Show SLAUGHTER OF THE INNOCENTS Hebrew Babes Thrown From Third Story Wincows at Odessa Refugees Tell of Persecution by Russians Rus-sians the Indlnnltles They Have Suffered Being Almost Incredible Incredi-ble The Blackest Page In Russias History New York Russian refugees many of them eye witnesses of tho massacres in Odessa and other Russian Rus-sian cities disembarked hero Monday from the steamers Patricia and Chem nits Somo of them told graphic and pitiful stories of their experiences Jews who had themselves lain hidden in Odessa houses while mobs searched for them Russian workman of tho Christian faith strikers from the railroads rail-roads a newspaper reporter and Germans Ger-mans who had long lived in Russia joined at Ellis Island Immigration station sta-tion In declaring that they had been attacked Irrespective of religion that their assailants wero led by police disguised dis-guised In citizens clothing and that the massacres were not race persecution persecu-tion but revolution While telling their stories tho men sometimes burst into tears for perhaps per-haps halt of the entire number had left behind them wives and children who wore either dead or defenceless in Russian cities Ono of tho men Abraham Chanoch an Odessa tinsmith tin-smith told what ho saw of the oaes sa massacre from Its beginning when two rival parades which wero celebrating cele-brating tho new constitution met and began to fight Ho told how little children were thrown out of high windows win-dows how Russian Christians patrolled pa-trolled the streets In large bands protecting pro-tecting Jews while other bands of man pillaged and murdered Work non and students ho said led the peace party while disguised police usually led tho hoodlums After the first two days he and two companions escaped from the city I Two refugees from western Russia said that there tho Jew killing was started by emptying the Jails of prisoners pris-oners who attacked and stole from tho Jews The men from the province of Kovlno asserted that the police themselves read In the emperors em-perors proclamation of a constitution an order to kill all Jews and cried this through tho streets Canoch said that faces of the dead on tho street wero too mutilated for recognition Each day the peasants flock to the towns predicting tho revolution re-volution is coming and if It does not I arrive today It will tomorrow I |