The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1903-05-22
The CRUELTIES ARE
200 awful TO TELL
Specific Instances of Horror!
During the Russian Anti
Jew Riots.
MANS HANDS SAWED OFF
Babes Flung From Windows ane
ramp'ed On-Lips and Tongues
Cut Out With Knives
Thousands Suffering.

hlsheneff, Bessarabia, May 16.-Dr
Doroschewski head physician of the
National hospital, after examining tht
-dead and wounded, has given the fol.
lowing specific instances of hideous
cruelty:
A JeWess, named Sura Fonarschi was
brought here, with two nails, sever
lnches long, driven into her brair
through the nose.
One Jew was brought in, with one
NIP, both ankles and both wrists
broken, severed hands, and the fee,
dangling by the skin.
Jew named Charlton had lost his
upper and under lips, which had beer
cut away with n kitchen knife, after
winch his tongue and Windpipe haC
been pulled out through his mouth with
pincers.
The ears of a Jew named Solzer had
been cut away and his head battered ir
twelve places. He was q iaving ma
MAC.
A carpenter, surprised at work. had
both hands sawed off with his own saw
"A Jewish girl was assaulted by sew
'eral brutes, who then cut out her eyes
with a .pocketknife.
A woman, after trying to defend hel
children, was thrown upon the pave
ment, disemboweled, and feathers and
horsehair from her bed stuffed into hel
body.
Small children We're flung out of VIM
doWS and trampled upon by the mob.
Forty-seVe We're killed on the spot
eighty died of their injuries, and 300 are
under treatment. Many will be cripples
for life. Four thousand Jews are with
out food or shelter, and it is impossible
for them to get away.
More Frightful Details.
The outbreak was the direct result OF
the melting of the anti-semitic papers
at Bessarabia. The mere plundering
although it has beggared thousands OF
wealthy people, pales before the fiend.
1sh crimes committed in those parts OF
the town that were Inhabited by the
poor Jews. The survivors are sorrow
fully exploring the wreckage Of theil
homes and property for the bodies OF
the lost relatives. Feet are found il
the midst of piles Of feathers The
walls of the houses are splashed with
blood and brains. When the mis-
creants had stolen everything of value
they them in cold blood, set about muir.
dering and manning women and chill.
dren. The hospital mortuary presents
an awful spectacle. The bodies of the
dead had been mutilated with in.
describable barbarity. The Viedomost
reports:
where the mobs were thickest were
men and women e Russian society
persons in gloves and clean linen and
with Intelligent countenances. The
riots We're no surprise, but We're well
organized"
The Novosti, a non-Jewish paper
says:
while the plundering of large ware
houses was in progress, women belong.
ing to the better class appropriated the
contents, which they made up into
parcels. The suffering is unparalleled"
Not one single Jewish shop or dwell,
ing escaped. These Jews were the rich,
est, most cultured members of the com.
nunity, numbering $4,000 souls. They
would have been well able to defen'
themselves had not their fears Of in.
pending attack been allayed by thu
assurance of the vice governor of Bess.
arabia, SO they took no precautionary
measures. The shops are still closed
these Jews having now but one occupa'
ton, hospital and cemetery. In the
buildings where bread is being dis.
tributed are hundreds of Jews without
shelter and almost naked
Number of the Victims.
London, May 15.-The victims in the
Kisheneff massacre number 1000, az
cording to the latest information re.
.ceived by the Jewish Chronicle of Lon
don. Of these at least sixty-five were
killed and more than 800 MANNED OF
crippled for life. The damage to prop.
-erty is estima ted at 100000 roubles
(about $51O,0OO. The Jewish Chronicle
will say editorally in tomorrow's is.
sue:
g We charge the Russian government
with responsibility for the IXishenef
massacre. If Europe does not on the
present occasion disassociate itself from
the leprous faint of the barbarian pow.
,er it writes its humanity down a shame
and it's civilization as organized hypoc.
risy.
The cardinal fact of the whole trag
.edy is that the massacre was organized
and allotted by Russian authorities
THE killing and pillaging was done un.
der cover of the troops and the police
During the two days the massacre last
ed the governor did not leave his house
Telegraphic communication with ST
Petersburg was stopped. All the parti,
>cipants in the massacre, who were
chiefly imported hireiings, wore rec
shirts. An eye witness is quoted a!
saying: THE police and the troop.
formed circles, in the center of which
the Staying and looting was going on
the police pointing out the houses O.
the Jews to the mob"
The ncwspa per Woschod of ST. Pet.
sersburg was suppressed for printing
the facts. Jew-baiting is now spread,
ing throughout southern Russia, slim,
ulated by stories of so-called ritua
murders. The judicial inquiry into thu
nlassacres is not intended to disclose
the facts, but to smother them up.
3. P0RREO THE CALI owns