Show TOOK OUT THEIR EYES and then threw the unfortunates into the flames chicago dec 12 letters containing graphic details of the massacre ot forty jewish families at russia readied isaab J robinson in this city today and by them he was informed of the murder of his elder sister and all the members of her family and hardships undergone by another sister who at the time of writing the letter was hiding in a cellar with the membris of her family the letter written by airs sarah Pol ichkoff says in part e have been suffering for the last few months as our business haa been stopped and we could not make a living none woud buy from us and we could buy from nobody we could not buy one cents worth of food tor 3 in money and we have been really starving one day a mob gathered around the house of sister anne she was a sickly woman but that made no difference to the mob she was killed together with her son 19 barq of age thoy cut his body into small pieces after they killed him and they chopped her body in the same manner and then another son of 17 years and a daughter of 15 and a daughter ot 12 were treated in the bame manner in the meantime the brother in law of ours meyer ran away with the eldest daughter 21 years of age to save their lives he was pursued and slashed and cut they were stripped before the great mobs and in the per sence of thousands of people were cut in small pieces and tha pieces brought back to the house they had escaped from v after that the mob went next door and they ook the man woman and fire children out in the street they took eyes out abilo they were alive and then threw the blind people back into the house and they were burned alive out of the forty families in this town very few persons were saved all of the houses idere destroyed or burned the letter concludes witha brief account of how ahra ichkoff Po escaped through the kindness of a priest who hid her and the members of her family in a cellar |