El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-06-20
THE INDIAN FAMINE
Dr.. KIopsch Reports the Condition
Appalling.

Dr.. KIopsCh Reports the Condition
Appalling.
The following has been received by
the famine fund committee in New
York:
BOMBAY, May IS, 1900.
DIR, Klopsch has just completed his
tour of the Famine Districts in Bombay
presidency, including the native s'a es
of Gujerat and Barods. Egerywh ere
he was confronted with shocking aud
revolving scenes. He found the famine
camps stsmpeded by cholera and small
pox fugitives who had come from dis
tant pc; lie of detection aad are now
scattering these diseases In all 6irec-
tions. Many are dying in the fields
and bitches and along the roadside.
At Cobra, about 800 miles north
of Bombay, in Gnj erat district,
there were 5000 deaths from cholera
in four days.
AT Donsd, come fifty miles east of
Cobra, he found similar frightfu
condition of affairs. there having been
2, 500 deaths from cholera. In the
hos pitfalls the death-rste as reported
by the physicians was ninety per cent
AT Barada, some seventy miles south
of Godhra, he found in the poorhouse
l, 200 natives who had been rescued
from famine. The place was dread
fully filthy and showed q total lack of
system.
AT Ahmedabad, about eighty miles
west of Godhrs, he found the water
supply vitiated and . prolific cause o.
sickness. In the poorhouse at Anne
dabad the deathrate was ten per cent.
daily. The thermometer at Ahmedab-
id marked lis 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-
mediation.
DR.. Klopsch declared the stories OF
human bodies being devoured by
vultures, dogs and jackals absolutely
true.
L. ia evident, Dr.. Klopsch adds,
that the India government ia doing its
best to fight back tie ravages of
famine and disease. The native Of
fcisls, however, are hesrtlessly tndif-
ferent, 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 Ia heartrendipg,
but 1t Is to be feared that the worst is |
yet to come. This will be reached |
when the monsoon breaks and the |
and large part of the famine area,
spreading disease, and especially |
cholera.
DR.. Klopsch has purchased a thou
sand hand plows,, which will be given |
those native agriculturist rho have lost |
their oxen. He is now arranging for
the purchase of 100, 900 blankets to be
distributed before the rainy season
sets in. He has protested to the au-
thori,ies against the employment of
nursing mothers, sick women and deli
cate children on the relief work, such |
being iI violation Of the |
famine code. Ia this connection he |
has received an apprecistive letter from
Lord Northcote, governor of Bombay,
an immediate in vestigation.
It is quite clear, however, that all
that has been done will count for little
unless in the crisis more help is gener-
ously and quickly extended.
The subscription list At the HERALD
Office has been increased by the
Brought over, S20.25
Mrs. Chas. Fox, LOO
Cash, LOO
Mrs. Chas. E. Wesche, zoo
SIN His Name,' 200
Total S26. 25
This amount has been forwarded to
he headquarters. It WILL save one hun