Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 145, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1915 — HUNDREDS DYING DAILY IN WILD RUSH FOR CORN [ARTICLE]

HUNDREDS DYING DAILY IN WILD RUSH FOR CORN

Many Persons in City ‘of Mexico Wait to Obtain Share of Fast-FaiMag Stock of Food Supplies. , City of Mexico, May 29.—Fron* 12,000 to 20,000 of the city’s poor have been standing in line at the food distributing station from 3 o’clock in the morning until long after dark for the last seven days in an effort to get enough com to keep aflive. From 8 in the morning until 2 id the afternoon they bear the hot rays of a tropical sun, and from the latter hour until dark they stand in downpours of rain, for the wet season baa begun. On some days as many as 200 have been carried away on stretchers. So desperate have the rushes for corn become at tqnes that the'soldiers guarding the lines in the effort to maintain a semblance of order have Amd to fire over the beads of hungry throngs. While these scenes were being enacted on the streets in various sections of the city, delegates to the nartional convention were quarreling over whether Gen. Garza or Gen. Faiafox should be named chief executive. At times the debate became so fierce as to cause weapons to be ditown. The delegates, when not engaged with matters of personal precedence and office seeking, devote their time to passing laws such as bills to compel the tilling of all vacant lots, though seed com for planting and water for irrigation are lacking, and bills to lower the price of cereals, although little is to be had at any price. One delegate introduced a bill making labor compulsory on all, especially the rich men. This man is first assistant to a cabinet minister.