The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1897-11-23
HALF THE STORY
NOT YET TOLD
Suffering 10 Cuba Graphically De.
scribed by a Correspondent.
PEOPLE BEING EXTERMINATED
Ia Astanlas Forty Starving Every Day Ia
a Year Il kill be a Graveyard
Keliei Inadequate
PEOPLE BEING EXTERMINATED

New York, Noy. "a dispatch to
thu world from Maanzns. cuta. says:
Tho hUlf Of tho story OF suffering In
cuba has not been told. In Havana and
i,s suburbs tho streets arc dotted with
boggnr. thc hospitals are oyefoW1ng with
lnnoccnta and tho space barracks are
nllrd with The destitute and dying But
from Havana 70 this place there - a
succession ~ small cities almost free
from sickness and hunger Nobody II
loft there The only swarrnlrg popula-
ton Is gone They urc cities of tho
dcad Protecting forts overlook Empty
houses raind. ragged spanish -oiiiorr
guard a fow--a very fcw-human skcic-
tons. Very soon they wili have only
themselves TO protect, They ncci a. II
II almost question whether Weylcr.sm
has not been as awful FOR jhsgn ~ O.
has bccn for the poucoablc cuhans. The
towns of Campo Florida. sln Miguel.
Mlnns. JarucJs, Ralnoa, Aguaoa'
Mocha and Bucnn Vista we've trchied
and quadrupicd in population by woyl,r
concentration of N" surrounding coun-
try people under the rncs of their re-
spoc,ive sets af hrtic forts
Tho loyal obcdicn, farmers took lnelr
furniture and thdr babies On OK c-rts.
their COWS und pigs. wtyev and ch!l1rya
on foot and buEt hong streets 81 palm
pIlarcd, mncr,i. thachcd AMI sided
houses To-Day nothing remains hut the
wood. The animals have bccn eaten. an
articles of valuc have been changed into
bread. and tho people. everything having
becn used up. arc dead.
our train stopped At each place men
uonvd We counted only % women and
children and three men IN the palm house
lanes. There are 'wo trains a day They
are the gr,ut events OF each miserable
q hours and We counted eS spectators
There should have been 5co There were
al lcost i5coo TO 5000 reconcentrados IN
those palm houses when weyIer's We
Tins first began 10 die and We counted
Is survivors.
Even the senator from Spain can 10
convinced Of tho determination of a peo-
Pile in which he assisted when he sup
ported Spain IN supporting weyler He
needs hut to ,uko a train from HAVANA
10 Matanzas, three hours ride through
a beautiful but abandoned country. The
squalid, abandoned villages are proof
enough. Three hours Of silence and ruin
would show him determination. even
though no never boforo had heard OF
Cuba, nor claimed there had been no
war. The facts tho awful facts the
almost unbelievable facts are everywhere. ]
They force themselves upon the sight
the smcll-Lhe reason. MaJanzas city
OF $1,000 inhabitants, has given its recon- 1
much better chances FOR dying
gradually than has any Of the silent vii /
lagos first mentioned. Much meat has
como from Florida. The people are rich;
the sites for tho palm bark villages OF /
the hungry are elevated and healthy: the (
water IL good some organized charitable .
efforts have been made 10y the citizens
and the city government has dll,d in .
swamps and made houlevarls q give .
work to the destitute The little hamlets
mentioned have had none Of these amel-
oratIons, Yet in NTatanzas out of 1900
,ountrymen, women and children. there
ire today not moro than 5000 left and
these are barely ailve. The streets are
nun of tottering ones; the cafe doors
frame squads OF begging women and
the public square has a living
skeleton for each OF its beautifM shrubs
md trees; the dead carts so 10 the cem-
etery loaded with bodies three deep The |
nlvil register of the city only hints at .
the awful loss of life It often does not
record the quiet hurials in the fields to
avoid hte danger of waiting to secure ,
the permit necessary for a poor mans
body to be allowed its six feet Of con-
secuted ground, It shows 1894 deaths
Of reconcentrados. or about one-third the
actual sad figure.
The present death rate of 10 starving |
nnes daily had 1t been constant since
tho beginning of weylors campaign,
would have wiped out the entire 10000
before now, The total daily death rate
varies from G5 to 70. on November c,