The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-23
ATROCITIES OF SPAIN
AUTHENTIC STORIES OF THE CRUEL
TIES PRACTICED IN CUBA.
weyIer's Army on the March Leaves
Trail of Dead and Mutilated Bod
les of Unonending Citizens.
New York Press.

day are so revolving that she has allenated
the sympathies of all the civilized nations
in her struggle to subdue her revolted col
onies of Cuba and Manila Civilized war
fare is supposed TO be carried on In these
times in a manner well understood and &C
cording to well-defined rules of conduct,
based on common humanity. The Span
iards are carrying on war like barbarians.
They have retained all the cruelty which
they practiced on Aztecs and Peruvians in
the days of Cortez and Pizarro and have
lost the valor which accomplished them.
All that was great in the Spanish character
is gone; all that was base remains. The
Spaniards say that excuses are committed
by their opponents. This is no excuse. The
Indians, when they captured soldier
alive, used TO commit unspeakable torture
upon him. Suppose captive Indians had
been treated in the same way by the SOL
diers? A cry of horror would have gone
up all over the civilized yorld. and rightly
so, too. The soldiers would have been pun
ished to the full extent of the law and dis
missed the service.
In fact, it would have been impossible for
American soldiers to have committed such
atrocities. Such ideas would have never
entered their minds. But Spain finds no
word Of reproof for the crimes of her SOL
diers in the Philippines, and Butcher
Weyler' records nassacres as victories"
Did not Martinez Campos say that if Wey-
Ter came to Cuba 1.-THE very dead would
rise up against him." Here are some of
the things Spain has done recently under
the name of war:
Several of the native leaders in the prov
inec of CARTE. in the Philippines, surren-
dered to the Spaniards under the promise
of fair treatment. The natives were first
tortured. then disemboweled and their
bleeding bodies hung to the gates of the
city.
A batch of 1863 prisoners taken by the
Spaniards were placed in a small dungeon
under the walls of San Sebastian, where
they were Kept gaspng for air all night.
In the morning fifty-four of them were
dead. These are only sample cases. No
wonder that each man as he joins the
rebel forces signs his name with blood
drawn from his own arm to an agreement
to fight the Spaniards until death.
CARTE, which is in the hands OF the in
Surgents, Is only about seven miles from
Mania. In Cuba the insurgents go into
battle in couples, each man swearing to
the other. that he will do his best to get
the others dead body should he fall, off
the field. If it were left there it would be
mutilated.
SOLDIERS MURDER A CHILD.
Here are few of the incidents of the
war of the Spaniards in Cuba which have
been reported on good authority from time
to time. A child near the town of Car
rasi. in the province of Havana was pIay-
ing soldier with wooden gun in the yard
of his fathers house, when Captain Rad
aban rode by with a party of Spanish
troops.
WHO goes there?" shouted the captain.
by way of a joke
Cuba" promptly replied the little fell
low. Thereupon the soldiers beat the child
SO badly that he died the next day.
Near the town of Catalina, on the estate
OF San Juan de Paraiso, lived last August
one louis Diaz. peaceable farmer with
his wife and child. He went into the town
one day to buy food. The Spanish lieuten-
ant IN command or the fort there seized
him, kept him all night in the fort and mad
MIN shos In the morning. No motive ex-
cept desire Tor blood could be found for
this act.
Major Fondeviela commands a Spanish
column at Minas, i'll Havana province Al
Is the f1rSt town the railroad east of
havana and about fifteen miles from the
city. colonel Aguirre, who commands the
insurgent FORCES opposed to him, said last
september that tine course OF the SPANISH
column when it moves about the country
can be traced by the bodies of murdered
pacihcoS lett along the roadside" A pa
Chico is a native who takes no part in the
present conflict, a farmer or laborer who
tries TO be neutral and cultivate the land
In the town of Penalver Fondeviela or
dered the execution OF an entire family OF
nine persons because they were accused of
sympathy with the insurgents.
In one house in the same town the SOL
dlers Killed fourteen paclficos who had
taken refuge there. The column is accom-
panied by guide when it moves The
guide is generally trusted to point out " Ia
shall be Killed and who spared A farmer
is seen at work in the fields. If the guide
mis- MS nat the man is spared. If he pulls
his hat down over his eyes the man is
taken little way from his home and
| hacked to pieces with machetes.
A.SCcnliy .IrCe LOsrOvS SaInering pine
apples on piantauon near CargreJerd sat
| down under tree to rest at noon. tired
I Psnt @i' Rr .ner lapors Inc guerrlas from
riding by and killed them all from mere
wantonness, leaving their bodies to feed the
vultures.
nlorAKE MADE BY BULLETS.
There was the case of Angel Lanes. q
| Royalist and firm supporter of the Spanish
| government. He was walking about his
| plantation near Havana. Colonel Mariana
] was out on a rebel hunt" Somebody see.
ing Lanes. said: There is rebel who has
| hid his gum Without further question
Llanes was riddled with bullets Then the,
| found out who he was, and the colonei saia
| 'Ah, we have made a mistake" and pro.
| ceeded merrily on his hunting expedition
The Cuban commander in Havana prov.
| ince declares that hundreds of peaceablt
| farmers have been murdered by the Span
| ish troops simply because his troops have
| camped on their farms. A Cuban scout in
| Havana province fell from his horse ant
was captured by the Spanish under Aqua
| cate he was bound hand and foot, tiet
| with long rope to the tail or a horse anC
| dragged rapidly about over the ston,
| ground until the flesn was torn from IN.
| body. The Spanish soldiers meanwhile,
| shouted: Long live Spain"
| One captured CUBAN was led along with
| the Spanish column, his pace being acceIer
| ated every now and then by bayone
| thruStS. When he tell down from eXnaus
| zion and loss of blood he was dispatched by
| bayonet thrusts anu his body ieit- Dy tn'
| roadside after being Snockingiy mutllaled
| colonel Aguirre declared that all his mer
| who are captured are killed at once by tn,
| Spaniards, some being put TO death in
| manner too horrible for description. Thes.
| things take place, not in remote mountain
| regions, but almost within sight OF Ha
| Nana. some of the outraves ueinS perpe
| trated almost at the citys gates.
| General MelguiZo, after his night will
| Maceo at Iombas de 1erino. shot forty
| prisoners because he did not want to bs
| bothered with them. General Bernal ad
| Maceo at Tomas del Negro that he ha,
| had twenty-five prisoners shot TO avoid an,
! chance OF their escape. This piece of new.
| was sent out through government channel.
| at Havana, and Weyler raised Ned" will
| the press censor because he did not US,
| his blue pencil on it,
| One morning in September two dead bod
| les were found the beach near Nor
| Castle. One was that OF a young man ar,
| one of a middle-aged man. Their hands
bullet wounds in his back and five hole,
| made by bayOnetS i'm his stomach throa