The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-11-08

/ AeH aolkr nov "a correspondence u
the World writing frou Havana, says:
"weyler has gone, hut his purpose TO
'extcrmiuate the breed of Cuban patriots
is being falfined.
starvation is killing the 'concentraios'
10y tens OF Thousands. Hunger is doing
what Spain's two hundred thousand sol
diets cannot accomplish.
Women and children, the weak. the
old. are dying like sheep; the rural popula-
tioH. concentrated in the towns. has
| filled the grave ards, and its dead now lie
unburicd. Thefrightful suffefings of thu~,
who survive cry out TO the pity, the char
ity tie mercy Of the civilized world.
"lt is impossible to describe 20 you
whatI have seen. Words faf. I have seen
| dead bahieSl yln z on the breasts of heIr an
conscious mothers l have seen babies
whose dry, black lips vainly pressed The
breasts Of their dead mot hers, see king that
nourishmcnt that the good God allotted 20
them.
Understand this: The physicians cf
/ Havana are now forbidden % give staTva.
tion c:nanicionD as a cause OF deaih.
I Women and children stsrve; the reports Of
/ .hclr death are fallfied. IIear and oe'ie'
what correspondent IN the town of san
/ Domingo writes Ii. the Diario de Ia Ma
I Tpa. TIE horrors of Cuba are portrayed
4 bv a Spanish writer, and even tbe Spanish
! censor permits the truth To la todd:
. 4 pgf.llffsfln al sick fail diving
garbage in thc streets here, and there they
lie HntiL after having served as ignOminious
. speCtacIes ror some Iours, they are collected
. aud hauled away IA the oNcarts used for
garbage to the dumping-grouRds. If the
! bodies are admitted Ia the cemetery they
/ reach there snly IA this unseemly maaner.
The church cemeteries are full. so most
of these cead bodies are thrown into tie
( fields to Toe eaten by birds and dogs
''Tnr 'birus' oi winch this correspondent
writes are yullurek. The vultures ale
gorged. ti.e ,iogs can eat no more. Both
the newspapers which supported Weyier
and those which opposed him are now forced
| TO tell half tie truth about the starving
'conceutrados.' Since Weyler's procIa
nation Cririne the country people nut" the
towns was issued half the rura population
=
survive are so weak, 10 emaoiated, tha, the
fiCkering spark of life in them VIII surely
sour be extinguished. They cannot sur
vive. although Blarvo. tn new gov"rnur
general, has ordered that service raiirns
| be issued 20 thea-ratiuns such n his
soldiers get. The lives of Tie other half
OF tie SURVIVORS Bdnco will save. He has
| acted promptly. tut such has been the fatal
/ haH
cannot undo or cnUnterac it.
Tho assistant mayor OF Havana tells
tne th;t therc are :, 600 concentrates
in this chy. Ragged, thin and starving,
fhs.>e people are tludaleri in the public ba.ih
ings There and in tie archways of bUasss
they sleep by day, only to be driven by
hunger to beg at night With my own
eyes ! have seen dead bodies picked up
| under these archwsys in the dawn of day
! and oatted away.
The hospitals here are as full as the
| graveyards Certainly not more than go
per CtLt Of the deaths among the 'ctnccn-
| trados in this cItyare reported. Bat iram
/ these Cfficial figures il is easily lealncd
taat tine death rate among the children of
the cent radios IN hospitals and public
/ buildings is go per cent, among tie adIl,s
so per cent.
.AnG the ieath rate in the smaller cites
and towns where no meat is received
! IRON tne nitpd States, is evenlarger than
! thus dreadful percentage
The abs-lute fact is that in Havana
! ;le conditions are five times better, more
/ favorable than anywhere else in Cuba. Yet
the Spanish official reports prove thai
! .77S persons died in Havana during the
q
October Just passed.
what is called here the healthy season
! is approaching, but 80 enfeebled. SO W reich.
ed, hopeless, are the concentrates
Who still i've there can be no .loabt the
| 1eati rate among them will increass.
"nunng the week ending today iNovem-
her - $50 people died in this city. This
tremendous rate is almost -four times tie
annual weekly average Of deaths here L 81.
THEE hundred concentrates Were driven
into Melena del Sur Not one survives. In
A r1en ssa 1900 womeI. aud children have
perisned; starved to death. La Matan .as
now are not more than 10. 900 people. on
October 30 ana RI and November L, 36
died in MatanZas, an average of 45 day
A that rate the population OF Matdn as
would disappear in two years and half
nr ieN chluten are nelng bOrn IfiesS- 'F,
indeed, anywhere ia Cuba. Ina san 10
raingc, where there are 10000 people, fiorn
80 to 4. people die every day.
The Diaric de la Marina strongly aTges
that an Organized effort be made TO re-
lieve tie awful need Of the starving. iIUt
the PEOPLE i'm the cities and towns are i'm
poverished, and whatever their disposition
to help. how ever great their pity. they
have nothing 10 give. Here is indeed an
opportunity for international charity. The
peoples OF the world should coIue 90 the
ali of the starving in this island.
From more selfish point of view, il
is my duty TO warn the United States that
the field here is ripe for cholera, typhas
fever. yellow fever or smallpox.
"The best medical authorities dread an