Emery County Progress | 1908-09-05 | Page 3 | Tells of Siberian Horror

TELLS OF SIBERIAN HORROR sufferer descar bes agon es endured in russ an penal settlement horrid Is the picture of existence in the penal colonies of northern siberia fiven in a book J published in ger many by L tane who returned to life after a buria of eight and a halt years n the living grave of in bat time he says he saw one after another of his fellows s mccumb to sui ide hunger ty they were to young men sent away j i for terms ranging from five to ten years tor political offenses the trip to takes 16 months I 1 was 20 years old be says when I 1 was convicted or harboring liberal convictions in our party were a 16 year old boy and another a year younger ali told we were 50 pollyl cals the writer describes the ag onies of hunger which the deported cals had to ciure mall was d three times a gorgei one mall day he says in 18 months a certain one 0 our number had not heard from home this mall brought him a letter it was a last greeting written in an uncertain hand by his mother on her deathbed in desperation he did what so many of our party had done before him and which others did after wo had laid tim away