The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-04-27
Many Heartrending Cases Of
Death From Hunger.
MEN DYING m the STREETS.
for Ise Of rrcop~-EGecs Of Com
e~ntrasfnE Country People An the
Citfes-rccd Not tn ne Had as Any
Prfce-owa~rs OF sugar Pianss-
tfcns Vet Allowed TO tsrfnA Their
Cane. but Must Protect ThetR
Property-Ne Drugs Allowed Out.
side the Fersfaed TowRa

NEW YORK. April S.-A special 10 the
World from Havana says. Private letters
from the interior report wholesale sfarva-
tton. Some of the cases are especially
hsartrenaiuE. Children are dyirg in ths
streets Of MafaEzaz and dead babies have
hcca found In the arms Of their exhausted
mothers. Your correspondent has been
through the province Of p.uar del Rio and
has seen whole villages Of living skeie-
tons. praying fer death 10 release them
from their sHsersngs.
Gen weyler Is selzsng the cattle OF thu
citizens for the use of TIRE troops in Santa
Clara. Rafael Rgbio. an American citt-
zen. lost twenty-one head OF cattle Tn thar
way. When he complained 20 the spanish
authorities and demanded pay. he wss
told he was impudent TO ask Spain 70 pay
for what the insurgents take with I'm
pgnffy.
A guerrilla CORPS raised and armed ara
mounted by Spanish cattle owners of
Sancsi Spsrifns went out and drove IN 30
head ef cattle &c be sia'ightered Ter tne
benefit of the needy peupla Of the city.
hut weyier ordered all the meats sent 10
ManzAnillo for the soldiers.
The effect Of concentrating the country
people in fortified towns Is seen In al its
aWfuIness in Santa clara province santa
Clara has many cities. Eve II which are ot
large population Santa Clara IS IN the
the south and Sagua la Graade and REM
edios on the north. There were 3,a.e0o
people living IN the hve districts. Of which
these Eve cities are the capitals or this
population ft9.nrs lived outside the eittes-
All these have heen compelled TO leave
their farms and move into the cities and
fortified towns. In some Of the latter the
concentrates outnumher the original pop
uIation. They have 10 money. and II they
f~ xNs
all Bark huts have been huilt and they
are crowded with poverty-stricken rcfu-
gees They are half naked sick from ex-
posture and dying % hunger. They are
peaceful. Woodworking people. On their
farms they would not only be ssff-suppovt-
ing but able 10 supply vegetables. eggs.
meat and fruit TO the starving people Of
the cities.
Under weyier's policy the whole 20 70
are suffering and o.eee are doomed 20 dis
for lack OF food. which they could easily
obtain III allowed 20 work. This policy, as
a war measure Is worse than useless from
the Spanish standpoint. for II has forced
hundreds os men TO toin the rebels rather
than be forced 20 see their families starye
I'm the cities and towns. In other places
in Las Villas the overcrowfing is terrible.
SItialfotos. before the order was given.
had leo people. II now contains 1000. in
Guiding soldiers. The farmers ordered in
have built 80 huts and are slowly dying
from starvation.
Weyier has had all the cattle killed In
the field. hy the guerrillas and left 70 rot.
but a pound Of meat cannot be bought
except for the troops. The owners Of sugar
plantations are not allowed 10 grind but
they must protect their property. They
built houses and soldiers were put IN them.
This makes a fortified plantation and In
habItants move IN. Not a druggist dare
sell any drugs or Ill prescription to ia
taken outside the regular fortified towns.
II grain of qusnine goes out II means
death 10 the sender II caught
The insurgents In arms are much better
OF than the concentrated pacineos- They
kin a beef IN the fields when they choose.
but when they have taken what they need
they generally send word 10 the owner to
come and get the rest Of II, or they try 10
get II 70 the starving people around thu
cities