The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1883-10-17

lhFilliAg Story Of I Girl who was
n St6lci, Sold Int slavery and Es-
eapca From Her Cuban Master.

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uhFilliag Story OF ! Girl who va.
StSlei, Sold Int slavery and u.s.
eapcA From Her Cuban Master.
Kaasas City Times.
There arrived in Kansas City a few
days ago, = young negro .gifl named
ln1Fi4 l6pn WHOSE story Of her liz
~ = xeiFd roiaauce - is otter
tound outside the pages Of lurid fiction
The object Of the girls visit to Kansas
City 70 hunt up her mother, Saral
Young, ffom whom she has been sep
arated ever since she was year old, ant
who, she has been informed, is now liz
ing ia this city.
Haviug heard something Of the girl
history, . reporter went in search Of her
After passing up narrow alley, ACROSS I
back yard and up two flights of rickety
stairs, the girl was found lying on bee
in . colored clearinghouse kept BY
Wiley :Wier, the house fronting on Mair
street, near Fourth, hut having no front
entrance. Miss Young at first declared
she was suffering such bodily pain she
could hardly sit up II was shot by the
Cuban soldiers" she declared, "and
carry in my body seven Of their bullets. =
Then. WITHOUT much hesitation, and re-
qpilii6 very lille queStisning, she pro-
ceeded to give the following account Of
her very extraordinary experience.
II was born at Nashville, Tennessee
and though. Lam unable to count an
'reckonstiise, I tiihkfl mast BE about
sixteen years old. When I was some.
thing more than icaf cd / was stolen
by Robinson's cirtas. They made a
dangling girl of me and l got 80 that !
was good performer. We went to Gu
b. finally. and after had been will,
them about seven years. / should think,
! wab put up for sale on the block at
Havana. Henry Grandson, who owns
. coffee. plantation about eight miles from
Havapa, bought me, and l went to his
place ashis slave. They have no mercy
on. their slaves in Cuba, and l was treat
ed like q brute, When l first went there
I was branded on the back with eighteen
names, and as often as the scars would
dim Twas branded again. The names
were Spanish, and included the name Of
my master and his slaves.
Il was made to plough, like a horse.
They, would hitch three women in har-
ness, ind mako US drag the pillow along,
one Of u carrying q regular bit in the
mouth. The food they gave IFS consisted
Of cats, dogs and grasshoppers, and they
made US pick tobacco worms and cat
them, too. We were sometimes day,
and we never knew what Sunday was.
two months ago, NjleI was at the
house Of my, master, one of the little
children got mad. and. declared l had
beaten her. They wouldn't here any
thing ! said. and told me the queen had
ordered my throat to be cut. l begged
for time to pray, and they gave me till
the next morning. In Cpba our God is
. big snake we call Sarah, and we pray
70 IL f0r mercy. l believed would be
killed. for ! had heard of slaves having
their throats cut, and had been struck
on the head with knives before. So that
evening l planned to run away. got
from a ship where a was
sent to carry coal. When night came l
put the life-prescrver around me, climb
ID over the wall, and jumped into the
ocean, was good swimmer and was
not ,afiaid. But the Cuban. soldiers
heard me splashing in the water, and
hey began firing at me. The first ball
truck me in the thigh. the next hit my
lot and before they quit shooting they
hit me seven times. My arms were not
hurt, though. and kept on swimming.
Finally Preached an island, and stayed
here FIVE weeks, living on whatever
,ould. Ny wounds hurt me terribly, but
y they hurt me worse on land than inr|
he salt water, kept my life-preserver
N and swan along the shore of the |
Stand most Of the time. At the end of
I've weeks shiu cane along, bound for
and I was taken aboard.
When we reached Galveston I was put
q the hands of some colored church
eople and as l had heard that my
mother lived in Nashville / was sent
here. At Nashville l found that my
aether hpd:eon to Kansas City,. and SO
~ helt sT home hesSss2as.ss
Though the girl " evidently quite
ynorant, and is filed with superstitlons
Ihich may make portions Of her narra-
I've very fancifnl, yet she possesses a
God deal Of natural intelligence, and her
range story is in some points corrobo-
lted BY her condition. She talks Span
h flucntly, and says it is much easier
y her to use than English. Her wounds
ave not got entirely healed, and she
'mplains continually of the pain they
We her.
It is the girls intention to remain in
IL vicinity till her mother has been
und, or until it has been determined
Ut she is not residing in this city.