Show 59000 IA rg SflAHVEB 98000 More People Now Starving t Death In One Province OFFICIAL REPORT FROM MATANZAS CUBA Mut of Iho Lb Lborl1 Cia U ltrlhrd Men Womon and ChlldreuOnce W ell to it FOllllo 1 log 01 Ilurigr rilago de Cuba Feb 18Corrcs pondenco of ihe Associated Press While the tl S cruiser Monlgumer male nt Jlntnzas recently a board of Ulcers was appointed to Inquire Into the condition of the people of that piov Intc Although the exact terms of the report are iot known It may be said that In mibstance It sets foith that there are H 00 Ar people absolutely with out food and clothing within the city limits I About 3UOO of these live In mall hutii of palm Inane lion These hut > form three separate v logs be jond II the builtup portions of tho city I rtl r livoln r The other II 000 unfortunates live 1 In the 1r1A 1to1Uf1vr the city nnd are ah olulely without homes or shelter These I 14 000 people are ofthe laboring I Tnr One who I hae boen drln Into the cilL I b Irom their counlry home whleh h o bdetroy In Ih t1C1trahrn 11 war oorn < anad lon MII 01 Ihem Am women nnd child = And lie I r ni mnchd Iek nn1 edinebe Yond relief unless thy ean have tile benefl II regular treatment In lie hOIllnlo As It I they are dying In the street for want of food According to statistics gathered trom the ben official sources ihf numer of deaths In tho province of A atanza fri na slnrvallun t 6900 find the num ber of starving people present In the vmlaco 10111 ollCofe0tult 0I prov Ince Is csllmatcd at m con out of a total population of 251616 In December 1M7 nnd the number of starving people I Is I rapidly Incteaslng In the city nf Matanzas alone then have been about 11000 deaths during the Pilot Year and the number is I In creasing dally The death rate at present pres-ent averages 41 per IlY us shown bj the reports from the cmlen The In crease In the death rate tit I duo 10 the fact that the distress Is iiiilonger en aped to Ih laboring Close coni whom ha already perished I Is I now extended to the people ho before the war were In moderate comfortable err umstances Those now begging In the treels were In large part we 1 to do people or chi I dren of the well to do In addition the citizens of the city of 1lanzn s themselves tire begging Pir the actual necMltlesof life having exhausted hausted their resources In order to supply sup-ply the needs of the laboring class Alto hne bn quartered upon them The citizens of Matanzas have an organized system of relief for the starving people but 1 Is entirely Inadequate In-adequate and Is I dally becoming more glaringly so for the re ourcea of thosi who were well to do are rapidly diminIshIng dimin-IshIng while the demand for food Inconstantly I In-constantly Increasing At one of the stations talon the board of oficers found 100 starving this being the actual number of people for which the citizens had been able to provide lellef there Pal of rice and Oah wr arranged In rowo ready for distribution among Iho p 0 pie who were waiting In anlher Pori of the house nut this relief dors nl begin to supply relief for the 14 000 people who are starving In the streets for the citizens are only able to Issue food three times a day at each place and then to only about 100 nt a time Consequently only About DOO of the des flint people receive food on a da Y It should be I added that n largo UJrl nhJ1 rni number of the clllzens of Mnlanya have fed the starving In the street In front of their own homes but the < citizens themselves are feeling th pinch and privation and unifts As Alolone Mon comen ta them they 1 he Compelled In elf protection 10 cooed the work 01 charity In which they or now engliged and which Is I seemingly nlno the only salvation for the starving thousands The only other public relief et MaiRn ras is I that given to the sick Children by the management of the Emergency hospital which Is I under the direction of the Volunteer tire department of I alnnrhro about eluhty children are treated dally and are fnrnlnhed mith nourishment under Ih direction 01 the city Physicians These Intmnt sire the onelu slons fact and figures arrived at by board 11 B naval I oirtccrs When Ih U S naval omcers landed they wen constantly followed by Clamoring I crowds of starving men women and children who Importuned them Inmost the In-most > heartrending Manner for a little lit-tle food for the want of which they were slowly dying The 1 S consul nt Mlnnzn hn done everything possible under the < r cumstanceB but when the Montgomery left there In the first days of February the consul had only enough rations re morning 10 last ahout two weeks after whirls the fund appropriated by Congress Con-gress would have been exhausted and then the sufferers of Matanzas would Include the American citizens I at that plae I who have hitherto received Co lief through the 1 S consulate A that time the consul had received a petition signed 1 by the American ell zn of Mitanzos nelllnir forth In I dr toll the need In which Ihey stood of Immediate relief from the dangers of starvation S far as the board of officers ot the Monlgomey auld ascertain NIAtanzas nt that 1m needed n supply of food for 10 People for Dt la1 one month In addition 10 supplies of condensed milk for Invalid and medicines of nil kinds The people of Matanzas ore also In urgent need of clothing most of them being In filthy rags The SpRnlh authorities It may hId h-Id In Conclusion have ndered nil I he noIlnne which II seems possible for them to Provide On Iwo cnlon they have riven 1100000 to the fund for the dpitltute but so far as the boar could learn this was all the government WOR In a position tn contribute to the relief or the 14000 starving dying Po pla In the streets 01 Molnnzn |