Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-11-06
HORRORS AT ODESSA
American Consul Reports
 Thousands Slain.
GEAR GRANTS CONSTITUTIONTOFI FIENS
Late Reports Give the Number Killed at $500 and Wounded 12,OOO. Anti-Jewish Mob Continues
 Murder and PilIage.

ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 6.-Thom- as E. Heenan, the American consul lat Odessa, has sent telegram to the embassy here saying that since Tues day last the bloody attacks upon the Jews have continued and that he esti- mates the number killed in thousands. Artillery, he says. has been employed to suppress the rioting and that the Jews have fired from windows upon the troops in the streets. Fortunately, he adds, thus far American interests are unaffected.
 Further accounts of the riots at Odes- sa say:
 There have been more horrifying massacres and fiendish cruelties, but the districts where these took place are now cordoned by troops. Proba- bly the total Killed will number $500 and the wounded 12,000. In the sub urb of Moldovanka alone thousand victims remained in the streets from midnight until noon when the authori- ties hastened to collect and bury the bodies in great pits in order to con ceal their numbers. Two private doc tors attended more than 300 children of both sexes who had been horribly gashed about the head and shoulders with sabers.r
 A dispatch from Helsingfors, Fin land, says that Emperor Nicholas has just issued a manifesto granting a constitution to Finland
 From Riga Consul Bornholdt tele- graphs that the situation is extremely serious and that considerable Ameri- can interests were endangered and demanded military protection. Count I.amsdorff, the foreign minister, tele- graphed orders that a military guard be placed at the consulate.
 A similar appeal arrived from George +. Martin, the American consulate agent at Rostov-on-Don, where also there are American interests. Mir. Ed dy dispatched note to the British, German and Austrian embassies, and they practically united in joint rep resentatiops to which Count Lamsdorff and General Trepoff promised that all foreign interests would be safe guarded.
 The levolutionaries at Kishineff seiz- ed artillery from the troops and bom- barded Jewish shops and houses The railway was In possession of the riot CTS, so that escape was impossible The city was completely sacked and partly destroyed by fire. A provisional republican government, it is said, has been established.
 Fatal encounters between the sol dlers and the populace and anti-Jewish excesses are reported from many places in the provinces. At Bremen chug twenty persons were killed and eighty injured. At Kutais military train was in collision, and nine sol diers were killed. After the collision the revolutionarles opened a rife fire on the train. and the troops replied in kind There were several killed or'in- jurcd on both sides.
 And It is known that by actual count the wounded number 5.657, 63T more than the highest estimate that has been made of both killed and wounded.
 Besides several hundred wounded Jews have been hurried by their rela- tives into the city's outskirts, which are now overrun by rioters.
 One band Is made up of ten women, half naked she devils, whom murder and pillage have made manlacal.
 At their first acquisition of free dom," so called, during their first dem- onstration over the czar's proclama- ton, tens of thousands of men who had hated the Jews for generations be- came drunk with desire for Jewish blood. They swarmed Into the Jewish sections of the town and killed for the very joy of killing. while the police pointed out to them the houses of the Jews. and Cossacks cut down the hap less fugltives.
 At Tifiis patriotic demonstrations were participated in by 10000 per sons. While a procession was passing along Golowinski prospect firing be- gan. Bombs were thrown at the troops. who answered with rife shots The dead number fourteen, and there