New-York tribune., 1903-05-27
THE KISHINEFF HORRORS.
a REFUGEES STORY.
Sufer1ngs Worse Than Death En-
dured bg the Victims.

Among the Hebrews who landed yesterday morn
ing from the steamer Ryndam was Sucher Acker-
man. forty years old entered on the passenger hst
S a resident of Dambrowitz, Bessarabla put "iio'
according to his declaration made last night Is ac-
tually wine dealer of IHshinef and one Oh the
first who were in Kishinen at the time OF the re-
cent massacre to reach these shores
Seated last night with his wife and baby VINO
came with him. in a relatives house at NO
56 Rutgers-st., Ackermann gave. through an IN
terpreter, the following grewsome account Oh 'iie
horrors of the massacre. from which, accorohiS
to his statement, he owed his own exemption anu
that Of his family TO the kindness of Gentlle
friend who gave them sanctuary in his chimney,
Il can not begin to tell the horrors of the three
days that followed the Passover at klshinef'
said Ackerm8nn, who bearded and ruddy, has the
appearance Of the typical Russian Jew, for to me
and to my family 1t was the more terrible be
did not but only heard it
The feasts of the Passover over. had
done a good business. although selling liquor was
a government monopoly. and the punishment would
have been severe. / was hurrying along the street
about o'clock with my wife and the baby. hoping
to get to Dambrowitz before il was very light
Suddenly / heard from a nearby street the cry
of the Jews and the shouting of a mob of men,
All day before the children of Christians had been
stoning the Jews in the Ghetto and the
sense of trouble brewing had been in me.
My wife and l stood and consulted. while the
noise OF the mob around the corner grew louder.
The door of the house in front of which we stood
opened A young out fully dressed In
the light OF torch in his hand recognized him;
he was the son OF Christian friend. He ran at
us, but before he could do us harm his father. an
old man, to the door, and recognizing me.
rescued Us. He brought us into the front room of
the house. The Russian home has but two rooms;
IL front and behind it.
In the front large fireplace, as wide
as man is long. There fire in the hearth.
The old bade crawl up into the chimney
and stay there until he told Us 1t would be safe
for us to come down Meanwhile the cries in the
street became greater and more fearful
AWFUL sCET7Es WITNESSED
I'VE sickened as we heard the brutes jesting over
befouiing women and young girls. We heard the
rnaddened screams of men, and recognized the
voices those of the husbands whose wives were
in the hands of the hends And both wives and
husbands pleaded for death as a boon"
Some whispered that sixteen girls. between
twelve and fourteen years DID, were dying from
the excuses Of the mob, committed amid howls OF
drunken glee, before the eyes OF the parents be-
fore the parents torn to pieces.
Then one man told of a butcher. He was the
strong of the Jews of kishineff. The mob
burst into his place He had revolver. Six Of the
mob fell dead on the threshold; then he flung
the weapon into the mob and picked up a cleaver.
But the mob overpowered him. His wife who was
covering behind him, they drew into the street,
and, holding the man. they tore the clothes from
the woman and ravshed her Some one searching
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the cellar. She. TOO. they brought before the
father and half dead mother and misused her. BY
this time the butcher foaming at the mouth
and struggled with the ten men who held him
"One of the mob stuck a knife into the mans
stomach and in a moment he was disembowelled.
Then they stripped him and mutilated his body
until It could not be recognized Before his wifes
ewes they hung him on of the meat hooks
in front Of his own shop. They then killed his
wife by beating her to death, and left the child
ol,yS
.It was the same with the home Of every Jew
who sought shelter in Christian houses As soon
as the refugees were slowed away the Christians
hurried away TO houses Of the refugees.
BODIES HIDEOUSLY MUTILATED.
After the soldiers came the third day went
out into the street. It seemed different place.
counted I'd 10 162 bodies of men, women and
children most of them mutilated hideousy, al
most unrecognizable Eighty of them We're hastily
buried. But they were exhumed and photographed
for evidence q day later.
when l left Kishineff twelve of the little girls
in the hospital had died. Only four remained alive
of the sixteen assaulted. One of the first 70 be ar
rested was the Of my protector. Ihe back
room of the house was piled full of his plunder, in
Guiding quantity OF the property OF the itluSeeS
in the chimney. ,.----
when order was restored / collected what money
was owing me and took the train from the town.
had the address of my brother-in-law, at No. -
America.
SAYS JEW IS ABUSED HERE