The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-09

Especial Correspondence of the Asso-
ciated Press).-Miss Clara: Barton has
drawn up the following statement re-
garding the progress of her relief
work in Asia Minor:
'It should be understood that one
object of our expeditions in the field
at this time is the helping of the peo-
pie to cultivate their land and get
crops off that they may subsist in the
near future and through the winter,
or their condition of hunger and
threatened starvation will be as great
or greater than now. To this end
our two expeditions have been for
several weeks purchasing in the cities
the farming implements in general use
by the people and carrying them to
the villages and farm lands of the
country where all implements have
been either destroyed or taken.
'It is understood that the govern
ment has expressed a desire to take
part in providing seed for planting.
Indian corn is one article distributed
for food by our people, as it can be
planted if no other seed is provided.
THE TWO EXPEDITIONS
are en- route Cor Harpoot by different
ways, providing the farmers as they
go. Money for this purpose is being
freely sent from here.
1.-THE other object, and perhaps the
one appealing most directly TO the
sympa thies of the people, is the hand
e > of Of ha rvx-O
fever-stricken cities of Zeitoum and
Marash, where from 5000 to 10000 peo-
pie are suffering the agonies of four
distinct epidemics raging among them
at once-typhoid and typhus fevers,
dyssentery and smallpox. The first
three would naturally follow as the
conditions Of
STARVATION AND HARDSHIPS
and the putrid atmosphere of the
neglected field of siege and battle with
fostering wounds and long unburied
dead. The smallpox must have been
brought from some infected district.
For the treatment of these thou
sands there are no physicians left.
If they escaped one fate they fell by
another. A few holy missionary. men
and women, with names to hence
forth form a part of the history of
this miserable field, and one worn doc
tor, dividing himself between three
cities seven miles apart, like poor Cas-
saibianca, stood at their posts
ION this state of things we look UP
the medical relief of these Inflated
cities Physicians must be found who
are willing to risk
THE DOUBLE DANGER
of contagious disease and a country
by no means in a settled condition.
Through Mr.. George Post of Bey-
rout a few were drawn from the med
ical college in that city, placed under
charge of DR.. Ira Harris and sent on
by sea and land with medical supplies
to begin a hospital in MaraSh.
More physicians are on the way
and others are being procured to re-
port to DR.. Harris, who has taken a
part of his men to Zeitoum, forty miles
distant, where 5000 are reported to be
i'll. The result of his Investigations
can only reach us later. In all Asia
Minor there is no other organized
body of medical relief. We have obli-
gated ourselves for it's entire ex-
penses, medical supplies, transporta-
ton, hospital arrangements, salaries
and travelling expenses of physicians,
and all necessary costs of communi-
cation between the various points.
Our first order for physicians was
for six in number with two druggists
and supplies. The number of ply
sicians should
AT LEAST BE DOUBLED
and every effort is being made to
that end.
The reported number of deaths has
been for some time from seventy-five
to one hundred daily. No one so well
as ourselves can recognize the respon-
sibility. But the conditions are here
and we are here alone to meet them
We can only tell them to the world
outside and stand firm in our work
from day to day trusting by the mer-
cy of heaven to attain some measure
of success. CLARA BARTON"