Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-16
CONFIRM MASSACRE STORY
Berlin Paper Prints Additional Details Of
the Bloody Affair.
OFFICIALS MAKE NO ATTEMPT TO STOP IT
Mob Engaged for Ten Hours at One
Place Opening n safe while
owner Appeals to Police
for Protection.
copyrighted, 1908

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BERLIN, May 15.-(New York World
Cableeram-Specisl Telegram .)-Reports re-
ceived from Klshineff say that during the
three days massacre of the Jews forty
eight persons were killed outright, eighty
have since died of their wounds and up
ward Of LOCO were injured
Nine children were murdered in q horrible
manner. One child was found with its body
split in two Most injuries were inflicted
with pieces Of furniture and heavy sticks
Such was the fury of the crowd that many
OF the bodies were unrecognizable. The
Tageblatt publishes a special dispatch from
KishincT which says:
"On the evening of the second day Rus
sian doctors. who were moved to pity by
the horrible sights they had witnessed.
drove to a distant station and sent a teie-
gram to st. Petersburg informing the au.
thorities of what was happening.
The murderers and robbers were well or
sanized. The attack had evidently been
carefully planned. They worked in groups
Of eight and ten.
The total number OF the murderers aid
not exceed 300. whereas there were 5000
soldiers and 300 police in the city
Ihe military and police calmly looked
on while the atrocities were being COM
mitted, making not the slightest attempt to
STOP them. They gladly accepted many a
good piece OF loot thrown them by the ruff
fans.
LeisuFely About work.
I'm some cases the barbarous vretcbes
TOOK their time over their awful work. One
band In particular took possession of the
dwelling OF Jew in good circumstances
and which promised to yield valuable
plunder. and leisurely killed and robbed
Inc cutthroats murdered the mistress of
the house and subjected her daughter 20
a worse fate. The band then turned its
attention to the safe, in which the owner
had deposited his whole fortune In the
meantime the head of the house was drift
ing from one police station to another seek
ing omcial after oficial, entreating vainly
for help and police protection.
The members of the gang worked over
the safe for ten hours before they were
able to open 1t, and during all that time
the owner could not find a single officer Of
the law or of the military who would give
him aid
One Jewish manufacturer saved his
property in very simple manner. Shortly
after the looting began he called to a can
tain Of Cossacks. who was passing, and
presented him with l,50O rubles (about $500.
The captain Immediately sent twenty Cos
sacks to guard the manufacturers house
ana his property was untouched, although
every other Jewish place of business In
the neighborhood was sacked ana the
property that could not be carried away
was drenched with petroleum and fred.''
An appeal issued by the Jewish associa-
tons of Berlin says:
THE cruelties inflicted on the Jews of
Rshineff are more awful than those in
nicted during the middle ages. The crowd,
excited by the lie of ritual murder, fell
upon the Jews and for two days plundered
burned and murdered them with impunity
The attack was cruelty prepared before
hand and II was executed in the Easter
festival with the connivance Of the author
tiles. Widows and orphans are bewailing
their bread winners and thousands of fam
lilies are reduced to beggary."
VIENNA, May B.-(New York World Ca
blegram-Special Telegram)-A dispatch
from kishineff confirms the account of the
Jewish mechanic who was bound to a board
and his hands sawed Off with his own saw
With hendish cruelty the murderers de-
ferred his fate, leaving him helpless until
they had made victims of his wife and
daughter before his eyes Then they
the women with an axe In the
most horrible fashion Many Jews hid
themselves in closets and cellars, where
they were killed. Bodies have been dis
covered in many strange hiding places.
ST. PETERSBURG, May I6.-The reports
of great Jewish massacre at Tirrosnot
Russia are pronounced here to be without