The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-05-21
SPAN. BOOK or BLOOD.
Spantsh Details OF Horrors Gornmiseeo
In Cuba From lS6s to 1878


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Es1As Srar-sh methods against the Gaoaa
trxz-xeErs rerEsr Interesting q P1osica-
TOT issued tHerey-tare~ years ago ces&-
Tag with TIE atrocities committed II TIE
struggle OF fSES-n-7. which has been
y&zce1 % The sleeves OF the Ezoch Pr2tt
library. The hoax or pzrpaies IS s7lflei
The Book OF Bloot'-an authentic record
Of the poSry adopted by ni5serr span
to pgt an end 20 the var fc- tie Hds-
Yerdszee Of Cuba
The material for the pzrphie. vss
drawn almost exclusively Tram s5e1-sa
sources. and deals with details O. tie
butcheries committed during The regimes
Of Gen. Le-Suzssi. Dolce. CabeIioo &c
Ros1as. ceAalses. Psei.an ard Joveler. the
last three being representatives Of the
Spanish republic. Between December 1,
lsse, and November Is. isss incomplete
records show that. exclusive % those
s-zlr IN hattie. there were 9.TS political
prisoners executed OF these many were
SHOT on the roads when being taken 70
the cities for tr.ai- Hiiaro Famayo was
the first patrsot publicly executed. AM
while in mos. instances the names Of the
victims appear. there are IN the list such
Designations as the following:
Some reh~i chiefs and many tnsur-
gents. Of whose fate only the earth that
receives them in her bosom after they
are shot. can render an account"
-Four prisoners
"A Mexican general"
Two spies"
Eighteen more sent to Guantanamo 20
Be tired. and SHOT on the way by volun-
teers"
Some prisoners Of high rank"
IAN idiot"
Five who had been hardened"
Fourteen members OK the Hacienda Ia
Panta hanged. head down. BY the Span
;ards'
"a mulatto 80 years old"
zone who uttered sedItious words"
a lady OF - years OF age, condemned
to death for her crime Of conceallns In
her room a rebel"
Zone who smelt as a rebel
For the crime OF being an uncle TO
Gen Quesada-"
fssnsd that all insurgents caught with
arms in their hands should be shot. Be-
tween that time and November i, lss3
there were i.ss2 prisoners taken, whose
fate was never made known
One hundred and ninety-one persons
were condemned 10 death in the garotfe
by a military commission sitting IN Ha-
vaaa; but they escaped execution by being
out OF the reach Of the Spanish hangmAn.
Eighty-four were delivered TO the military
courts by the esptsin-general. and many
OF them mystertousiy disappeared. Thir-
ty-one were transported 10 the penal col
ony OF Ceuts. and ls5 were sentenced 70
the chain gang for tel ms ranging from two
TO ten years. Among the latter were many
students and one woman.
To the barren and unhealthy island Fer
nando Pc. OF The coast OF Africa. were
sent go OF these Many died during the
passage or in the hospital after landing.
An idea OF their position In society may
be haN when IL Is known that Al were
clerks, 70 farmers. II property holders. 10
carpenters. clergymen. engineers. 1
druggists. lawyers. administrators Of
plantations. ? bankers. Q brokers. 4 masons
$ notaries. physicians, 4 surveyors,
teachers. and manufacturers
About ie,eo persons suffered the corfs-
cation OF their property. and of these l0o
were women. whose only crime was that
they were wealthy natives OF Cuba.
Some OF the extreme measures resor.ed
to by the Spanish authorities are instaneed
in the pamphlet On April T. rsss Count
Salnaseda issued proclamation. in which
be ordered that every man above the age
OF Is found awav from his habitation. and
not able 10 show iustihable motive there
for. should be shot: every uniuhabsted
home to be burned and every habitatfon
that did not float white flag as a sign Of
peace, 10 DC reduced TO ashes. This order
led Mr.. Hamilton Fish to write that I'm
the interest of Christianity and humanity
he hoped the document was a forgery"
Capt. Domingo Traino wrote In 1859.
More than 300 spies and conspirators are
shot monthly in this Jurisdiction Myself
alone with my band. have already disposed
of nine. and IL will never be weary OF
killing"
Capt. Pedro Pardon TN the same strain
wrote IN the same year: Not a single
Cuban vii remain on this island. because
we shoot all those ne find In the leIds.
on the farms. and in every howell We do
not leave creature alive where we pass
be Il man or animal II We end COWS. we
XII them; II horses, ditto: II hogs. ditto:
II men. women or children, ditto as TO
houses Ne burn them. So every one re-
esives his due-the men In balls the ami
mails in hdyonet thrusts. The island VIII
remain a desert"