Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1905-11-11
RESULT OF MOB RULE.
IN CITY OF ODESSA ALONE $500
PERSONS..WERE KILLED.
Over 1900 Wounded-Dead and
Wounded Lay in the Streets for
Hours-Were Thrown Into a Hole
Without coffins or Regard Of Sex
Jews Butchered Pitmessly.

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
coffns or regard to age or sex, simply
throwing them into hole and shcVel-
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
coo 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-
boweled, and in some cases petroleum
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 by 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 gol
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 upoi
those engaged in this WORK.
= A band of students removed mucl
of the stolen properly to the uni
! versity, while they also took II bodie
children, and even women with infant
in arms. were butchered ruthlessly b
marauders.
Hundreds are suffering for want c
e bread, and the authorities are maxim
It apparently no effort to relieve tn
5 famine.
Damage to private property is est
al mated at S5,000,000.
X A section of the university has bee
heavily fortified by the students, WI
declare they will bring there all II
). Jewish women and children in the eli
g and protect them until the governmel
realizes its responsibility.
Two private doctors attended mol
49, than 800 children of both sexes WI
had been horribly gashed about Il
10 head and shoulders with sabres.
"Heaping insult on injury, the civ
GO governor, when the butchery had en-
~ ed. asked the householders to su
scribe 100000 to pay the police
creased wages"
A tour of the city and parts of Z
3 suburbs found all quiet here. Sho
~ that were pillaged have been board
I'D. The poorer Jews headquarte
all suffered worst, and the princiI
at ,treets, with few exceptions, were
he .ouched Russian shops are mark
of with crosses painted on the shuttle
ge and the private houses with ikons,
nd of anti-Jewish demonstrators, who
relatives today besleged the univeT
= ty, claiming the corpses and demal
ing the release of those demonstrate
who were confined in the universe
They threatened otherwise to br
the university and kill the professo
Measures were thereupon taken
he transfer these prisoners to the regu