The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-05-01
CUBANSARE STARVING
Pitiable Fate Of Cuban Pacif1-
COS in Fortified Towns.
WEYLER is TO BLAME
He Robs His Helpless Victims to
Feed His Army And Prevents
Them From Raising Focd,
The Masses of Greece are in Favor of
Continuing the War, But the Author
titles See the Hopelessness of Con-
tinuing the Struggle.

NEW YORK, April 26.-A World
spe .ial from Havana says: s.-..s.s
Private letters from the interior re-
port wholesale starvation. Some OF
the cases are especially heartrending.
Children are dying in the streets of
Matanzas, and babies have been found
dead in the arms of their exhausted
mothers. Your correspondent has
been through the province of Pinar del
Rio, and has seen whole villages of
living skeletons praying for death to
release them from their sufferings.
General Weyleris seizing the cattle
of the citizens for the use of the troops
in Santa Clara. Rafael Rubio, an
American citizen, lost q head of cattle
in that way. When he complained to
the Spanish authorizes and demanded
pay, he was told he. was impudent to
ask Spain to pay for what the insur-
gents take with impunity. H..
A guerilla corps raised, armed and
mounted by Spanish cattle-owners of
Sancti Spiritus, went out and drove in
200 head of cattle to be slaughtered for
the. benefit of the needy people of the
city, but Weyler ordered all the meats
sent to Manzanillo for the soldiers.
a The effect of concentrating the coun-
try people in fortified towns is seen in
all its awfulness in Santa Clara prov
ince. Santa Clara has many cities,
five of which are of large population.
Santa Clara is in the center, Cienfue-
gos and Sancti Spiritus in the south,
and Sagua La Grande and Remedies in
she north. There were $50, ,0C0 people
living in the five districts Of which
these five cities are ten, capitals. OF
this population $50, 900 lived outside of
the cities. All these have been COM
PEELED to leave their farms and move
into the cities and fortified towns. In
some of the latter, the concentrates
outnumber the original population.
They have no money, and if they had,
there is not food enough to supply all.
Bark huts have been built, and they
are crowded with poverty y-stricken
refugees.
They are half naked, sick from ex-
posure, and dying of hunger. They are
peaceful, hard-working people. On
their farms they would not only be-
self-supporting, but would be able to
supply plenty of vegetables, eggs, meat
and fruit to the starving people of the
cities.
Under General Weyler's policy the
whole $4,000 are suffering, and 150,-
900 doomed to die for lack of food,
which they could easily obtain if al
lowed to work This policy, as war
measure, is worse than useless from the
Spanish standpoint, for it has forced
hundreds of men to join the rebels
rather than be forced to see their
families starving in the cities and
towns. In some other places in the
villages, the overcrowding is terrible.
before the order was given,
had 100 people. 1t now contains 1000,
including soldiers. The farmers
ordered in have built 250 huts, and are
slowly dying from starvation.
Weyler has had all the cattle killed
in the fields by the guerillas, and left
to rot. but pound of meat cannot be |
bought, except for the troops. Owners
of sugar plantations are not allowed to
grind, but they must protect their
They built houses, and
soldiers were put in them. This makes
!. fortified plantation, and inhabitants
move in. Not druggist dare sell
any drugs, or fill prescription to be |
taken outside the regular fortified |
towns. II a grain of quinine goes out,
it means death to the sender if caught. |