The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-15
DESCRIBES 4 WFUI
REIGN OF TERROR
JEWISH MOTHER WRITES FROM
SCENE OF MASSACRE. u
Isaac Golding Receives Glad Tidings
THAT His Loved Ones Passed Safely
Thru Terrible Ordeal Women Saw
Their Children Cruelty Murdered I'm
der the Guidance Of Brutal Govern
ment Officers.

While all the Russian Jews in Min
.neapolis are watching the press dis
patches and trembling with fear for the
loved ones left behind, Isaac Golding, q
young man employed at one of the
Lake Harriet greenhouses, IS drawing
long sighs of relief. He has received
letter from his mother in Ecaterines-
lar, South Russia, saying that she has
come safely thru the massacre there.
This letter tells of scenes too horrible
to depict in print. 1t tells how wealthy
Jews found themselves beggars the day
after the riot. Tt tells how the mad.
dened spopulace carried on its work OF
murder, rapine and robbery under the
protection Of the Cossacks, and at the
who rode behind the rioters shouting:
SEQ further ahead, boys, go further
ahead.2'
Mothers See Babes Slain.
Children were murdered in the sight
of their mothers, whose pitious plead
ing served only to add to the amuse-
ment of the blood-1nad populace.
Nameless atrocities were perpetrated
upon the persons Of women and girls.
The bodies of the dead were horribly
mutilated; to add to. the sport Of the
mob. =. ~.
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these outrages, but made all the resis-
lance in their power. In many places
the young Jews were strong enough IN
numbers and arms to turn the tide OF
the riot to quarters where there was
less resistance. Many Christians fought
side by side with the young Jews and
some fell in defense Of their Jewish
friends and neighhors. s%ss
Golding's mother and little sister es'
= = oe4l, II "a no n
votion of some GENTLE friends who
took them into their home and snel:
tered them until the confagration had
burnt itself out Only ikons, sacred
pictures, hung over the doors and d1s
PLAYED in the. windows of the house
| kept the rioters from entering IN their
hunt for Jews. =. ~,
az Homeless Suffering.
The letter tells Of the sufferings and
l-privations Of the survivors, many. OF
whom were left homeless and penniless
| by the carnival Of fire and pillage. The
one, desire Of the Russian Jews is tt
! get away from Russia, no matter how
great the sacrifice Golding 8 brother
| Who is a dentist with a good practice
writes that he is willing to leave Rus
STA for any country which will give hin
a crust of bread and leave him to eat i
in peace and safety. :,
Young Golding has not been in thi
country over nine months and speak
little English. The letter was translate
for The j ourn by John Goodman
A Washington avenue s. Mr.. GOOD
man has received no letters from Rus
STA himself, but thru friends is well in
formed as, to conditions there:
He said. HThe Jewish bundsisz ally
ing itself with the students and tn
i other intellectual classes connected wit
the uprising and is receiving much al
and support from them. At Ecaterint
slar the students not only helped on
for the graves Of victims. The Jew
in Russia will fight: They see tina
their only safety lies in armed defens
and an alliance with the revolutionar
; intellectuals. .. 4.
All along South Washington can b
found men who are anxiously waitin
| for ng-delayed letters from parent
) relatives and wives in Russia, and tn
massacres become grim realities after
! short time spent in conversation wit
them. s