The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1905-12-23
OVER 1000 jews BURNED TO DEATH,
Horrible Atrocities Perpetrated that
Would Make a South Pacific Can
nibal Blush.

Although every effort is made by Russian
authorities to prevent details of the slaughter
of the Jews in Russia from reaching the out
side world, they are reaching this country IN
letters from refugees. The following, written
November II, in Fetrekovski, State of Exc
trinislov, was recently received by Adolf
Toolsky, Russian jew living in Brooklyn,
N. Y:
Dear Brother Adolf You have undoubt
edly heard of all the butchering that is being
carried on in Russia. They rob and kill us.
The greater part Of the people are tortured.
They cut off our heads, ears, feet. burn out
our eyes and break our bones. Little chill
dren are ripped open and cast to the dogs on
the street. The police refuse to protect the
Jews Thousands and tens Of thousands are
killed in one day.
ave hide in cellars and in stalls, and some
times good Christians conceal us, but if we
are found out the neighbors gather and have
trial The Jew is found guilty, and unless
we have money enough to buy them Oft, we
are killed. Many say that they would like to
hide us but that they have received orders
from the Gar to kill all Jews
'Do you remember the 'Jaffe Department
Store its cellars were filled with Jews when
the soldiers surrounded it. There were more
than 1000 men, women and children in the
cellar, but not one was allowed to escape.
Whenever any one tried to get out the SOL
diers shot him. Then they set fire TO the
building and everyone in it was sutfocated or
burned to death. They burnt 1G4 other stores
in the same way and killed lot more of US.
at would make you shudder to walk
through the streets. You can see heads, feet,
hands, and the mutiated bodies of little chill,
dren dragged about by dogs. The cutters are
crimson with blood"
Letters containing graphic details Of the
massacre of 40 Jewish families at Noset ka,
Russia, reached Isaac }. Robinson, of Chicago,
last week, and by them he was informed of
the murder of his elder sister Anne and all the
members of her family, and the hardships
undergone by another sister, who, at the time
of writing the letter, was hiding in cellar
with the members of her family. The letter
says. in part
'In the beginning we have been suffering
for the last few months, as our business has
been stopped and we could not make living.
None would buy from us and we could not
buy one cents worth of food for S. in money,
and we have been really starving.
"One day a mob gathered around the house
of sister Anne. She was sckly woman, but
that made no difference to the mob. She was
killed, and then her son, 10 years old. They
cut his body into small pieces after they killed
him, and they chopped her body in the same
manner. And then another son Of II years,
a daughter of 10 and daughter of II We're
treated in the same manner. In the mean
time the brother-in-law of ours, Mayer, ran
away with the eldest daughter, q years old, to
save their lives. He was pursued and slashed
and cut They were stripped before the great
mob and in the presence of thousands OF PEG
pie were cut in small pieces and the pieces
brought back to the house they had escaped
from.
''After that the mob went next door and
took the man, woman and five children out i'll
the street. They took their eyes out while
they were alive and then threw the blind PEG.
pie back into the house and they were burned
alive. Out of the 40 families in this town
very few persons were saved. All Of the
houses were destroyed or burned. :
The letter concludes with brief account Of
how the writer escaped through the kindness
of priest, who hid her and the members of
her family in cellar.