Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1905-11-11
American Consul Reports
Thousands Slain.
CAR GRANTS CO.'S. HUTTON TO FINS
Late Reports give the Nunlher Killed
at $500 and Wounded 10000.
Anti-Jewish Mob Continues
Murder and PiIIage.

udS Easl Tue DiODug dGldChS upon lHe
Jews have continued and that he esti-
mates the number killed in thousands.
Artillery, he says, has been employed
TO suppr ess the rioting and that the
Jews have fired from windows upon
the troops in the streets Fortunately,
he adds, thus far American interests
are unaffected
Further accounts of the riots at 0des-
sa say:
There have been more horrifying
massacres and fiendish cruelties, but
the districts where these took place
are now cordoned by troops. Proba-
bly, the total killed viii number $500
and the wounded 10000 In the sub
urb of Moldovanka alone thousand
victims remained in the streets from
midnight until noon, when the authori-
ties FASTENED to collect and bury the
bodies in great pits in order to con-
ceai their numbers. Two private doc
tors attended more than 800 children
of both sexes who had been horribly
gashed about the head and shoulders
with sabers."
A dispatch from Helsingfors, Fin
land says that Emperor Nicholas has
just issued manifesto granting a
constitution to Finland.
It convokes the diet on Dee. 20, abol-
ishes the dictatorship, rescinds Gov
ernor General Borikoffs illegal enact
ments, annuls the manifesto of Feb.
10, 1890, which provided for common
legislation in the empire, and all the
laws since enacted
Fatal encounters between the sol
diers and the populace and anti-Jewish
excuses are reported from many
places in the provinces. At Kremen-
chug twenty persons were killed and
eighty injured. AT Kutais military
train was in collision, and nine sol
diers were killed. After the collision
the revolutionaries opened rifle fire
on the train, and the troops replied in
kind. There were several killed or in
jured on both sides.
II is impossible to learn how many
persons have been killed IN Odessa's
blood drunk orgies of murder, pillage
and arson, the blacklist of the innumer-
able horrors that stain Russia's name,
in which the mobs' fury, unchecked,
was directed entirely against the Jews.
Six trucks. each laden with thirty
corpses. were sent to the cemetery by
the authorities. Four trucks took 120
bodies, packed like sheep carcasses,
for common burial in a huge ditch. No
one knows or probably ever will know
how many dead have been secretly
buried by the soldiers and police, who
have been either criminally apathetic
toward the rioters or actively helpful
TO them.
Meanwhile it is definitely known that
only 100 of the anti-Jewish rioters
were killed.
And it is known that by actual count
the wounded number 5,657, 637 more
than the highest estimate that has
been made of both killed and wounded.
Besides several hundred wounded
Jews have been hurried by their rela-
tives into the citys outskirts. which
are now overrun by rioters.
One band is made up of ten women,
udfl Iluhcu SIle htNllS, MiltlI lllutucI
and pillage have made maniacal.
At their first acquisition of free
dom" so called, during their first dem
onstration over the cars proclama-
ton, tens of thousands of men who had
hated the Jews for generations be-
came drunk with desire for Jewish
blood. They swarmed into the Jewish
sections of the town and killed for the
very joy of killing, while the police
pointed out to them the houses of the
Jews and Cossacks cut down the hap
less fugitives.
Every Jewish man, woman or child
whom the mob caught was slaughter
ed. Humanity would weep, civilization
would shudder could the manner Of
some of these be described.
Almost the entire Jewish quarters Of
Moldavanha, Slobodka and Bugaioyka
are devastated and their inhabitants
have either been killed or wounded or
are refugees in other sections of the
towns
The Cossacks have disappeared from
the streets, and infantry has been sub
stituted. But the streets are still UNI
safe for any one except Red Cross
nurses.
The city is camp. Artillery is posi-
ed everywhere.
Latest accounts Of the devastation
in the Jewish quarter at Odessa add
horror to the situation Besides nu-
merous mills, all the bakeries, shops
and nearly GOO homes have been de-
str0yed. The Jews killed in every cir
cumstance We're treated with revolving
barbarity. Skulls were battered with
hammers nails We're driven into the
bodies, eyes were gouged out and ears
severed Many bodies were disem-
boweled and in cases petroleum was
poured over the sick found hiding in
cellars and they were burned to DEATH
The police and soldiers everywhere
marched at the head of mobs, exciting
them to destroy the Jews by crying
''The Jews have killed our EMPEROR