Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-08-04

| NOT TO BE HAD,e AND HORSE
MEAT STILLS AT DOLLAR A
POUND-EGGS ARE THIRTY-FTvE
| CENTS APIECE, AND CONDENSED
! MILK TWO DOLLARS A CAN.
| New York, August 3.-Accounts of
the condition of affairs in Havana, Ma
| tahzas and Cardenas have been given
| by passengers Of the steamer Fridt of
! Nansen, which has arrived from Sa-
| qua. She brought twenty-nine refu-
gees, most of whom were Spaniards,
| who had made all sorts Of sacrifices to
escape from the island in anticipation
of its being controlled by the insur-
gents. Many Of them were we'll sup
piled with funds, having turned all
their available property into cash.
| They paid $3.50 each for passage.
Almost all those aboard being Span
/ ish sympathizers a meeting was held
| in the saloon while the ship was off
Barnegat, N. j., at which a majority
pledged themselves to refuse to give
any information to Americans regard
ing the condition of things in Cuba. A
few, however, consented to talk after
they had got ashore, but even they
were unwilling to permit their names
to be used.
One woman who had reached Sagua
by rail from Havana said that the con-
dition CT affairs in the capital was de-
plorable and was daily growing worse.
There is plenty Of money" said she.
but of what use is it when it will
hardly purchase anything? 1t is impos-
sible to get beef at any price, and
even horse flesh costs 81 a pound.
Bread costs % cents a pound and is
very bad at that. Eggs, which are
brought in from the country in small
quantities, cost IS cents each. The
supply Of condensed milk is practically
exhausted and the little left is sold at
81 for can such as you buy here for
10 cents. On average, ten to twelve
persons are found dead of starvation
in the streets every day and this takes
no account of the scores who daily
died of hunger in the houses. No
words can describe the horrors Of Las
Fes1s, the place at the foot Of ;he
Prado, where the reconcentrados are
herded together. l was told that there
were no less than 1900 of these misar-
able people in the place when | came
away and they are dying by hundreds
for, of course, nothing is being done
for them, even the government has Mt
enough food for its soldiers Worse
than this, the officials beat and abuse
them shamefully.
a few gas lamps are still burning in
the streets, but the electric lights are
only lighted on Thursday nights, when
there is music in the Parque Centraie
What d CHASTITY -nockery those band
concerts arc with so many people starv-
ing to death within sound Of the mu-
sic! All the theatres are closed and
their Hobbies are nightly crowded with
the homeless poor. Wine is the only
thing in the city that is plenty AMI
cheap, SO that the poor can get little
at times.
almost all the stores in Weyler and
OReilly streets are closed, as are the
principal hotels. The stock of coal is
almost completely exhausted and for a
few days ne local trains that run to
the Vedado, past the Santa Clara ba.-
terry, were stopped for want Of fuel.
They are now burning wood, but even
that will soon be gone"
Juan Zorraga Zarte said:
Il do not know anything of the con-
dition Of things in Havana, but l do
know that there is much misery at
Cardenas and Matanzas Things, how.
ever, might be worse considering the
stringency of the blockade. Much stat
walton has been avoided by the fore
SlSAL VI lAt inGi Niidi - VIM, III al, 81
patton Of the outbreak of the war, laid
in large stores CT provisions. Oh course
they have sold at high prices and I
heard of one man who made 100000
in speculation in flour in Sagua. All
the stores which have provisions are
keeping them under constant guard by
soldiers TO prevent the starving people
from looting them. Everyone is tired
of the war and On all sides one hears
prayers that peace will soon come"
The Nansen brought up a cargo of
sugar. which she discharged at Will
liamsburg. She also brought 36S bales
OF tobacco and 322 cases of cigars. This
was the first cargo of sugar reaching
the United States since the surrender
Of Santiago.