Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-04-09
A TERRIBLE STORY.

New ORLEANS Especial. 1.-The Picay-
une's special Havana letter says:
In the city of Batabano, the chief of
police and other local authorities ar
rested three individuals and took
them on the outskirts of the town,
where they were butchered and left
dead on the roadside, the murderers
bringing the report to the city that
the insurgents had killed the men.
In the village of San Felipe, the SOL
diers under command of Col. Galbis
and Col. Il. Laneres captured three
inofensive lab0rers and hacked them
to pieces omid laughter of the troops,
who shouted they could not serve the
insurgents any more.
In the city Of Bejufalbrig, Calixto
Ruiz was waited upon by seven Cuban
insurgents who wished to surrender as
they were suffering from bilious
fever. He welcomed them and assured
them they would not be troubled.
However, the following day they were
taken out and shot dead.
The butchery of the peaceful inhab-
itants of Guatao still remains una
venged, and there is no likelihood
this small-sized Armenian incident
will meet justice. The living are too
terrified to bear testimony against the
Spanlards. On Col. Marquee de Cor
vera will eternally rest the honor of
having entered the town and giving
his soldiers orders to shoot everyone,
no matter who they were. As q result
women and children, sick and dying,
were butchered. This also happened
at Lugane, San Jose, Corral, False and
Jesus Del Monte. In Guatoa alone. /
am informed from reliable sources,
that the number killed, including
women and children, was forty seven
persons.
Troops under command of Gen.
Ecaugue entered the towns Of Linn
omar and Lumidero, Boosting that they
h ad sent thirteen rebel sympathizers
to meet their fate, and showing their
bloody arms as proof Of their butch
cry.
Lieutenant Corral Y. Pedrose of the
cavalary battlion, made the statement
before various persons that when
he left for the field be killed every
Cuban he could get hold OF on the
simplest charge, as every Cuban was
an insurgent at heart, and that Gen.
Weyler had given instructions to
commanding operating columns to dis
pose OF an many insurgent sympahtiz-
ers as possible, and he would stop any
talk and stand between the officers
and the public, but that the insurgents
must be put to an end ct all hazards.
To enable you to appreciate the con-
dttion of this country, l will relate
what heard in the city Of Trinidad
while there few days ago. Rev.
Father Cuervoy Canonigo said: II
believe all Cubans possible should be
killed of, and clear the country and
in that manner make more room for
families which would be brought over
from Spain to Cuba. The negroes
and mulatoes should all be killed of
silently and without exciting any
comment and their property confis-
Gated. Cuban who send children to
the United States to be educated
should be taken hold of by the police
and quietly placed where they would
do the least harm, because those
Americans have republican ideas
which are the real cause of the pres.
cent desire Of the Cuban to revolt
The Yankees are the only people who
sympathize with the Cubans, and they
are responsible for this war;"