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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1907
Page
5
The account describes a vast famine across about 40 000 square miles with 15 000 000 affected and 1 000 refugees at a city, famine lines, food scarcity, and desperate acts including cannibalism as families sell assets and beg for sustenance.
York reports famine and fever spreading across three Chinese provinces after floods burst a canal cutting 40 000 square miles of cropland. An urgent U S appeal follows. The starving reach millions as crops are destroyed by floods and extreme weather.
15,000,000 ARB starved areas report no food for cattle or people. City residents hoard essentials as life costs soar. Country folks eat roots and bark while pestilence follows the hungry.
The viceroy warns famine in a war torn Chinese province is ten times worse than any in four decades. Historical context notes a prior famine thirty years ago killed hundreds of thousands, underscoring the severity and humanitarian impact of current conditions.
The waters, which for weeks covered a broad plateau only a few feet above sea level, have subsided. This change marks a significant drop in floodwaters revealing the land beneath.
The Grand Canal, built in the thirteenth century, links the Yangtse kiang and Peiho. It runs 666 miles from Hanchow to Tientsin with no locks, boats hauled by inclined planes, and a depth of five to six feet. It enables inland transport to Peking.
A famine victim and many refugees arrive at Woosung in dire need. Starvation is described with nakedness and hunger, as exhausted families travel about 20 miles seeking scraps of burned rice drying on a mat in the sun.
Amusements listing shows Russell and Drew at Occidental Ave and Washington St with matinees Wednesday and Saturday, nightly shows tonight and all week priced 25c and 50c. Beattie’s Leading Vaudeville House presents Phy Francia and Co in The Craziest Act in Vaudeville with Bert Westen and Loraine in Starascope acts.
President Roosevelt calls for U S aid to China amid floods that devastated 40 000 square miles affecting 15 million people. He urges Congress to authorize transport of flour and food and asks for Red Cross donations via local treasurers the State Department or Red Cross Secretary Charles Halem Keep.
Reported telegraphs show relief by the Chinese government as inadequate. Ten thousand people from a single community sought emigration to a better district but were forced back, returning to the food ruined area with little promise of assistance.
Rev. B.C. Patterson of Buchien Kiangau reports dire famine conditions with many deaths and thousands more at risk. Coarsely milled feed once for hogs now rivals food prices, trade paralyzed, workers laid off, and families sacrifice furniture and clothes while hungry children cry at night.
The effort to aid famine victims in China is coordinated by the Central China famine fund committee in Shanghai, with consuls, customs officials, foreign merchants and Chinese gentry, along with the Missionary Relief association at Chinklang. In the United States Chas Hallam Keep, treasurer of the American National Red Cross in Washington, will oversee cash contributions. Some supplies have already been dispatched to China.
Captain P. Abbott of the Katehoun fell from the pilot house door near Tee Harbor and drowned yesterday afternoon. The body has not been recovered. Abbott, a native of Fords Point New Brunswick, was well known locally. a brother lives in Beattle.
The local Masters and Pilots Association will present Minnie Paterson with a solid gold medal for heroic efforts in aiding the bark Coloma wreck on December 7, 1905. The inscription notes the lives of ten men saved by the G. O. Quadra and shows a Latin motto about hastening to aid others, to be presented by the British vice consul.
The audit committee faced two salary reports for January including Walters as superintendent of streets at 200 dollars and others like Murphy 68 dollars Maloney 135.48 Hogg 54.06 and Jones 19.35. Mayor Moore protested and may refuse to approve Walters warrant setting up a possible mandamus confrontation.
McDonald, charged with forgery, was taken to the county hospital Friday for treatment of quinsy of the throat and returned to the county jail the next morning.
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