The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1885-05-21
Carried 10 Guatemala ana Treated
Worse Than Brutes.
ENTRAPPED AT THE EXPOSITION
by u sea Captain and u Confederate,
Taken to Puerto Bsrrios. Sold Into
bondage. and Compelled to
Work on Railroads.
TORTURE, SICKNESS AND oEATH

NEW YORK, May lS.-The Herald this
morning publishes story from Key
West, Floriua, which gives an account
OF the Kidnapping OF Edward Santa
Rosa, youth OF 10 years, frOm New
Orleans.
Rosa relates a pitiful story, which, il
true, would call for full inves-
Rosa states that in last September, at
New Orleans, he WIS entic, d on board
a vessel, the captain of which offered TO
take him to Key West. While he was
talking to the captain the vessel sailed,
aad he and SO others, who had also been
entrapped, were carried TO Puerto Bar
rios, Guatemala, by the steamer Ella
Knight. Rosa says: We arrived nj Puerto
Barrios, in Guatemala, at about sun
down of Wednesday, october 3, after
voyage of little over six days. Owing
TO eating poor food and drinking hrack-
iSh water nearly all the party were
sick. Five were for four days unable To
get on deck. Altogether, the voyage
was very disagreeable one. we an
chOred in the open harbor,
about quarter OF mile
from shore, when jim O'Donaid,
Of Glasgow, scotland, OF Irish descent,
the uan who entrdppeh lne nv New Or
leans, along with the cagtaln ana mate
went ashore, where | neHrd him c4.
cut: Here are my cattlo for which |
am TO get so per head We Weto
landed III small GOATS aud counted,
whereupon O'DOnald went up to the Of
fec of j. Z. BnuscarreD, president of the
railroad company, and re ;eiyed 500 for
this shipment of " men, ana Bouscar-
ren, though a Mexican, spoke French
tluentiy. n. b, Day, oi Chattanooga,
Tennessee, is vice president,
When | lett New Orleans L had S22 in
my pocket. AS we we're landing Day sung
out: "Hurrah look at the boys ! InUre
is plenty of money there ~
BouScarron said TO the soldiers "to
to searching" The soldiers were native
blacks and spoke English and were un-
der command OF a tall white man. If
any OF our party objected to being
searched his money and arms were
taken from him 10y violence and
there was n tree near at
hand and a lash was taken
to show him that he would be tied up
and whipped; AS we were brought
ashore in small parties, those remain
ing on board did not know what was in
store for them until they, too, were
forced Co give ny 'nH,T property. Presl-
dent Bogsc arfnu sa, p. .Ia ."pi5 Win q
hyE at hand, into W".-. sa Il.pEe. me
Wul"y as tive passed 20 ulm Nv ~
agea Pailg gg %ottmoa ~ oaE sboa.d
ever oagH ana p" r.ul money enough g.
so awl fryw PuCrCo GarrlOs,Jhey were
&. uLga robbed 81 what money they ahd
nfoUgav with tEeui in Ortsr mat lu0
door OF escape lul-nl be closed pgainFG
t.6,a, Work ~ fUo~ro Gar"t1- was com
mouug1, but during hus"sy and Set-
'eHbeg there NoJg Hu. nfnY mon soc
nured, Iu Ou.ann. -nev uagau TO get
their supplies New lr,.aua ,H9 1ilnB
up with people, and O'Donald and Stall
lings knew how to get them to Puerto
Barrios. L figured the six following re-
ports OF labtrers up to January l4tb
lwhen 4,-L) at work. When our parts
arrived there were about 300:
Our party, per the Ella Knight ..........., ~
Brought by the WRnderer ..............,, u3
Brought by the Blanche Henderson. 100
Brought by the Ella knight ..... ...''...''' II
Total .............. ...................... 677
There were at work when left about
200, leaving TO be accounted for Az.
III II labOrer would not go out to work
he WAS denied food. Men were kicked
until they lett sick beds to return to
work. The men only cost the
company $40 each. 1t was
President Bonscarron's habit to
pay us monthly visit from the inte-
come he sent his agent tn inspect the
work and report. The men were
worked in gangs OF 10, II or 20, and
whatever man was told to do he was
expected to do, There were no "strik-
ers" allowed at Puerto Barrlos. There
were no ministers, churches, or re.
Iigious services OF any kind while ! was
there.
The hospital was al old ragged tent,
infested with lizards, gnats and mos
quitoes. QuiniEe was the general rem
edy in sickness, and the men wer9
stuffed with it. One poor Frenchman
became tlighty with it, and fed to the
woods to die in the marshes OF San
Francisco, five miles away. There was
no burial grounds. When man died,
ne was wrap ed in blanket and hole
dug in the spot most convenient and
the body put away without any
ceremony. The woods and
mountain side about Puerto Barrios be-
came so full of exposed deceying bodies
that the place must for season be a
more than an unusually unhealthy one
| 70 live in.
Rosa says that he made his escape
last January and has just landedin this
country. j. 81
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