The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1896-09-30
WEYLER'S MERCILESS WAR.
HORRIBLE MASSACRE OF AN EN-.
TIRE FAMILY.
A Holocaust of Children. Spanish Sol
diers Shut Them in a House
and Then Fire 1t. Other
Cruelties.

wen authenticated stories of barbar-|
Gus acts by the Spanish troops continue
to reach the United States. Recently
the Havana papers published an account
of an alleged battle near Churcho de
Arce, in which, after an hours desper
ate fighting, the Spanish drove the reb-
els, killing nineteen and taking MANY
prisoners. The papers suggested that
the governm Mt should reward Colonel
Agui?era, the Spanish commander, for
his bravery.
The facts in regard to the "battle"
are as follows:
On September 18th ten rebels went to
attack guerrilla band that had started
from Vegas to the field. When the reb-
els, in ambush, were ready t. attack
they noticed strong body of soldiers
coming toward them. Hidden in high
grass, the rebels let the soldiers come
close and then fired YolIey, killing
two officers and wounding three sol
diers.
The troops fired back volley into the
grass, hitting nobody, as the enemy
could not be seen. Lieutenant Aguilera,
who commanded the troops, and came
from his headquarters, Nueva-Paz.
went, after this action, toward a COLONY
near Pablo Diaz.
WOMEN AND CHILDREN MAssACRED.
There he found family composed of
twenty-five persons, men, women and
children; he asked if they had seen any
rebels in the neighbOrhood. On receiv-
ing negative answer he ordered a gen
eral slaughter of everybody, including
children from one to ten years old.
A young man begged to be killed in
stead of his mother, who was in deli
cate condition, but he was killed with
machete in her presence. A bayonet
was then thrust TIN ough the body of the
mother
The little children were first piLcheI
with the end of the bayonet, then finish
ed with the machete. OF the twenty
five human beings present in that colony
were butchered and six made
their escape, hiding themselves in the
cane, where they remained until late at
night, when they could come out safe.
Besides truthful witnesses, the men of
the guerrilla boosted of what they had
committed when they went back to We
gas, about two miles from the colony.
On the 18th of September, three days
after the slaughter, a traveller passed by
the spot of the murder and was Mortified
at the number of carrion crows devour-
ing the bodies. None had been buried.
HOLOCAUST OF CUBAN CHILDREN.
On September 18th Colonel Aguilera
started with his troops and the guerrilla
from Nueva Paz toward the sugar estate,
Cuervo. Near place called Cuzco, he
saw house, went to it and found only
two children in it.
He asked were their parents were;
they answered they had gone after some
fuel to prepare their breakfast and
would soon return.
The colonel ordered the three children,
ten to fourteen years old, to be locked
up in the house, and after this was done
he ordered the guerrilla to set fire to the
house. The guerrilla, Mortified, disobey:
ed at first, but under the threats of
Aguilera they acted, and the house was
burned down with the children IN it.
IToTTER1NG OLD AGE NOT SPARED.
After that house was burned Aguilera
went on, and on his way met an old man
seventy years old, carrying vegetables,
who was accompanied by two negroes.
He was asked where he was going; he
answered he was taking the vegetables
home to Nueva-Paz. The colonel order
ed him to be killed with the machete,
and the negroes also.
The body of the old man was thrown
into well near by, where he was found
two days afterwards, traced by his hat
that was found near the well. The bod
les of the two negroes we've chopped to
pieces and thrown into cave, where
they were found
Don't trifie away time when you have
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