The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1915-06-09
HUNDREDS DYING
DAILY OF HUNGER
In the Famine-Stricken
Capital.
AWFUL CONDITIONS PREVAIL
In Mexico City. Where Fam.
ished Beggars Are Seen
In All Quarters.


Mexico City, June 7.-All the hor-
rors that have gone before in Mex
leo City since the revolution began
are heavenly in comparison with the
unprecedented famine that has be-
fallen this cut of from the world
i capital.
While the revolutionists Of the
wretched country are roaming up
and down the railroad lines, sack
ing, rayaging and destroying with
xthe ferocity of locusts. Mexico City,
severed from the still remaining
areas of production as completely
as from the ports, is literally and
rapidly starving to death.
4 The scarcity of food supplies was
the first necessity, which began to
make itself felt keenly in the early
days of the second Carranzista re-
CINE, has now reached stage OF
famine unequalled elsewhere in the
pworld, except possibly in Belgium.
and certainly nothing in Belgium
can be worse than the suffering and
starvation in Mexico City.
Under foot everywhere in the
streets of the capital are the most
insistent beggars in the world. Since
the food situation became acute
their number has increased hun
dred fold. They infest the central
thoroughfares; every doorway is lit
tered with them. In front OF the
restaurants and clubs they cluster
like flies and fairly swarm around
the well-dressed patron. Emporium
ing him with their pitiful appeals
until he scatters his loose cash
among them.
The majority of the beggars in
the streets of Mexico these days are
little mothers SO shriveled with hun
ger that their skins have come to
look like cracked leather. Their
clothes are rags. nothing more, and
they show their breasts unashamed-
ly. Money. food-anything-they
clutch for as ravenously as the
street dog does thrown bone. Here
they have literally taken the place
+ Of the street dogs. for they long
since ate them.
Then there are the cripples which
the revolution has produced so nu-
merously in every city. town and pu-
yebio in Central as we'll as Northern
Mexico. They. too. crawl about in
shreds Of clothing. and when you
step around or over. them they
4 thrust at you loathsome stumps of
arms or legs and whine to you to
give them centavos.
And in every street In the central
part of Mexico City roam wolfish
packs of half naked. incredibly fl
Sthy children who are forever dart
ing in and out of the throngs, cry
ing for something to eat.
When the starving poems are no
longer able to shuttle about the
streets. plucking you by the sleeve,
entreating you to give them aims,
they crawl into the doorways-half
a dozen huddled together like dogs
and In the morning the city carts
come along and. just as rubbish ia
collected In an American city, the
bodies are picked up and carried
away.
Twice recently starving women
have swarmed into the Chamber OF
Deputies, where the delegates to the
sovereign convention were exciting
Z themselves into frenzy over phrases
for new constitution. and receiv-
ing from the depleted Treasury 80
pesos q day.
Each time soldiers cleared the ele-
giant building Of the intruders. and
fthe delegates resumed their oppfo
bouffe.
The convention. before II adjourn
Ied to spend the rest Of the night
swirling around the restricted dis
rict, In stolen automobiles. appro-
3 riated half million pesos for send
Y ing commission to Washington 70
ask President Wilson 10 recognise Il
% Z Government. and $4,000 pesos
for purchasing cereals.
Out IN the hills their army" b
nshting the battle for liberty b.
ho1Alng nm fooA trafno. caravona and