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Show DEATH TOLL IN MEXICO. Five Thousand Perish in Capital From Pestilence and Starvation. Mexico City. Five thousand men, men and children, it is estimated, have died here of pestilence and starvation star-vation within the past month. Epidemics of disease bred in filth and nurtured by lack of too-'1 have shot the death toll to an average of 100 per day. Twenty-two per cent ot the population today is suffering some illness. Unsanitary conditions, caused by lack of water, have reached an indescribable inde-scribable stage and a sickening stench pervades the entire federal district. Scarcity of food precipitated a terrible ter-rible situation, but that situation, accompanied ac-companied now by lack of water and attendant disease, Is unbearable. Mexico City is undergoing the cru-elest cru-elest siege since Ladysmith, and what is perhaps the strangest in world history, the capital is being besieged be-sieged by the very army which is occupying oc-cupying it. |