The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-08-27
MEN, WOMEN AND
CHILDREN DYING
Horrifying Reports From Famine
Stricken Districts of Spain.
PEOPLE LIVING ON ROOTS
HEADS OF FAMILIES DRIVEN TO
DESPERATION.

q EVILLE, Spain, Aug. 26.-Heart-
y rendinS reports continue to reach
the provincial authorities from the
outlying ADMINISTRATION districts. The
latest reports received are from Osuna
and Almongis, the respective mayors
of which notify the authorities that
their resources are exhausted and that
they are unable to further assist the
famished laborers and the women and
children, as the distress is to acute.
At Acija the population has looted
the bakers stores.
FrightfuI Mortality.
The mortality among infants and
aged persons is attaining terrifying
proportions. and in many localities the
working people are living on roots
The government has organized public
works on a small scale, employing
about 600 men, but this is a mere drop
In the bucket OF misery, as a moderate
calculation shows that 100000 are out
of employment
Cardinal Sancha. having exhausted
the available charitable funds is going
! from house to house in Seville begging
< for contributions, while the employees
or several banks and commercial
houses have decided TO devote a portion
OF their wages toward the relief of the
destitute.
Heroic Measures Necessary.
Court Romanones. minister of agri-
culture, has just concluded an exhaus-
tive personal inquiry in the distressed
districts. following on the relief fund
of 100000 voted by the government.
His report creates the impression that
heroic measures for relief are essen
tial The count jOUUneyed from end TO
END of Andalusia, and everywhere. in
the four provinces comprised therein
he was confronted with pictures of
desOlation.
The territory most stricken forms a
circle embracing Seville, Jerez, Cadiz.
Malaga and COrdOva, where natural
forces appear TO have combined against
the peoples welfare.
Laborers Starving.
The rivers for years past have been
gradually filing with sand. preventing
navigation and hindering commerce.
The district always has been dry. but
TINS year a two months dr0uth, begin
ming IN the spring. destroyed all hopes
for the reaping of crops and rendered
the landscape practically a desert re-
SembiinS portions Of Morocco. The
population is almost entirely composed
OF day la borers who depend on agricuI-
Jurai employment. and when that fails
which IS fTeQueat- occurrence. though
more marked this year than ever be
fore. practically everybody is thrown
--A.ata "a condition Of indulgence
UnproductiVe Soil.
Tt is calculated that a third of the
population emigrated in recent years
to South America, and these emigranLs
naturally Included the most robust. The
conditions of the remainder, howe yer.
was not ameiiorated thereby. The soil
owing to lack of irrigation. is becoming
more and more unproductive and the
patience Of the people Is now nearly
exhausted.
The absence of the landlords and un-
fulfilled electioneering promises. added
TO the fact that women and children
are suffering the agOnies Of slow starry
alton have led the people to listen to
ag1tatOrs. who melted them to vio-
lence. the result Of which is seen in at
tacks on farms, the seizure and killing
OF hOcks Of sheep and the threat Of
armed invasion OF the towns.
Talk of Revolution.
Murmurs of revolution have awax-
ened apprehension and the farmers
everywhere are taking refuge in the
cities while the police regard acts of
pillage with Indifference. refusing to
arrest men who frequently accuse
themselves in order TO obtain food.