The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1897-11-09
DYING OF STARVATIr
Hundreds Of Cubans Fall Id The
Streets Of Famine.
BODIES ARE RARELY BURIED.
They Are Taken TO the Dumping Crouad,
a. other Garbage aud There De-
voursd By BuSnards aud Dogs.
The story Very Pitiabie.


New York. Nov. s.-A special TO the
World from Havana says:
weyler has gone. but his purpose to
"extermInate the broz1s of Cuban pa
triots Il being fulfilled. Starvation is
killing the concentrates" by tens Of
thousands Hunger Is doing what
spain's 100000 soldiers cannot accom-
pllah. women end children are dying
like sheep; the rural population Econ.
eentrated" In the towns. has filled the
graveyards and It's dead now lle UNI
buried. The frightful suGerlngs Of
those who survive cry out to the mor.
ey OF the civilized world.
The physicians OF Havana are nov
forbidden to give starvation "inani.
ton" as a cause OF death. Women and
children stsrve and the reports Of thoii
death are falsihed.
A correspondent In the town Of slu
Domingo writes In the Diaro de Ia
Marine:
Multitude Of sick fan dying upon
garbage IN the streets here. and Their,
they lie until after having served az
ignomlnious fpectacles for som,
hours. they are collected and hauled
away In the or carts nsel for garbag'
10 the dumping grounds. II the bod.e.
are admitted % the cemetery they
reach there only In this undue manner
The church cemeteries are full s.
most Of these dead bodies are thrown
into the fields 10 be eaten by the bird
and dogs"
The birds" Of which this cores
pendent writes. are ulturos The vnl
lures are gorged and even the dogs CT
eat no more
Both the newspapers which support
ed weyler and those which oppose
him are now forced 10 tell half th
truth about the starving "conccntra
does" Here are some whole truth
that are undeniable.
Since Wtyler's proclamation drivln
the country people into the towns wa
Issued. half the rural population O
western Cuba has died Half OF thos
who survive are 80 weak 20 cmaciaicf
that the hlekering spark % lie IN thel
will surely soon be extiuguished.
They cannot survive. although. Blan
co. the new governor general has o.
dered that sery rations De Issued Z
them-ratlons such o. his soldiers 60
The lives OF the other half Of the sur
vlvors Blanco vili save Tie has ac'
Cd promptly. hut such has been "a
fatal effect OF Weyler'a savagcry IN,
Blanco cannot undo or oounteract o.
Photographs Of starving childro
speak louder than any words The'
photographs are taken az Guanahaco
within an hours travel from The pl
ace.
Remember that with natural dew,
tlon intensified by suffering and fa'
ger. the parents % these children ha
given 10 them every morscl OF Zoe
they could sciape together IN
mothers OF these children denied then
selves food. refused % eat the mise
able scraps OF meat and bread M
they might keep life In their childre
The chlldren's legs were like pil
ssems One could count their rlh
Their Joints. made nisproporlionate
large BY their extreme emaclatio
seemed Immense These are notah
cases. There are thousands and thou
ands like them.
The assistant mayor OF Havana ga
that there are 1900 "concentraioe
IN that city. Ragged. thin and star
ing. these people are huddloi 10 q
puzzle buildings There and iu q
arohways OF houses they sleep by "a
only 20 be driven BY hunger Go beg
night
The hospitals here are as full az Z
Eraveyards Certainly not more th
% per cent Of the deaths among Z
. concentrates IN this city are =
ported Bu. from these Official hgul
II Il easily learned that the death "a
among the children Of the "conccnu
does" In hospitals and public but
ings Il 90 per cent. among the adu
50 per cent. And the death rate IN
smaller cities and towns. where
meat IA received from the Unit
States Il even larger than this dro'
ful percentage.
The absolute fact Is that In havo
the conditions are Eve times beti
more favorable than anywhere else
Cuba
Yet the Spanish official report pr
Cd that bT7s persons died In Havl
during the month OF September u
and asa during October Just passed
: What IL called the "henlthy scos'
n approaching. but 20 enfeehled,
= wre,ched. 30 hopeless are the Gone
tradoes" who still live, there can be-
doubt the death rate among them
increase.