The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-06-02
CHASTITY REVELATIONS.
More Relics of the Spanish InquisitiOn I'm
e&rthed-Latest Particulars of the Disco

More Relics of the Spanish InauisitiOn I'm
earthed-Latest Particulars of the Disco
very.
The London Star has the following from Madrid =
A somewhat CHASTITY incident has caused consider
able excitement here within the last few weeks.
Within few hundred yards of the new Plaza de Dos
Mayo inaugurated on the I'd of this month"; there is
a locality called the Cruz del Quemadero. 1t is a
field some three hundred metres square, at the top of
the Gale Aricha de San Bernardo, near the hospi-
tai built by the eX-Queen. Through it a new road
was lately opened, and as the ground was ele-
vated a emitting OF considerable depth had to be
dug. The workmen laid bare several pecuar-looking
horizontal strata, OF irregular formation. One was
one hundred and fifty feet in LENGTH another fifty,
another ten The thickness varied from eight to
eighty centimeres. In color the soil was black the
lower strata being much blacker than the superior
ones. ON examination Jumps OF charred wood were
found nterspersed with ashes evidently the remains
of some huge fire. Curiosity was soon excited, and
further investigation demonstrated that in pOr-
tOns OF these ugly looking strata the finger came
upon small pieces of adipose matter, which yielded
like butter to the touch. Iron rings were grubbed
up; human bones, a cranium, a long tuft of hair,
having belonged to some female All these were
more or less charTed Some of the iron was partially
fused, and the texture OF bone intermingled with
sand was plainly discernble. gag, too, turned up
The question, what were these lugubrious records?
was answered at once. This field of the Cruz de-
Quemadero was the place where the inquisiton dis
posed of some of its victims Here were the CHASTITY
proofs of the horrors of which this place had been
the scene, suddenly brought to light after the lapse
of two centuries. On the 18th of May, 1869, eighty
three heretics, including twenty Hebrews, OF
whom five were women, were inundated on
this very spot The pile Of wood was eighty
feet in length by seven feet in height great con-
course witnessed the auto dG te, and the horrible
ceremonial completed the people buried the re-
mains of their victims under cart-loads OF earth
These irregular geological strata naught else but
the silent testimony to the atrocities perpetrated on
this spot in the name of religion and Catholic
Unity" Out of one your special correspondent
hooked out with his finger one entire bone OF a
human vertebral column, portion of tibta, frag-
ment OF a shOuder-blade with hole through IL, and
a bit OF a rib, all bearing the marks OF fire. Up
ward of two carloads Of remains OF this sort
have been carried away and decently
buried. But these horrible strata There they
remain to tell their own tale and instruct the present
generation. On the 18th a public meeting was con-
Vened, to be held at the Quemadero, by the Republ
can youth Of Madrid to protest against priestly in
tolerance and TO advocate freedom of conscience.
That this discovery should have been made at a mo-
ment when the Spanish clergy are striving their
utmest to affirm the "unity of the Roman Catholic
Church" and are preaching in the churches OF the
metropolis against heresy is striking coincidence.
The QuemaderO Is so frequented by people in
search OF relics and the explorations of these strata
have been so extensive, that the authorities have
barred the frontage off, and prohibited access. 1t IS
their intention to cut square block, and there erect
amonument. II is estimated by Llorlente, the great
historian of the Inquiston, that this atrocious tri
bunal has deprived Spain Of twelve millions of souls,
including the Jews and MoOrs expelled from the
country 1hirty-One thousand and ninetytwoperlshed
by lire; $50 were first butchered and then burned
221 ,9S5 died of torture. Total, 27O,136.