Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-11-06
ODESSA NOW QlIIET.
Peace Restored Att ~ the Recent Terri
BILE Jewish Mass ae res.


Odessa Nov. 5.-6t9 Il. IA tour of
the city and part of he su burbs. today.
found all quiet. VIII, ,le r ows of shops
that were pillaged ha We been boarded
I'D. The poorer Jewi sh quarters suf-
fered worst and the pr ncioal streets.
with few exceptions, w ere untouched.
Peasants armed il h knives and
scythes tried to enter the city. Satur-
day. having been intia med by the pos
sihilities of looting. but they were
driven back by the st ltiers The cas-
uaIties in Saturdays disturbances eX-
coed 1lO and those the preceding
three DAYS. which ha We been verified.
number nearly $500. The plundernS
continued. early this morning, in the
outlying districts, but the town
throughout the day W: Us relatively calm
though the population is still anxious.
The latest accounts of the devasta-
ton in the Jewish a. Is,rter add horror
to the situation. ] les ides numerous
mills. all the tx,kerie; ). shops and near
Nv 600 homes have be en- destroyed. The
Jews who were killed in every circum-
stance were trea ted with revolving bar
barity. Skulls We're battered with
hammers. nai1s vera driven into the
bodies. eyes were gcsiged out ami ears
severed. Many bodia were dsembow-
elled and in cases petroleum was
poured over the, sicl < found hiding in
cellars and they wer Z burned.
1t is alleged tn at 7the police and SOL
diers everywhere ma rched at the head
of mobs. exciting TIL EN- to destroy the
Jews by crying "1 he Jews have killed
our Emperor and similar express
II. "a
in the slaughter ~, soldiers busted
themselves pillaging the cash and jew
els. leaving the hous ehold goods to the
mObs. The owners @ many houses got
rid of the bandits b v the payment of
ransom. The polio h prevented any
one from arresting til E looters and also
prevented the Red CT oss workers from
aiding the wounded. tctualy firing on
those engaged in this work. a band of
students renewed mu' IN of the, stolen
property to the uni ferSity, whittier
also they took 100 dea bodies of anti
Jewish demonstrators, whose relatives.
today. besicged the u diversity. claim
ing the corpses and de handing the re-
lease of those demonst rators who were
confined to the university. They threat
ened otherwise to burri the university
thereupon taken to tr;a: lsfer these pris-
oners to the regular y rison.
Odessa. Nov 5.-The project of the
| city has issued n rru :lamation COM
planning of the inha bit ants firing from
the windows OH 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
ard markets are open atId the bakeries
are working. The telegraph lines are
crowded with dispatches for news
papers and private citizens who have
| been sending reassurins' messages re-
garding the situation here in view of
the reports of massacres in various
parts Of Russia.
The Jewish quarters here are COM
pletely devastated. 1t is irlpossible to
| ascertain the number of persons killed.
| The authorities sent to the cemetery,
Friday, four trucks each containing 50
| bodies. and. Saturday. six trucks SINH
larly loaded We're driven to- the Gene
| terry. Up to Saturday morning. 1851
wounded persons We're repo, ted to have
| been taken to the hospitals.
| AT this hour the Cossac,,s have dis
| appeared from the streets and infantry
| soldiers have been substituted The
| governor general announces that he
| has taken the most strict measures to-
prevent further disorders. but should
| the troops be fired on. the governor
| general has ordered the artillery to
| devaStatc the houses from which the
| shooting is done. He also announces
| that the troops have strict orders to
| shoot and kill pillagers.
Soldiers are now making Il house to
mouse visitation seeking for BOUNDS and
| arms. They are also searching paSsen-
gers on the street cars. 1t is believed
| that the worst is over.
| Almost the entire Jewish qua rters of
| MOldavanha. SlObOdka and Bugaiovka
are devasted and their irha bitants have
| either been killed or wounded or have
| sought refuge in other sections of the
town. The whole fury of the mObs was
| directed unchecked against he Jews
| During the first demonstration over the
| Emperor's manifesto and the sudden
| acquisition of freedom, tens of thou
sands of men who had hated the Jews
for generations, became drunk with the
desire for Jewish blood, swarmed into
the Jewish section of the own and
killed for the very joy of killing. Every
Jew, man, woman or child, who was
caught. was slaughtered. The methods