Tragedy, Starvation and Incessant Plodding is Lot of Korean Refugee 1/9/51

Tragedy, Starvation and Incessant Plodding is Lot of Korean Refugee (Lima News, OH, January 9, 1951, page 4).

The refugees don't complain. They don't whimper. They are too tired for that. Too tired, too stunned and too busy keeping themselves staggering along under the burden of bedding and rice on their backs [snip]

Many slept by the roadside. Their white-clad bodies flashed by in the night. They lay close together for warmth. They just stopped walking and dropped in their tracks when night came on.[snip]

And some kept on walking, shuffling painfully thru the night, handkerchiefs pressed against nose and mouth to sift the choking clouds of dust raised by the traffic.

We passed a dead man lying on the roadway. He was on his side with his legs bent at the knees, as if he had laid down and died of cold or starvation.

The cars of the convoys swerved around the body as they passed.[snip]

You couldn't believe that many people could be on [the trains]. They were heaped even on the tops of the freight cars and on the flatcars. They covered the engine, stood on the cowcatcher and hung on the sides of the cab.