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Show HBf- DEATH TOLL IN MEXICO. HV HH, Five Thousand Pariah In Capital From BBT Pestilence and Starvation. BH. Mexico City. Flvo thousand men, Hr men and children, It is estimated, HBv' have died here of pestilence and star Hff vatlon within the past month. BHh Epidemics of disease bred In filth BH A and nurtured by lack of food have v-' ehot the doath toll to an average ol Hf " 100 per day. Twonty-two per cent oi H? tho population today is suffering some Hf illness. HHl.,l UasanltarycondlUons,-wcausedlw,byl) HHf; y lak of wator, have reached an indo- H" scrlbablo atago and a sickening stench HHJ TervadeB the entire federal district HH Scarcity of food precipitated a ter- BBK rlble situation, but that situation, ac- B companled now by lack of water and BBJ attendant disoase, is unboarablo. BBJ Mexico City is undergoing the cru- BH cleat slogo since Ladyamlth, and BBbi'u' what is perhaps tho strangest in Ht' world history, tho capital is being bo- BBr t sieged by the very army -which is oc- H, cupylng it. |