Salt Lake Tribune | 1911-03-04 | Page 4 | Twenty One Persons Trampled to Death

Mm 01 PERSONS TRAMPLEDTO DEATH Starving Chinese Fight for Food Distributed by Missionaries Mis-sionaries at Sha Yang. HANKOW, China, March 3. Twenty-one Twenty-one persons were trampled to' death at Sha Yang. Hupch province, today when a horde of starving Chinese fought for the food which missionaries woro attempting at-tempting Ijo distribute. Many others wero. Injured. Tho work of rollof is attended with some peril to those who have taken supplies sup-plies into the famine districts, as the natives In many instances are mad from deprivations. Today a considerable amount of foodstuff food-stuff was reoolved by tho missionaries, who planned a systematic distribution. Their work was hardly begun when thousands of desperate men. women and children became erased when they lenrned that there was a chance of their hunger being satisfied. . An uncontrollable riot followed. Each fought for himself and the weaker went down and were ruthlessly trampled. The fighting continued as long ns there appeared ap-peared to be anything to fight for. The missionaries were helpless. Hupch province In Central China Is tho scene of a famine, the number of victims of which Is so groat that the authorities' do not attempt an estimate of tho thousands thou-sands who have already perished. Dr. Samuel Cochran, an American engaged In I the work of relief, has written saying 1.000,000 persons will dlo before the next crop Is harvested The province has a population of 33.-000.000. 33.-000.000. Bands of famished persons roam about preying upon others so fortunate as lo have any sustenance. Sha Ynng Is In the center of JIupeh and 120 miles west of Hankow and has a population of about 00.000.