Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-12-04
Letters From Survivors OF
the Massacres Tell of Ter
rible Cruelty
SPIKES DRIVEN INTO BRAIN
Young Jewess Dragged Into Street and
Horribly Tortured One Mans
Tongue Pulled Out With Pinchers-
Relatives in America Pleaded With
For Aid.

OF Jews III RUSSIAN CltleS during lut
past month are many who have friends
and relatives in Philadelphia. Some o.
these have received letters from sur
vivors describing the heart rendine
scenes, says the Philadelphia Press.
Rev. Jacob Chalfn of 537 Lombard
street has a letter from his wife II
Kovno. in which she says:
"There are.2 900 dead here and 5000
injured. The brutality of the Russian
mobs was frightful. Kovno is nc
longer a city. 1t Is mass Of ruins
and we live in dread of another attack
It may come at any minute, and We
are all defenseless."
Herman Sachs Of Kiev writes te
Samuel Loudon of 764 South Third
street:
"a Jewess, Sarah Goldman, was
dragged into the streets, and severa
spikes, fully seven inches long, were
driven into her brain with heavy stee
sledges. A man naraed Kaufman was
found in the street near my house with
his whole lower lip cut of. He was
suffering torture, and no one gave him
aid. The mans tongue had been pulled
out with pinchers."
Aaron Rothstein, another resident OF
Kovno, writes to his uncle, Abraham
Chabrov, Of 342 South street:
II saw the mob break into the home
Of poor woman seventy-two years
old. She was asleep In bed, but the
brutal men entered her room and ston-
ed her to death. There are 5000 per.
sons here absolutely homeless and
without a kopek to buy food or cloth.
ing. The terrible winter is already up.
on US. God knows what will become
OF us unless aid arrives soon.'
John Baum, merchant at 527 South
street, recently received letter Of this
sort from his brother Solomon, who
lives In Odessa, and pleads for money
enough to take him and his family
from the country where they see moth
Ing but doom for their race.
The letter was written on Nov. 8. A
part of, 1t, which has been translated
by Jacob !. Ginsburg Of the Jewish
Evening Post, reads:
'.Our people are being numerically
slaughtered In the streets without any
interference from the authorities.
at is more than two weeks since we
took refuge here in the cellar. We
are under the dreadful terror Of being
discovered and killed. We are prac.
tically shut up without any food OF
water, and 1 fear we will starve unless
something is done for us.
1--WE cannot sleep, for the bowling
and curses Of the unruly mobs ring
constantly in our ears. They call Kill
the Jews!' The streets are strewn
with mutilated bodies. Many of them
are minus heads, limbs and arms. The
cutters Of the streets have been turn
ed into small riv,llets Of blood. We
fear any minute we will be extermi
mated.
"Please rescue us. Take us to Amer
lea or send us enough money to gel
over the frontier. We don't ask you
to help us for livelihood, only to pro
tect our lives.
1.-THE Russian newspapers don't men.
zion one-half of what takes place. We
pray, o God! o God! that you will be
able to rescue us 80 we can fee from
terrible Russia and the awful death
that faces us.
while I am writing this can hear
the awful curses Of the bowling mob
as it passes along the street killing
Jews. The mob Is made up mostly Of
soldiers"