The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1919-05-01
justice and humanity goes on.

justice and humanity goes on.
Ii those in authority could see wb a
have seen they would cut it fas
enough, but our hands are bound h,
diplomacy In the meantime W
nave fraternized with the Czech Guard
VINO themselves are sick of the lob
Inank God we have so far succeede,
IN holding the train here. don,
Know what has happened, but for som,
reason there is different attitud,
displayed among the Russian official,
to-day. They are once again beginning
to reed the prisoners, and promise thai
they will wash out the ears and Dive
tnese wretched people chance for q
little exercise. We have sent a HIM.
dred and thirty to the hospital TODAY
ana one way or another we are hold
ing the train. That is the main thing.
1t should have begun going back to-
ward Samara last night, but it has not
gone and l do not think that the Rms.
sian train officials will dare to send
it out with us on the spot all the time,
opening the cars ourselves, talking to
the prisoners, giving them what hope
OF help we can, and taking photo
graphs every day. We are doing all
this without authority, and in the face
of this horror we don t care who cares.
1t is impossible to tell in print the
story of the unfortunate women who
have been imprisoned here under these
awful conditions. They are treated
better than the men. You all know
why. In one car are eleven women
We have sat with them and talked with
them in a mixed jargon of French,
Russian, and German. On the inside
OF the car hangs a piece of string. On
it are four pairs of stockings owned
by these eleven women. The floor is
covered with refuse and filth. There
are no means of cleaning it, neither |
brooms nor buckets. They have not |
taken off their clothes for weeks. In
he center of the car is little wood |
stove and there are pieces of wood |
md coal on the floor. All around the
sides of the ears run two rows of
blanks, on which the inmates sleep at
light and sit hunched up by day. If
here ever is any official food for the
prisoners these women get the first
lick, and their physical condition is
luch better, since eleven of them have
car which would accommodate thirty
i've men packed in as they are. /,
Two more days have now gone by.
ince we arrived a cooking car has
cen put on the train, with a large [
ON kettle, and yesterday the guards /;
aim to have given the prisoners
tile soup One kettle for thirteen I
undred and twenty-five people, and &
'up passed through window a foot ,
I'd half, by means of an old rusty
M Yesterday one of the women was !
ken out of one Of the cars by Rus i
an officer. He will return her when r
e train pulls out. In this car is /
so an emaciated creature that was {
ice man. He was a journalist. His C
ife is in the same car. She has a C
ry few days to live. When the men
and they fill the entire car. On the ]
70 rows of planks built along the v
les, the dead and the living sleep q
best they may. We were told by 8
e guards this morning at half past p
yht that three men had died during t.
e night and the bodies had been re- a
wed. AS we walked past the train a r
In hailed us from one of the cars, and a
3 guards were told that there were t.