The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-04-04
stories OF Atrocities Committed by
Spanish Soldiers All Confirmed
by Personal Investigation.
SOME OF THE VICTIMS SHOT
OTHERS TORTURED, FLOGGED AND
FINALLY HACKED TO DEATH.
All the People In Several Small Towns,
Women and Children, Sick and
Dying, Slaughtered.

NEW ORLEANS. April s.-The Plea
yune's special Havana letter. dated March
"a. gives this summary of events. personally
investigated by the writer. which is de-
clared to be accurate in every respect:
In Bainoa, DR.. Vodal Sotolongo made
an operation on a poor old man and when
he was convalescent he was, one night, ar
rested and taken to the armory Of the
Guardia Civil, where they lashed him all
over the body and, in spite of his cries, they
laughed and took him on the outside of the
town where they compelled him to make
grave, where they buried him, after ne died
from the i'll treatment he had received.
'On the plantation Salvador, of the Count
De Barreto, Lieutenant Betancourt. Cuban
by birth, belonging to the troops of General
Aldecoa, shot to death, after hacking him
with his machete, defenseless colored
resident, who was on his way to join his
family On the first machete blow he lost
an arm and the second his head
I'm the city of Batabano the chief of po-
lice and other local authorities arrested
three individuals and took them on the out
skirts of the town, where they were butch
cred and left dead on the roadside, the muir
derers bringing the report to the city that
the insurgents had killed the men.
I'm the village of San Felipe, soldiers. un-
der command Of Colonel Galbis and Colonel
Linares. captured three inoffensive laborers
and hacked them to pieces, amid the laugh
ter of the troops, who shouted that they
could not serve the insurgents any more.
In the city of Bejufal. Brieader Calixto
Ruiz was waited on by seven Cuban in
surgents. who wanted to surrender. as they
were suffering from bilious fever He well
coined them and assured them that they
would not be troubled However, the follow
ing day they were taken out and shot to
death.
THE butchery of the peaceful inhabitants
Of Guatao still remains unavenged and there
is likelihood that this small-sized Ar
menan incident will meet with justice. The
living are too terrified to bear testimony
against the Spaniards.
ION Colonel Marquee de Corvera will eter-
nally rest the honor of having entered
town and given his soldiers the order to
shoot every one. no matter who they were.
AS result, the women and children, the
sick and the dying. were butchered with
ball, in some cases, and with cold. biting,
again at Lugane San Jose, Corral Falso and
Jesus del Monte. In Guateao alone, am in
formed by reliable sources, that the number
forty-seven persons.
ION the plantation Jiquiabo, the property
OF Don Carlos Pedroso, in Jaruco towns,
laborer's shanty and. after tying Eiadio
Pedroso they shot his wife to death, one
Of the bullets striking her little child, which
was in her arms, and breaking her arm
I'm the plantation of La Serafna, of Don
Felipe Cruz Sergeant Altamirano shot an
aged laborer named Carlos Sanchez because
he refused to act guide for the Spanish
columns. In the same village, on the Az
carate plantation, the soldiers On duty there
shot one Luis Lugo without provocation."
SYMPATHIzERS KILLED.
'In the town of Jaruco. on the plantation
of Morales, the troops Of Colonel Tort,
commanding the Rural Guards, arrested
four men and one woman on the charge of
being insurgent sympathizers and took
them to the armory, where the men were
beaten and subsequently killed, as also was
the woman who refused to admit she was
in connection with the rebel forces. The
woman, named Margarita Pedroso, was
soon to become a mother.
"In the village of San Antonio de los
Banos, a man named Bonito I-ozada, sus-
pected OF insurgent tendencies, was shot to
Jaruco, the forces Of Colonel Tejeriso yio-
lated the women Of the family of Jose
"On the plantation Calixto of Juar An
tonic Hernandez, near San Antonio de las
regiment of Isabel, the Catholic, shot to
death an imbecile who had announced the
troops.
Schague entered the towns of Limonar and
Lumindero, boasting that they had sent
thirteen rebel sympathizers to meet their
fate, and showing their bloody arms as
proofs Of their butchery.
Lieut. Corral Pedroso, of cavalry bat
talon, made the statement in the presence OF
various persons that he had struck down
added that when he left for the field he
killed every Cuban he could get mold of, on
insurgent at heart, and that General Weyler
had given instructions to the commanders OF
the operating columns to dispose of as many
s he would stop % any % talk and would You'd stand tan be-
tween the officers and the public, but that
the insurgents must be put an end to at all
TO further appreciate the condition of this
country, will relate what l heard in the
city of Trinidad while there a few days ago:
believe that all the Cubans possible should
be killed off and clear the country, and in
that manner make room for families which
would be brought over from Spain to Cuba.
The negroes and mulattoes should all be
killed of. silently and without exciting any
comment. and their property confiscated.
over from Spain and colonize the islands,
we could give them this confiscated prop
erty and they could make a good start in
life. The Cubans who send their 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
the Americans have republican ideas which
are the real cause of the present desire OF
the Cubans to revolt. The Yankees are the
and they are responsible for this war;
while at Trinidad paid a visit to an in
surgent camp commanded by one of their
1ooI oIorc l,ol hxyn 4ra< md f.txo "A
that the wives and daughters of a great
many of the insurgents were with them.
Those women are not camp women, but some
of the ladies who months ago were shining
social lights Of the cities of Matanzas, Car
donas, Cienfuegos. Santiago, Camaeiay and
Habana- The camps were orderly, well es-
tablished and disciplined
PRESS CENSOR REPORTS.