The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-12-16
ONE VAST
CRAvEYA
100000 Persons Have Died in
Cuba in a Year.
FAMINE. SICKNESS AND Wharf.-The
INMATES OF THE INSANE AsY.
LUM AT HAVANA DYING FROM
HUNGER-NOT A PHYSICIAN IN
MANAGUA AND NO MEDICINE
FOR THE SICK SINCE JUNE.

Havana, Dec. 15.-The bishop cf la
vana, his eScellepcy Don Manuel Santau-
der trutos. is gathering all the author
ltative reports of deaths in Cuba for the
past year The priests of an the parishes
report to him the number of persons who
have died In their districts from famine.
epidemics OF war. The archbishop OF
oan.iago de Cuba is collecting similar
statlsti cs at the request of the bishop of
Havana, and, up to this time, according
to trustworthy information. they have
found that 800. 900 persons have died in
Cuba in this short time.
1t is to be observed that the largest es-
innate of the population of this island
before the war was 1.G00,000. With the
100000 persons who have. emigrated
FROM the island It will be seen that the
bishops statistics confirm the estimate
that oUo.OO0 persons have died or left
Cuba, which was made two. months ago.
In she liz sane asylum of Iavana, called
here Mascara, an institution maintained
by the government, the poor inmates are
actually dying of hunger.
Within sight of this capital, I'm the
neighhotinS town of Managua, the condi-
ton OF affairs is really horrible. The
Diario de ia Marina, "a Spanish Reformist
paper. interested on in supporting Can
tain General Blanco, describes the situa-
ton as follows:
There is not single physician in the
town and the people are dying without
treatment. What IS called the zone of
cultivation is myth. Nothing of the
kind exists. The concentrates without
any implements cannot till the ground.
ana here the awful mortality from star
vation. There are no sanitary regula-
tiohs. since June not particle of med
:cine has been given to the sick. Not
wlIlStauuiuR All tla orflnro of tl, ,,o,..,,
ment to feed the concentrates, net a
piece of bread has been given to them.
ana they die of hunger as they did in the
days of Weyler
''rhe same condition EXISTS i'm all the
cities and principal towns of the island.
Letters from Pinnr del Rio, Matanzas.
Cienfeugos. Santa lara, Sancti Spiritus.
fuerto Principe and Santiago de Cuba
give the same gloomy details cf the ey-
termination of the Cuban people Biapco
has only changed things on paper. Now.
AS when Weyler was here, Cuba is a hell.n
The floating dock is still beneath the
waters Of the Bay of Havana, and the
Longer It is submerged, according to
naval experts, the more difficult ir will
he to make it float again. The mud in
the bay and the sand brought by the
river f.: ON Casa Blanca IS filling the
dock, making it heavier, sand they will
bay. People here say the dock was pur-
posely sunk because it was good for moth
ing, and half of the money appropriat.d
Ter II by the government was stolen by
some uf the agents.
1t is officially announced here to.dav
that the municipality of Puerto Principe
has not cent in the treasury. The ,ea-
son is that oil the cattle in the CITY and
province have been killed and the taxes
on siaughter-houses WAS the only income
of the municipality.
In Santa Clara province several Skin
mishes are reported between Puntilla
LArga and Manacns, with eleven insur-
gents killed and three Spanish soldiers
wounded. Another engagement in Ma
tanzas province resulted in four insur.
gents silled and one Spaniurd wounded.
Tine Insurgents have blown upwith dyna-
mite the train between Canas and De,ame
Pssar. doing much damage to the track.
but nobody was hurt. Pablo Herrera.
conductor of the train. has been arrestd.
Yesterday morning the city councillors
of the municipality of Havana were as
founded to read II decree of the governor
OF bhis province, Don Jose Bruzon, order
ing the private property of the councillors
to he seized fer payment of the sums due
from the nc.pality to the board of
provincial deputies. \ decided sensation
has been caused by this order.
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