San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-11-08
STARVED OUT CUBA.
Weyler Has Wasted Its
Whole Substance.
COMMENTARIES ARE DYING
LIKE ROTTEN SHEEP IN
EVERY TOWN.
B1ancO'S Orders Will Save One Half
Remnant Who Are Left, But
Starvation Will Claim All
0therS-ThOusaniS Are
Already Dead.

New. OIhs NOV. "a SpSCldI " luc
World from Havana says:
Weyler has gone, but his purpose to
"exterminate the breed" of Cuban pat
riots is being fulfilled.
Starvation is killing the 'concentra-
dos by thousands of thousands. Hun
ger is doing what SPANS 100000 SOL
diers cannot accomplish.
Women and children, the weak, the
old, are dying like sheep; the rural pop
ulation concentrated in the towns,
has filled the graveyards and it's dead
now lie unburied.
The frighful sufferings of those who
survive cry out to the mercy of the civ
ilized world.
The physicians of Havana are now
forbidden to give starvation "inani-
cion" as cause of death. Women
and children starve; the reports of
their death are falsified.
A correspondent in the town of San
domingo writes in the Maria de La
Marina:
"A multitude of sick fall dying upon
garbage in the streets here, and there
they lie until after having served as
SpGCldClSS SOult
They are collected and hauled away in
the OK carts used for garbage, to the
dumping grounds. If the bodies are
admitted IL the cemetery they reach
there only in this undue manner. The
church cemeteries are full. So most
of these bodies are thrown into the
fields to be eaten by the birds and
dogs"
The birds of which this cores
pendent writes are vultures. The vul-
lures and gorged; the dogs can eat no
more.
Both the newspapers which supported
Weyler and those which opposed him
are now forced to tell half the truth
about the starving concentrates"
Here are some whole truths that are
undeniable:
Since Weyler's 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 pickering spark of life in them
will surely soon be extinguished
They cannot survive, although Blan-
co, the new governor general, has or
dered that service rations be issued to
them-rations such as his soldiers get.
The lives of the other half of the sur
vivors Blanco will save. He has acted
but such as has been the fat
al effect of Weyler's savagery that
Blanco cannot undo or counteract it.
Photographs of starving children
speak louder than any words. These
are taken at Guanabocoa
within an hours travel of the palace
here.
Remeber, that with natural devotion,
by suffering and hunger, the |
parents Of these children had given to |
them every morsel of food they could |
scrape together The mothers of these
children denied themselves food refused |
to eat the miserable scraps of meat |
and bread that they might keep life in
their children.
The childrens' legs were like pipe
stems. One could count their ribs.
Their joints, made disproportionately
arge by their extreme emaciation
seemed immense. These are notable
Eases. There are thousands and thou
sands like them. The assistant mayor
If Havana says that there are 5000
in this city.
Ragged, thin and starving. these
'eople are huddled in the public build
ngs. There and in the archway of
Houses they sleep by day, only to be
riven by hunger to beg at night.
The hospitals are as full as the
Certainly not more than
0 per cent. of the deaths among the
in this city are report {
d. But from these official figures it is
asily learned that the death rate ID
mong the children of the "concentra-
los" in hospitals and public buildings [
5 ninety per cent, among the adults !
per cent, And the death rate in the q
mailer towns and cities, where no
neat is received from the United I
tates, is even larger than this dread I
I'll per centage. 7
oh fan To ~ Havana /