Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1900-08-06
The INDIAN FAMINE.
The Terrible Desolation Des
cribed by Mrs. Core.

An Appeal for Help to Save Some Of
the Starving Millions-Their Suffer-
ing is Attracting the Attention of the
Whole Civilized W0rId-Can't Mon
ongalia Comfy Make up Purse and
Telegraph it TO some of the Agencies
in New York or Boston and Thus do
Humane Act!
To the Editor of the NEW DOMINION:
One sees and hears great deal these
days about the famine in India. One
can scarcely pick up paper without
seeing some mention of it, Many
people read carefully all that they
see about it, and then exclaim, "How
dreadful it is to think Of all those
millions starving, and that is the
last they think about it until they
chance upon it again. Others say, II
can't bear to read of all this sorrow
and suffering" and pass it over with
scarcely a thought save that they do
I not want to come in contact with so
much suffering and distress. Others
say, Eyes, it is awful to read about,
but | don't believe it is half so bad as
they make out. Newspapers always
make everything out bigger than it
is" Very few read with tender, low
ing sympathy and desire to help all
they can.
Things are really justas bad as they
are represented to be and worse.
Sometime ago an English official
made tour through the famine
stricken districts of Western India.
The following is an extract from the
report he sent to the Bombay news
papers:
ssOn the 4th instant l visited Cohad,
large native town about 100 miles
east of Anand, in Gujarat. am som~7
What at a loss to know how to begin
anything like a perfect description Of
this visit Such sights met our eyes!
We had never thought that such a
state of affairs ever existed in India.
On every hand were the dead and dy
ing. Sometimes it was an aged per-
son, sometimes youth, or an infant.
The sun beat down almost unbear-
ably. The wind carried the sand in
clouds. There was scarcely any noise,
though there were many people. They
sat or lay quietly ia groups of five TO
fifty beneath the trees and by the
roadside. Often one had fallen alone
and was left there to die as he had
fallen. The living, the dying and the
dead were all together. If one died
in the center of group no one at
tempted to remove the body. Why
A cit in
down there to die, and one by one
they meet death-they all wait for it.
They are hopeless, and they say there
is no one who will give, so they resign
themselves to their awful fate.
Passing on through the city, about
one mile, we came to its eastern boun-
Diary. In the bottom of the dry river
bed and on it's banks were scores OF
the dead bodies of persons who had
starved to death. In many parts OF
the city dead bodies were also to be
found. At one plrce lay the body OF a
woman who had died two days before.
Many we found dying Of thirst within
half a minutes walk of door Of some
rich MahOmedan or high caste Hindu,
who, until almost forced to do it,
would not turn to alleviate the suffer.
ings OF the dying
sslt was dreadful to look upon the
faces of the small children who had
starved to death. Marks of infant
beauty, intermingled with those indi-
catiye of painful death, were trace
able. What deaths they have met,
And near them, on every side sat 9TH
ers enduring the same terrible suffer
ing and awaiting the same terrible
end. Is anyone responsible, and will
anyone have to answer and say why il
was permitted to be so? The mission.
aries are doing much, and would dc
more if they had the means.
s'As we walked about those quiet
streets, we saw deserted homes, sad
faces and dead bodies-so many that
had lain so long in the streets and by
ways that we had 20 breathe through
well wadded handerchiefs. We longad
to be able to picture the sufferings OF
these people to those who have laid
by their wealth, not for one rainy day,
but for thousands of them. One sight
would be sufficient to open the long
SAooSu pulSt, anu unouoduuS WOulu
pour out blessings on the givers.
Lying in the midst Of one of these
groups was the fresh carcass of achild.
We concluded that the flesh had been
eaten from it by the Jackals. We saw
many carcases, but the peculiar stu
alton Of this one brought to our minds
what sort of nights the living-dying
pesple must pass in battlidg with
these hungry scavengers. We saw
many WIFI were almost too weak to
raise hand, and who, we are sure,
could not defend themselves in the
event of an attack by jackal or hun
cry dog. We saw dog feasting on
the body Of a woman. What must be
the state of the minds of these people
who sit day after day in sight of these
awful cpanac knawinp full wall that