The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1898-03-22
DYING By the THOUSANDS.
TERRIBLE STATE OF AFFAIRS
EXISTING IN CUBA.
In Many Sections People Dig UP
the Earth for Worms on
Which to Subsist.

NEW YORK, March 21-Dr. Frank
Chado, who for the past two years has
served as Surgeon General with the
rank of Colonel in the Cuban army un-
der General Calixto Garcia, and who
was present when young Gomez COM
mittad suicide on seeing his leader,
General Maceo, fall, is in this city.
Colonel Chado came by the steam
ship Concha, taking passage at Ha-
vana. He eluded the vigilance of the
Spanish authorities, and travelled I'M
der an assumed name. Colonel Chado,
in an interview, said:
L have heard nothing of the stories
published in this country of the dis
tress in Cuba, and of the thousands
that have died and are dying of starry
alton. Nothing has been published,
nothing that could be published, could
tell the story as it is really.
Il know of my own knowledge that in
many sections of Cuba they are digging
up the earth for the worms that they
may find. 1t is not everyone who is
able TO dig. Most of the people are
so weak that they are unable to move.
''They are dying by the thousands
not the men who were doing or hope
to do the fighting that eventually must
end in triumph, but the poor women
and children and the Teconcentrados.
Ruin is everywhere visible.
Spain has been guilty of acts that
must make civilization stand appalled,,
and The fact is that they are infinitely
worse off to-day than at any time since
the war began. Victory is certain for
the Cubans in the near future"
OF the present feeling among Span
iaris at Havana Colonel Chado said
it was becoming more hostile for Amer
leans every day.
There is a feeling among Them
said he that the United States is
afraid to fight, and that they can do
anything they please. l am as firmly
convinced as a man can be that the
Maine horror was not due TO any sub
marine mine. This belief is shared by
all Cubans--that the Maine was blown
up by torpedo. Further, believe that
the torpedo came from the Spanish
warship Alphonso XIII.
AS to our reasons for thinking so:
First, there is the fact that the night
before the Maine explosion the AL
phcnso, which had been anchored near,
was moved to safe distance. Second
the fact that not once since the day of
the explosion has any seaman or ma
rine from the Alfonso been allowed to
go ashore. The only inference is that
the officers are afraid the sailors might
| become intoxicated and talk too much y
Colonel Chado has come to New York
| for medical and surgical treatment, his
right arm. side ard leg being paralyzed
| from privation. exposure and a wound
| He is a native Cuban and one of the
most active of the insurgents His
wife and three grown children will re-
main in Havana.
| WHAT Is NEEDED.
| NEW YORK, March 2l-Dr. Louis
/ Klopsch. now in Cuba in charge of the
American relief work. cables from Ha-
vana, under date of March DIST, tc
! the Christian Herald:
| The situation is simply this Tive
| hundred and five thousand reconcen-
trados in over 400 accessible towns are
/ helplessly destitute. Unless we can get
regularly without a break. 800 tons OF
cornmeal and fifty tons of lard or ba-
con every week, we cannot effectively
relieve The suffering. Spasmodic and
unsystematic efforts defeat all good in
tentions. Canned goods are useless
] and condensed milk should be substi-
| tuted. Fifteen thousand dollars week
~ will feed every starving man. wo-
man and child in Cuba Small irregu-
lar shipments are only tantalizing."