The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1905-11-21
HORRIBLE ATROCITIES
BARBAROUS DEEDS INFLICT.
ED UPON UNOFFENDING
PEOPLE.

Burned-Thous-
ands Home
less.
New York, Nov. 1S.-Dispatches
from Russia during the recent Jew.
ish massacres gave only faint idea
of the atrocities committed against
this race in the land of the czar.
Some of the survivors have written
letters to friends in America de-
scribing the horrors they underwent.
These letters, coming as they do
from those who witnessed the
slaughter of mothers, wives, fathers,
brothers and sisters, tel with grim
frankness of the fearful scenes wit.
messed during the persecution of the
Jews by the infuriated Russian
mobs. Extracts from some of the
letters follow. Morris Levinson of
Philadelphia, received this from his
sister at Odessa:
cat the same time our father was
attacked In the street a mob ran in
to our house and struck mother on
the head with such a blow that she
fell senseless. That was not enough
for those brutal men. They tortur.
ed her In the most horrible man
ner.
II was knocked sense1ess, but
they left me there clone, thinking,
1 suppose, that I was dead. Send
us some money for medicines and
food. If you have not any, beg of
your fellow Jews. Thank God that
you live in free land, and help US,
who are destined to live like beasts y
The butchery in Grodno is de-
scribed Ia this letter to Aaron Lipp-
man, after the same came from his
brother:
They burst open their doors and
threw the women and children from
the windows into the streets. One
with her child less than a week old,
was thrown into the street. Both
were found dead a couple hours la
ter. Abraham Chalman and Louis
Rappaport were killed while they
were trying to protect their daugh.
tiers, 16 and 18 years old. They
were tied in their houses to posts
and forced to witness attacks upon
their daughters, after which the
men were killed by having their
heads chopped off,
Aaron Rothenstein, a cousin OF
Abraham and Pauline Chabrow of
No. 342 South Street, wroteto them
of this Crime. The other woman
was their aunt. His letter ran:
I'D ar Cousins: 1 weep like a
child as l write this letter, for ter.
rible calamity has befallen our fam.
lily. Mother was lying in terrible
condition when the mob entered
our house, and after destroying all
our possessions, seized her and put
her under most horrible tortures
She was alone in our home and nc
one was on hand to defend her.
She gathered her failing strength
and rushed into the street crying
for help. The mob stoned her ano
she was instantly killed"
The wife of the Rev. Jacob Chal
fin writes from Kovro:
1.-TWO thousand dead and NOR
than 5000 wounded are the tota
due to Russian massacres In on
city. Kovno is no longer city; i
is burned. There is no money il
circulation and in fear of anothe
attack the people are quakine
Write, Dear husband, if your friend
in America cannot do something fo
, us, for not until a hundred time
what has already been given al
rives here can the misery be allevi
ated."
Herman Sachs, Of Kiev, ha
written to Samuel London, one G
the organizers of downtow
central relief committee:
, IA Jewess named Sarah Colo
man was taken to our hospital wit
two spikes seven inches long drive
s into her brain. A Jew named Kau
man was found in the street wit
his underlip cut off with knife, a
ter his tongue and windpipe ha
lbeen pulled out with pincers.
man named Selsrers was battere
until he was raving maniac, an
on a street corner woman abol
to become mother was tormente
until she died. A carpenter ws
surprised at his work and both b
= hands sawed off with bis own saw
: Echo, Or, Nov. 18.-An Aget