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Show DRIVEN BY HUH TO mjlliREO -Horrible -Story of Cannibalism Comes From Arctic Russia. Rus-sia. FATHER KILLED FAMILIES, THEN COMMITTED SUICIDE Members of One Tribe Lived Upon Flesh of Those Who Starved. ST. PETERSBURG, March 30. Horrible accounts are reaching St. Petersburg of cannibalism nnd starvation among tribes inhabiting the Arctic plain of tho Chuck-cbls Chuck-cbls peninsula, at the extremity of Asia. Sole Support Gone. Most of tho reindeers died of starvation during the winter of lKK-OO, leaving the Inhabitants without means of communication communi-cation or food. During the last winter whole tribes havo died and members of the Omolons and Ololya tribes, when facing fac-ing starvation, assembled In council and decided that nothing remained but death.' They agreed that each head of a family should kill his wife and children and then commit suicide. The tribesmen gathered on a plateau covorcd with snow and Ice, and ln t;.-darkness t;.-darkness of the Arctic winter tho Spartan Spar-tan decision was executed, not a single member of the two tribes surviving. Revolting Story. More revolting still Is tho story of what occurred In a family of the Yukahlr tribe. A mother and nine of hor children having died of hunccr, the father, a surviving daughter, and a nephew lived upon the remains, and when they were consumed tho father murdered the nephew. A Russian named Dolganoff, who went to the region to buy furs, reported I he situation at Yakutsk. Siberia. He entered a snow hut of a Yukahlr family whllt the latter were eating the head of a murdered mur-dered relative. |