| Show refugee tells of the horrors of a massacre chicago dec 15 her hair prematurely gray her face lined with suffering mrs johanna slean a russian refugee reached chicago yesterday she and her two children went unscathed through the horrors of a massacre nov 1 at Kremen zug near odessa one hundred and fifty jews were killed and many more wounded mrs stein and her children were hidden for hours under a bed an an attic while the rioters went through their quarter of the city pillaging slaying burning and ravishing it all seems a dream said mrs stein through an interpret when I 1 received my husbands letter containing our passage money to america I 1 was filled with joy every day we expected to bo killed Kremen zug has people most of them are jews but they are not allowed to protect themselves they are at the mercy of the police and the rabble there is a bund that is composed of russians and jews it is a revolutionary society and it Is supposed to protect the poorer classes of jews but it does not when the proclamation of russian freedom came there waa great rejoicing among the jews A meeting was called of the bund at the town hall the jews were told to attend or they would be killed inflammatory speeches were made at the town hall meeting on november and 2nd the next day we learned that the chief of police had secretly arranged for a massacre of the jews by the black hundred composed of the rabble the next day the massacre began the rioters were mad with vodka women bad their clothing torn from them some of them were strung up by the wrists and whipped little children were thrown from the upper windows on bayonets and swords of the brutes below the hair and beards were torn from old men many men stabbed their wives and their laughters so they would not fall into the hands of the devils then the men threw themselves on the swords ot the rioters those 0 them were armed sold their lives dearly |
