Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1886 — STARVING TO DEATH. [ARTICLE]

STARVING TO DEATH.

Terrible Suffering Among the People of Labrador and Newfoundland. [St. Johns (N. F.) telegram.) A terrible state of want exists among the people all along the northern coast of this island and in Labrador. For 300 miles off from the coast (he ice is firm, and its presence keeps the temperature constantly at the freezing point. From Cape Bauld, Newfoundland, to Cape’ Mugford, on the Labrador const, there is one solid barrier of ice. No fishing has been possible. The fish-oil works are all idle, and the stored; oil is being u*ed for fuel. A large number of starving fishermen from Indian Harbor and Sandwich Bay have just arrived to implore food from the Government, and assistance for friends left behind. Two of the men died here last night shortly after their arrival. They had a terrible time getting here, having crossed the strait on floating ice. With September the winter sets in, and the frost will not then be out of the ground from last winter. On account of the lateness of the season no crops have been] planted, and for several weeks the unfortu- '- nafce people have been living off of their_ domestic afiimals.