Deseret Evening News | 1897-11-19 | Page 11 | Dying in the Streets

pyi ING IN THE mm I Arl Condition of People Jn the Port of Ma Unzas Cuba STARVATION AND FEVER IS KILLING THEM H 5 t Mile 0 Vlclorytr I tho I of Thro Wo n noston Nov ISA letter nan reo c lied here today from Captain Char liit I < n of the four mas led schooner Clam r Itandnll of Portland Me now nt pt in Mantanzas Cuba telling of thi great distress and suffering In Cuba Cu-ba The schooner left with 0 cargo of cast about 0 month ago anti the letter let-ter was written by Capt Charleston oon after the vessel arrived there too weeks ago C Ipt Charleston tells that Matnnzii i Is I niled with fecr stricken nnd dying I t Idl rs and that hundreds of paclflcos are els Ing every week It Is on uncommon uncom-mon sight on the streets to see men hlng In the glister In their last ngonles and I to see the death carts Blow Is cre PIn P-In about gathering up their loads of i bodlo The People stc to be helpless In Ihlr misery Ilnd sn not only 10 yellow rwr plarlll havoc lth them hut th r ore lying ot starvation hI scores Mnlonzos which mas once OliO ot Ih busiest ports on the Island Is I now almost hoertcd he Pais and everywhere every-where there Is I death and pestilence TWO HATTLKS REPORTED llovana Nov ISIt Is officially reo iHiitcd that tho combined forces under un-der Colonel I Kstcbnn icccntls had nil eastagement with nil Insurgent Curce under the leadership ot Varano at Me got In the province ot 111nar M 11I0 with the result that the Insurgents M re put to Illeht I leaving I tncnty one if their number dead on the Held Among tho slain were the leader Tor rlenlc nnd the Insurgent 1iefcet of Oa litre Mimic de Oca The Spanish Coroe cnptnrcd a qunntlty ot arms anti l ammunItion ruid also destroyed the Inurgents camps The Infanta liatalllon according to the out cral report affected a for e or Insurgents ot SlerL Ynle prolnee of Plan del lllo I and the Spanish gul lea sn1 een soldiers were wounded The troop thu olllrial rloorta mays cap lund I tire mother of the Insurgent Nune and her I two sIsteiB The In Foments camp and fiftytwo huts were dtrol