The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1905-11-10
The Streets Of Odessa is Strewn
With Dead Bodies.
KISHINEFF HORRORS
Are Repeated a Hundred FoId. Five
Thousand People are Killed and
Wounded. The Mobs Swear
They Will Not Leave a
Jew Alive.

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Riots continue In different parts OF
Russia, and many people are killed
aud wounded. A dispatch from Odes.
SC says tho city TinGG with the reports
of rifles and revolvers and occasionally
. volley Is fired. Every house and
tenement is bolted and barred. The
infantry patrols are doing their duty
perfunctorily, declining to fire on the
mobs unless they themselves are at.
tackled. The Cossacks are said t.,
have lost over 100 men by bombs apo
shots from windows, Cossack patrols,
carry carbines and have their fingers
on the triggers. The streets are alb.
E0lutoly unsafe for civilians.
The casualties Wednesday are be
lieved to have amounted to 5000
killed and wounded. In the Jewish,
quarters bodies still strew the streets,
and sidewalks. jewish women ant
children wore strangled and hacked to
pieces In the streets where the mobs
gained the upperhand. A Rad Gross.
doctor tells me that the Klshinen
horrors were repeated a hundred fold,
The students alone saved the city
from wholesale sack and massacre.
The military are now placing 100 ma
chine guns at various points. Twenty
SIX carts full Of wounded have lust
passed my door.
Gen. Kaulbars was called to the
balcony Of the palace Wednesday
morning by 5000 loyalists carrying
imperial portraits and ikons and sing.
Ing the national hymn. The general
earnestly entreated the assemblage to
disperea and go home but with ring.
Ing cheers the loyalists resumed
marching through the city. The
sound Of firing Is again moving west
ward toward the Jewish quarters.
single Jew alive.
Another dispatch from Odessa says
martial law was declared there Wed
nesday afternoon. The whole garri
son was turned out ana now occupies:
the city. Police control has also been
reestablished. All citizens are for.
hidden to leave their houses after 9
O'Clock IN the evening, at which hour
all lights must be out. Maxim guns
have been placed in positions COM
handing a hundred streets. Under
these conditions, the dispatch says q
repetition Of the fearful scenes Id
practically impossible. The peace
loving people are oyerjoyed at the
prospect OF witnessing the restoration
OF order and the comparative security
Of life and property. The military
has nov adopted drastic measures to
force the disorderly mobs to return to
their homes.
at Odessa the troops wrecked ter.
rible vengeance on the residents OF
three houses from balconies Of which
shots were fired by unknown persons
upon the soldiers. The latter immc.
diately stormed the houses ard with
unheard Of barbarity massacred all
the inhabitants.
1t is persistently asserted that the
unknown persons who fired on the
troops were disguised policemen who
purposely provoked the troops.
The city Is q dismal sight. The
streets are filed with Cossack patrols
and flying detachments Of the Red
Gross which follow the bands of muir.
derous rioters. The firing has been
uninterrupted the whole day and still
continues IS this dispatch Ia filed
Many hundreds have been killed or
wounded.
The Cossacks eagerly attack the
student militia. which Is courageously
trying to stem the bands who are
massacreing and p%illaging principally
in the jewish quarter. The looters
openly divide the goods, the Cossacks
In many cases participating in the
proceeds Of the robberles.
The rector Of the university has
sent O. telegram to Count White i'm.
p'oring him to Immediately dismiss
Gov. Reinhardt, who is held response.
BILE Tor the outbreak, as otherwise a
catastrophe Is unavoidable. Count
Whites answer has not yet been re-
ceived. The city Is in a dreadful
state Of panic. Even the telegraph
offices were closed most of the day for
the first time since they opened.
At Vyaznia during yhe cele
hration Thursday of the granting OF
o constitution to Russia, q Jewish
service was held to the memory Of
those who died In the cause OF freedom
Singing the "Marsellalse" the demon.
atrators marched to the prision and
compelled the release of q fsw politi.
cal prisoners. AS the processionists
were returning through the public
square they were set upon by a mob
with shouts Of KIN the Jews" A
free fight and a panic followed. The
mob then hurried to the Jewish quar-
ter, sacked the shops and broke into
residences destroying everything and
committed horrible atrocities. AS
there were only q few troops in town
the authorities were powerlcss. The
rioting continued all night long and
Is still In progress as this dispatch ia
filed.