Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1873-12-12


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kn'rTs yoIf will pardon n,e for. no
itssa:ts"ering your lcttCr Of last April. il
p Mhfch YOU desire ''full information il
regard to the massacre Of the Crane
Lodsc7 Of Santiago dc Cuba, and tue
present copaditiop Of their widowsIant
orphans. When your letter was re
eefVeds II zlad the appearance of having
boei cpened.@ "a Tins fact, and the con
! tents # thesietter, convinced me that
I ifthe + reception OF. the letter by me was
4 known to the Governor, ny life, il
spitoA of N.Y. higlS official Position,
i would not be WORT, moments pur,
I chase. ! burned the letter, and, be
You'd my usual correspondence on
! business matters, have not thought il
adv isable to touch ON matters and
things of:our unhappy island, much as
! Ishould have desired you to have the
horrib1e facts to present. them to the
] Grand Lodge of New York at their
last sitting. But this you know was
impossible, as every mail was searched,
and lifeshere is held of 10 value what
! ever. But the affairs of the last few
days and the-savage acts of the volun-
teers have compelled many to
leave here secretly, as there is
no knowing where this will all
! end, and by this mode I send
you this letter, though when it will
reach. you. God only knows. The
I Grand Lodge in 1869 met here, as was
their custom since their organization.
! They had never been disturbed by the
! government, although their time and
| place of meeting was well known to all
| OF Us. The night before the meeting
was informed that the arrest was tcbe
made, anl that shouid there be any
resiS,;..c>, on the part Of the tier to
! tn free entrance Of the officers the
! tTCons waroto
Flf;E INTO -HE BTTLDING
and burn it, with al these within. /
personally informed the Grand Lodge
vi the q Intentions. ANA the next morn
Jug !c.,rn-,l that they intended to hold
their session with open doors. They
die so, and were arrts.eI, and that
night confined in tho jail The next
morning they were informed that they
should be taken 10 Havana for trial.
/ bat three hours aftersrnrisc they were
all taken outside Of the 'ity and shot.
This act created considerable excite
mcnt at the time, but rs it was inpvis-
onment to speak If it, it was soon
husled up. Tie families Of those
! men thus shot were placed on
trial for the act Of the heads
Of those families, ana as re-
suit, their property was confiscatcd,
they were declared paupars, and. at
the same time, the populaca was for
render any OF them any assistance.
Thus, being deprived 81 home and
shelter, food and the means Of obtain
ing it. forbidden to leave the juris,lic-
ton of Santiago tie Cuha. these poor,
helpless creatures sought shelter in
the woods near here and became one
common family. But tie inhumanities,
crnelties and barbaritics which these
women and children have been sub
lectei to passed the belief of civil
lZed being. | could not describe what
] have seen and been unable to prevent.
All rObberles are laid to their door.
alI even supposed robbtries were got
ten up, so that the chase of the blood
hound might oe Witnessed by the Iab-
bic, asi the suffering Of soMo GA Of
the poor beings added TO their thirst
for morbid depravitv II was rot tx,
months after tie execution that | saw
Ouo OF the wo!nrn. Who WAS about TO
become Il mother, placed between two
boards, upon which sat il heavy bury
saHsge, surrounded by q dozen
soldiers and scycra! officers, who
were trying to compel this help
less being to confess crime Of rob-
bcTy which / had previously inyesti-
gated, "n,ts conld fiud nothing that
warranted the belief Of robbery hav-
ing been Committed. Her dead body
vas LETT there, and four DAYS aftur,
when the stencil compelled It's brrial,
il was found to have been partly de-
vollred by dogs. Since that time to
the present these poor creatures have
b9"n subjected TO oIitragee beyond de-
scription or comprehension by the
people OF It com;nIuity such "s y"n
I've IL.
o>Ll \ FEW LEFT.
There are now bat few living, per-
llaps, thirty to forty souls, though IL
1869 they numbered, in al, over three
hundred. Some died from starvation,
others from exposure, while the ma
iority Of them were killed by blood
hounds, for it IS one of the sports %
these brutcs to hunt these poor people
as game. L have seen bodies OF those
thus killed whose sex could not be dis
tinguished by reason OF nutilatioD.--
Al attempt to externinate them WAS
made 4 few days ago by the volunteers
and some of the crew OF the Tornado.
When the Nirginius was brought into
the llarbor it was made the
OCCASION of REAT FESTIVITIES,
and liquor flowed freely. Toward mid
night q party of three men, with hounds
TO hunt their victims, started for the
woods. No one dared TO prevent what
was Known would follow. The next
morning they boosted in the streets of
what had taken place, and related with
pride and pleasure to the violence to
which they had subjected these women
and girls, some of the latter being only
ten years old.
BURYING NINE VICTIMS.
With an associate official we that al
tcrnoon proceeded into the woods and
ordered the burial of nine whom we
found dead. Seven were suffering from
violence that I cannot describe one
was black in the face, she having been
ehoked to death, while another had her
entire breast bitten off. I returned
sick at heart, unable to render the
slightest assistance, though l had been
compelled to look on with apparent in
differenes.vz.By meals Of negroes We