The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1892-03-02
I'll ROfE'S STARVING
Further Details Of The Suffering in
Russia and Elsewhere.
THE DESPERATION OF DESPAIR

The Famine Changing Peasants or
the Cars Domiaions Into wild
Villages Becoming Depop-
nla.ed--Disease Adds 20 the Dis
trcss Prevailing n Hungary.
LONDON. March Z. An English special
correspondent. who Il travelling in the
famine district Of Russia. writes from
Saratoff that crimes Of violence IN the
salley Of the volga are OF frequent oc-
;urrence. Clergymen's houses have
been robbed. and the bodies Of murdered
men are found on the highways The
correspondent was warned Of the dangers
VI travelling about the country, and he
seldom drove at night. Caravans of
merchandise are escorted BY an armed
force.
The correspondent says that while he
was sieighing on the Volga one evening
he was tracked for half an hour by 4
ragged, III looking peasant, armed with
q musket and cudgel. II was his inten-
ti0n TO signal the approach Of the corre-
spondent TO an ambush prepared by rob
bers who infest both sides Of the Volga.
The correspondent showed his revolver
snd the peasant reiterated.
villages Depopnlated.
The writer adds that tho villages III
the government sof Samara, which
were prosperous in 1885. are now plunged
into the deepest misery, and the popula-
ton has been decimated. In one village
,, 70J OF Its 1855 inhabitants have emf
grated: OF these remaining 1,25O are
dependent upon charity. In three
lost 4,036 head OF live stock. They are
indebted to the state in the sum Of ~
$50 rubIes.
Similar conditions prevail in other vii
lagos. Forty Thousand acres Of land are
idle In the province OF SamarR, owing
I TO lack OF seed wherewith to plant this
area. "A large number Of the German
colonists live In holes III the earth for
warmth. They eat bread made Of wild
hemp and the carcasses Of horses. This
diet causes severe and often fatal nausea.
The Desperation or Despair. -
The famine Is changing the peasants
into wild beasts. In one case man at
tempted to hang his daughter because
she had not been successful Ia begging.
"A loaf Of bread was given to peasant.
who began to deyour It with the avidity
Of famished wolf. While he was in
the act Of gulping down the bread he
fell into fit.
Speaking Of the resources or the conn
try the correspondent says that the land
In the basin Of the Volga Is exhausted,
and the climate Ii changing. He sug-s
gests that 100000 of the German colo
nists be assisted to emigrate 70 Canada
and the United States. They are q fine
race, he says, and would make success.
ful c0lonists In those countries,
The Distress Elsewhere.
ST. PETERSBURG, March IA meet
ing has been held at the residence of
Charles Emory Smith, the United States
minister, OF persons interested IN the
establishment Of system Of relief for
lepers in Siberia. II was decided I'd omen
subscriptions to establish leper colonies.
twenty thousand rubles have already
been collected for this purpose.
BUDAPEST, March 2.-The inhabitants
#of ArYa, the northermost county Of Hum
gary, are suffering from epidemics Of
styphus and other deadly diseases, iii adj
dition g the famine which Is prevailing
there. The people are reduced to such
straits Tor food that they are compelled
20 eat the barks Of trees and pine cones.
VIENNA, March 2.--The list Of sub
scr1Ders 70 the burgomaster'S fund for
the relief OF the unemployed is headed
by the emperor with q contribution Of
$500. The Springer Bros. give e. 900.
There was another free distribution 81
bread and meat 70 the needy poor yes