The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-12

 OF REFUGEES Stories Of Persons Who
 Left Odessa. POLICE LED HE RIOTERS
 -e- < Christians Murdered as Well
 as Jews. Eye Witnesses of Recent srasaass~e Ten of the Brutallties Prsessees
 by Mobs ef the Rss-
 sian City.

New York; Dec lls---rlVe hunotSS Russian refugees, many or them cxs- witnesses to the massacres In odessA and other Russian cities. disembarked here today from the. steamers Patricia and Chemnftz.
 Some of them told graphic and piti- full stories of their experiences. JeWs who had themselves lay hidden " odessa houses while mobs searchtnG for them, Russian workmen of the Christian faith. strikers from the rait. roads, newspaper reporter ana Cor mans who long have been in Ruseias joined today nt the El1is Island immt- grafton station in declaring that they had been attacked irrespective of theit religion; that their assailants were poe lice disguised in citizens clothing and that the naassacres were not race peree- cution. but revolution.
 While telling their stories. the men sometimes burst into tears. for perhaps hind them wives and children who were either dead or defenseiess in Rus sian cities. ss &
 Irhere were three Jws, all Of whom six weeks ago today. on Monday. Oc- tober 30. the day that the cxar pro- forced into hiding to save their lives. All three men are over 30, intelligent and of fine physique.
 Would Not Take Money.
 One of them. Abraham Chanoch, an Odessa tinsmith. who hesitated about offered money for his story. when he threw back his head and exclaimed: | T won't trke money. Thank God, still have ss and that is enoush.s' I Then, without further urging. he told I from its beginning when two rival parades which were celebrating the new constitution, mot and began to light. He told how little. children were thrown out of high windows: how Russian Christians patrolled the streets in large bands protecting Jews while other bands of men pfilaged and fmurderet1 1 peace parties, while disguieed police usually led the hoodiums, After the l first two days he and tsro9compan{ona escaped from the city.
 Other stories in ( similar strain were related All agreed that the emperorss manifesto of the; constitution and the festivities on the day that Count Witts stepped into power were made the seemed to me to be very quiet for nearly Chanoch, the tinsmtth said: During the first day after the hianifestion 1t seemed to me to be very quit. for nearly all the Jews remained indoor hiding. Some times heard people marching through the streets. Six weeks ago to- day lay with several other Jews for four hours in the garrett of house ta escape from mob In the rooms below It was a three story building and thoae who lived there escaped by crawling along rafters into dark holes a few inches underneath the roof.
 Knives Red With Bioed.
 While we were hiding In this house men came in after dark to escape from the streets and to tell us what had hap- pened in the other houses where the Jews were caught. A man told me that one of these houses had been entered. The members of the mob carried butch CT knives stones slabs, iron bars, re- volvers and clubs. some of which were red with blood and which were used for crushing and stouing people.
 Those in the house ran in every df- rection. many of them escaping. but the children ran with few older per- sons to the third floor There they were caught and the babies up to i've or six years old were thrown living out of the third floor windows Into tha streets The older children and the grown-ups were killed before being thrown out. <
 "The men who told me this story also students and a few police arrived In time to arrest some of these murdererB and that after they had been placed in jail some of the prisoners were recog- nized by their keepers as members of the police force"
 Chanoch said that the faces of the dead in the streets were too mutilated for recognition. He said also that lin a suburb of Odessa Christian priest saved sixty Jewish cvhildren by placing them in his own church.