Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-05-22
WORST NO1HA[F TOLD
Details of Butohery of Jews of
Kishenef.
BLAME FOR GOVERNOR
MOB USED CLUBS, BLUNT IRON
WEAPONS AND AXES.
Correspondent Declares That Hebrew
Cemetery Looks Like New
Plowed Field.

A special copyrighted cable dispatch to
the New York World of this morning, dated
London, says:
A special correspondent having long ana
intimate knowledge of Russia was sent by
the World to Kisheneff and has forwarded
to the Worlds London bureau the supJoln-
ing vivid personal sketch of the results OF
the massacre AS the Russian censorship
prevents anything relating to the atrocities
being telegraphed these dispatches were
sent across the frontier by mail.
KISHENEFF, South Russia, May II, 1903.
Although a period of three weeks has
elapsed since the dreadful Eastertde events
in this city, what strikes one particularly
in the journey hither from Odessa is the
constant stream of Jewish refugees steadily
flowing toward presumably safer locations.
Pitiful Sight Presented.
They present pitful sights these numer-
parties of sad-eyed men, women and
children who have been despoiled and ex-
proprated. Many, alas! have been griev-
ously and cruelty bereaved of their relatives
and friends. Some with bandaged heads,
arms in sings or painfully limping on
clutches have only just been dismissed from
the hospital.
The majority were thriving tradesmen a
month ago; now they go forth destitute.
Nearly half the city is in a veritable desc
lation of ruin. The shops, booths and
dwellings in the Jewish quarters have been
sacked, looted and partly demolshed-not
in odd streets but In whole blocks.
The destruction could not have been more
complete had the town been given over for
forty-eight hours to wholesale pillage by
an invading army of Bash-Bazouks
Fiendish Treatment of Women.
According to information furnished me by
eye-witnesses including members of the
hospital medical STATS. many women vic
tins were treated with unspeakably shock
ing brutality. They were mutilated in a
few cases beyond the possibility of dentifi-
cation
One mother of small family was literally
diSemboweled, her eyes were gouged out
and her head was beaten into a ShapeleSS
mass.
Eight children, three of them girls, We're
partly dismembered -
The ferocity of the moujik Russian
peasant when his racial and relgiously
fanatical passions are aroused against the
Hebrew becomes astounding savagery.
He seldom uses a knife or firearm. In
this massacre there We're few cases of &C
tual stabbing. Clubs. blunt iron instru-
ments and short halted axes commonly
used by the laboring classes We're the chief
weapons employed
Many victims We're literally Strangled by
hand u
An official circular concerning the mas
sacre states that only forty-six persons
were Killed, seventyfour seriously injured
ana 3Jo slightly wounded.
Dead So Far Number 200.
There is indisputabIe evidence that on the
Russian Easter Sunday fifty-two Jews,
men, women and children, were slain out
right, and the 3}9' Ngrfevoilsly injured vic
tins were removed to hospitals
On renewal on Easter Monday the riotin-
was somewhat, less violent
On Tuesday twentythree Jews were
killed, and 45O seriously injured
Since then III persons, all Hebrews in
GLIDING thirteen women, have succumbed
to the terrible maltreatment
| witnessed the funerals of two further
victims this morning
1t is attested beyond a shadow of dispute
that during the massacre the cavalry pa
trolls. in bodies of fifty, passively witnessed
the horrors, because they had not the au-
thority of the civil governor to fire upon
the murderers.
a cavalry officer with whom the World
correspondent had a conversation today
gravely declared:
Governor Should Be Shot First
IF any punitive shooting is to be exc
cuted, Governor Won Raaben should be the
first to be placed before the evolutionary
platoon.
The governor had ample warning of the
impending outbreak, but he wilfully ig-
nored it, and when the military command
ant, a man of some humanity, demanded
direct authority to fire on the rioters the
governor lost his head and telegraphed to
Interior Minister Plehve for instructions
No reply to that urgent dispatch was re-
ceived for thrtyfour hours.
Won Raaben is accused even by the Rus
slams of tacitly supporting the anti-Sem.tic
crusade of the newspaper BessarabetZ and
of Winking a the subsidy clandestinely fur
nished by the Pansiavists 20 the editor
1t is evident that the Russian admins
tration is disposed for politico-economic
brew exodus to the United States by per-
hitting a certain license to Jew batting.
Thirty thousan Jews have fled from
Kisheneff in terror and more will follow
Every Jew with whom the World corre-
spondent has spoken here is intending to
emigrate to the United States or South
America.
More Than 100000 Loss.
At a low computation the material dam
age wrought to Jewish property is upward
of $ 3.CO0 COO None of the sufferers has the
slightest chance Of obtaining compensation
either from the local or the imperial au-
thorities.
Four distinguished lawyers, two Jews and
two Christians, arrived yesterday to con-
test this question with the local authori-
ties Their services has been retained by
Odessa and Warsaw.
One of these lawyers frankly confessed to
the World correspondent today that he has
been retained in an absolutely hopeless
cause
The strategy shown by the ringleaders
of the mobs in the attacks the Jews is
worthy of note, although it does not ex-
cuse the inaction OF the governor with
~ 600 troops at his command.
shrewdly Planned Attacks.
The leaders who planned the outbreak
fixed a rendezvous in one of the most
densely peopled of the Jewish quarters
This rendezvous was kept with remarkable
punctuality, the men arriving singly twos
or by threes, in order not to attract the
notice of the police.
Suddenly the rioters converged from all
quarters upon an appointed spot at sig
nal given and in ar. instant the massacre
began.
Upon this first center of disturbance there
followed an immediate concentration of all
the available police, but in rapid succession
there were score of other gatherings in