Bisbee daily review., 1919-04-16
ALL MALES
 IN CITY IF
 OSA SLAIN
Doctors, Lawyers and Priests Killed; One Shot Because
 He Lived in Brick House
Many Thrown Into Pit and
 Buried; Rob the Churches of District of Everything


 OMSK, Saturday, April 15.-(By the Associated Press )-Indisputable evi- dence of the massacre by the bolshe- wiki of more than 2000 civilians in and near the town of Osa, has been obtained by Messrs. Simmonds and Emerson and Dr. Rudolph Teusler of the American Red Cross, who have just returned from Perm, Osa, and other ruined Russian territory. Ap- rroximately 500 persons were killed at Osa and 1900 in the surrounding dis tricts.
 Osa, which had population of 10000. was so denuded of males by the bol- sheviki that General Casagrande. upon Nhe occupation of the town, was obliged to telegraph to Yekaterinburg for men to administer civic affairs.
 In addition to securing verbal and documentary evidence the Red Cross officials witnessed the exhuming of scores Of victims from trenches. The murders were without provocation, and the victims were largely of the thrifty and intelligent classes or ser wants of the church.
 All Doctors Killed
 The evidence discloses almost un- thinkable atrocities. A man was shot because he lived in brick house. All attorneys and jurists were killed. and doctors. whose services were not re- quired for the moment, were disposed of in a similar manner.
 A woman whose husband and two sons had been seized. applied to the commisSar for information as to their fate. She was told they had been taken to Perm. After repeating her visit several times, she was informed that if she bothered the commissory again she would be shot, as they had been.
 A wife. required to pay a thousand rubles for the release of her husband, borrowed 500 and paid it over. later she returned with the remainder and then was informed that her husband had been shot There were scores of similar cases.
 The soviet called meeting and pre- pared lists of those to die. The houses prescribed were visited by squads, the doors were smashed in and the vic tins dragged to the edge of the town and forced to dig their own graves. Those resisting were shot in the streets.
 A survivor testified that he had seen men thrown into pit and buried alive.
 The bolshevik attitude toward the church was uncompromising, Priests were hunted unmercifully. The 'evi- dence showed that men were slain whose only offense was that they worked as sextons or caretakers of churches.
 In the Perm district everything was stolen from the churches. In some places the schools continue, but re- ligious teaching is barred, branches or study being dependent upon commit tees of the pupils.
 Careful inquiry, the American ob- servers say, show that there was noth- ing constructive in any town under bolsheviki control Money and prop erty were reQuisitioned and extrava- gantly dissipated by individuals with out accounting. The hospital at Perm was short of doctors. Out of five. two were killed and two were taken away.
 It is reliably related that the bol- shevih drafted into the new Russian army who went to the front uttering threats that they would refuse to fight against their brother bolsheviki, were disenchanted on witnessing the results of the bolsheviki occupation, and developed into the most ardent enemies of the bolsheviki.