Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-23
BURN LIVING BODIES
DR.. RuD.s JIcIhsky, FORMER
lowAN. DESCRIBES HoR-
RoRs OF WAR.
SPENDS YEAR IN
SERBIAN HOSPITAL
Declares Bulgarian Atrocities Have
Not Been Exaggerated Witnessed
Burning Of Living Human Beings,
and Slaughter Of Innocent Persons-
varder River Covered With corpse..

vardcr River Covered With corpses.
Cedar Rapids, Nov. 23.-To see living
human beings saturated with petrol
cum, a lighted match applied to their
clothing and their bodies burned, is an
experience that falls to the lot of few
Americans. yet this is one of the many
narrowing experiences that came UNI
der the observation of DR.. j. Rudis
Jicinsky, formerly of this city, who
has just returned from a years stay
in Serbia where he went to assist n
alleviating the sufferings OF those
stricken by war.
DR.. Jicinsky, who is now in the city,
tells a story so dramatic that one can
hardly believe that such atrocities
could occur in this day and age. He
tells them in a simple manner but at
times when his memory reverts back
to those stricken people he all but
loses control of his nerves and his
body shakes with emotion.
He tells you he saw the to>.h APP
piled to the wounded while yet there
was life in their bodies: he tells you
he took photographs Of the corpses
and when the war is ended he is going
to present them to Washington and
enter mighty protest against the
kind Of warfare conducted by the Bull
garians He tells you of the atroci-
ties he personally knows were COM
mitted by soldiers of Austria and he
has the Photographs to prove all he
says He tells you of great river
running red with blood and it's waters
choked with the bodies of the slain,
floating down to the sea.
Removes Doubt Of Atrocities.
Perhaps there are Americans who
have not believed the stories they have
read in the newspapers OF the heinous
crimes committed against the aged and
infirm, and the youth of the stricken
Serbia. If there is any doubt. a few
minutes talk with DR.. Jicinsky will
remove that doubt, because he has the
proofs and the Photographs.
And, as he said, most of these acts
were committed by the Bulgarians,
who spare no prisoners of war, who
spare neither women nor children in
their lust for blood; their greed for
plumber, their Unsuitable desire to wipe
out all that has been spared by the
Turk.
DR.. Jfcinsky breathes his hatred
against the Bulgarian and the Aus
TRAN, each of whom he calls oppres-
sor each OF whom he terms tyrant,
and both of whom slaughter the inno-
cents.
"War Worse Than He'll"
This war of determination against
Serbia is worse than hell" DIR. Jacin-
sky said today. 1T is slaughter
slaughter of the innocents. of the non
combatants You kill four or five
thousand hogs in Cedar Rapids every
day., Nine or ten thousand men. ywo=
men and children are killed in Serbia
every day; II that is not slaughter
do not know what it may be termed.
saw the Vardar river literally covered
with human corpses floating down to
the sea. This river, usually its waters
are so blue, today they are churned to
froth by the falling bodies and its
waters have been turned to crimson
by the blood of the innocents. But
Serbia will not be crushed. Russia
will not permit that Serbia today is a
second Belgium; Serbia, the country
that has kept the Turk from over-run-
ming Europe for five hundred years, is
PROSTATE today, but she will rise
again.
1.-The Bulgarians attacked the Ser
bans long before war was declared by
the Bulgarians. At Strumica the Bull
garians attacked the Serbs and 25O
Serbs were killed. Twenty-si were
wounded and they were taken to the
railroad bridge where their bodies
were burned alive. saw these afro
cities and I caleld the attention of a
Swiss physician to them and I took
photographs. You must know that af-
ter person is dead water blister
does not rise from burns but there
were blisters on these bodies, proving
they We're not dead when set on fire..
DR.. Jicinsky helped organize the
hospital corps in Serbia and it was
largely due to him and the eight other
Americans who went with him that
dread typhus was stamped out after II
had claimed the lives OF $4,000 soldiers
and hundreds Of civilians, including
two of his party.
Take Charge Of Wounded.
I'VE arrived at Dzevdzeli. which Is
on the railroad leading to Saloniki
shortly before the Bulgarians attacked
the Serbs. which was more than year
ago." he continued ''and we took
charge Of the wounded at the railroad
bridge, and later removed them to a
hospital. There were 1858 wounded
men and 545 persons Ill Of disease In
the hospital, who were suffering Of
recurrent fever and smallpox but not
typhus. After being there while the
commandant asked me to divide my
unit and send part Of 1t to Uskup
which we did on Dec. 1, OF last year,
leaving a male nurse, a woman nurse
and physician in the town. We were
at Uskup q whole year where an en-
gineer's barracks had been turned into
a hospital equipped with all modern
American appliances 1t had capa-
city of 1900 beds, and was divided In
to an infectious ward and ward for
the wounded. It was. here fiat typhts
! broke out and saw sixty-three per-
sons who could not be accommodated
in the hospital die In its yard in one
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