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Show Prisoners iu Mbena. An account from Tomsk describes tbe state of the Siberian prisons cs Hometblug fearful, and gl ea tho fol-loniiig fol-loniiig figures, which speak: fur themselves. Tomsk, the seat of the only uuiverslty iu hlbcria, Is at the same time UitJ central dejut of exiles. lts-ssesca a prison which can accommodate 76j men, reckoning for each ouo ) S cubic feet of ulr. There is space lor 4M health persons per-sons and -75 skk out but the num. berof exiles uhoarrited in roruak In lSSS'uas 10,134, cf whom only 1-S,S3S were transported further. In IbbT tliero arrived H,tr77, and In ISt5, 15,01", and iu JSSO, up to September, over 12,000, of whom l-JjOJ-", 14,39 and 15,000 resiiectlve-ly resiiectlve-ly were taken to the interior. In 1S5 the average dally number of prisoners was at least 1,313: in lbS7 1,120, and in 1SS5, 1,390. In some weeks these numbers increased in 1SS3 to 2,855, In 1S57 to 2,753, and in I5SS even to 3,020 men. Among these the daily average on the sick list was, In lbSG, 331; In 1S37, 512 (not less than 43,7 per cent), and In 1S-.3, 393, the minority sutiering from Uphold texvr. 'Hie oillclal report saj s in a few words that for want of mom huudrwl of beds With patients suffering from serious maladies mala-dies were placed In the open air, uiiile thetemperaturu was only fix degrees Reaumur (43J Fahrenheit). The mortality w as, of course, enormous, enor-mous, lletnecn 3b0 and 403 exiles are burled $ early from the Tomsk prison. (ir. Zomlun Xeure. |
