DREADFUL MORTALITY AT LABRADOR. THOUSANDS DYING FROM STARVATION. [BY TELEGRAPH-COPYRIGHT.] [REUTERS TELEGRAMS.]
Nkw York, July 28. Intelligence is to hand from Labrador stating that intensely severe weather was lately experienced there. 2500 Indians and Esquimaux have perished from hunger and cold. An immense snow-block occurred in the thickly-populated part of the peninsula. 10,000 Indians are, it is feared are cut off from assistance and mu»t also perish. London, July 28. Further intelligence from Labrador shows a pitiful state of things existing there. Up to the present 3500 deaths have occurred from starvation, and fully 15,000 lives are in peril from the same cause. The Indians are eating the bodies of the .lead, • and to add to the horrors of the situation a large number of bears, which have become ravenous for want of food, are making raids on the settlement and devouring human beings. Liter. Accounts from Labrador show that the Indians have been reduced to such straits that they have been compelled to cat the dead.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2194, 31 July 1886, Page 2
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167DREADFUL MORTALITY AT LABRADOR. THOUSANDS DYING FROM STARVATI0N. [BY TELEGRAPH-COPYRIGHT.] [REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.] Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2194, 31 July 1886, Page 2
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