The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-03-19
WOMAN ARRIVES
FROM kISHINEFF
Miss Dora Veitz Tells of the
Massacre.
SAYS ALL NOT YET TOLD
Three thousand Jews Board
One Ship.

her home here with her sister, Mrs sam
Miller 515 South Emporia She came
from Europe on the ship Graf Waldersee,
which transported three thousand refu-
goes from the land of the Kaiser to this
country. The Graf Waldersee left Ham
burg. Germany about March I, and reacn-
ed New York after a fourteen days san.
Miss Veitz pronounced White in Eng
nsh) is young woman about twenty
years Of age and is very handsome. She
cannot speak the English language but
through the assistance Of her sister, Mrs.
Miller. the Eagle was able TO get the
story of the terrible massacre which be
gan last April ana caused so much COM
motion throughout the civilized world.
The ship in which Miss Veitz came to
this country carried mostly Russian Jews,
the greater part Of whom were men who
had served in the army OF the Gar and
who became dissatisfied Out of these
three thousand there was not one but
who witnessed and perhaps bore some
OF the cruelties and heartless atrocities in
fIicted by the Russians at Kishineff. Dur
ing the voyage from Europe to this coWl-
try the ship was so densely crowded that
men and women TO the number of ten
died
Many new and more horrifying phases
of the oriental massacre than We're ever
told before are wildly described by Miss
White and, as she tells the story Of how
blood was split, she shrugs her Shout
ders and trembles with Indignation. When
she was asked why she came TO this
country she said that she desired free
dom and wanted to live in a country
where she did not have to be afraid at
night when she went to bed that the
next morning she would wake up and
find her home riddled to pieces with bull
lets and stones and where she could live
In safety.
1t appears from Miss Whites account of
the affair that it was far more inhuman
than was ever revealed TO the world.
According to her ideas the massacre must
have been planned about three years be
fore it actually occurred.
1t viii be understood that the Jews are
a class of people who are progressive
wherever they are found. They seldom
have TO ask their neishbors for a mite
and it is scarcely ever that 4 mendcant
is seen among them. In business they
are mostly successful and have natural
inclination for making money. All these
facts are true and always We're true of
the Russian Jews and in Kishineff they
were industrious and energetic. 1t is
said that they were the most docile as
well as the most advanced people in the
city. And because they were people who
had good. comfortable homes. plenty to
live from qualities to make their way
through the world the Russians soon
evolved dislike for them This jealousy
and hatred increased and grew into ca
Elimination and villifcation. From this
stage it became even worse and the lives
of Jews were menaced with vile attacks
and unCivi eatment by the Cars mill
tary forces. But still all these things
were not quite sufficient to prompt the
n erciless Russian bear to wipe out the
whole Semitic people TO there was an
interim Of silence on the part of q
naughty aggressors.
Then came the Passover. As history
teaches, the orthodox Jews are strict OBJ /
servers of this one doctrine OF their re-
lgion and never fail to heed it, Concern /
ing the Passover the Jews are taught /
that it is right and proper to hold the /,
period sacred just is was done in the /
time Of which their Tohra one Bible) /.
was written. The Russian misnomer( (
called by that country the Chris (.
tan church. was anxious to discover
some faw, if possible, in the Jewish re-
hgion. and it took the festivities of the I
Passover for its field of exploration The /
next thing was the accusation that. dur
Ing this period the jew would murder
ms infant children in order to drink the /
blood thereof. This. it was argued by thu, .
Russian church. was the doctrine and an (
Gent custom of the Jewish religion. But
his was absolutely untrue as was ex-
rla'ned by Miss White II is true that
tney think great deal of the Passover.
yet they love and observe the Ten Com
mandments Just as do any other class y \
people. Here was what seemed to thu 4
Russian 4 feasible and plausible basis
from which TO start massacre. Wha.
followed this the world knows and re-
calls with a shudder
In the midst OF simple celebration.
in which there was no more harm than
In an American Fourth of July Jubilee.
the Russians swooped down upon the
defenseless Jews and PLAYED the most
savage game Of inhumanity that IS -.
corded in modern history. The homes 4
which the Jews had worked and lahor=4 .
for diligently and honestly were rillaga5 .
burned and destroyed. Innocent children .
were torn from the arms of pleading
mothers and killed. Old men. crirprad
and infrm. were Knocked over ard
trampled To death like so many worms
OF the dust. Women were treated as
miscreants and vultures and shot II
Death. Murder was rampant and there
was no pity shown for any jew. Young
or old. rich or poor The homes that
were not demolished were wrecked and
the furniture ruined. Tor weeks the
streets of kishipeG were covered "A fo..
deep with feathers taken from beds and
the household goods were scattered in
ali directions.
Appeals from the suffering and opprsss-
ed people received no reply from the
Kaiser and one massacre followed an
other until the civilized world demanded I
an action on the part Of the Russian
government And what the Car did then
did not amount TO scarcely ANYTHING for
the unGodly situa ton Is changed but
very little. Miss White SAYS the Jew :
not safe in Eishinen at this very mo-
ment and that at any time il would not
surprise her 10 hear of a yet more as
founding tragedy. Even now. according
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