The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1897-11-22
STARVATION IN CUBA.
Condition Of Reoonoentra-
dos in Matanzas.
OPPOSING AID TO THE DESTITUTE

The chief of Police Would Prevent
the Ch%aritaDly Inclined From Giving
succor to stricken Ones Soldiers
Suffering For h N~ecessarIes OfLife.
Havana, Nov. 22.-La Lucha in a re-
Gently published editorial expresses
doubt as to the sincerity of the friend
ship for Spain professed by the Ameri-
can government, and says. IF the
American government cannot prevent
the sailing from the ports of that coun-
try Of expeditions in aid of the insur-
gents, and does not respond in other
ways to SPANS efforts to come to ia
vorable terms, It is useless for Spain
to maintain friendly relations with
America"
Reports from Mantanzas say that
the conservatives, having become en-
ragged at the change in the govern
ment's policy, are disturbing public or
der. Ex-Mayor Crespo initiated the dis
orderly conduct by publicly giving Of
Tense to Senior Armas, the new civil
governor Of the province. The chief
of police followed Crespo's lead by en-
deavoring to prevent aid being given
to the suffering reconcentrados by
newspaper correspondents and others.
OF the re-concentrados in Matanzas,
numbering less than $4,000, 79 died in
two days, 81 perishing from hunger.
Saturday II deaths were reported, a
large proportion Of which were the re-
suit Of starvation. In Jaruco about 65
per cent of the deaths are caused by
starvation, and the same is true of
many other towns. Owing to the lack
Of proper clothing and of blankets the
situation of the reconcentrados is be-
coming worse as the winter season APP
proaches, despite the efforts made to
relieve them.
Horrible episodes are of daily &C.
currence among the re-concentrados. At
ter lying for three days on the sidewalk
in front of a house in Matanzas a poor
negro woman, who was suffering ter
ribly and was unable to move, was car
ried away by a flood caused by a heavy
downfall of ain A short time after
ward her dead body was discovered a
few blocks away, and at last reports
was still lying in the gutter.
A cab driver who was carrying a
sick man to a hospital, observing that
he was dying, dragged him from his
cab, leaving him on the curbstone,
where he finally died. Cases similar to
these are of frequent occurrence.
Reports from Ca~ndelaria say that a
man who was suffering from smallpox
was driven by the authorities into the
insurgent camp at Celia del Negro, in
Pinar del Rio province, where threats
were made to hang the man if he was
not taken away.
Sixty persons employed about the
docks and others in various parts of the
island have Joined the revolutionists,
and a number Of prisoners at Gulnes
who were p%ardoned under the recent
proclamation a returned to the in
s%urgents.
Smallpox Is ravaging the neighbor-
hood Of the insurgent headquarters
in Pinar del Rio, and there are in the
hospitals in the hills LOO persons suf-
fering from the disease.
The financial situation of the mill
tary administration is bad. The SOL
diers have not been paid in eight
months. There is a scarcity in the
meat supply for the hospitals, and in
many towns no meat has been OBJ
tainable for many days.
General Losada, sub-inspector OF the
health department, said recently that
there were actually 5000 soldiers in
the hospitals in Cuba, and that about
Is, 900 of this number were not suf-
fering from any disease, but simply
from need of nourishment.