Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1890 — DRIVEN LIKE CATTLE. [ARTICLE]

DRIVEN LIKE CATTLE.

The batkentine Catherine Sudden has arrived at Port Townsend from (Siberia. Her commander, Captain John Thomas, has sent to this city a description of the Russian exile system as witnessed by him. He describes the brutal scene which he witnessed on Laghalien Island a famous Riissian exile prison. A large party of exiles of all ages, heavily manacled, were being taken to the island. A few old men whose strength gave out fell from exhaustion. The brutal driver, acting under the orders frbm his superior, shot the unfortunate men and removed their chains. No mercy nor discrimination was shown. Wives saw their husbaads killed before their eyes; mothers saw their daughters outraged and Insulted. The exiles were driven like cattle, a heavy whip being used to urge them on. The prison cells were filthy .and the treatment barbarous.