The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1914-11-05

swept the village of ESQ perl
sons and gathered up thirteen mendI
and boys. They drove them before
them with knouts (the Cossock rides
only with the whip; he uses no
spurs).. and at the edge of-the VIII
lage by the side Off ditch they broke
the legs and arms Of their prisoners
with the butts of the carbines and
then shot them. The bodies were !
thrown into the ditch and heavy
stones rolled over them.
The governmental physician re-
ports that autopsies showed that
two of the victims had been buried
alive and that all had their ewes
thrust out by lances and their tom
CUES cut OF. 1t was so.
Kills Girl Ill in Bed.
AT Soldau, an important town near
the border, the Russians behaved
e during the occupancy. but
when they retreated the Cossacks
went into the Kranken Haus. and
killed In their beds five old men and
women. A fourteen-year-old
girl sick in bed was killed BY lance
thrusts through her head. In the
vicinity of this town there was a to-
tai of eleven killed and of these six
were women.
At Neidenburg, chief city of the
bezirk in which it is. the Russians,
shelled the town for almost two
hours, although it was u%unfortffed
and u~ndefended. The shells DESTROY
ed the church and hospital. 1he
church tower still stands in a shaky
undecided sort of way. One face
of the clock shows the hour of 1920
and the other $3.50. Some of the
shells played curious tricks. One
mouse was blown to pieces, only a
strip of the back wall standing. Yet
on a ledge OF the wall there were
four flower pots left unscathed, their
blossoms freshened by the rains that
came later.
AS the Cossacks entered this town
they shot down the streets at every
figure they saw. This was at the be-
ginning of the invasion, and it may
be they feared ambush. Twenty
were killed in the first hour, includ-
Ing two little girls. This in spite Of
the fact that the Burgomaster had.
tried to arrange with the Cossack
SO that the occupation would be
peaceable. He was threatened with
death If he opened his mouth, after
his first offer had been refused.
Five Sisters Attacked.
Five sisters in the hospital here
were. overpowered, two dying later
from the violence Of the attacks.
Three witnesses testified to having
seen Shumanski Madkin, twenty
four years old, have his nose cut off
and his eyes put out before he was
pierced through with lances. And
there were witnesses to the story
told by>a forty-eight-year-old wo-
man that she had been attacked by
sixteen Cossacks and others who
told how a sixteen-year-old girl had
been mistreated by fourteen of the
marauders.
At Gardauen on Sept. 8 twenty
civilians, including one woman, were
shot down. This act is charged
against the regular Russian soldiery.
for each of the witnesses is certain
that there were no CossocAs there.
AT this place a mother and married
daughter were overpowered and at
tackled in the presence of their hus-
bands, who were later shot. The
troops ransacked the LandyLth's
house and destroyed everything they
could move. Then they cut the
throat Of q pig and dressed him in
the Landrath's clothes and laid him
in a bed they made up on the front
porch.
It is q curious play of the Cossack
psychology that frequently when
they have been guilty OF the utter
most barbarism they bury their vic
Tins and %impiously erect crosses over
1.-The graves.