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REFUGEES UNO
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SUFFERING
(By Associated Press)
JASSY, Rumania, Jan. 26.—Extreme
poverty and suffering exists among
refugees and peasants in the little
mountain villages that are so numer
ous just back of the Rumanian-Ger
man battle line. In a large number
of cases the refugees are without
shoes and without shelter of any kind,
many of them being compelled to live
in the fields and to endure the ex
posure of the prevailing cold winter
nights. Often their clothing consists
only of a few thin ragged cotton gar
ments that give scarcely any warmth
to their wasted bodies. Their situa
tion is rendered the more precarious
by the fact that the districts in which
they are living are subject to frequent
artillery fire and to bombing by air
planes. v
Those who are fortunate enough to
have even the poor comfort of shelter
in the shattered adobe houses that re
main standing are in almost every
instance living under conditions of the,
most wretched misery. Forced sud-j
denly by the exigencies of the military ,
situation to abandon their former
homes, they have found even severer
hardships awaiting them in the deso
lated districts to which they have
fled; for in these small villages there
is neither anything to sustain life norj
that medical care which often would
save life. All doctors are needed on
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the front, and these unfortunate peo
ple, who might otherwise be useful
factors to society if properly cared for,
are left either to struggle alone with
:
; tne ravages ot famine and disease or
| to die of starvation.
In some villages the refugees and (
[ peasants receive bread twice a week: .
I in others none at all. It is true that
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| a scant supply of corn meal is ob- ^
| talnable by application^) ^eminent j
| agencies, '.but tt*t« ******, Ap f~»
I »*«ry meal is not (falcul^Mtfu give
J strength and sustenance t^ people al
ready reduced to the last extremity of
} destitution by the loss of,their mater-1
\
* ial belongings and the financial sup-1
port usually given them Iv husbands
or sons or brothers now serving their!
country. In two instances refugees'
were observed picking in the fields a
kind of wild grass, which they eat.
but which in America we would think
only of feeding to cattle.
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The most pathetic case of suffering
j, and want was witnessed in the little
' village of Soltiu, in the district of
r Putna. In a squalid shack of wood
| and were three little children on the
point of exhaustion for lack of proper
care and food. They were orphans.
The mother had lately died of typhus,
which has blighted nearly the whole of
Rumania; the father was serving at
the front, and a little girl of 10 was
acting as mother to two tiny tots of 1
and 7. The youngest child was lying
helpless on a bag on a stone floor, a
tragic spectacle of famine and disease.
A second case, which was only typi
cal of numberless others, was observed
in a dilapidated house no larger than
the ordinary American bedroom
. There was no glass in the windows.
The roof was full of holes. Elsewhere
in the house the open spaces were
stuffed with rags. Here there were
10 persons crawled together under
conditions of squalor ahd misery. Rags
and tattered patch-quilts formed the
only coverings on the makeshift beds
One of ths inmates was an eldtsly
woman who bad recently Inst her hus
band, but whose pride It was to have
three sons serving in the army. For
this solemn contribution to the cause
of her country, however, fhe had not
even |fie small reward from her gov
ernment of a decent existence. She
had no food beyond a few- handfuls of
cornmeal. She was a spectre of fam
ine. Her face was drawn and pinched
and her countenance bo inexpressibly
sad that it told its own silent tale of
the terrible hardships she and her
I nine companions In the house were
i enduring.
One of her children, a helpless mite
! of 3, lay under the clay stove, In which
there was a feeble fire, slowly suc
j cumbing to pellagra. The other nine
occupants, most of them children,
were pathetic figures to poverty and
misery.
There probably are thousands of
Cases equally as extreme or even
worse. The observor could easily
see, with this tragic picture before
him, why typhus had taken such a
terrible toll of life last winter. The
houses visited were in most cases
dirty and unsanitary and offered the
most fertile breeding places for ver
min. The occupants were so terribly
impoverished that their feeble bodies
could scarcely be expected to with
stand the invasion of even the mildest
of diseases.
13 VESSELS LOSE
ITERS
SEATTLE, Jan. 28.—Fully $2J)00,
000 represents the total loss as a re
sult of accidents at sea in the Pacific
Northwest and Alaskan waters in the
calendar year 1917. There were only
nineteen wrecks, according to Inspec
tors 11. C. Lord and William Fisher,
and of these six vessels were a total
loss, including the steamship Mariposa,
valued at $900,000, which ran aground
and was destroyed at Strait island,
Alaska, November 18, this being the
heaviest single financial loss of the
year.
rour lives were lo»t, alii in the case
oT the steamship Tolo, which collided
with the steamer Magic during a thick
fog on October 5, between Alki point
and Restoration point,, and was a total
toss.
Authentic estimates, of the amount
of damage in some eases cannot at
this time be obtained, official investi
gation survev being ntill pending,
but authentic estimates as to thirteen
of the vessels are given as follows:
Admiral Watson .$ 30JNM>
Stanley Dollar . 35,000
Standard . 150,000
C. C. Cherry . 3,000
St. Francis . 150,000
Wakena . 1,000
Jefferson . 8,000
Barge Elvvell . 500
Milwaukee barge No. 6. 500
A1‘K1 . 100,000
Mariposa . 900,000
Spokane . .. 250,000
Thistle . 50,000
Total, thirteen vessels_$1,168,000
The grounding of barge No. 38, in
tow of the steamer Daniel Kern, at
Oyhut, five miles north of Grays Har
bor entrance, as the result of keeping
too close to shore to avoid rough
weather outside, was a peculiar case,
in that the barge, property of the In
dependent Towing Company, was later
raised* and transported three-fourths
of a mile through timber and swamps
and safely launched at North bay,
Grays harbor. She grounded on March
20, started on her overland trip April
. 8, and was launched at North bay May
! 4. This was accomplished by Curtis
Bros., under the supervision of Mr.
j Duncan of the towing company. Barge
■ No. 38 is 157 feet long, 40 feet beam
and 12 feet moulded depth, her net
tonnage being 497. She was then dry
docked and inspected and found to be
uninjured.
Origin of the fire which destroyed
the tugboat Ruth has not been discov
ered. The fire on the Kyak started
in the engine room and is now under
investigation by the marine inspectors.
She was tied up at the Pouisbo dock
at the time of the fire.
The steamship Spokane was floated
after grounding during a thick fog on
Idol point, Seaforth channel, British
Columbia, November 22, and contin
ued her run to Seattle. She is now
in drydock at the Seattle Construction
k Drydock Company’s plant.
The steamship Mariposa grounded
on Strait island during very thick,
, rainy weather, November 18, and is a
total loss.
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Mr. Laumeister, an old-timer and
pioneer or Alaska, recently passed
away in the States from an attack of
pneumonia. He had many friends in
i the North, and leaves a son in Fair
banks.
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The Miles go-devil gas machine, in
tended for over-snow travel, is under
going a process of reconstruction by
mechanics, its former trial having
proved unsatisfactory, at Nome.
NOTICE.
Notice Is hereby given that the firm
of Gottschalk and Clonniger conduct
ing the Alaskan hotel at Cordova, Al
aska, and the Alaskan bar, McCarthy,
Alaska, has this day been dissolved
by mutual consent and all bills owing
the firm are payable to R. L. Gotts
chalk, who will also pay all outstand
ing indebtedness, as Art lonnlger has
retired from the firm.
R. L. GOTTSCHALK,
AR TCLONNIGER
Cordova, Alaska, Jan. 1, 1918
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