The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1873-12-18

come out. There was large number of
soldiers on foot, marines and horse po-
lice or dragons, and a tremendous crowd
of people. The prisoners were brought
out and formed in column, and with the
troops around them and the horse police
riding at the side OF the column, they
where they were shot. I should Judge
it was about quarter or third of mile
from the Jail. On the way the prisoners
all seemed to be in good spirits, and one
of them called out TO us, It's all over
with us now, boys but I hope you'll
drink to our health when you get back to
New York 7 When the column got to the
slaughter-house the prisoners were
formed IN line, facing the wall. which is
twelve or fifteen feet high, and only three
or four feet from the masonry. The sol
diers then formed three sides of hollow
square about them and kept back the
people. and inside the line of soldiers
was the firing party. There was prob
ably 100 men in tina party, and they stood
about as far as from here to the stern of
the brig about 30 feet) from the prison.
ers. Then the prisoners were made to
kneel down, with their feces toward the
wall and their backs to the soldiers.
Then the troops fired one volley and the
prisoners fell, but they We're not killed
outright, for in a couple of minutes,
about as long as it would take to load
their guns again, there was a good deal
OF scattering firing going on. L found
they were finishing the killing of those
who We're struggling on the groundnot yet
dead, After while the soldiers march
ed away and left the bodies just as they
fell, and a lot of mule carts were driven
up, such as they used to carry dirt in.
Then gang of native prisoners, men
who work in the chain gang, were
brought on, and they were compelled to
pick up the bodies and throw them into
the carts. They tumbled five or six
oorpses, perhaps more into each cart, Just
as they might happen to fall, and carted
them off just outside of the city where
they buried them in hole
when you We're talking to the pris-
oners on the dock did any of them tell
you their names %
''They talked to us about a good many
things connected with their capture, and
some OF them told US their names, but
they didn't know they were to be killed
then. remember one, Walter r. Price,
who told US he was from Exeter, Eng
land. %
Did you see the execution of the u
who were shot on the next day, Nov. 50"
''No; that was done early in the morn
ing, and We didn't know anything about
it until several hours after. 1 under
stand it was done about o'clock, and
the reason why they hurried that job
was because they had news from the sig
nal station outside the harbor that an
English war steamer was coming along
the coast. The steamer, the Niobe, got
( III, few hours afterward, and If it hadn't
been for her arrival there was lot of the
remaining prisoners who had been con-
dernned that morning who would have
been shot that afternoon. After she got
IN they didn't shoot any more. When
We left Santiago there were three Brit
ish war steamers there. and one Ameri-
can, the Wyoming"
Mr.. Ooysh and some men OF his Grew,
who also Witnessed the executions, are
most vehement in their ACCOMMODATIONS
OF the frightful barbarity Of the Span
iards, and in Their way think. too, that
tney want good ''waz1aing,