Evening star., 1905-11-05
ALAS, THE POOR JEWS
Horrible Atrocities of the
Russian Mobs
IN THE ODESSA RIOTING
IMPOSSIBLE TO RECKON THE
NUMBER OF THE KILLED.
Hospitals Filled With the Wounded
1nhuman Slaughter by a Frenzied
People-Homes Devastated,

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city is quiet. The street cars are running,
some shops and markets are open and the
bakers are working. The telegraph lines
are crowded with dispatches for newspa-
pers and from private citizens who have
been sending reassuring messages regard
ing the situation here, in view of the re-
ports of masSacres in various, parts of Rus
sia.
The Jewish quarters here are completely
devastated. 1t is impossible to ascertain
the number of persons killed. The author
tiles sent to the cemetery yesterday four
trucks, each containing thirty bodies and
today six trucks similarly loaded were
driven to the cemetery. Up to this morn
ing 5,657 wounded persons were reported to
have been taken to the hospitals.
At this hour (5:45 p.m.) the Cossacks
have disappeared from the streets and in
fantry soldiers have been substituted The
governor general announces that he has
taken the strictest measures to prevent fur
ther disorders, but should the troops be
| fired on the governor general has ordered
the artillery to devastate the houses from
which the shooting Is done. He also an
nounces that the troops have strict orders
to shoot and kill pillagers.
Soldiers are now making a house to house
visitation seeking for bombs and arms.
They are also searching passengers on
the street cars.
1t is believed that the worst Is over.
Owing to the mobs being satiated with two
days carnival of murder and destruction
by flame, the revolt against law and order
is dying down, partially, perhaps because
of lack of material upon which to prey.
Almost the entire Jewish quarters of Mol
davanha, Slobodka and Buga' ovka are
devastated and their inhabitants have
either been killed or wounded or have
sought refuge in other sections of the
town.
Fury of Mobs Against the Jews.
The whole fury of the mobs was directed
unchecked against the Jews. During the
first demonstration over the emperor's man
ifesto and the sudden acquisition of free
DOM" tens of thousands of men who had
hated the Jews through generations became
drunk with the desire for Jewish blood,
swarmed into the Jewish sections of the
town and killed for the very joy of killing.
In some instances the military aided In
stead of preventing the work of vengeance
and fury which eliminated yesterday in the
quarters mentioned. Every Jew, man, wom-
| an or child, who was caught was slaugh-
tered. The methods employed in the work
of butchery were too revolving for descrp-
ton.
Before this mornings dawn the material
had become exhausted, and the men who
had for the moment became beas's left the
wrecked sections of the city, and though
, sullep were easily driven back before the
rifles OF the infantry.
A trip of investigation this evening over
the Jewish quarters confirmed the stories
of horrors and dey astation. Some bodies
mutilated, of whom many were women and
children, were still unremoved from the
deserted streets The shops were closed
and in the wrecked houses broken furniture
was lying everywhere in heaps.
Terrible Work Of the Rioters.
While 1t is probable that the total num-
Der of persons killed will never be known,
the number of wounded persons In the hos
pitals and ambulance houses affords some
guide. The 5,657 wounded reported up to
this morning were distributed as follows.
In the Jewish Hospital 3,715.
In the Municipal Hospital, 1880
In the different ambulance houses. $50.
1t has been definitely ascertained that
only 120 of the anti-Jewish mob were
killed.
At the beginning of the massacres the
student militia rendered some assistance
and saved many lives, but the police, 1t is
said, dsarmed the students, and in some
cases shot them with their own revolvers
The disaster Is unprecedented even in the
long list of horrors Russia has produced
during the last few years, but the citizens
while still nervous, are facing the situation
bravely. They are organizing relief COM
mittees and erecting refugees for the home
less families and orphaned children who
were saved from the fury of the mobs.
It is reported tonight that railway traffic
viii be resumed Monday.