The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-05-07
STARVATION KILLS
THOUSANDS WITHIN
MEX|CO'S INTERIOR
Rich Mexicans Say United
States Must Come to Res
cue to Prevent Unspeak-
able Horror.
BY HARRY II. DUNN.
Special Staff Correspondent of the In
ternational News Service.

tefndtiondI news service.
VERA CRUZ, May Famine condi-
tions prevail in the interior of Mexico
and thousands of families are starving
to death. Refugees, many of them
well-to-do Mexicans who reached here
| today to seek protection under the
United States flag, declared that con-
ditions were unparalleled and that the
United States probably would have to
come to the rescue of the country TO
prevent situation of unspeakable hor-
ror.
| That General Victoriano Huerta is
| preparing to Tlee to Central America
by way of Salina Cruz, was the report
brought here from the capital by A. A.
Weimer, of the National Bank Of Mex
/ leo. According to Mr.. Weimer, the
dictator already has sent his family
out of Mexico City.
"Huerta has been unable to get
money to pay his troops and attaches
of the government and they are turn
ing against him." said Weimer. with
/ Americans blockading Vera Cruz. the
chief port of the republic. the Consti
tutionalists in control of the north and
much of the south held by bandit
gangs, the interior of Mexico has been
| isolated The Federals. stationed in
the inland and garrisons, nave set
themselves up as the supreme law and
have been carrying on operations with
high hand, throwing families in Jail
| for ransom, plundering private prop
erty and laying waste the country. All
the available food has been seized by
the Federals."
Funston Moves Outposts.
d. r ;r,
by the war department to use his own
discretion in extending his lines. Brig
| adler General Frederick Funston, the
military governor, is pushing his out
| posts closer to the lines of General
| Gustavo Mas. the Federal command
| er-in-chief. The posts guarding the
| Teiar water works. which supplies this
| city. have been extended so as to pre-
vent Mexicans from cannonading the
3; pumping station and perhaps destroy
| ing the machinery.
! DR.. G. NJ. Guiteras, surgeon of the
port under American occupation. and
Charles Jenkinson, of the Red Cross,
| have started a war against the house
fly for the purpose of preventing a
Typhoid fever outbreak. The water
| supply, except in one small quarter of
the city. has ben scientifically tested
and found to be good. On account of
yellow fever along the east coast. Vera
Cruz is now quarantined against all
ports from Frontera to Merida.
Americans Leave.
The congested conditions caused by
the continual influx of refugees are be-
ing slightly relieved by the departure
of Americans and orders from the mill
tary authorities that Mexicans who
can show no good cause for seeking
an asylum here must leave.
The work of paying off the soldiers,
| sailors and marines went on today, ac
complished but slowly. because of the
! large number of men and their scat
tered locations on shore.
In addition to the S25O0O0 in gold
paid out to the army and navy. about
100000 in gold has been brought here
for postal expenses. The shops are
doing a thriving business. but the au-
thorities are keeping close watch to
see that prices are not boosted too
high.
Mexicans Favor Occupation.
! Newspaper correspondents here,
whose source of news has been curtail-
ed by inactivity of the armed forces.
are spending their time taking polls on
questions affecting the future of Mex
ico OF 200 Mexicans driven into this
city by starvation, $50 favored imme-
diate occupation of all Mexico by the
Americans.
The first Mexican prisoner who will
be tried by the military commission
when it conveneS next week, will prob