New La Joya Mayor Isidro Casanova being sworn in Tuesday after defeating incumbent Jose “Fito” Salinas in a runoff election earlier this month. Casanova, left, was sworn in by JP Juan “J.J.” Pena. (Matt Wilson | mwilson@themonitor.com)

The bodies were lying in the streets un-buried. All railroads and vessels carrying food and such things into the great city had ceased runnings and mobs of the hungry poor pillaging.