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Show IiVOiillEilOFTIIGrZAIL Emsian Jews Tell tin Story of the Terrible Terri-ble Permeations that Drove Tbtra Land of ths Csar. THE BURNING OF THEIR HAMLET. Tonrteen Were Burned to Death and Many Others 8srirraly Injured Ar rented for Defending their Homes, Rostov, Mass., July 28 Ths Rus- , siau Jews who came hereon the steamer ; Kansa.i aud are detained at this port by . , V the requirements of the new inimigra-tion inimigra-tion law, told in an interview through ' ' !' the interpreter yesterday of the perse - . cutions which drove them from Russia. . ', Thu crowning piece was the burning of their hamlet, thus described: "It was a little farming settlement, , near Veilo. containing oighteen houses, ', . : with barns and outhouses. July 18, about midnight, a doeu or so of Hus. i sians from the city came trooping down upon them and set tire to tho whole set- tlament. Fourteen of the Jews wers berned to death and twenty more fear fully burned. The Jews armed themselves with stones aud sticks and gave chaso. Ths Russians were thoroughly surprised at this, because they were accustomed to have their own way with these people. One young man whose mother had been cruelly burned, took a crowbar and attacked three of tho Russians. lis killed two of them and struck a third one such a blow that he died in an hour. All the time the Russians were rushiDg wildly about shouting "Kill the Jews; kill the Jews." In the midst of this turmoil the ollicers from Vieln attract- ' ed by the blaze, came into the settle-nieut settle-nieut and arrested the young man who) , had killed the three Russians and also) captured other Jews. These were to bs tried July 20 and will probably be sent to Siberia. |