| Show SUFFERING IN THE ISLE OF PINES great sanitarium has become a diseased swept land key west fla aug 4 the report that the isle of pinea is furnishing food supplies eup plies to cuba is emphatically denied it can be asserted on unquestionable authority that the island itself was denuded of KB food resources a month ago nueva gerona its capital noted or its salubrious climate and especially aa a consumptive cure is aed by the spaniards tor a military hospital camp and only wounded soldiers eol diers are there rich and poor have been flocking thither and as a consequence yellow fever and emall pax have followed and now araxe to an alarming extent the poor cannot procure medic inoa and the government has no supplies 0 medicine of food the unfortunate people die thus the rovern anent being compelled to bury them the residents declare that they have not seen a steamer pass since the war began and only a few sloops and baboon ers this statement has been verified by information which came from the gunboat bancroft and which the con averted yacht eagle secured at an insurgent caisip visited by their commander nearby the blockade of the ports west ot the beland of pines is now so well maintained that not even a emack could get |
