The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-04-27
THEY PRAY FOR DEATH
Helpless Women and Children Of
Cuba Slowly Dying.
ARE HUDDLED IN THE BIG CITIES.

General weyler's Purpose Now seems To ,
BE to Depopuiate the Island by the
Speediest Methods Possible - Cattle
Killed In the Fields and Their Carcasses
Left to Rot While Thousands of People
Are Starving -Ranchmen Exasperated.
Havana. April 27-The New York
Worlds correspondent sends his paper
the following:
Private letters from the interior report
wholesale starvation Some of the cases
are especially heart-rending. 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, in |
| bark huts, praying for death TO reileNe
| them from their suffering
General Weyler is seiZing the cattle OK
| citizens for the use of the troops IN
Santa Clara. A guerrilla corps raised
and armed and mounted by Spanish
| cattle owners of Sancti Spiritus went
out and drove i'm 200 head of cattle TO
be slaughtered for the benefit of the
needy people of the city, but Weyler
ordered all the meat sent to ManZanllo
for the soldiers The effect of concen-
trating the country people in fortihed
towns Is seen i'm all its awtulness III
, Las Villas. as the Cubans call santa
, Clara province. 1t means the towns
I Santa Clara having many cities Five
of the cities are of large population
1 Compelled to Leave Their Farms.
d Santa Clara Is i'm the center, Cientue-
f Cos and Sanct Spiritus ON the south
). side. and Sagua la Grande and Reme-
n dios ON the north. There were 3oo'Voo
= people living i'm the five districts OF
IS which these five cities are the capltals
IS OF this population $50, ,00Olived outside oi
{. the cities and villages All these nave
been compelled to leave their farms aho
st move into the cities and fortified towns
rt In some of the latter the concentrauo'
n outnumbered the original population
ID They have no money. and If they nae
n there is not food enough to supply al
a. who need IL.
n Bark huts have been built on low
of lying places, and they are crowded VII
lis poverty stricken refugees. They ar
he half-naked, sick from exposure anu uS
lin ing from hunger. They were peaCelu
ng hard working people. ON thelr lar"
tlPN would not Only DC NNii-'7' flFN' -
: " hut able To supply plenty OF vegetable
Nv. eggs. meat. and fruit 40 TO H"-ylt
he naonle of the cities Under Weyler
he rolicv of concentration. the whole 35o
,av coo nersons are suffering and 100000
IN doomed TO die for lack of food, whi'
to they could easily obtain If allowed
the work. Thls pollcy' "S va, e,..,,t
ov To- worse than useless from the SPAN
aid standpoint for it has forced hundre
orc of men who would have renamed
., work on their farms to join the ren
ith rather than be forced 10 see their Ia
IN lilies starve in the cities and towns
Killed and Left to Rot.
,aid wavler has had all the cattle XII
his IN the fields by the guerrillas ana !
in them TO rot Not pound OF meat
for be brought in except for the troops
: in most all of the sugar centrals are poi
her for concentration. The owners are
,ion. allowed to grind. but they must prot
p to their property. They build torts
ue's soldiers are put in them.
. al, rhis makes a fortified place ana
lark farmers around about move IN
tain stand a chance of getting food no"
the ,ber for the planter pties them'
!, on they are worse off than those in regl
, his towns for not a drop OF meulclhe
stood J be carried TO theni' No' v 7.I,,,io,
. 500. sell any drugs or fill prescr' p'.oi w.
will he taken outside the regular lo'''
towns. ,,eea
IF grain of quinine FOR sum
w. wretch goes out 1t means uea'" W
s,,,,, sender If caught the lhsurse"'
'"S"' ,,.n,s are much better off than the
aentrated pacificos They kill
lave cen cen'i a. ben they choose
'rican -. ~ ,,,a,, have taken what they +
1t an ~ generally send word to the ON
home ~ come and get the rest OF II OF
days trv IN get il i'm to the starving ~
Aiken around the centrals. the Wail'o,'
from ,truction of cattle by the Spahla'us
took axasperated the ranchmen' man
Hoped. whom are Spanish and were h'''
nding ,oyal