People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1894 — ARE ACTUALLY STARVING. [ARTICLE]

ARE ACTUALLY STARVING.

The Wretched Condition of Many of Fullman's Residents. Chicago, Sept. 29.— W-hen 600 destitute men, women and children went to the headquarters of the Pullman relief committee Wednesday morning they found nothing there for them. The provisions were all gone, and when and from where more will come is a matter of speculation. That is the sad condition of affairs that confronts County Commissioners Kallis and Lundberg. They were appointed a committee by the county hoard to go to Pullman and investigate the condition of the people and devise means for their immediate relief and for their support during the coming winter. They found things far worse than they had ever dreamed. “There is no doubt,” said Commissioner David Kallis, after the investigation was over, “that the people of Chicago will have to support the destitute in Pullman during the comingwinter. It must be done. If they do not the people will starve to death, and that condition of affairs cannot be permitted.”