The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-04-04
to the city that the insurgents had

to the city that the insurgents had
killed the men.
In the village of San Felipe, soldiers
under command of Colonel Galbis and
Colonel Linares captured three in
offensive laborers and hacked them to
pieces, amid the laughter of the
troops, who shouted that they could
not serve the insurgents any more.
In the city of Bejufal, Brig. Calixto
Ruiz was waited upon by seven Cuban
insurgents who wished to surrender,
as they were suffering from bilious fe-
yer. He welcomed them and assured
them they would not be troubled.
However. the following day they were
taken out and shot.
On Colonel Marquee de Corvera will
eternally rest the honor of having en-
tered a town and giving his soldiers
the order to shoot everyone. no matter
who they were AS a result the wo
men and children, the sick and the
dying were butchered with steel. This
has happened again at Lugane, San
Jose, Caralfalso and Jesus del Monte.
In Guatao alone l am informed by
reliable sources that the number of
killed, including women and children,
was forty-seven persons.
Lieutenant Corral PedroSo of a
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 insurgent at heart, and that
General Weyler had given instructions
to the commanders of the operating
columns to dispose of as many insur-
gent sympathizers as possible, and
that he would stop any talk and would
stand between the officers and the pub
lie; but that the insurgents must be
put an end to at all hazards.
To further appreciate the condition
of this country 1 viii relate what 1
heard in the city of Trinidad while
there a few days ago The Rev. Father
Cuervo Y. Canonigo said:
Il believe that all the Cubans DOS
sible should be killed off, and clear the
country, and in that manner make
room for families which can be brought
over from Spain to Cuba. The negroes
and mulattoes should all be killed off
silently and without making any COM
ment, and their property confiscated.
Therefore, when we would bring fam
lilies over from Spain and colonize the
island, we could give them this con-
fiscated property 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 could do the least
harm, because those Americans have
republican ideas, which are the real
cause of the present desire of the Gu
bans to revolt. The Yankees are the
people who sympathize with the Gu
bans and they are responsible for this
war"
While at Trinidad I paid a visit to
an insurgent camp commanded by one
of their leaders, believe by one La
Crete-and found that the wives and
daughters of a great many of the in
surgents were with them. These wo-
men are not camp women, but some
of them were ladies who months ago
were shining social lights of the cities
of Matanzas, Cardenas, Cienfuegos,
Santiago, Camaguey and Havana. The
camps were orderly, we'll established
and disciplined.