Evening star., 1896-04-06

There were no sanitary restrictions. Sol
diers died and were buried by comrades as
carelessiy as though a bullet or saber had
caused the end Citizens of the place af
f1icted with the disease were visited by their
friends, who, also. when the cases proved
fatal, accompanied the remains to the
an unexplainable Indifference to the soourge
that was thinning the ranks of the soldiers
and the population Of the city at a rate Of
eighty per day.
ceptionally touching and cruel. certain
Spanish lieutenant named Feinoo. with
forty or fifty soldiers, came into SaEct.
Spiritus after surrendering to the rebels
small outpost fort, which they had been
garr;soning some twelve leagues away. The
lieutenant and his little party had made a
gallant defense of the place for seven or
eight days, but were finally compelled to
water and ammunition. The rebel leader,
Col Mirabal, whom Spain calls a bandit,
admired the pluck and bravery of Feinoo's
men, and after disarming them allowed the
entire band to return to Sancti Spiritus.
Feir 90 was stricken with the fever, but his
general ordered him court-martialed i'm
mediately, hawking into his ears that every
man Of the party should have suffered
to the hands of the rebels. Feinoos plea
that his men were nearly dead from hunger
and thirst when he at length surrendered
was of no avail, and the luckless young
room lying upon q stretcher and rolled in
thick canvas blanket. The court-rnartia!
was held on the second day after his re-
turn to town, and the poor fellow was so
far gone with the fever that he did not
open his eyes or speak during the proceed
:ngs A miserable farce was enacted, and
Feinoo was then and there sentenced to
death. Yellow fever carried out the sem
tence the following morning, and the heart
less brutes who wore Spanish shoulder
straps of high grade were robbed of the
fiendish satisfaction they would have had
/ of seeing this brave young officer shot down
for doing what any soldier who mad man.
| hood would do.
The death, disease, want and suffering at
sancti Spiritus, all combined, did not i'm
press me one 1.-THE as much as did this
| court-martial scene l said to myself If
this be sample Of Spain's methods in
| Cuba 1 am forever and eternally against
her and her hirelings upon this fair island.
The Rainy Season.
Returning to Havana at about the close
of the rainy season I was tempted to look
for the official records regarding the num-
ber Of deaths in the army during the sum-
mer 1 had heard Gen. Campos, Gen. Ar
derius and other prominent officers refer SO
often to the summer season that I was
ready to believe that 1t indeed was a tell
| ing one against Spain's forces in Cuba.
But was not prepared for the figures
spread DSlOre ME. Win tle> -ilHe months
| ending November 1 q total of 23313 deaths
! III the army were recorded. OF this number
| q, 200 were due to yellow fever and small
pox! They may, indeed, feel very happy
| that the terrible season is past, thought.
| But bringing the matter to its application
as regards the summer now opening in
| Cuba, what a power in favor Of the re-
bellion will disease WELD as against the
| greater army that Spain now has quartered
/ in the island. Weyler says there will be no
rest during the summer months. He pro-
| poses, so he tells us in later dispatches, to
| continue active operations against the enc
| my. What will be the death record in his
ranks whe:. next November comes around ?