The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-09-13
|HAVFD LIE STARVING,
ON RUSSIAN ROADS
~, PAGs, HORDES OF
Fills IrS pIRTHS AND DEATHS
FLEE, A1LROAD STATIONS.

,,,p4 Russia.-Here in the
SAN 'PErssia's famine stricken area
cIo'' NAV see the most he i1 ~
on, t n~2 sights in the history OF
and ten" race. The roads that lead
the nu 1,org are covered with bodies OF
to S 9ahinrsas of men, women and chill
dead , ,'bosc spindly legs were unable
dren WI. heir emaciated bodies farther.
TO caIi9 r,irroad stations are crowded
nc .bonsands who have no. homes,
win b ,ao straggled into the city with
who I haoc That they might find food,
hgn ~ learn that the small town is
'o1{ ~ ~ iced the fifty thousands of
pl h,., rryirg with hunger
Ojn1y l,. crothcs the least unfortunate
. hsl Int many are naked, others
o. | weak to do more than fall out OF
700 VAIN VAIN upon reaching the station
iie .,,,e e covered with the multitude of
o ot .L,t hover like a dense black
irs s'', rv,rvwhere. Little children,
F@5I dirty faces-many covered with
Sl .., are 100 weak to brush off the
snoing. nasty pests.
Mud Holes for Houses.
There aren't enough places to house
bsse Door wretches even temporarily.
So ,,S, have appropriated the muddy
5O 0ios that were occupied as trenches
\ y, tbs Russians or Germans during the
y Wy ."' Some have constructed homes
g W.. 81 boughs. They eat anything from
g s-,s, tree roots, a certain kind OF
ss, sd, that is rich in lime, to dogs and
5 sI from a shrunken river nearby.
"a. 4 how Of II with a face of 90 was
arriving 6 months old infant who
NO" l,, wrapped in a filthy bundle of furs.
H. H. deposited the baby under freight
ar crawlcd after him and drew from
N, oocket five fish heads, which he
Ebewed ravenously, and then bringing
H. babvs lips to his he transferred
Ebe sticky paste of half masticated fish
IraIe, and dry bones to the infants
MONTH the same as a mother bird feeds
her young,
Woe, sickness, hunger, misery and
hath are rampant. The station rooms,
M platforms, the ground between the
the streets leading to the depot,
IN waste lands, and the dumps, reach
Ep a half mile down to the sloping
ln1d banks of the shrunken river-all
h one uneven expanse composed of
mounds OF rags on which are lying
more bundles of rags and from which
beer gaunt, dirty faces with sunken,
hungry eyes and unkempt hair.
Weak, hungry dogs drag themselves
|ttween the living, lice-infested rag
Bis. The stencil IS Supplying. The
is black with flies. Flocks of hun
y crows hover above. The weather
/ hot and dry, with wind that swirls
he dust and the stink of the human
Ehh further and spreads the plague.
Deaths and Births.
Opposite the railway station is
Eemetery with long rows of freshly
lug graves Three groups were seen to
|srry in dead within space of thirty
Enutes. One man precedes the group
krrying a coffin cover on his head,
Ehic the rest.follow with an open box
which repOseS a horrible shrunken
Igure, either pale. green or blackened
Estark features with a gaping mouth
Eowing rows of yellow fangs and all
bid in an untidy nest of long matted
air.
Two weeping women carried small
sEOOden cradle between them with a
laby's body, the knees contracted, ly-
be on top of some rags.
A group of women, young and old,
iGe lowering. in circle around 4
bundle Of rags in the middle of the
|ards. One old woman hit an old man
b the head with a kettle, driving him
lTay from the secret female rites at
|sndant upon the introduction of one
pore little sufferer into the midst OF
fBery.
Statistics as to the situation are
'lmbled The governor says that there
Re 100000 starving in the province
'hd that there must be $4,000 in this
|pwn alone. One village down the
yer reported that there were 700 dead
|here The dead here have not been
llmbred but it is estimated that 1000
saye pcrished In the country the peo-s
II are eating dogs.