The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-07-27
STARVING FISHERMEN.
GREAT DESTIIUTI0N IN NEW
FOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR.
Hundred Of Deaths From Exposure
and Want OF FOOd-Measures
for Relief.

t'Is JOHNS ~ It . JuI1 ~ hV Va
radon Gov Will ferd cutter
from Qp,bfc 10 the c-a tot NewloUc-
Iar' Z Lstrtdor to tauy ucA do
ma ON as ch uatlr di-pos q pc sons
may Jesae 10 send TO the STAYING
p Opls there. Ia Quebec alone Over
5000 worth Of prov OLs hsys b en-
aubsrriLei thus far, and ] is believed
On ario vii DO as n.u;h cr more The
newfoundland Government IN not in
a position 10 give the Immediate a.d
which the necessities OF the cceasiOn
demand. The suffering of these etary-
ing il clad fishermen has been known
for over month, but the abovs is the
first step taken TO relieve their dis
reae. Deprivation after depu'a ion
has applied for aid in vain, and Ian
guild Gypt, Interpreter, who has Just
returned from Cape Chilly, the ex-
treme northwest point Of Labrador
reached by aledge, gives heartrending
account of the terrible des tuition and
SOLDERING which the Esquim ux and
Indian farmers are enduring along the
Labrador coast. On Cspe Chilly $50
souls are distributed over an ares OF
ReYcral Mills The entire food
supp y gave out 10 March The Eea,
catch wss very small. As the
season wore on the zeal would mo-
come near enough to shore TO be
caught. The cold was intense, and
ma ~ of The older people died OF eX-
posure end lacb Of nou ishment Ga
June 18th, when the guide left, the
mercury s'o6d at lSo below zero, and
had been lower. The ice for several
hundred miles wac s lid r a depth OF
from 10 to 100 feet, and the snow WIS
piled mountains high, At lest
eighty pelsous have pershed since
MAJ ch 1st between Cape Chilly a d
| Care Mugf lrt, and only four survivors
were found in the rude shanties along
| the coast. Thess accompanied the
guide to Cepa Mugford. The BODIES
of eighteen victims we're found ffczen
| s fl. The clothes had been taken
from them evidently to help keep life
IN tire bodies Of the miser1b e sur
vivors, who, in turn, died while
out fishing or after sal Seven.
| ,ee1 BODIES were found along
shorei T@enty.iour perscne, inc 'uiing
six women aud til e email children,
ara bnown TO have pershed at Cape
M gford, where, june 10Th, there were
ouiy twenty barrels Of meat and forty
barre s OF corn and -four. The potators
nsd been gone since early in May
There were lese than 100 quinta's Of
fish and no clothing in store at al.
| The residents, numbering sb9ut 300
per ons, were worn and pinched from
famine and cold In the outlying dis
tricts at lesst one half of the popula-
tion had died. There was no eigu CT
the ice breaSing up and the natives
mad nothing to exchange for food or
clothing Seventy Esquimaux from
Astoria, Fix miles from the cape, made
an attack on the store az Mugford.
The men were rendered desperate by
THEN suffsrings.
ADDITIONAL DETAILS
Ldter.-Fufther particulars OF the
dit e.s among the fishermen of LIB.
rador have been received. The
seventy EsquimRux who demanded
food from the stores at Mugford, which
could rot be siveu TO them owing to
the needs of the inhabitants and the
small supply, made rush for the har-
hor storehou'e where the -four and
feh were stored. The men of the
small settlement gathered to defend
their only hope Of existence and des-
perate fight ensued, in which four Of
The msrSuding Esquimsux ", re nearly
killed and two of the s'orehouse de-
Tenders were seriously injured. The
E'quimaux, finding that they could
not obtsin food by force, retreated and
sent in several of their number to ask
Tor small quantity OF food, which
they said was ab olu'ely necessary to
the cont nued existence OF their wives
and children. Two hundred pounds
of fl ur and about fiji y pounds of
fr zen cod acre s-nt to them. 1t wss
reported that in Astor a alone, out of
thntv.6ve or forty fami ise, NDr total
Of ZOO persons, over 100 had died,
mostly ali women and children. In
Main the ca CHI of fish has not been suf-
ticlebt to afford food 10 the inhshita' Is.
TIE eea' on, which opened May LIT, was
very backward, and had 1t not been
fer the zeal industry which was tolera-
bly, good, not soul would he living.
A ong Hamilton inlet and Sandwich
by there is not 80 much suif, ring,
although many have d ed. In We.
uCk and Indian habors fish ia the
only cd beeide small quantity Of
Conmel They have had no vegeta-
b'es since March lst, and the peop g
are almost wthou c 9TH &. At Hope.
dale not over TWEEN y-hve families re-
main out Of the eutire former plpula-
ton Many have gone east along the
coast in the hope of getting in o better
SUI Piled sett ements, willie eighty
persons, of witch forty wera squaws
and thi tyfve children, died firm
tBrvation in June alone. There were
some deaths in April and May, but
these were prinripa ly from exposure
to the cod. The Okkah Ind aus are
suffering CRAFTY but there we're moi
as many deaths among them as was al
first reported, only twelve pers n
having died this spring out OF the
125 who make up the tribe. The
whole get lement is, however, OF
the verge Of starvation. The place!
spoken of do not include thu
whole district where there is Il
be found destitution and death. II
the country lying back from Okkah
, Hopedsle, Main and Cape MugtorC
there are large rumber of families
moet of them Indians or E.quimsux
, among whom the suffering is real.
greater than it is in the more thickl,
{ populated settlements. The DEATH
, here from starvation cannot be est
, mated, but II Is thought, iu 'ging from
| the rspcrts now and then brought in
that the number is very la,ge Ii
Newfoundland, alorg the north coas'
there s great destitut on From Cap
: Baud to Hearts Content hundred
ave in y dying condition. In Whit
: bay alone iorly-two persons die