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The Bemidji Daily Pioneer
Bemidji, Beltrami County, Minnesota
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Anti-Jewish disturbances erupted in Kishinev, Bessarabia, on the night of Sept. 8, 1903, with rowdies from Odessa and locals committing outrages, driving Jews into a burning lumber yard while police remained passive. Refugees fled to the Roumanian border but were denied entry. Heavy loss of life unconfirmed.
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Reported Heavy Loss of Life Not Confirmed.
Vienna, Sept. 13.—According to the reports received here the disturbances which caused the circulation of alarming rumors in Roumania began at Kishinev, Bessarabia, during the night of Sept. 8. A band of rowdies which arrived there from Odessa were joined by a Kishinev mob and committed fearful outrages in the suburbs. They set fire to a lumber yard into which the Jews, aroused from their sleep, were driven.
The police during the disturbances were entirely passive.
Bucharest, Roumania, Sept. 13.—Anxious Jewish refugees, including whole families from Kishinev and Odessa, have fled to the frontier at Ungeni and the villages along the river Pruth. The Roumanian authorities have issued the strictest orders to prevent their entry into Roumania.
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Kishinev, Bessarabia
Event Date
Night Of Sept. 8
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reported heavy loss of life not confirmed; jewish refugees denied entry into roumania
Event Details
Disturbances began at Kishinev with rowdies from Odessa joining local mob to commit outrages in suburbs, setting fire to lumber yard and driving Jews into it; police passive; refugees from Kishinev and Odessa fled to Roumanian frontier at Ungeni and Pruth river villages but entry prevented by authorities.