Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1919 — 1,000 SLAIN BY REDS [ARTICLE]

1,000 SLAIN BY REDS

BOLBHKVIKI KILL RESIDENTS OF RUSSIAN CITY. Story of Y«k*terlndo»l*v Maowcro Told by Phy al oi an— Ukrainian* Taka Kl*v In Severe Battle. Constantinople, Sept. s.—More than 1,000 persona were executed by the bolshevik! before they evacuated the city of Yekaterlnoslav in southern Russia, according to a dispatch received here from that city, giving an account of the massacres by a physician who was the principal medical expert present at the opening of the pits into which the bodies of those victims had been thrown after their execution. ' This physician, a Dr. Robin, declares the vlctljpa’ heads had been crushed with hammers and their bodies badly mutilated. Many of them he says, were found with broken legs and riba, caused by blows with sledgehammers, specimens of which were found in the vicinity. The physician tells of the case of one officer who missed being struck by the firing squad’>. bullets nnd simulating death, escaped the boteheviki, who came along, bayoneting the wounded. The bolshevik organizations In the city had been headed by a workman named Vallavka and various Chinese, the report adds, qnd the principal posts of the soviet administration under them were In the hands of young men and women. Wholesale pillaging Is declared to have occurred In the town before Its evacuation. London, Sept. 5. —Confirmation of the occupation of Kiev by the forces of General Denikin, the antibolshevik leader in southwestern Russia, has been received by the war office. General Dlnikin’s troops took the town after two days of heavy fighting.