The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-11-23
DEATH and DESTITOTION.
Horrible Tales Of Suffering 10 the
lsIsnd Of Cuba.
ENTIRE CITES ARE DEClMATED.
HospitaIs ana Barracks Filled with
Hungry Innocents = Money In-
tended for Relief stolen.

i n NAV n
j q. ,vorh nrou Matanzas. Cuba, says:
r,ba baif of the story Of suffering in Cuba
h,. not been told In Havana and It's sub
urbs the streets are dotted with Leegars,
IN hpsp,taIs arc overlooking With starry
Ing innocsnts and the barracks are filled
with thu destitute and dying.
But from HAVANA to this rlace hero Is
succession OF small cities almost free
from sickness and hunger. Nobody IS left
there. The once swarming population In
| ptme. They are cities Of the dead.
| Protecting forts overlook empty Ecuses.
pa,,,d and ragged Spanish soldiers guard
v..,
-" W. -, :.
soon tney WIZ na'' July
protect, They need 1t. II is almost
question whether Weylerism has not been
:. o,,,,,,, ,.,r tha,n as 4, has been for the
p'". ''e'e
inc towns Oh campo riorioa' Fan ensuei'
Minar, Jarucho, Bnyno, Mocha ind BLena
vista were trinled and o,,adruplod IN penu-
,.n u, , :,
surlouhu'ns county peop'" "hu'' ."e r"ies
CT their respective sets OF little forts. Tho
LOYAL and opedIcnt farmers took .heir furnI-
,,,.a ana ,,o,r ,ah,o. d, ~ oor,, chair
oo"' anu PISS "i'o' "nu su''''en oh IVY
and built long streets OF palm 2illarcd. raft
notb,nc ror,aina hit tho wood rho ori-
49, w. eass'' az "''e'e' Va ''''0
have been changed into bread. and the
people. everything having been used up.
are dead.
One train stopped at each place inen-
toned. We counted only twenty-five women
and children and three men in the palm
house lanes. There are two trains q day
They are the great events of eleh misnrabls
,.o,,, ,ou ho. 49, 80 o, -
'"'"'' iou' "o"is 'nu W. ~oun'eu Sp..-
'nuofs. Ihere should nave been visible
puuU. lupTb were AT least lD,UUU DD,uUU
raoo,c,ntraa,a "a, t,,sa rai,, ,,ar,. .,,,,
-, yy...,s.,. -. MI. -,
""en "o''ei VICTIMS iiis' pesan 10 "ie
and we counted twenty eight survivors.
The facts, the awful facts. tho nlmust
nnhe,iavo,la t,.,. 80 ,.,,s ,r,.
my
'o'ee themselves on the siHht. the SMELL
tho hearing and the reason.
Matapzas n CITY NJ 20 600 ,nhah,,,nts ,,.
'~' - ~-"' " "S'NNN A'h.pit""i.'' bSo
auoo MUM oo''er
chances Tor dying gradually than has any
OF the silent villages first mentioned, Much
meat has come hero from FloriJa Tbo
n.o,. NJ. ma,
e'opio A'a iie"' me SITES LOT the PAIN
bark villages of the hungry ere elevated
and healthy, the water is good; some or
van,zod char,tah,o os,o.,s ha,.o No., -,
SA'''' A1'o oeeu l'uu"
W 'ne ''''Aens' Tue Guy government has
filled Ia swamps and made oorlayards 10
give work to the destitute. The litt,e ham.
Iets mentio,aa ~, 90 n.r. :, .,.-
=, .''' n""' vi 'hese ''hNh' "a
Hohs' YET IN Matanzas out OF 1900 pfople,
women and children, there are to,lay not
more than 5000 left and they are barely
alive. The streets are full ct tnttrvnng
ones; the public square has living skuie.
ten for each OF Its beautiful SHRUBS sid the
$3.50 S"ANS ~ " tut tGuitttTy WIFI
bodies three feet deep.
The civil register OF the city only hints
at the awfulness OF life. 1t is official and
does no. record the many quiet burials IN
the fields to avoid the danger Of awaiting
days to secure the permit necessary for 4
poor mans body to be allowed it's ak feet
OF consecratetf ground II shows 2340 deaths
NJ reconcentrados, or about one third the
actual sad figure.
The present death rate Of forty starving
ones daily, had II been constant since the
beginning OF Weyler. would have wiped out
the entire 10000 before now.
The total death rate varies from sixiv-
five 10 seventy. One day 12S died phv.,-
clans declare the daily ayeraue shou,I hs
eighty. At this rate in little more than
u year Matanzas would be a graveyard ana
IN less than three months thsra Vii, ~, W. ~
more concentrates.
Although the conditions may chspua ,,r
tho citizens OF Matanzan tbsrs ts ,i,,,s
hope for Its enforced ylsitoss Ganarsi
Blanco's relief measures. aithonvh hr-
name. are wholly inadeouate ~ c,r,,ea
cut by the local authorities thew co,sa ,oa
late. Soldiers rations. eyen, VIM tsrss y.
| beef ana corn meal added vii, VII, r,nrn
| than thew NIL, cure Tha s, VIII NH more
~ ~ ,,sr.,hzs 80 $40 ". sohutttVu