The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-03-31
CHARMED HOUSE
OF THE UNBURIED
Cemeteries Crowded Till
Interment Rarely
Undertaken
STACKED IN NAKEDNESS
Hundreds Bumped in Trench
es and Many Waiting Turn
for Burial

ODESSA. March 3O-Five hundred
I.Uu bodies aEr buried each week
b, DH..-a'- newest cemetery. They
ar, carried out I'm pushcarts by
trir0gs or on their shoulders In
,ofrrs it the dead's relatives Hiu
han. money and affection enough
,r arc transported in motor trucks
"A carried i'm trucks the bodies are
Sled high like so many broken
t4Uhal,s men. women and ohil.
drau all together and all uncovered,
barring a few rags.
AZ the cemetery the bodies arc
dumped near a trench and cast
irlr,.r. Sometimes there is no
trench. II is yet to be dug This
statement Ct fact Is not given In
criticism Tho wonder is that the
bodies arc buried at all and many
would NOT bs but for the free Sunday
labor of The communists, donated as
r4ry discipline.
no cay that the last phase Of the
hitter story Of famine Russia Is told
BOO Obi. cemetery would be a com
monulupc. Nobody can tell the
story of Russia. Perhaps neither
ToIs,oi nor Hugo could have done
H Those living or visiting here only
now and then at odd moments real
lyD NNtl lS Ndpl'hluEs
TO say that the population OF
Odessa. though constantly renewed
Ly Jews fearing pogroms in the
tmr;ry, is about onc-half its pre-
var population of 100000 to G0O,-
600: that conditions are as bad as
ON the Nolga, worse than i'm Con-
.autuuplc, or worse than vi nna
al its worst: to say that the life
" the people is daily s1ppcd by
fear, famine, nervousness, madness
hOpolpssupss, doesn't mean much.
Probably one would have to see tins
cemetery TO understand.
Mountain of Inburicd Dead.
"Nhy not go out TO our cemetery
and look at the mountain Of unbur-
led dead, it you wish to know what
is happening to u.s." said a woman
10 the correspondent.
The way ran some miles to tho
northeast OF the City's center,
through the Moldavauka suburb,
shattered by the explosion of 1918
in the military warehouses. All
along the streets and the road were
block a'tcr block of stone buiId-
lrgs knocked down. BnNond tit-
wrecked and unused warehouse and
factory district lay the bun ial place
on the edge OF the steppc.
''rhis is our third ana newest
cemetery said the guide The
others were filled long ago"
There were no bodies above
ground. Al the extremity of the
graveyard peasant bent over a
shovel alongside a muddy trench
Called TO, he came wadiug through
mud and snow. Eighty bodies have
been cast here and | am covering
them" he added. Then: Il am
hungry ! have not b,ln paid for
a long time. There are tive of US
None Of us have been paid"
TsuCL Load Of Corpscs.
This seemed to be the end Of the
story. Going back, a Russian priest
stood at the gate, gownCd in faded
black velvet. Let mo show you
something he said, getting into the
automobile lie directed the machine
down maCudam road, leading past
The cemetery TO the open country.
lie brought the machine within a
few minutes to a big motor truck,
backed across the road. II carried
some 80 bodies, limp ard naked,
arms and rands and heads rising
fere and there, massed like sardincs
IN "a can.
The driver explained that ho had
Just come from the railroad station
where the bodies had been assem-
hled for him, lie pointed TO others
wing IN the mud across the ditch
That drained the road. "Thcsc
brought yesterday. only part
have been buried" he SAID
The priest took the car aflittlo
mriher down the road. Here was
@nolher truck, unloading. IL got the
bodies a, the typhus hospital and
me madhouse," said one OF the mon
sometimes he got his loads from
iho streets, at house doorways, Otter
uaoieS put there by parents toe
poor TO bury them.
No Attention Paid To Dead.
How many people were beinl
hurled? No one could say exactly
count had once been kept oI
lhosc executed. Each had been bur
ied with Identity cards tied to IN,
hands. But now there were toe
many and everyone was tired.
on the way back to the city, the
priest was set down at his gate
re said he needed a pair Of shoel
pug refused money offered. II,
smiled vague farewell.
ON the way back TO the cit!
Eonps OF people were met carrying
\ lher dead with no sign OF mourn
y .ns' They might as well have beef
song 10 market. No one Pays mucl
attention TO the dead here. PeOpl
are too absorbed i'm trying to live
america! You from America
why YOU come from paradise" eS
yAImcd an old Imperial army Off
tei Who has long acted as IL ma,
10 save himself. lie touched tn
yoIfo,nondcuts coat, kissing tn
Heelo, then asked:
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