The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-11-09
STARVATION In CUB
Half the PopaIation Of tie MAI
Provinces Have Perlshed. 5l
ONE RESULT OF WEYLER'S POLICY
OF Concentrating Non-Combataats.
Not Permitting Work. II
BODIES DUMPED AS GARBAGE
a.
vultures Are PILED and Dogs Will
Rat No More.
BLANCO IS DOING WHAT ne CAN
Hut That IL Little. for the Awful
Work Has Bccn Done-Most
Pitifui scenes.
or Concentrating Non-C ombataats.
Not Permitting Work.
,oDIEs DUMPED AS CABBAGE
vultures Are PILED and Dogs Will
Bat No More.
BLANco IS DOING WHAT ne CAN

New York, November S.--A special to
the World from Havana says; Wcyier
has gone, but his purpose to "cxterml-
nate xhe breed" Of Cuban patriots Ia being
fulfilled,
Starvation is killing the ''concentrados'
by tens OF thousands. Hunger is doing
what SPANS 100000 soldiers can not ao-
complish
Women and children, the weak, the old.
are dying like sheep. the rural population
Concentrated in the towns, has filled the
grayeyards and It's dead now lie unburied.
The frightful suiferluss OF those who sur
vive cry out to the mercy of the civilized
world.
The physicians OF Havana are now for
hidden to give starvation 'inanacion" as
a cause OF death. Women and children
etalve; the reports OF their deaths are
falsihod.
A correspondent In tie town OF San
| Domingo writes IN the Dlario de la Ma
rina "A multitude of sick fall dying upon
garbage In the streets here, and there
they lie until after having served as ig-
nominous spectacles for some hours they
are collected and hauled away in the OK
carts used for garbage TO the dumping
grounds. II tho bodies are admitted to
| this undue manner. Tho church ceme'
| teries are full, 40 most OF these dead bodies
are thrown into the fields to be eaten by
The birds and dogs"
The birds" OF which this correspond
ent writes are vulturos The vultures arc
gorgad, the dogs can eat no more.
| Both the newspapers which supported
Wcyler and those who opposed him are
now forced to tell half the truth about
tho starving concentrates"
Here are some whole truths that arc
undeniablc: Since Wcylcr's proclamation
driving the country people into the towns
was issued. half who survive are so weak.
so emaclated, that the nickering spark Of
life in them viii surely soon be extin-
grshod. They eau not survive, although
dcred that service rafions be ISSUED TO
! thcm--rations such az his soldiers get.
The lives Of the other half OF the survivors
Blanco will save He has acted promptly.
but such has been the fatal effect Of Wey-
icr's sayagery that pianco can not undo
or counterfeit 1t,
Photographs of starving people speak
louder than any words These photographs
are taken at Guanabacoa, within an hours
travel OF the palace here.
Remember that with natural devotion
Intensified by suffering and anger, the pa
rents OF these children had given to them
every norsel OF food they could scrape to-
gether. The mothers OF these children de-
nicd themselves food, refused TO eat the
miserable scraps Of meat and bread. that
they might keep life IN their children.
The children's legs we're like pipe stems.
One could count their ribs. Their Joints
made disproportonatcly large by their ex-
IRENE cancellation. seemed immense These
are notable cases; there are thousands and