Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1905-11-08
In CITY OF ODESSA ALONE $500
PERSONS were KILLED.
Over $4,000 Wounded-Dead and
Wounded Lay In the Streets for
Hours-Were Thrown Into Hole
Without Coffins or Regard Of Sex
Jews Butchered Pitnessly.

Odessa, Nov. THE latest estimate
of casualties in Odessa proper, which
are founded upon statements made by
police authorities. are that $500 per-
sons were killed and 10000 were
wounded.
In the suburbs Of Moldovanka 1000
dead and wounded lay in the streets
from midnight until noon Sunday,
when the authorities dug large pits in
graveyards and buried them without
collins or regard to age or sex, simply
throwing them into hole and shovel
ing dirt upon them in order to conceal
the number of dead. In Brokhorova
and neighborhood, in streets in the
Jewish quarters, men, women and
as to protect them from the mobs.
The latest accounts Of the devasta-
ton in the Jewish quarter added hor-
ror to the situation. Besides numerous
mills, all the bakery shops and nearly
600 homes have been destroyed. The
Jews killed in every instance were
treated with revolving barbarity.
Heads were crushed with hammers;
nails were driven into the bodies;
eyes were gouged out and ears were
severed. Many bodies were disem-
was poured over the sick found hiding
in cellars, and they were burned to
death.
1t is alleged that the police and
soldiers everywhere marched at the
head of the mobs, melting them to
destroy the Jews ny crying THE Jews
have killed our emperor" and similar
expressions.
While the mobs were engaged in the
slaughter the soldiers busted them
selves pillaging the cash and jewels,
leaving the household goods to the
mobs. The owners of many houses got
rid of the bandits by the payment Of
ransom to the police.
The ponce prevented any one from
arresting the looters, and prevented
also the Red Cross workers from aid
ing the wounded, actually firing upon
nose engaged in this WORK.
A band of students removed much
If the stolen property to the uni
versity, while they also took IL bodies
children, and even women with infants
in arms, we're butchered ruthlessly by
marauders.
Hundreds are suffering for want of
bread, and the authorities are making
apparently no effort to relieve the
famine.
Damage to private property is est.
mated at $5,OO0,OO0.
A section of the university has been
heavily fortified by the students, who
declare they will bring there all the
Jewish women and children in the city
md protect them until the government
realizes it's responsibility.
Two private doctors attended more
han 300 children Of both sexes who
mad been horribly gashed about the
head and shoulders with sabres.
"Heaping insult on injury, the civil
governor, when the butchery had end
ed, asked the householders to sub.
scribe 100000 to pay the police in
creased wages"
A tour of the city and parts Of the
suburbs found all quiet here. Shops
that were pillaged have been boarded
up. The poorer Jews headquarters
suffered worst and the principal
streets, with few exceptions, were un.
,ouched. Russian shops are marked
with crosses painted on the shutters
md the private houses with ikons. so
If anti-Jewish demonstrators, whose
relatives today besleged the UNIVERSE
ty, claiming the corpses and demand
ing the release of those demonstrators
who were confined in the university.
They threatened otherwise to burn
the university and kill the professors.
Measures were thereupon taken to
transfer these prisoners to the regular
prison.