Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-06-16
CHASTITY REVELATIONS.
More Rehcs of the Spanish Inouisi.
ton Observation-Disclosures ParticuIara
of the Discovery. :
Madrid Correspondence london s,,r

Madi1d correspondence London Star
A somewhat CHASTITY incident has cousad
| considerable excitement here within tbe
the past few weeks. Within few hundred
yards OF the new Plasa de Dos Mayo, inau-
gurated on the second of this month. there
Is locality called the Cruz del Quemade-
TO. 1t is held some three hundred me-
tres square, at the top of the Calle Ariclra
de San bernardo, near the hospital bulltby
the eI-Qlleen. Through it new road was
! lately opened, and as the ground was ele-
waited, Il cutting of considerable depth han
to be dug. The workman laid bare several
peculiar looking horizontal strata. of i,Ye.s-
ular formation. One was one hundred and
fifty feet IN length, another fifty, another
ten The thickness varied from EIGHT to
eighty centimetres. In color the soil was
black, the lower strata being much blaellar
than the superior ones.
On examination humps of charred wood
were found, 1ntersperSed with ashes, eyi-
IDENTIFY the remains of some huge fire Curl
osity was soon excited, and further invests
CATION demonstrated that in portions 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,
Uranium, long tuft of hair, having be-
longed to some female. All these were
more or less charred Some of the iron
was partially fused, and the texture of
bone lntermingled with sand was plainly
dlscernable. gag, too, turned up. The
question what were these lugubrious rec
ords was answered at once. This field of
Cruz del Quemadero was the place where
the inquisition disposed of some of its vic
tins. Here were the CHASTITY proofs
of the horrors of which this
place had been the scene. sud
denly brought to light after the lapse of
two centuries On the 18th of MAY, 1859,
eighty-tllree 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 in
height. A great cOncourse witnessed the |
dHo-dd-fe, and the horrible ceremonial
completed, the people buried the remains
of their victims under cart-loads of earth |
These irregular geological strata are naught |
else but the silent testimony to the atroci-
ties 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
human vertebral column, a portion
of the tibia a, fragment of shoulder |
pid1io VIII d Holo UliOuS1 1ts tutt u Dil ol u
rib, all bearing the marks Of fire. Upward |
of two cart-loads of remains of this sort |
have been carried away and decentiy bur- |
led But these horrible strata tt ere they |
remain to tell their own tale and instruct
the present generation. On the 18th q pub |
lie meeting was convened, to be held at the
Quemadero, by the Republican youth OF
Madrid, to protest against priestly intoler-
anco and to advocate treSdOm of ali con-
science. That this discovery should have
been made at moment when the Spanish
clergy are striving their utmost to affirm
the ''unity ofthe Roman Catholic Church. .
and are preaching in the churches of the
against heresy, is a striking CO.
incidence.
The Quemadero is so frequented by peo
pie 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 in
tention to cut a square block, and there
eject IA monument. 1t is estimated by
Llorlente, the great historian OF inc IN
QUESTION, that this atrocious tribunal has
deprived Spain of twelve millions of souls,
the Jews and Moors expelled
from the country Thirty-one thousand
and ninety-two perished by fire; IL, $50
were first butchered and then burned;
22l, 9S5 died of torture. Total, 270, 1856