Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-04-04
SEE HERE, WEYLER'
Can You Answer These Charges
Of Hellish Atrocity?
ALLEGED DEvILTRY OF sPAN1ARDs

Committed Against the Helpless, Both
Men and Womeu-Cool Diabolism of .
Priest-How He Would End the Insur.
rectiou-Lseutenant's Statement rs &c
His distractions from the Captain Gen.
erai-Details Of Butchery.
NEW ORLEANS, April 4. The Plea
yune's special Havana letter, dated March
81. gives the following as facts accurate
in every respect: To appreciate the condi-
ton OF this country l will relate what l
heard in the city OF Trinidad while there
few days ago. Rev. Father Cuervoy
Canonigon said: Il believe that all the
Cubans possible should be killed of and
clear the country and in that manner
make room for families which would be
brought over from Spain to Cuba The
negroes and mulattos should all be killed
of silently and without exciting any COM
ment and their property confiscate1.
Therefore, when we would bring families
over from Spain and colonize the island
We could give them this confiscated prop
erty and they could make good start in
life.
Lieutenant Says weyler Will Stop Talk.
"The Cubans who send their children
to tn, United States to be educated should
DO taken hold Of by the police and quietly
placed where they would do the least
harm, because those Americans havc re.
publican ideas which are the real cause Of
the present desire OF the Cubans to revolt.
The Yankees are the only people who
sympathiZc with the Cubans and they
are responsible for this war" Lieutenant
Corral y Pedroso, of n cavalry battalion,
made the statement in the presence of
various persons that he had struck down
with his sword two negroes, and further
added that when he left for the field he
killed every Cuban he could get hold Of
on the simplest charge, as every Cuban
was AN insurgcnt at heart, and that Gen.
cral Weyler had given instructions to tho
commanders Of the operating columns to
dispose of as many insurgent sympathizers
as possible: that he would stop any talk
and would stand between the officers and
the public, but that the insurgents must
be put an end to ut all hazards.
Cuban Ladies i'm a Rebel Camp.
While Mt trinidad paid visit to an
insurgent camp commanded by one OF
and found that the wives and daughters
Of great many Of the insurgents were
with them. Those women are not camp
women, but some of the ladies who two
months ago were shining social lights Of
the cities of Matanzas, Cardenas, Glen.
iuegoes, Santiago, Camaguey. and Ha-
vana The camps were orderly, we'll es.
ta5lished, and disciplined.
On the plantation Salvador" of the
Comte do Barreto Lieutenant Bctan.
court. II Cuban by birth, belonging to the
troops of General Aldccoa, shot to death,
after hacking him with his machete, q
defcnseloss colored resident who was on
his way to join his family. On the first
machete blow he lost an arm, and on the
second his head.
Devilish Treatment Of an Old Man.
In Bainoa DR.. Vodal Sotolongo per.
formed an operation OH n poor old man,
and when he was convalescent he was one
night arrested and taken to the armory OF
the Guardia Civil, where they dashed him
all over the body, and in spite of his cries
laughed and took him on the outside OF
the town, where they compelled him to
dig n grave in which they buried him
after he died from the i'll treatment he
had received In the city of Batabano the
chief of police and other local authorities
arrested three individuals and took them
on the outskirts of the town where they
were butchered anu left dead on the road
side. the murdercrs bringing tho report to
the city that the insurgents had killed the
men.