Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-11-08
CUBANs ARE STARVING.
Thousands Pertaining on Account of Wey-
lcr's Inhunlnn Policy.

New York, Nov S.--A special to the
World from Havana says: Weyler has
gone. but his purpose to 'exterminate
the breed" OF Cuban patriots Is being
fulfilled. Starvation is killing the
Commentaries" by tens of thousands
Hunger is doing what SPANS 100000
soldiers cannot accomplish. Women
and children, the weak, the old, are
dying like sheep; the rural population
concentrated In the towns has filled
the graveyards and its dead now lie
unburied. The frightful sufferings of
those who survive cry out to the mercy
OF the civilized world.
The physicians of Havana are now
forbidden to give starvation Oman
icion) as cause of death. Women
and children starve. the reports of
their deaths are falsihed.
correspondent in the town of San
Domingo writes in the Diario La Mari
ma: "Multitudes of sick fall dying
upon garbage In the streets here, and
there they lie until after having served
as lngomlnous spectacles for some
hours. they are collected and hauled
away In the ox-carts used for garbage
TO the dumping grounds. If the bodies
are admitted to the cemetery they
reach there only In this unseemly man
ner. The church cemeteries are full.
So most of these dead bodies are
AllIbNn lillb lllt lleluh TO ne eaten Dy
the birds and dogs"
The birds" of which the cores
pendent writes are vultures. The vul-
lures are gorged; the dogs can eat no
more
Both the newspapers which sup
ported Weyler and those who opposed
him are now forced to tell half the
truth about the starving "Concentra-
does" Here are some whole truths
made undeniable:
Since Weylers proclamation driving
the country people 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 flickering spark of life In
them will surely soon be extinguished
They cannot survive, although Blanco,
the governor general, has ordered
that service rations be lsseued to them
-rations such as his soldiers get. The
lives of the other half of the survivors
Blanco VIII save. He has acted
promptly, but such has been the
fatal effect Of Weyler's savagery that
l3lanco cannot undo or counteract it,
photographs of starving children
speak louder than any words. These
photographs are taken at Guanabacoa
within an hours travel of the palace
here. Remember that with natural de-
votion, intensified by suffering and dan
ger, the parents of these children have
given to them every morsel of food
they could scrape together. The moth
efs OF these children denied them
selves food, refused to eat the miser-
able scraps of meat and bread that
| they might keep life in their children
The children's legs were like pipe
| stems. one could count their ribs. Theii
| joints,made disproportlonately large by
their extreme cancellation, seemed i'm
! Fat.A ,At trl1 4..I
There are thousands and thousand:
like them.
The assistant mayor of Havana say,
| that there are 5000 Concentrates
In this city. Ragged, thin and starving
| these people are huddled In the public
buildings. The hospitals here are a,
full as the graveyards. Certain MOI
more than 90 per cent of the death,
among the concentrates" in this city
| are reported. But from these ofIicia
| figures 1t is easily learned that tn,
| death rate among the children of the
Concentrates" in hospitals and public
buildings Is 80 per cent and among thu
| adults so per cent. And the death rat,
| in the smaller cities and towns, wher,
no meat Is received from the United
| states, is even larger than this dread
The absolute faSt is that in Havana
the conditions are five times better
more favorable than anywhere In Gu
| ba. Yet the Spanish officials report,
prove that 177S persons died in Ha.
| vana during the month of September
last, and 2,27S during October JUS
passed.
What is called here the "health,
season." is approaching, but SO en-
feebled so wretched, SO hopeless arc
there can be no doubt the death rat,
among them will increase