Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-05-20
JEW BATTING IN RUSSIA.
Riot of Murder, Rapine and Robbery
Continues for Days.

hIot OF muTooCS naPiho anu nsSSe'S
Continues for Days.
Additional details of the massacre
OF the Jews at Kishenef have filtered
through the Russian censors. The St.
Petersburg newspapers today print ac-
counts Of the butchery Of women and
children, and dispatches from Kishen-
ef have been transmitted by telegraph
to London.
/ The details are diabolical. The me-
diaeval tortures to which Christians
were subjected were not more revolt
ing. Official apathy permitted the
massacre to continue unchecked for
days. For nearly a week the riot OF
murder, rapine and robbery went on.
Jew-baiting Is spreading throughout
southern Russia, and there Is no GER
tainty that the horrible scenes at Kish-
enef may not be repeated elsewhere
Stories Of so-called ritual murders by
the Jews are being circulated to stim-
ulate the anti-Semetic feeling.
An authentic account from Kishenef
printed here today, says Of the mas
sacre:
1T was riot-it was slaughter. They
have killed and robbed the Jews, at
tackled the women and pillaged resi-
dences in all directions. The police
and soldiers stand with their hands be-
hind their backs and do not attempt
to interfere beyond telling the mob
which are Jewish and which are Chris
tian houses. The police also prevented
the Jews from helping each other"
A dispatch was received here today
from Kishenef, under date of May IA
It gives DR.. Doroschewski, head physi-
clan Of the national hospital at Kish-
enef, as authority for the following de-
tails Of the massacre:
"A Jewess named Sura Fonarschi
wss brought here with two nails, each
seven inches long, driven into he,
brain through her nose. She died
One Jew was brought in with one hip
both ankles and wrists broken, his
severed feet and hands dangling by the
skin. ::
"The upper and lower lips Of Jew
named Charlton had been cut away
with kitchen knife. His tongue and
windpipe had been pulled out through
his mouth with pincers.
"A Jew named Seizer was brought
here, a raving maniac, with his ears
cut off and his head battered in. A
Jewish girl, after several brutes hao
attacked her. had her eyes cut out
with a pocketknife.
among the fiendish atrocities, sew
eral particular instances Of inhumar
brutality stand out. One woman
whose condition should have aroused
pity, was seized by the mob. She was
dragged from her house, placed In
chair in the street, while a crowd OF
f,ends formed a circle around her
laughing and shouting at her agony as
they thrashed. Her baby was cut ir
two.
"All the half-grown girls that could
be found were subjected to such bru-
tai treatment that they died. Children
were flung from windows and tram
pied upon by the mob"
Another dispatch from st. Peters
burg says that while the massacre was
in progress the governor of the prov
ince did not leave .his.house in Klsh-
enef. Soldiers and police formed cir
cies in the centre Of which the slay-
ing and looting went on. 1t Is declar-
ed that the official investigation Is In
tended to smother and suppress the
facts instead Of Furnishing the murder
ers.-London dispatch.
A dispatch giving the official casual
ties at Kisheneff, was received In Lon
don on Monday May IS. This dispatch
placed the killed at As; severely In
jured "a, and slightly injured $50
Private information, however, gives
much higher figures. OF the 300 who
were taken to the hospitals it Is re-
ported that 40 have. since died. The
injured in these dispatches is placed
at over a thousand. One report states
that the devastators during the mas
sacre were headed in many cases by
members Of the official class. Heaps
of property has been found in loca1
barracks and even in lodgings of the
police officials.