The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-12-12
SLAUGHTER OF
THE lNN0CENTS
Hebrew Babes Thrown From Third
Story Windows at Odessa.
BLACK PAGE IN HISTORY
ARRIVAL or REFUGEES FROM
RUSSIA.

Jew YORK, Dec. I.-RuSslan retu-
IN gees. many of them eye witnesses
of the mascacres in Odessa and
other Russian cities, disembarked here
today from the steamers Patricia and
Chemnitz. Some of them told graphic
and pitiful stories of their experiences.
Jews who had themselves lain hidden
in Odessa houses while mobs searched
for them, Russian workmen of the
Christian faith, strikers from the rail-
roads, a newspaper reporter and Ger
mans who had long lived in Russia,
joined today at Ellis Island immiga-
ton station in declaring that they had
been attacked irrespective of religion.
that their assailants We're led by police
disguised IN citizens clothing and that
the nlassacres were not race persecu-
ton, but revolution
Heart Breaking Scenes.
While telling their stories 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 defenseless i'll
Russian cities.
There We're Jews from Odessa. all
of whom six weeks ago today, on Mon
day, Oct. 80. the day that the ear pro-
claimed Russia's constitution, were
forced into hiding to save their lives,
All three are men over 20, intelligent
and of hHQ physique. one Of them,
Abraham ChanOch an Odessa tinsmith,
who hesitated about describing the
odessa massacTes, was offered money
for his story when he threw back his
head and exclaimed:
II won't take money. Thank God,
still have IS, and that is enough.
Massacre of Jews at Odessa.
Then. without further urging. he told
what he saw of the Odessa massacre.
from its beginning. when two rival
parades. which We're celebrating the
new constitution met and began To
fight. He told how little children were
thrown out Of high windows; how Rus
sian Christians patrOlled the streets in
large bands protecting Jews, while
other bands of men pillaged and muir
dered, Workmen and students, he said,
led the peace party, while disguised
police usually led the hOOdlums. After
the first two days he and two compan-
ions escaped from the city.
Two refugees from western Russia
said that there the Jew killing was
started by emptying the jails OF pris-
oners. who attacked and stole from the
Jews The men from the province OF
Koviuo asserted that the police them
selves read IN the emperor.s proclama-
ton of q constitution an order To kill
ali Jews and cried this through the
streets.
Pretexts for Riots.
All the stories agreed that the en-
perOr's manifesto Of @ constitution and
the festivities on the day that Count
Witte stepped into power were made
the pretexts for riots. The reception Of
this news in Odessa was described as
follows by Solomon MirOcZnik, a Jew
candy maker of Odessa who is 80
years old:
"On the day of the cars manifesto
he said, There were marchings and re
joicings Great prOc6 -ions which
waved red flags through the streets.
A great party of loyalists gathered and
We're addressed by a clergyman, who
said: II is true that the car has de-
creed liberty. freedom of the press, of
speech and of CONSCIENCE. And he eN-
horted faithfulness to the car after
which his followers marched. carrying
alOft pictures of the cZaT. When this
procession met the other paraders il
was stoned. and thus the lighting be
gan. During the next TWO days the
streets Of Odessa were a battlefield
Jews Were in Hiding
Chanoch. the tinsmith. took up the
story at this point, saying.
During the first day after the mani
festo it seemed 10 me TO be very quiet.
for nearly all the Jews remained in
doors hiding. Some times ! heard PEG
pie marching through the streets. Six
weeks ago today / lay with several
others for four hours in the garrett of
a. house to escape from a mob in th-
rooms below. II was thTee-story
building. anG those who lived there
escaped by crawling along ra1ters INTO
dark holes a few inches underneath
the roof.
"While we We're hiding I'm this house
men came in after dark to escape from
the streets and % tell us what hap
Dened In the other houses where the
Jews We're caught A man told. me
that one of these houses had been en-
tered, where perhaps POO Jews were ia
hiding. The members Of the mob car
ried butcher knives. stone slabs. some
of which were red with blood. ard
which were used for crushing and ston-
ing people; iron bars, revolvers and
clubs.
Slaughter of the lnnooents.
CHOSE in the house ran III every di-
rection. many OF them eSCapinS, but
the children ran with few Older per-
sons to the third floor There they were
caught and the babies 10 To D or o