offenders, including one notorious
law student of the name of Semigradoff.
Many gentiles protested, but were
frightened from active interference. All
the big towns of northwest Bessarabia
are incensed against the Jews, who fear
outbreaks at any time"
The correspondent says fifty persons
wara killed 35O were severely and over
1000 slightly wounded in the massacres.