Los Angeles herald., 1905-11-04
CARNAGE IN ODESSA
Shooting Is lndiseriminate and Many
Stores Are Looted
by Associated Press.


by Associated Press
ODESSA, Nov. g.. 1t:42 p. m.--After
a fairly quiet night, shooting again
commenced this morning The Red
Cross is busy attending to the wounded.
Up to the present time no Christian
shops or houses have been touched.
The principal hotels are full of the
better class of Jews seeking refuge
from this weeks diorders.
There was a Veritable reign Of terror
on October 81 After the emperor's
manifesto. granting a constitution TO
Russia had been published, the Jews
made the Russians furious with rage
by making a prominent display of red
flags, trampling on portrait of the
emperor and tearing down the emblem
of the crown. Late in the afternoon
there was fighting in the outskirts of
the town and the massacre of Jews
commenced and lasted during the night
of November 1. All Jews found in the
streets were severely beaten and many
were killed in their shops. which were
ruthlessly pillaged. In the poorer Jew
ish quarter of the outskirts of the town
whole streets were destroyed. the SOL
diers apparently looking on. Crowds
of workmen, rowdies, women and chill
dren, laden with all kinds of loot
reling over the spoils. Bombs We're
thrown in various parts of the town.
Later at night patrols of soldiers and
Cossacks restored some semblance of
order.
The pillaging was continued yester-
day and there was heavy firing all
over the town. Nobody was safe in the
streets. People carrying arms, who
were caught by the troops, were shot
4 Of oil &C
were ordered closed and people de-
tected shooting from windows were
promptly shot. The soldiers used ma
chine guns to clear away the crowds
from the vicinity of the port. In fact,
there wis indiscrimnate shooting
everywhere in town. Firing is still
going on as this dispatch is filed. Trade
is at complete standstill. Provisions
are still obtainahle at greatly enhanced
prices. Gas and water works are work.
ing
1t is impossible to make a correct
estimate of the number of killed or
wounded.
Similar serious reports reach Odessa
from most of the other towns in south
ern Russia.
Bodies of police escorted by squads of
infantry are placardinr the cities with
notices from the mayor appealing to all
unless the most urgent necessity takes
them out.
The recriminations of the different
factions in regard to the responsibility
for the outbreak are bitter. Official
circles blame the Jews but the liberal
leaders declare the disorders were en-
gineered in st. Petersburg.
leading general in an interview to-
day urged that the disturbances were
the result of the behavior of the Jews,
who rudely shocked Russian patriotism
by the manner in which they celebrated
on Tuesday the publication of the i'm
perial manifesto.
"They abused their new found free
dom,' he declared, 10y tearing down
the national flag, hosting revolutionary
banners, insulting the emperor and
boasting that they alone gave Russia
freedom"
On the other hand, the Liberal leaders
say that the simultaneous manner in
which the disorders broke out in many
towns proved that they were dictated
from st. Petersburg in revenge for the
concessions recently granted and with
the object of creating the impression
that the Russians did not desire the
new order of things.
The liberals contend that the COVER
nor had all the means to stop the out
break in the first hour and that his
inactivity during the three days of
massacre and his protection of the
murderous rabble in the guise of pa
triots prove the real origin of the
trouble.
on this. the fourth day of terror. the