YES, It's It, Onye

Gangs of ten or 20 armed with hatchets and knives stormed through the town's narrow streets and into its courtyards, where jewish families defended themselves with garden implements. In the end, forty nine jews were killed and an untold number of jewish women were raped, and 15 hundred jewish homes were damaged. This sudden rush of hoodlam violenc prompted by accusatory rumors of jewish ritual murder, quickly became a talisman of imperial russian brutality against its jews.