Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1893 — TWENTY THOUSAND HUNGRY. [ARTICLE]

TWENTY THOUSAND HUNGRY.

Idle Miners in the Gogebic Range Have Exhausted All Their Resources. All business places in the several mining towns of the Gogebic range, from Ashland, Wis., to Ironwood, Mich., have closed. Even the gamblers and other servants of vice have left the region. For six months 5,000 miners and 800 woodedoppers have been out of work, owing to the closing of the mines, and their surplus funds are now practically exhausted. Twenty thousand people are on the verge of starvation, their food being mainly beets and potatoes, while 1,000 children are sadly in need of clothing and shoes. A few weeks ago Philip Armour, of Chicago, sent 10,000 pounds of pork to the suffering miners, but this has been consumed. The distress in Ironwood, Mich., according to a dispatch, is perhaps deeper than in the other towns, because of the typhoid fever epidemic last summer. Governor Peck, of Wisconsin, is preparing to send a car-load of provisions, and Governor Rich, of Michigan, will be asked to help.