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Show FEEDING THE STARVING. Pitiable Scenes at the Distribution of Bread to the Hungry Mexicans at Itio Grande City. Corpus Ciiristki, Texas, April 2l. The distribution of food sent to the famine sufferers suf-ferers 'at Rio Grande City began yesterday, the issuance being conducted byT the American Ameri-can committee which had completed a list of Mexicans who were actually starving. During Dur-ing the issuance scences of the most pitiable description were witnessed. In many cases the starving Mexicans had been without food for. days. The women and children were slowty starving to death. The greatest distress is reported from the country back of the Rio Grande, where many Mexicans who had a few hundred cattle before the drought began are now destitute, the stock having died off. |