The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-03
Better Glasses Have Taken Ref
uge in Hotels.
SHOOTINGAND PILLAGE
Continue With No Sign Of Abate-
ment To-day.
Similar Conditions Are Reported
from Other Towns.

odessa. Nov. 3.-12:42 D. m.-After
a fairly quiet night, shooting again
commenced this morning. The Red
Cross is busy attending to the wound
ed
Up to the present time no Christian
shops or houses have been touched.
The principal hotels are fun Of the
better class of Jews seeking refuge
from the disorders. There was a
veritabIe reign of terror on October
81. After the emperOr's manifesto
granting a constitution to Russia had
been published the Jews made the
Russians furious with rage by making
a prominent display of red flags.
trampung on a portrait of the en-
peror and tearing down the emblem
of the crown Late in the afternoon
there was fighting in the outskirts of
the town and the massacre of Jews
commenced and lasted during the
night of November I.
All Jews found IN the streets were
severely beaten and many were killed
in their shops which were ruthlesSly
pillaged In the poorer Jewish quar-
ter on the outskirts of the town Wnole
streets We're destroyed, the soldiers ap-
Darently looking on. Crowds OF work
men, rowdies. women and children
laden with all kinds of loot walked
openly through the streets quarrellng
over the spoils Bombs were thrown
i'm various parts of the town. Late
that night patrols of soldiers ana
cossacks restored some semblance of
order
The pillaging was continued yester-
day and there was heavy nrang all
over the town Nobody was safe IN
the streets. People carrying arms
who were caught by the troops were
shot at sight The shutters OF all
houses were ordered closed and peo-
pie detected shooting from windows
were promptly shot. The soldlers
used machine guns to clear away the
crowd from the vicinity of the port
In fact there was indiscriminate shoot
ing everywhere in town.
Firing is still going on as this dis
patch Is dled. Trade is at a complete
standstiu. Provisions are still obtain
able at greutly enhanced prices The
gas and waterworks are working. 1t
is impossible to make a separate estt-
mate OF the number of killed and
wounded.
Similar serious reports reach odessa
from most of the other towns in
southern Russia.
Governor Is Blamed
Bodies of police escorted by squads
of infantry are placarding the city with
notices from the mayor appealing to all
peaceabIe citizens to remain indoors
them out The recrimina tiOns of the
different factions in regard to the re-
gpOnsibilitiy for the outbreak are bit
ter Official circles blame the Jews but
the liberal leaders declare the disor-
ders are engineered in st. Petersburg.
A leading general In an interview to-
day argued that the disturbances were
the result OF the behaviour Of the
Jews who rudely shocked Russian pat
Tiotism by the manner in which they
celebrated on Tuesday the publication
of the imperial manifesto.
They abused their new-found free
dom" he declared, "by tearing down
the national flag, hosting revolution
AIRY banners. insulting the emperor and
boasting that they alone gave Russia
freedom"
On the other hand the liberal leaders
say that the simultaneous manner in
which the disorders broke out in many
towns proved that they were dictated
from st. Petersburg in revenge for the
concessions recently granted and with
the object of creating the impression
that the Russians did not desire the
new order of things. The liberals con-
tend that the governor had all the
means to stop the outbreak in the first
hour and that his inactivity during the
three days Of massacre and his pro-
lection of the murderOus rabble in the
guise of patriots prove the real origin
Of the trouble.
Massacre at KishineR.
Odessa. Nov 3.-4 p. ma dis
patch from Kishinem says:
"a horrible massacre has occurred
here. Hundreds have been killed. Al
the hospitals, pharmacies and hotel,
are fun of wounded and mutilateC
persons"
telegram from Nicoraieff say
the whole town is in the hands O.
bandits who are devastating tn,
Jewish houses and shops and beatins
ia fn n n sr-I-
est hindrance.
The authorities hear similar new
from other southern cities.
Ten Students Killed.
Moscow, Nov. 3.-A procession o.
students returning today with some Of
their comrades who had been released
from prison was set upon by a mol
of wOrkmen at the triumphaI arch
Ten of the students were killed.