Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1901 — TEXAS FARMERS STARVING. [ARTICLE]

TEXAS FARMERS STARVING.

Drouth Ruins Crops and the People Are in Need of Food. Reports from Zacatapato County, Texas, confirm the news that the pooler classes there are facing starvation. Range water has failed and cattle are too weak to travel aud are dying rapidly. The country is literally burned up by the drouth. There is not a green thing to be seen except cactus plants. Zacatapato County is fifty miles from the neareat railroad.