The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1896-10-10

In the French Dag. The troops putse
In the door. dragged N. Duarie outside
and cut him to pieces with their ma
chetes on his own doorstep. The nag
was soaked with blood.
An lndiscrlmlnate slaughter OF the
plantation hands and their families
was now begun. Men, women ana
small children we're driven from their
houses and cut down In the usual bru-
tai manner. The "ingonlo' and all the
surrounding buildings. the storehouses
and the cottages Of the plantation ne
groes, were set FIRE to. and the bodies
OF the victims, dead or dying were
thrown among the flames. Only one
escaped. a Chinese coolIe, who sue
ceeded In making the woods near by
with six Mauser bullet holes In him.
This Is the story OF the 0yaliia mas
sacre. as Il is told without variation
by peasants Of the neighborhood' None
OF the "pacihcos," as I have Il from
officers who were there, took part In
the sklrmlsh between the troops and
the insurgents. but lay. overcome with
fear In their houses as long as the mr.
ing continued.
ON the 9th OF May rode with the
cavalry squadron OF Col. Robado and
Mai. saenz over the field Of the marsa-
ere. Il wac a hurried visit. for a coll
umn was then after us. and could de-
vote but thirty minutes TO study Of
the remains that still exist OF the
butchery. The sites OF the cottages and
outhouses were gray heaps OF ashes.
OF the sugar house itself, a tin roof
still remained. covering mass OF
rusty machinery and eharred timber.
In the trunk under the great driving
wheel counted the charred remains
OF seven OF the victims; uppermost
OF all. wedged between the wheel and
the masonry. lay the body OF a negro
woman. with a baby in her arms. The
,lothlng had been burned away. but the
haired flesh remained. with a portion
of her leather slippers on the body
that had been most exposed to the
flames the bones were visible. The
negress lay In an almost natural post
ton. clasping the infant tight to her
breast with a hugging, elutching en-
brace. that death had only intensified
The body OF the child was but little
disintegrated by the danes. The
other bodies In the pit were reduced "a
charred skeletons. The nogreSs and
her child had evidently been the last
thrown In.
There were other bodies, they told
me. In the debris OF the central part
Of the building. which had fallen in
but / had not time to look for them.
was also told that the bodies OF two
other women and two little girls were
thrown into the burning cottages and
entirely consumed.
Beneath the "ingenlo" there Is eel
TAR. where were the furnaces that heat
81 the great iron sugar boilers. There
was also a little bakeshop In this cell
lar. l went down a short flight OF
steps TO the chamber where the fur
naces were, and here ! found the re-
mains OF a Chlnaman. one Of the coolies
employed about the place. perfectly
preserved. In a mummihed state.
examined the body very carefully
There we're wounds Of the machet'
about the back and legs, as though h
had been driven into the cellar, bu
none OF them was fatal The body wal
wrlthed in intense agony and the fac
nxed In an expression Of extreme hor
ror. Parts Of the clothing were singed
and there was every Indication tha
the man had been driven into the eel
lar. locked IN. and forced 10 de iron