El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-01-20
GHGIX PEOPLE
ARE STARVING
Food Supplies Are Elk
hausted, Says DR.. Triolo,
Of 81 PasO.

ABIES are being given away by
x Mexican mothers in ChOix, Sin
II aIoa, TO keep them from starry
ing to death and travellers in that
country are besieged by the native
mothers. who beg the strangers to
take their children away with them so
that they may not starYe.
Dr. Gerome Triolo, OF FL PasO, has
returned from ChOiX, where ms VIZ
and IA months old baby nave DGen
for the past six months, Vlsluns Isle-
lives. while DR. TriOlO has been IN
charge of the JuareZ hospital for the
revolutionists. To reach CholX II Was
necessary to go to HermOsllIo anu
Navtorena by train, from AayJorena
To ChoiX by coach and noIs5D5acA ~ ny
way of Cruz Piedra and san Bias Ut.
TrioIo's baby had been i'll ana as
soon as the Juarez hospital was
closed, he left for ChloX.
All Foodstuffs Exhausted
Dr. Triolo says that the condlIlOIS
I'm Chiox and other parts of the state
Of SiDsioa fbrough which he Travelled
are almost impossible Of Description
Coffee, beans and other loousLu+,Ls
have been exhausted ana none CdI ~
obtained as the railroads nave sls-
pended operation and il is imposslDIe
to get food into the country because
the armies in the field prevent wagon
trains from going and coming
While Dr- TriolO did not see anyone
eating snakes and herbs, as repoFIlI,e re
I'm the American papers, he says LHaL
this would not be Surpflsln5' d On0
people are desperate there ana are
starving by hundreds. He says lhaI
smallpox has added its horror TO the
desperate situation at CholN ana many
are diving from this plague.
At the nearest railroad JuncJlol
points. the refugees are not permitted
TO leave on the trains for FEAR OF
spreading smallpox though the ehIlIS
west coast country.
Red Cross Contribution a Ptttance.
DR. TriolO says that $500 which the
American Red Cross sent to CholX 1oI
the relief of the suffering there viii
not begin to afford relief to the ma
fives. as they are all out of food ana
have only q little DinOle or Mexican
corn meal left to live on, and IN many
places even this is exhausted and the
6eoDIe are depending upon the herbs
and roots and the offal and garbage
ssYVorst place / Ever Saw"
"Choix is the worst place I ever was
In DR.. TriolO said after ms return
from the SinalOa town me SuIler-
ing of the people, the great NUMBER
OF SMALLPOX cases and the scarcity OF
food was something appalling. MIS-
TrioIo and I were approached many,
many times in ChOiE and on the ROAD
fo HermOsillO by mothers who WlSneu
us to take their infants and give
them something to eat For our own
little one we were unable to get
anything, but some condensed milk in
one of the towns and little Of this.
Those people are in need of instant
relief and the United States IS the
Onlv country that can give il in time
to do any good.
Saw Carranza and Turner.
eve saw CarranZa and his party
Including Tim Turner, Of the AsSo-
ciated Press. at HermOsillO as we re-
turned. They were going to Cullcan
nv rail and from there to Chihuahua
overland. Coming back we could see
the forts guarding Guaymas bay ana
the searchlights playing over the Day
from the federal notifications