The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-11-01
BLOOD FLOWS.
The Streets of Odessa is Strewn
With Dead Bodies.
KISHINEFF HORRORS
Are Repeated a Hundred Fold. Five
thousand People are Killed and
Wounded. The Mobs Swear
They Will Not Leave a

Wounded, The Mobs Swear
They Will Not Leave a
Jew Alive.
Riots continue in different parts OF
Russia, and many people are killed
and wounded. A dispatch from Odes.
ga says the city rings with the reports
of riff s and revolvers and occasionally
a volley is fired. Every house and
tenement Is bolted and barred. The
infantry patrols are doing their duty
pe~rfuuctcrily, declining to fire on the
mobs unless they themselves are at.
tackled. The Cossacks are said to
have lost over 100 men by bombs and
shots from windows, Oossack patrols
carry clrbines and have their fingers
on the triggers. The streets are ab-
solutely unsafe for civilians.
The casualties Wednesday are be
lieyed to have amounted to 5000
killed and wounded. In the Jewish
quarters bodies still strew the streets
and sidewalks. Jewish women and
children were s%trangled and hacked to
pieces in the streets where the mobs
gained the upperhand. A r d Cross
doctor tells me that the Klshinff
horrors were repeated q 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 just
passed my door.
Gen. KsuIbars was called to the
balcony Ct the palace Wednesday
morning by 5000 loyalists carrying
imperial portraits and ikons and sing.
ing the national hymn. The general
earnestly ~entraated the asSemblage to
disperse and 90 home but with ring
ing cheers the loyalists resumed
marching through the city. The
sound Of firing is again moving wess
ward toward the jewish quarters.
Toe mobs swear they will not leave a
single Jaw alive. De.
Another dispatch from Odessa says
martial law was declared there Wed
nesday afternoon The whole garri'
son was turned cut and now occupies
the city. Police control has also been
reestabhshed. AL citiz ms are for
hidden to leave their houses after 8
O'Clock in the evening, at which hour
all lights must be out. Maxim guns
have been placed in positions COM
handing q hundred streets. Under
these conditions, the dispatch says a
repetition of the fearful scenes Is
practically impossible. The peace
loving people are ove>j)yed at the
prospect of witnessing the restoration
of order and the comparative security
Of life and property. The military
has now adopted drastic measures to
force the d~isorderly mobs to return to
their homes.
At Oiss5a the troops wrecked ter
rible vengeance On the residents OF
three hCu3ss firm balconies Of which
shots ". re fred by unknown persons
UPON the soldiers. The latter tmme-
diately s.orned the houses and with
unhesrd of barbarity massacred all
the inhabitants.
1t is persist ently 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 Bed
Cross which follow the bands OF muir
derous rioters. The firing has been
uninterrupted the whole day and still
continues as this dispatch is filed.
Many hundreds have been killed or
wounded.
The Cossacks eagerly attack the
student militia, which is coursgeously
irving to stem the bands who are
massacreipg and ~ptllaging principally
in the Jewish quarter. The hooters
openly divide the goods, the Cossacks
in many cases participating in the
proceeds of the robberieS.
The rector Of the university has
sent a telegram to Count Witte 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 Vyazaia during the cele
bration Thursday Of the granting Of
a constitution to Russia, q Jewish
service was held to the memory Of
those who died In the cause OF freedom
Singing the "Marsellaise" the demon.
strators marched to the prision and
compelled the release Of a fsw pohti-
cal prisoners. As the pr~ocessionists
were returning through the public
oo,ora thav we're set upon by q mob