Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-03-23
AgPaPglans Troubles in Noplhern
ho|davIa Were Not Exaggerated
in The First Reports.
LARGE NUMBER KILLED IN FIGHTS
countrymen are Bent on Driving
From the Country Large Jew
ndholdcrs--several Towns sack.
ed and Then Rurned-Fustlyee
Tell Fales of outraaes Committed.
(By ASSOC. ltoa Press !

tBy Assoc. itoa PreSS.)
VIENNA. March 22.-The seriouH
ness of the situation in Northern
Moldavia growing out OF the Agrars
IAN disorders has not, according, to
the latest teiegraphic reports reach.
ing here from Czernorwitz on tho
border. been exaggerated. 4!i
From the estimates of the dam,
ages made tonight it appears four
hundred farms have been deyas-
lated, one thousand fugItivs have
fled Ger the Rcumanian frontier into
Austria and total OF $4,000 Jews
are homeless.
The numbep OF dead and wounded
cannot be glen accurately but the
reports Of today give total or
about So meh killed ana i'm the
neighborhood of 100 wounded.
The movement is really more
Asrarian than anti-Semitic. The
peasants revolted against the great
farming trust which leases half of
the cultivated land in. aIoldavia. The
absent landlords who control the
land happen to be Jews and this
2dact brings tie ire of the peasants
upon any and all Jews that they
meet and to this antipathy is added
strong racial feeling
On Thursday so peasants tried to
invade Michaileni The peasants at
flnst got the upper hand because
the soldiers acting upon the orders
of the project of the town were
not permitted to open fire. In the
face CT the menaces of the furious
peasants, however, some of the
soldiers did fire against orders. THIS
volley killed Is of the rioters and
wounded As, wherewpon the peas.
ants withdrew.
PIundered This Town.
"A more successful attack was
made at Vaslui, south of Jassy.
Here body of 1000 peasants fore
ed their way into the town. The
project of Vaslui did not have suffi-
clent troops at his command to stop
mo infurfated countrymen. TIE
rioters In an :ncreditably short
space OF time plundered practicaIIy
all the buildings on the three pr;n-
cipal streets at Vastui and set them
on fire. The peasants had looted
freely and the fire completed the
work of destruction
The project made an appeal for
reenforcements and the peasants in
ignorance of this step remained III
the town until the soldiers arrived.
Then there ensued serious conflict,
the soldiers coming out victorious.
twenty rioters were killed and
many were wounded The entire
district rose up in arms. Here the
authorities were powerless. All the
buildings in the villages of Han
caecenestl, Helesti, Holestl, Holcis-
eni and Ninelusen We're demolished
and the villages are now nothing
more than heaps of ruins.
Serious Fight at Patra.
The most serious fight of today
occurred near Piatra, a town about
90 miles southwest OF Jassay. Sew
eral thousand peasants marched
against this town where an entire
regiment of infantry was stationed.
inc soldiers charged the peasants
with fixed bayonets. The peasants
replied to this onslaught with rifle
and revolver fire and when the troops
Degan shooting back The fighting
lasted over an hour before the riot.
ers retreated. They mad AZ men
killed 81 wounded and $50 of their
number were carried off prisoners by
the soldiers. The troops had eight
Killed and ~ wounded
The estimate that 10000 Jews
are without homes is considered
here to be excessive. The town of
Dorogoi was attacked yesterday by
a body Of 1000 peasants. The local
clergynienr made vain efforts to cam
the excited classes. The peasants
would not listen TO them and swept
them out of their pa,.l. A regi-
ment of cayalry was then called
into acton and attacked the peas.
ans vigorously. The mob finally
was driven back. but not before
many MEN had been killed or wound.
ed,
Fusttives Tell Fearful Tales.
The fugitives who have escaped
In into Austria tell dreadful stories
or The oltrages TO which they have
been subjected but tonight they are
worn out with their flight or so
under the spell of the fear that
drove them from Rou1hania that
no one can give a detailed account
OF his or her experiences.
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