The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1905-12-15
AMERICA FOR REFUGE
Five Hundred Russians Have Arrived
In New York.
FLEEING FROM PROSECUTIONS
Pitiful Stories Told BY Them of Afro
cities Committed In Odessa and
Other Places-Situatio In st. Pc
tiers Grove Worse.

New York, Dec. 12.-Five hundred
Russian refugees, many OF them eye
Witnesses Of the massacres IN Odessa
and other Russian clues, dlsembarked
here Monday from the steamers Pat
ricia and Chemnltz. some Of them
told graphic and pitiful stories of their
experiences.
Jews, who had themselves lain hid
den in Odessa houses while mobs
searched for them, Russian workmen
OF the christian faith, strikers from
the railroads, newspaper reporter,
and Germans who had long lived in
Russia, Joined at Ellis Island immi-
grafton station in declaring that they
Lad been attacked irrespective Of re.
ligion; That their assaliants were led
by police, disguised in cIuzens' cloth.
ing, and that the massacres were not
race prosecutions, but revolutions.
Burst Into Tears.
While telling their stones, the men
sometimes burst into tears, for per-
haps, half of the entire number had
left behind them wives and children,
who were either dead or defenceless
in Russian cities.
There were three Jews from OdUs-
So, all of whom, six weeks ago today,
on Monday, October 30th, the day
that the car proclaimed Russia's con-
stitution, were forced into hiding to
save their lives. All three are men
over 80, intelligent and OF fine phys.
ique. One of them, Abraham Chan
och, an Odessa tinsmith, Nho hesitat-
cd about describing the Odessa mas.
acres, was offered money for his
story, when he threw back his head
and exclaimed: II won't take money.
Thank God, / still have So and that
is enough" Then, without further
urging, he told what he saw of the
Odessa massacre from its beginning,
when two rival parades, which were
celebrating the new constitution, met
and began to fight. He told how lit
tie children were thrown out Of high
windows; how Russian christians pa
trolled the streets in large bands, pro-
tecting Jews, while other bands of men
pillaged and murdered. Workmen and
students, he said, led the peace parties,
while disguised police usually led the
hoodlums. After the first two days,
he and two companions escaped from
the city.
st. Petersburg, Dec. 10, via. Eydt.
liuhnen, East Prussia, Dec. 12.-Risa
is completely cut off from st. Peters,
burg. Even the railway telegraph is
not working.
The scanty news reaching st. Pc
tersburg is all to one effect. The last
advices received from the Baltic prov
Inces reported the dissertation Of
churches, the murder of land owners
and the pillaging of property. The
revolutionaries are growing in auda-
city.
The extreme newspapers OF st. Pc
tersburg are openly defying the gov
eminent by publishing resolutions IA
voring armed uprisings.
The torpedo boat Philander is an-
chored at st. Nicholas bridge.
The manager of the Riabushevek
factory was stabbed and killed for re-
fusing to permit the workmen to hold
meeting.
Reaction Sets In.
The situation is exceedingly omia-
Gus. Public opinion is practically UNI
animous that the government has en-
tered upon the fatal path of reaction,
and that Whites ministry must fail.
Feaction and revolution confront each
other in a death struggle. Both Gen.
Trepoff and Gen. Count Ignatieff, ac-
cording to the popular impression, are
being held in reserve to execute the
program of repression. II is again
said that the entire Cossack strength
OF 100000 will be mobil.zed in a SUI
Preme effort to crush the revolutionary
forces.
Gen. Parsensoff said: Il think we
Gre coming to rivers OF blood in which
the revolutionary party will lose their
game and Russia her liberty"
Certainly the appearance of st. Pc
tersburg and the events here today
seemed to justify this black picture
Of the future. The capital resembles
great military camp. The patrols
everywhere were doubled, and grim
looking cannon rumbled through the
itreets. What Is happening smaclxs
trangely OF the old regime.
Fought Desperately for Life.