El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-11-11
BIRDS GROW FAT.
BIRDS is A SPANISH EUPHEM-
ISM FOR VULTURES
Women and Children CO0ped Up In
Towns Die By the Hundreds
of Starvation.

VI StuA NDe'O IL
SAYS: Weyler has gone, bat his pur-
pose to "eXterminute the breed" of
Cuba, patriots is being fulfilled.
Starvation is killing the cOncentra-
dos by thousands OF thousands. Hun
ger is doing what SPANS 2OO,O 600 SOL
die-s can not accomplish.
Won n and children, the weak, the
old, are dying like sheep: the rural
population concentrated in towns has
filled the graveyards and its dead now
lie unburied.
The frightful sufferi6gs of those who
survive cry out to the mercy of the
civilized world.
The physicians of Havana are now
forbidden to give S aviation 'fnarl-
tion" as a cause of death. Women and
children starve, the reports of their
death are ta'sified.
A correspondent in the town OF San
Domingo writes in The Diaro de la
Marina:
ga multitude of sick fell dying upon
garbage 10 the streets here, and there
they lie until after having served as
ignomiDous spectacles for some hours
they are collected and hauled away in
the ox-carts used TO- garbage to the
dumping grounds. If the bod es are
admitted to the cema'erg they reach
there only in this undue manner So
most of these dead bodies are thrown
10 to the fields to be eaten by the birds
and 6ogs."
The ''birds" of which this CORES
popdent writes are WI tures. The
vultures are gorged; the dogs can eat
no more.
Both the newspapers which support
ed Weyler and those which OPP ,se d
III ~ fol 10 q
truth about the starving concentrates.
Here are some whole truths that are
undeuiable:
Since Weyler's proclamation driv-
ing the country Poop e into the towns
was issued half the rural population OF
western Cuba has died. Half Of those
who survive are so weak, SO emaciated.
that the pickering spark OF life in them
will surely soon be extiuguished.
They cannot survive, although Blan-
co. the new governor general. has Or
dered that service rations be issued to
them-ratiops such rs his soldiers get.
The lives Of the other half of the sur
vivor5 Blauco will save. He has acted
promptly, bat such has been the fatal
effect of Weyler's savagery that Blanco
cannot undo or counterfeit it.
Photographs of starving children
will speak louder than any words.
These photographs are taken at Guiana
bacoa within an hours travel of the
palace here.
Remember, that with natural devo-
ton, intensified by suffering and dan
ger, the parents of these children
mad given to them every morsel of
f cd they could scrape together. The
mothers of these children depied
themselves food, refused to eat t1e
N SCRABBLE scraps of meat AID bread
that they might keep life in their chill
uren.
The childrens' legs were pipe stems
One could count their ii oS Their joints
uade dispropoI tionately large by their
eX rene emaciatlOn seemed immense.
rness are notable cases. There are
thousands andthousands like them Inc
assistant mayor of Havana says thai
there are Ii, 100 concentrates in this
city.
Ragged, thin and starving, these
people are huddled in the publ; build
ings. There and in the arch aays of
houses they sleep by day, only
to be driven by hunger to beg at n1gnt
The hospitals here are as tull as the
rave ards Ger a ny no, more than
30 per cent of the deaths amO g the
in this CITY are reported.
But from these Off :ial figures it is
easily learned that the Death rate
the children OF the cOnce ntra-
dos in hospitals and pub IL buildings is |
30 per cent, among the adults 80 per |
cent. And the dea h rate in the small |
err cities and towns here no meat is |
received from the United Stat IS is |
even larger than this dreadful percent |
age.
The absolute fact is that in Havana
the conditions are much better, more |
favorable than anywher re else in Cuba. /
Yet the Spanish official reports prov ed |
that 577S parsons died in Havana dur |
ing the mouth of Sept smbar last and |
2372 during October just past.
Whas is called here The "bealthy |
sea on' is apprC aching, but So en-
fee bled, so wretched, So hopeless are |
the concentrates who still nve there |
can BE- 20 doubt the death rata among
7 he will iporoale