The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-22
POISON USED
AFTER KILLING
First Food Given to Survivors Is
Kishinef Proved Deadly
to Children.
a Graphic Account Of the Massacre
Received by Minneapo-
lis Man.
Interest in the Lyceum Benefit In
creases as Fresh Details
Come Out.

| 5s$H OUmc Out. z
The horrors of the recent massacre Of
Jews at Kishinef, Russia, as they are now
| revealed from day to day, increase local
interest in measures for the relief of a
people hurled suddenly from wealth to des-
| titution. Special attention is attracted by
the concert to be given by the Journal
Newsboys band, with Endorsement Of
tertainment now first among the relief
measures proposed in this city.
| The concert will take place on the after
noon Of Sunday, May g., at the Lyceum
theater. Details of the program are not
yet ready to announce, but they will COM
/ prise solos vocal and instrumental In adj
4 dition to numbers by the band.
The cordial support of Minneapolitans,
regardless of nationality or religion, has
4 been rendered to the young members Of
| the band who are eager to make the con-
cert a notable success. The nature of the
more than a racial sympathy with the VIC
Tins Of jealousy and bigotry. 5
Letters are being received in Mime
apolis almost daily which add to the horror
Of the affair. M. S. Winthrop of the mu-
nicipal court staff has long epistle from
a friend at Kishinef, which portrays the
Easter uprising as little short Of a second
st. BartholomeW's For graphic detail
and spirited description this letter excels
any yet published in America Written in
| Hebrew, it has been translated by Mr..
Winthrop as follows:
City DesoIated.
"Kishinef, the heart Of Bessarabia,
city built by Jew and not by Gentle, is
| now no more. A crime has been COM.
mitted so black that it casts a shadow
| upon the sunlight. When the world shall
| hear what has happened, humanity will
sicken at heart, civilization will despair,
| liberty will vow vengeance. From the
| Street of Gold on the north to the Odessa
| road on the south; from the abatoir on the
J east 20 the highway leading into Rou-
| mania on the west, all has been destroyed.
Here and there you may see a house un-4
touched; 1T is the house of a Gentle. No
| fire, no plague, no earthquake, could have
/ wrought such havoc as the madness Of
! these Russian monsters.
For two weeks the Jews here have been
! dreading a massacre. AS the leaves
! trenlble before a storm, SO our people had
lbeen shuddering.
f. hat led to it all is easily told. In
4 the little town of Debosar, east of Kish-
Einef,E lives Baron CozIovitz. He is very
rich, as. YOU .rsmembmer. Having no
children, he had adopted q youth named
i Ivan. But. he has two nephews. They
| realized that, as long as Ivan lived, they
would inherit nothing from their uncle.
| And they killed Ivan
| Now, after killing the youth, they
threw his body into vineyard owned by
1 a Jew. The police, together with the
| guilty nephews, the baron himself. and
a band of ruffains were present at the
discovery Of the body. They all raised
the cry that the murder had been com
mitted by Jews who wanted the blood Of
a boy for use in the ceremonies at Pass
over
Massacre Announced in Church.
| .The matter was perfectly plain to
these savages; the guilt of the Jews was
manifest. Therefore bands of Slavs gath
Iered in different parts of Kishinef to or
ganize massacre. A massacre was nee
essary, they argued, and they went to
work as coolly, as Systematically, as if
| they had been planning reception in
honor of the car. Trembling Jews ran
4 to the governor of the province and
| begged himto protect their race. He
| promised that all would come out well.
At last, about three days before Easter,
announcement was made in one of the
principal Russian churches that on the
bnrst day of the Easter season and to
commemorate the resurrection, all the
Jews must be massacred.
! "Our people soon heard the direfuI
news and wept; our women wrung thein
hands; our children chung screaming to
their mothers. Hundreds Of pallid Jews
marched to the governors palace and
| inplored him for their lives. He prom
Used once more that he would quelI
promptly any outbreak.
The Signal for Slaughter.
| 'But when midnight sounded, at the
first minute of Easter, church bells began
to toll thruout the city-it was the signal
| for the Slaughter! ct was so a midnight
| bell pealed for the knell of Huguenots
800 years agoD Immediately walls were
! seen to crumble. flames burst forth on
every side! The storming of city was
] never planned more Systematically by the
great Napoleon. Everywhere Slavs.
armed with clubs, knives, pixies, even
| with spades and with the branches OF
/ trees, rushed simultaneously upon the
Jews Workshops. warehouses, factories.
schools and synagogues were plundered
and DESTROYED. When the mob came upon
a building strong enough to resist their
| fury they resorted to the torch. Within
4 a few minutes pools Of blood stained
every street. Groans, prayers, shrieks re-
sounded thru the darkness. Terror,
/ stricken women begged for pity. Murder
ers shouted in reply that they must haya
more Jewish blood.
i Gentle Houses Marked
Before the massacre it appears, all the
Gentiles had been instructed to put big
j crosses in their windows so that their
houses might be saved. And so, during
i the carnage, the rabbis, observing this
i emblem, ran from house to house and,
urged the Jews that their one hope OF
1 safety would be found in exposing similar
! crosses. Some Of the less pious Jews
consented, and their houses were passed.
4 by. But the great majority of our people
i steadfastly refused to betray their religion
i They prayed instead, and resigned them
i selves to die the death of martyrs. Never
have seen men die 50 peacefuily. Many
La victim when the mob approa ched, would
Inot move an inch from where he was
standing, facing the east, as is our GUS
4 tom, and commencing his soul to the JeS'
Ihova Of our forefathers.
Meantime the Russian rabble soul<
quenched, with beer-dimmed eyes, mur-
4 dered so necessarily that their weapons
reeked with blood. Young lads wereF
4 stabbed to death with spears. Women
Iwere carried to the house tops and hurled
4 down upon the stones Of the street. Old
men, their flowing white boards Grim
soned with blood, were set on FIRE. Mems
skulls were pierced with nails; their.
tongues were torn from their mouths.
Legs were wrenched apart hands were
i sawed of. Even the conscience OF ai
Nero would have burned at such scene.
None Remained TO XIII.
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