STARVING TO DEATH.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 483, 25 June 1890, Page 5

STARVING TO DEATH.

PEOPLE AND ANIMALS IN GALICIA,

New York, May 24. The “ Tribune’s ” cable special from Vienna says : Terrible distress prevails in Gailcia, owing to the failure of last year’s crops. There is a famine of food, both for man and beast, and the Governor of the province has appealed to the auchorities here for a special grant of 10,000,000 florins for the purpose of purchasing supplies for the starving people. More than 100,000 horses have perished during the last few weeks for want of food. In the little district of Nisko alone over 2,500 have died. On a meadow just outside the town of Dumbrowa there are lying the bodies of 400 horses which have starved to death.

The other day a speculator from Pesth took advantage of the state of affairs at Galicia to purchase a batch of 525 halfstarved horses at the incredibly cheap price of 30 kreutzers, or about 16 cents apiece, and 1,500 more were offered to him at the same figure. Bread has vanished from the land and the people are living almost exclusively on potatoes, and deem themselves fortunate when they can get even them. The horned cattle have likewise all perished and milk and butter are not to be obtained for love or money. Under the circumstances, it is not astonishing that the inhabitants are leaving the country in shoals and are emigrating to the United States.