The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1919-08-31
FINDS FAMILY AT TER
THREE YEARS. SEARCH
v.rror- Stricken Siberia, Russian
s,Idicr Just Released From Prison
Camp Finds Relatives,
RED CROSS GIVES HIM HELP
,,, when Tired Veteran Of World
var Was Ready To Despair Of
Tusk Angels OF Mercy Help.

oMSK. Siberia. July 30-(By
I-,nD-ro find the needle In the
for that needle to be
,,pr-own wife and family--lost in
no great wilderness called Siberia!
su, here Is the story:
Ru-sian soldier, Nikolai Ivanoff.
,ho had been in German prison
amp for three years, was recently
r.leascd and. with hundreds OF 9th
as shipped 10 Omsk, the seat OF
the all siberian government. lie ar
rived In Omsk-- ragged, tired, hum
IeU. homeless. While he had been
prisoner the bolshcvik uprising
.hld occurred. His native village had
been razed by the red guard Three
rears before he had left his brave
,ourg wife and two babies in that
village Were they dead, or were
they refugees. fleeing before the
hp,prs Of the bolshcviki2 Al either
Thought his heart sank To bc a
refugee homeless In the bitter cold
at siberia. hungry In u land where
even the rich could not huy food
He pictured the bare toes OF the 1T
lie Ivan and no small boots TO be
had in Siberia for the children And
then he could not let himself think
o., 10 any longer, but started I'm to
nun, for the three who belonged to
him.
II Is something Of n job ecarch-
Ing SIBERIA FOR "a family hundreds
Of thousands OF refugees. scurrylng
In terror before the Germans and
bolshcyiks alike, scattering life chaff,
have either died or been completely
lest sight OF Whole families have
been wiped out, leaving never a
trace nor memory to show that
such souls had been. Those that sur
yNed were sprinklcd over thousands
Of square miles, from ola 10 Nladi-
yusluCk
Nlkolsi began his search in Omsk
More than 100000 refugees live In
Jmsk Nikolal tried all the official
,hanucis Of the. Russian government
0pt there was no record OF his wife
md babies They told him TO go to
he American Red Cross,
In the city OF Omsk the American
Red Cross handled over $4,000 ref
lgees. some live In huts and houses,
Iome in Zyemlyankas or dugouts
out from under the snow,
,thers live In box cars and several
housand In barracks. The Red Cross
iolds complNe records OF them all.
Nikolal plodded hopelessly over
H. snow to the barracks and In
luired OF the bycrEcnci (rcfguees)
or his family. No one knew Marie
yenoffa, and little Ivan and Olga
hey were not there. He was about
o turn away when he saw a Red
ross worker. He asked her about
us wife--his young wife ana two
'ab.cs Did she know where they
iere? The Red Cross woman looked
\ the Red Cross recOrds-and there
hcy were written down. Marie, Ivan
nd Olga. Yes. all were living
10. IN the barracks. but In q zyeml-
hnka. The Malch,k Ivan was sick,
.ui tho American nurse came TO
ee him every day They had all re
eived clothes from the Red Cross
rooms. The wife did
ewing for them and earned 60
ubles a wcek--not much, but
nough TO keep the little stomachs
lll
Tho Red Cross woman told him
low 10 find the zyemlyanka, pre-
ending not to see the tears that
rickled from his brave Russian
yea and dropped onto his shabby