The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-08

New York, Nov. S.-A special to the
World from Havana says:
Weyler has gone, but his purpose to
'e71terninate the breed of Cuban pa
triots is being fulfilled.
Starvation is killing the "concentra-
does" by tens of thousands. Hunger
is doing what Spains 100000 soldiers
cannot accomplish.
Women and children, the weak. the
old, are dying like sheep; the rural pop
ulatlon concentrated in the towns has
hlIed 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 C'inani-
clon,D as cause Of death. Women and
children starve; the reports of their
deaths are falsified
A correspondent in the town of San
Domingo writes in the Diario la Ma
ri1la: "A multitude Of sick
FALL DYING UPON GARBAGE
in the streets here, and there they lie
until, after having served as ignonlin-
lolls spectacles for some hours, they
are collected and hauled away in the
ox-carts used for garbage, to the dump
ing grounds. If the bodies are admitted
TO the cemetery, they reach there only
IN this unseemly manner. The church
cemeteries are full, so most of these
dead bodies are thrown into the fields
to be eaten by the birds and dogs"
The birds" of which this correspon-
dent writes, are vultures. The vul-
lures are gorged; the dogs can eat no
more.
Both the newspapers which supported
Weyler and those who, opposed him are
now forced to
TELL HALF THE TRUTH
about the starving Concentrates"
Here are some whole truths made I'M
deniable:
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
Blanco, the governor general, has or
dered that service rations be issued to
lamentations such as his soldiers get
The lives of the other half of the sur
viVors BlanCo will save. He has acted
promptly, but such has been the fatal
effect Of Weyler's savagery that Blanco
cannot undo or counterfeit 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 devo-
ton, intensified by suffering ard
danger, the parents of these children
have given to them
EVERY MORsEL OF FOOD
they could scrape together. The moth
ers 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 chiidren's legs We're like pipe
stems. One could count their ribs Their
joints, made disproportionately large
by their extreme emanciation. seemed
immense. These are not isolated cases.
There are thousands and thousands
ike them. The assistant mayor of
Havana says that there are 5000
Concentrates in the city,
RAGGED. THIN AND STARVING.
these people are huddled in the public
buildings. The hospitals are as full as
the graveyards. Certainly not more
than so per cent of the deaths among
the Concentrates" in this city are
reported; but from these official figures
1t is easily learned that the death rate
among the children of the Concentra-
does in hospitals and public buildings
is 80 per cent; among the adults, 90
per cent, and the death rate in the
Smaller cities and towns. where no
meat is received from the United
States, is even larger than this dread
full percentage.
The absolute fact is that in Havana
the conditions are five times better.
more favorable, than anywhere in
Cuba. Yet the Spanish officials re-
ports prove that LIS persons died in
Havana. during the month of Sent en-
haT. loo \
passed.
What is called here the HEALTHY
season" is approaching, but so en-
feei4ed, so wretched, so hopeless are
the Concentrates who still live
that there can be no doubt the death
rate aYoOY1cr them will