Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-11-22
,,Iu TALES OF SUFFERING
,rs,yDs ARE DYING OF STARVATION
b. oc,.iaIs Refuse to Carry Out
o,ders for Relief-Time Tor
some Power TO Intervene.

80. Power 10 Intervene.
:. work.. Nov. GA dispatch to
r.,A from Matanzas, Cuba, says:
- h,lf Of the story of suffering In
Il, has not been told.
/ v.r,pa and it's suburbs the streets
|. ,t,fd with beggars, the hospitals
/. ,v,faowlng with starving innocents
I'M. SPARE barracks are filed with
4 I,,tltute and dying. But from
r.. to this place there is n success
\, 4 small cities almost free from
80. and hunger. Nobody Is left
| The only swarming population
| y. They are cities of the dead.
Is4a,lnr forts overlook empty
L.. PanId. ragged Spanish SOL
| i, uard a few-a very few-human
I,.55s Very soon they will have
I !, hsmselyes to protect. They need
II 4 almost a question whether
.rl,rsn has not been as awful for
has il has been for the peaceabie
a.ts The towns of Campo Florida,
l; Miguel, Mlnas, Jaruco' balhoa'
Ir,ats Mocha and Buena Vista
-h.a and nuodrupled In popula-
80, -. 49, 81 tho
ply "eE'e' . 'o"'e'''i '''o" " ~
|r-rndlng country people under the
b # their respective sets OF little
u .ao,, ,,otr
u Rlal' oneuieht iaiiucis 'ooN '"e'
ri1re and their babes IN OK carts'
ksruvs and pigs. wives and children
y, .,a hri, Ionr strea,s of nolm
W. 3-' -
lt1' raitereu' tildtcheu anu s'ueu
Mt Today nothing remains but
i nod. The animals have been
I. ali ,r,i,ios % yai,,o bnva been
2as4 INTO hfead,, anu .he peoP,e,
fslMhs having peeh useu up aie
we counted only 20 women
e,lieh ana three men IN the pam
.h's, lheIe are Two trains u
Ihey arr the great events OF
inistlaole ~ hours ana we counted
4,salots' Ihrre should nave been
alv ~ "a lhere We're at ieiist
.gVyv rseohcentrauos IN those
aouses "nch We!lef victims
Vsah W ule ana we counted rs
nNV,
Va me senator from Spain can he
49, ", " Nttr,ll.
- shleh ne assisted when ne
~ Spi'h ~ supporting Weyst'.
~ Guy 70 take the train. from
~ 70 Aetanzas' a three hours
-lV1sn Deautltul but abandoned
nv sQuahd' abandoned VII
us pl9oI enough, Three hours
IN nHu rum would show him ex-
~, ,s''u, even thouEh he never be-
~ heard OF Cuba, or claimed
y ~ aeeh no war. The facts, the
hcls' the almost unbelievable
az everywhere. They force
-. upon me sight, the smell,
l rcng' ana the reason,
- a city or 10000 inhabitants,
S, XIV vs. tecnncentrados much bet
lot dying gradually than
~ w slleht villages first men
r,o nuVh meat has come here
a.. 0 , me people are rich;
s are elevated and healthy,
.sni y good; some organized
s EFFORTS have been made by
NJ ,,.,, w clty government has
~ r ,ss'np. anu made boulevards
k,b,. ~ ~ , tne oesttute. The lit
y trsll,.lllnnea nave had none of
rsl,SW' 1 co,,,,, yet In Matanzas
y I'M left a5 Vuuay not more
n The stroo ,.'l tnese are barely
b Ne csfa dre iull OF totterine
Pm women an5 .,n hie saueus OF
fire has l,,,in,, rtmi NC pup
Z l,s heautifri III ~ sAeIc,on LOT
t.t,arts 70 .n ~ 10 anu 'Iees'
Y bodies three deen 'o""
y DIM rerloter ~ H. Ia,
a The awful loss y, ~ y,'y Uniy
y, record Inc nav, " III, ,L,.' ~ "
\ teds IN 'I n,n nishy quiet burials
4, 10 secure me- s'I ne, me :. danger OF
loor mans hod,' er M, necessary
.., Of consecrpted ground n
NV deaths of renoncentraaos
vi Ohe-thlrd the actual snd DO
Feent death rate of fortv
- ones dpilv had 4. TO-,
ssys W, NE 6eEInning of weyier.
now. The t , me entire 10000
s, rs rom slxty-nve to seventy.
i ge sl'n 9Th, 1913 died. Physi-
I'M a the daily average should
M
.,a will be a graveyard
n man three months there