STORY OF MASSACRE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8101, 22 March 1906, Page 7

STORY OF MASSACRE.

YOUNCi JEWISH REFUGEES' TERRIBLE EXPERIENCES IN RUSSIA. Jewish refugees nrriviug at CJrimsby, England, recently from Rusßia bring terriblo accounts of their adventures at Odessa. Jeremiah Kliubomoflt, a uinetoon-year-old youth, who, with hia fifteen-year-old sister Leah, was dotainod by the immigration officers, narrated a thrilling experience undergone at Odessa. A number of revolutionary soldiers, he said, turned upon the Jewish inhabitants, entering and despoiling their homes, and murdering the men and women. Together with his father, mother, and sister, he fled to an old house on the outskirts of the town, hoping to bide there until the outbreak had subaided. The poas ibility of this place affording shelcor had evidently occurred to others of the community, for upon arrival they found nearly forty other refugees—men, women, and children —oonoealod ia the bouse. The whole party stowed themselves in the false rocf of the building, but the maddened soldiery by some means learnt of their refuge, and a swarm of them attacked the place, HACKING WITH THEIR SWORDS and olubbing with their rifles at the unprotected company of Hebrews. Kliabomoff himself was stunned with a rifle butt, while bis sister bad her skull split with a sword\cut. They were left for dead by the revolutionaries, who set off in mad pursuit of two or three of the refugees, who, having eluded them, were escaping over the house-tops. When he recovered consciousness, Klinbomoff found that ho and his sister alone of the company were still living. The place was like a channel-house, braised and BATTERED CORPSES LYING EVERYWHERE about them. They found the bodies of their father and mother, the latter horribly mutilated, lying in the courtyard. They tramped to Nikolaieff, where tome relations sheltered them and gave them sufficient money to fly the country. After considering their story, examining their injuries, and ascertaining that by their respectve trades of joiner and tailoress the oouple oould support themselves, the immigration officers passed them.