The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-05
Satiatcd Human Beasts Ire F. na||y Driven Back Before Ri-
 Aes and Worst is Over
NUMBER WOUNDED REACHES
 TIE AWFUL FIGURE 5657
Hundreds of Men Drunk With Desire for Jewish Blood Kill for the Very Joy of
 Killing.

Odessa. November 1.-The prefect of the city has issued a proclamation complain windows on patrols and declaring that he will be compelled to destroy their houses with artillery unless this practice Is stopped.
 The center of the city is quiet. The street cars are running. some shops and markets are open and the bakeries are working. The telegraphic lines are crowd ed with dispatches for newspapers and private citizens who have been sending reassuring messages regarding the situa- tion in view of the reports of massacres In various parts of Russia
 The Jewish quarters here are completes ly devastated. It Is impossible to ascer- tain the number of persons killed. The authorities sent to the cemetery four trucks each containing thirty bodies, and
 
 driven to the cemetery. Up to this morn- Ing, 5657 wounded persons were reported to have been taken to the hospitals.
 Strlctest Measures Are Taken.
 At this hour. 5:45 p. m, the cossacks have disappeared from the streets and infantry have been substituted. The gov ernor general announces that he has taken the strictest measures to prevent further disorders, but should the troops dered the artillery to devastate the houses from where the shooting is done. He also announces that the troops have strict or ders to shoot and kill pillagers
 Soldiers are making a house to house visitation seeking for bombs and arms. They are also searching passengers on tho street cars.
 Mobs Become Satlated.
 It Is believed that the worst is over. Owing to the mobs being satiated with two days carnival of murder and de- struction by flames, the revolt against law and order Is dying down. partially perhaps because of lack of material upon which to prey. Almost the entire Jewish quarters of Moldanvah Slobodka and Bugaiovka are devastate, and their inhab- itants have either been killed or wounded. or have sought refuge in other sections of the town.
 The whole fury of the mob was directed against the Jews. During the first demon- stration over the Emperor's manifesto. and the sudden acquisition of freedom tens of thousands of men who had hated the Jews through generations became drunk with desire for Jewish blood swearing at the Jewish sections of the town and killed for the very joy of kill ing. In some instances the military aided instead of preventing the work of ven- geance and fury which culminated yester- day in the quarters mentioned Every. Jew, man. woman or child who was caught, was slaughtered. The methods employed in the work of butchery were. too revolting for description.
 Driven Back Before RlfIes.
 Before this mornings dawn, the ma terial had become exhausted, and the men who had for the moment become beasts left the wrecked sections of tho city. and though sullen were easily driven back before the rifles of the infantry.
 A trip investigation this morning over the Jewish quarters confirmed the stories of horrors and devastation. Some bodies, mutilated, of women and children. were still unmoved from the deserted streets. The shops were closed and in the wrecked houses broken furniture was found ly~ Ing everywhere in heaps.
 While 1t is probable that the number of persons killed will never be known. ths number of wounded persons in the hos- pitals and ambulance house, however, af- ported up to this morning were distributed as follows In the Jewish hospital S715 in the municipal hospital 126o. in the differ ent ambulance houses. sS2.
 It has been definitely ascertained that only 120 of the anti-Jewish mob were killed.
 Police Disarm Students. At the beginning of the massacres the students militia rendered some assist ance and saved many lives. but the police. 1t is said, disarmed the students and even in some cases. shot them with their re- volvers.
 The disaster is unprecedented even in the long list of horrors Russia has pro- duced during the last few years. but the citizens while still nervous are fac. ing the situation bravsly.