Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-12
DESCRIBED MASSACRhS
RUSSIAN ATROCITIES TOLD BY
REFUGEES AT NEW YORK.

Five hundred Russian refugees. MANY of
them eye-witnesses of the massacres in
Odessa and other Russian cities disem-
barked at New York yesterday from the
steamers Patricia and Chemnitz Some of
them told graphic and pitiful stories of their
experiences. Jews who had themselves lain
hidden In Odessa houses while mobs
searched for them, Russian workmen of
the Christian faith. strikers from the rail-
roads, newspaper reporter and Germans
who had long lived in Russia Joined yes
terday at Ellis Island immigration station
in declaring that they had been attacked ir
respective of religion; that their assailants
were led by police disguised in citizens
clothing, and that the massacres were not
race persecution, but revolution.
. Whiie telling their stories the men some
times burst into tears, for, perhaps, half
OF the entire number had left behind them
wives and children who were either dead
or defenseless in Russian cities.
Declined Money for Story.
Ihere were three Jews from Odessa, all
Of whom six weeks ago yesterday. on Mon
DAY, october 30, the day that the car pro-
CANNED Russia's constitution, were forced
into hiding TO save their lives. All three
are men over thirty, intelligent and of fine
physique One of them, Abraham Chanoch
an Ouessa tlnsmth, who hesitated about
eeescIiolng me Odessa massacres. was Of
iered money for his story when he threw
pack ms mead and exclaimed:
won take money Thank God still
nave SS and that is enough"
Then without further urging he told what
ne saw OF the Odessa massacre from its be-
ginning, when two rival parades. which
were celebrating the new constitution. met
ana began to fight He told how little
children were thrown out of high windows
now Russian Christians patrolled the streets
II, IN large bands, protecting Jews, while other
3ands of men pilaged and murdered.
Norkmen and students, he said led the
peace parties, while disguised police usually
ied The hoodlums. After the first two days
city.
Prisoners Released From Jail.
Two refugees from western Russia said
that there the Jew killing was started by
enptying the jails of prisoners. who at
tackled and stole from the Jews A man
from the province of Kovno asserted that
the police themselves read in the emperors
proclamation of constitution an order to
streets.
RUSSIAN newspaper man named Chech-
koWltz, from the province of Wilma who re-
ceiVed two bullet holes in his hat as he
boarded train bound for the border de-
scrlned the workings of the society of self
ueIense known as the Sanierones and the
las: battle in which he, as a member of this
society, participated.
The Germans, most of whom had enough
money saved to bring their families along
with them, pointed to their children with
punched faces and shoulders rounded al
ready from work or privation, as their rea-
sol for leaving Russia
Manifesto Used as Pretext for Riots.
All the stories agreed that the emperor's
manifesto of a constitution and the festiyi-
ties on the day that Count White stepped
INTO power were made the pretext for riots.
The reception of this news in Odessa was
described as follows by Solomon Mirocznik.
a Jew candy maker of Odessa. who is
thirty years old.
ION the day of the cars manifesto {,
he said, there were marchings and reioic-
lngs by great professions, which waved red
Hags, through the streets. great party
or loyaliSts gathered and were addressed nv
a clergyman, who said 1T is true that the
car has decreed liberty freedom of the
press, of speech and of conscience And |
ne exhorted faithfulness to the car, after
winch his followers marched, carrying aIoft
pictures of the car. When this procession
met the other paraders 1t was stoned and |
thus the fighting began.
during the next two days the streets of
odessa We're a battlefield" Mirocznik said
repeating 1t bitterly several times and add
ing, this was what they called decreeing
liberty"
chanoch, the tinsmith, took up the story
at this point, saying:
Six weeks ago today I lay with several |
other Jews for four hours in the garnet OF |
q house to escape from mob in the rooms |
below. 1t was three-story building. and |
those who lived there escaped by crawling |
along rafters into dark holes a few inches |
underneath the roof
Children Hurled to Death.
while we were hiding in this house, men
came in after dark to escape from the |
streets and to tell us what happened in the |
other houses where the Jews were caught |
A man told me that one of these houses |
had been entered where perhaps 200 Jews |
were in hiding The members of the mob |
carried butcher knives. stone slabs some of |
which We're red with blood. and which were |
used for crushing and stoning people, iron |
bars, revolvers and clubs. Those in the |
house ran In every direction, many of them
escaping, but the children ran with a few |
older persons TO the third floor. There they !