DESTRUCTION OF A RUSSIAN TOWN.

Evening Post, Volume L, Issue 36, 10 August 1895, Page 1 (Supplement)

DESTRUCTION OF A RUSSIAN TOWN.

The Odessa correspondent of the , Daily News writes : — Nearly two : hundred Jews, rendered homeless and destitute by the terrible conflagration at Brest-Litovsk, have arrived in this city, where they have , received every attention and succour from the Hebrew Benevolent Associa- ' tion. It is now ascertained that • the total number of lives lost is one hundred and thirty-seven, but the : search for the missing is not yet complete. The town of BrestLitovsk, consisted of sixty-four blocks, and of these forty-nine, or about 1500 houses, have been dcs- : troyed. The refugees here relate the following tragic incident, which ! shows with what fearful and Bweep- ' ing rapidity the flames rushed through the wooden-built houses, i The magistrate of the second district : was driving from oue part of the , town to another, the flames roaring ', behind him. The coachman put his i horse to a gallop, but notwithstand- < ing this, they were caught up at a ] street corner and burnt to death — , magistrate, coachman, and horse. ; One poor half-demented creature among the refugees, tells how her sister, who escaped the flames, went to seek for her only eon and his thrae ohildren. They wore found burnt to death. The poor woman lost her reason, and is now in an asylum for the insane. Both Jews

and Christians in this city have shown the most unstinted generosity and sympathy, by sending large stores of provisions and other requisites to Brest-Litovsk, the railway company carrying everything freo.