| Show victimized st bouli cuir 28 A special to the republic porfiro dial mexico says one hundred and seventy arrived here this mornin jt from mexico in bex care quarantine officer E vans lias isolated them in cars under guards where they will be held until all danger ia past donnul spark has wired for more rations several hundred are expected to arrive of the who passed through torreon last last february to make their fortune through the aul of colonization company nearly of them starved half naked and diseased have been camped for the past few day near torreon lucli a miserable hungry barefooted lot would be hard to find they tell a pitiful story of deception they were assured alie place was on a railroad a good house to live in live acres of land to cultivate their own vegetables etc plenty of game and all given n blank contract which was to guarantee cua rantee then halt the crop of sixty acres which each was to take care of fifty in cotton and ten in corn after their arrival they vainly tried to get the contracts ginned but it beems the contracts i were never signed or fulfilled the houses were miserable acobes adobes the water was vile and killed a great many a species of malaria and swelling swell inz of the limbs the death anto averaged ft i AA five a week and they claim nearly a hundred died there otting to alio llio water and lack ot medicine and medical attention finally the were told that the company said they the negroes had no interest in the crop but that the company would pay them 60 cents a day til is was done for about two when it was cut to 37 cents a day if they were sick they received nothing and it what they say is true many are cry ing for Bo to eat the manager about this time it is nl eged told them the company had broken ins contract and he could do nothing and advised them to git this after planting and raising of the finest crops of cotton ever grown in the state ot durando Du then lett many of them in order to do tins had to sell their personal eit ecta furniture etc they were received with sympathy by the population 0 torreon and the eciek were attended to and the hungry fed while there many could have secured work but for the unfortunate appearance of the scourge the paciente pati ente are all doing well and are expected to recover anaf the mexican international railway ii hauling hem free to this place it is estimated that there are about more at tahua hullo and twenty five it maximi station awaiting transfer |
