Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-06-09


expansion. The south has everything
to gain and nothing to lose by favor
ing it." ......
THE INDIAN FAMINE.
Awful Horross Witnessed by DR.. Lewis
Klopsch.
New York Herald.
At the Offices of the Indian Famine
Relief Work, Bible, House, this city,
under the auspices of The Christian
Herald, the following cable despatch
of yesterdays date has been received {:
BOMBAY, May %, 1900.
DR.. Klopsch has just completed his
tour of the famine districts in Bombay
presidency, including the native states
of Gujerat and Baroda. Everywhere
he was confronted with shocking and
revolving scenes. He found the famine
camps stampeded by cholera and
smallpox fugitives who had come
from distant points of infection and
are now scattering these diseases in all
directions. Many are dying in the
fields and bitches and along the road
side.
At Godhra, about 300 miles north of
Bombay, in Gujerat district, there were
1000 deaths from cholera in four days.
At Donad, some fifty miles east of
Godhra, he found a similar frightful
condition of affairs, there having been
$500 deaths from cholera. In the
hospitals the death.rate, as reported
by the physicians, was ninety per cent.
At Baroda, some seventy miles
south of Godhra, he found in the poor
house 1900 natives who had been
rescued from famine. The place was
dreadfully filthy and showed a total
lack of system.
At Ahmedabad, about eighty miles
west of Godhra, he found the water
supply vitiated and prolific cause of
sickness. In the poorhouse at Ahme-
dabad the deathrate was ten per cent.
daily. The thermometer at Ahmeda-
bad marked 115 degrees in the shade.
He next visited the smallpox and
cholera wards of Viramgan. All the
patients were lying on the ground,
there being no cots for their accom- mo-
dation.
DIR. Klopsch declares the stories of
human bodies being devoured by vul-
lures, dogs and jackals absolutely true.
1t is evident, DR.. Klopsch adds, that
the India government is doing its best
to fight back the ravages of famine
and disease. The native officials,
however, are heartlessly Indifferent,
and the condition of q large part of
India is, as whole, the worst that has
been known at any time during the
century. The distress to be seen on
every side is heartrendering; but it is
to be feared that the worst is yet to
come. This will be reached when the
monsoon breaks and the torrential
rains food the relief camps and large
part of the famine area, spreading dis
ease, and especially cholera.
DR.. Klopsch has purchased thou
sand hand plows, which will be given
to those native agriculturists who have
lost their oxen. He is now arranging
for the purchase of 100000 blankets to
be distributed before the rainy season
sets in. He has protested to the au-
thorities against the employment of
nursing mothers, sick women and deli
cate chilnren on the relief works, such
employment being in violation of the
relief code. In this connection he has
received an appreciative letter from
Lord Northcote, governor of Bombay,
promising an immediate investigation.
It is quite clear, however, that all
that has been done will count for little
unless in the crisis more help is gener-
erously and quickly extended.
CALCUTTA, June 4.-The English
man comments of Mr.. Louis Klopschs'
visit, and says :-"Lord Cursor re-
Gently hailed the Emperor Williams
famine gift as a sign of the solidarity
of the Anglo-Saxon and Germanic
races. Mr.. Klopsch comes with his
hands full of grain and his pockets
full of money for the purpose of saving
our fellow subjects from starvation.
May we not recognize the same prin-
ciple at work ? Mr.. Bryce said a
dozen years ago that the Americans
were the most philanthropic nation in
the world. Until we have a chance
of repaying it, let Mr.. Klopsch's visit
and the work be has done and is doing
remain convincing proof thereof"
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