In all the houses the rebels looked for "communists" and demanded money. On the morning of May 14 the peasants of the village of Korzhevoie began to disperse to their homes, and happening to come upon some of the inhabitants of the town on the way, started pursuing and killing them. Seventeen fell dead in the fields, which with those previously killed makes 28 persons. Six of the wounded died. Thus the number of victims of the first "May" uprising was exactly 34 persons. On the same day, May 14, local Jewish inhabitants asked Brishka to call an assembly and explain to the rebels that they ought not to kill. Brishka consented, saying that he himself had not gone out killing, that it had happened "of itself." Meanwhile, however, the above-mentioned bandits, Kiril Cherniuk, Zbazhevsky, and Bobyl, kept becoming more and more insolent. They refused to obey Brishka and demanded on their own account a contribution of 10,000 rubles from the population. An especially tragic impression is made by Cherniuk's murder of a girl Sonia, whom he cut in pieces with an ax. Brishka, moved on the one hand by the entreaties of the population, and on the other hand disheartened by the disobedience of the bandits, declared that he would make way with them. And in fact he postponed market-day, which was to take place on May 16, and made every effort to apprehend the bandits. Cherniuk and Zbazhevsky were caught by him and shot in the center of the town. This punishment stopped the spreading terrors. After this, comparative quiet reigned. Brishka declared himself commander of the detachment. The power remained in -his hands for about two weeks. Then on May 31 the power of the rebels in Uman passed over to the bolsheviki. Ataman Klimenko, forced out of Uman, approached the town of Dubovo with his detachment on May 31. On this day the detachment of Shevchenko, Klimenko's subordinate, occupied the village of Korzhevoie. It numbered a hundred men, well armed, with one cannon. On June 1 Klimenko with ten or fifteen rebels entered the town. The rebels scattered to the houses of Jews and under pretext of searching for arms forced payments of money. Klimenko himself summoned a delegation of Jews, consisting of five men. According to what the delegate Schwarzmann reports, Klimenko declared: "I am a bolshevik, but I am against a commune. All looters will be shot by me." The conversation took place in
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