The morning times., 1895-10-06
REBELS CALLED ROBBERS
A Foreigners View Of Insurgents
at Santiago de Cuba.
PRACTICE GREAT CRUELTIES
Grim inal Glasses Eagerly Joined
the RevoIutionists and Then Com
menced DepredatioDs Upon the
Large Estate-As a Republic Cuba
Would Not BE a safe Place.

New York. Oct. "a foreigner Just
from the depa rtmenL of Santiago de Cuba,
III an interview with n representative OF
the UpAed Press today. gave graphic
account of the circumstances attending
the outbreak of the revolution III CuEa's
greatest sugar producing center, that OF
Santiago or the eastern department OF
Cuba. THE first feeling among the resi-
dents was one of terror. They vividly
recalled the ten years war of 1865 to 1Si 8.
The idle and criminal classes gladly es-
pouscd the rebel cause. Then the usua!
despoiling commenced. He cited case
after case from which the following are
selected:
A large estate in the interior of the de-
partment was surrounded. Ii was COM
plete surprise to the ma jor domo or overserr
and the men. The ordinary laborers V-erS
''galiiges' or Spaniards. To man they
were searched and robbed and stripped
eff everything except their clothing. Then
the rebels left The next day the Spaniartls
left in a body to seek safety in city
protected by Spain.
CUT ALMOST TO PIECES.
An estate near by was visited. a harmless
black man was seized, tn ken into the woods
and cut almost to pieces by the ma chetes in
the hands of his fellow-bla ckmen. The
next day his body was found, race down.
Pinned To his shirt was Il piece of paper
inscribed in Spanish. II stated that he was
Executed by verbal orders an enemy
of the revolution"
Later hind estate was surrounded at
night, " hen a white and black Cuban
were taken by the rebels into the woods
Subsequently their bodies were found al
most backed to pieces by Inachets. No
defense had been made and no resistance
offered
The reported blowing up of train be-
tween the city of Guantanamo and its port
on the north side of The island, as greatly
magnficd A train with soldiers and
supplies was on route to Guanatamo when
rebels in an adjoining thicket by means OF
a wire exploded some dynamite. Two
wheels of the foretruck of n lefgagc car
were blown off Some of the soldiers dis
embarked when the rebels poured in
volley ard fled 10 the nearby hills. A
number of the soldiers " ere wounded but
no one was killed.
TAKE ALL THEY WANT.
To-day the city of Guantanamo, in TIE
heart of the sugar-producing district, is
strongly garrisoned Nearby outposts
have been created. They are protected by
stockades. The area over which the rebels
have wandered unchecked daily is being
lessened. The rebels have no difficulty
in mainta ming themselves.
They are the fin lie steele buccaneers.
They simply take whatever they want
cattle, horses, supplies, etc, occasionally
lootng small hamlets and towns. If
opposed they set fire to the towns. That
part of the department of Santiago de
Cuba is overrm by thousands of rebels.
1t is fine. cattle country. Huge herds
Craze there. An observing foreigner now
there said that 1t is free lunch just
now, but they win have to reckon with
Spain later in the game"
Near Santiago dc Cuba. at the Juraguay
mines, where Americans have 100000
Invested. the rebels have been very cruel
They surprised three men. Spaniards. on
an ore truck. Two escaped: the tsird, who
was defenseless, they hacked to pieces with
their macheteS
Much of the rebel news OF the victorious
type, he said, was grossly exaggerated.
In concluding, the informant said that
Cuba I.ibrc would mean black republic.
Under it life would not be safe and bust
ness would be impossible.