The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-04-19
SP.fIN,S nook OF BLOOD.
Spanish Details OF Horrors Committe In
Cuba from sos to 1873.

The indications that Captain-General Wey-
Ter may be depended upon TO enforce the usual
Spanish methods against the Cuban insur-
gents render interesting q publication Issued
twenty three years ago, dealing with the
atrocities committed In the struggle OF 1905
1874. which has been placed on the shelves
of the Enoch Pratt Library. The book or
pamphlet is entitled 1.-The Book Of Blood
an authentic record OF the policy adopted by
modern Spain to put an end TO the war for the
Independence of Cuba.
The material for the pamphlet was draw
almost exclusively from Spanish sources. and
deals with details OF the butcheries committed
during the regimes OF Gems. Lersundi. Dolce.
Cabellero de Rolas. Ceballos. Pleltan. and
Jovellcr. the last three being representatives
OF the spanish republic. Between Dec. &, 1868.
and Nov. IS. 1873. incomplete records show
these many were shot on the roads when being
taken 70 the cities for trial: Hilar" Famay9
while in most instances the names of the vic
Tins appear. there are in the list such designa-
some rebel chiefs and many insurgente. 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"
Eighteen more sent to Guantanamo to be
tried, and shot on the way by. volunteers"
some, prisoners OF high rank
Five Who had been pardoned."
Punta, hanged, head DOM. by the spaniards."
one who uttered ~seditious words"
"A lady of twenty-six years Of age. con-
denned to death for her crime OF concealins in
For tho crime Of being an uncle to Gen.
Quesadn."
that ali ins%rScnts Caught with arms in their
hands should he shot. Between that lime and
N9y; Is: ls79, there We're 49, prisoners
one hundred, and ninety one persons were
condemned to death in the ,%garotte by a mill.
escaped execution by being out OF the reach Of
the Spanish, Ii ,ngman. Eighty four were de.
General, and many Of them mysteriously dis,
appeared. Thirty one were transported to the
PENAL A. r cho,n OF or mST Ior ' .nd sS ran wsne s ,ro@ tsd
To ten years. Among the latter we're many
students and one woman: ,- ,,.. r.
ESQ Of these. Many, died during the passage
their position N society may be had when 1T Is
known that Al were clerks. 90 farmers. II
4r ebrinee T.'" ! drur y isStnsrrS}"iSa"wyye rs, y ndmSinis.,
traitors OF plantations. 9 bankers. 3 brokers. 4
mason., $ notaries, o physicians. 4 surveyors.
: teachers, and 3 manufacturers
About l2,0Oo persons suffered the conGsca-
tion Of their property. and Of these 200 were
women, whose only crime was that they were
wealthy natives OF Cuba.
some of the extreme measures resorted 10 by
the spanish authorities are instanced in the
pamphlet. On April !, 1869, Count Nalma.
soda issued a proc ,amation, in which he ordered
that every man above the age OF Is found away
from. his hahItation., and not able to show u
iustihable motive therefor, should be shot;
every ,uninhabited home to be burned, and
every habitation that did not float a white flag
as a sign of peace. 10 be reduced TO ashes. This
order led MIR. Hamilton Fish TO write that In
the interest Of Christian civilization and hu,
mantty he hoped the document was q forgery"
capt. domingo Traino wrote in 1880: More
than three hundred spies and conspirators are
shot monthly IN this Jurisdiction. ,.Mysel;
alone, with my band, have already disposed
of nine, and II will never he weary OF killing"
Capt, Pedro Pardon in the same strain wrote
In the same year: no "A single Cuban will re-
main on. this island, because We shoot all those
we find in the fields, on the farms. and in every
howell, We do not leave a creature alive where
we pass, he II man or animal. II we fud cows,
We kin them II horses, ditto; II hogs, ditto; II
men, women, or children, ditto; as to houses,
we burn them, So every one receives his due
the men in balls, the animals in hRyonet
thrusts. The island will remain a desert" '