The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-03-07

ped the man who was stamping on the
body in the street. saying:
"Do not ill-trcat the dead; they can
not retallate."
the men who were in Guatao
The murder OF the fevcr-striekcn
pntient as he lay helpless In his bed'
which ls depleted. was described in the
original news OF the AFFAIR. Another
drawing represents the shooting OF
pAnic-strickan sick man. VINO hah
crawled under his bed, being unable 10
fee.
houses which make up the wretched
little community OF working peopie.
was searched By the spanlards, In the
hope OF finding moro helpless lnd un-
resisting people to shoot II was, NJ.
Lul. nfirTrs, as clear n case or utterly
unproyoked and cowardly slaughter OF
Innocent people as has ever OCCURRED
in the annals OF barbaTops warfare.
The striking down with the butt OF
uusket OF woman pleading for the lifo
OF her sick husband was one OF the most
thrilling Instances OF british cruelty
told in last Thursdays cable account.
Mr.. Luks, besides obtaining an nctnni
sketch OF the episode, was told that the
poor woman, IN dreadful fright, fell
on her knees when one OF the Spanish
soldiers approached her house, ana
pleaded piteously. declaring over ana
over that her husband was "paciheo'
which means a citizen who had never
taken any part in the insurrection.
The soldiers heRrtless response with
the stock OF his gun has already been
described. and Mr.. Luks learned, before
leaving Havana, that the womans s
skull was fractured and that her death
was likely at any moment.
Dead and Prisonrrs.
The dead bodies OF the victims Of this
hcartless outrage were carelessly
dragged over the ground. often by
horsemen. and thrown roughly In
nile. TO be buried later hurriedly and
unsklllfully, by n negro who was press
cd into service for that task.
Another Photographic sketch repre-
sents the prisoners. bound, being taken
along the road 10 Mnrionan, the town
from which the Spanish relnforcemenIs
were sent.
II IA believed in Havana that the al
cnide OF Marianne. the marquis de Ger
vera, ordered the troops TO march
stralght into GuntRo, no matter where
the rebels went. and to massacre the In
hnbitants.
gtnnces OF the unprovokod killing OF
rnIikman. He lived in a small house,
hut in fact, iust outside the thorough
fare OF the little village. and as the
Spanish troops came along the road he
was standing in his wagon. loading u;
He was a well known man, and had
been serving his milk In Havana for
many years.
preaching soldiers, he stood up and
looked along the road to see the cause
OF II, and at once. by order OF an officer,
n yoliey was discharged At him and he
Was MT Leaplng from his wagon he
ran into his hut for shelter. Several
soldiers were thereupon dispatched
from the road, and they ran TO the
hut and shot the man dead. His body
wps afterward buried just behind his
hut. and not in the cemetery with the
others.
Mr.. Luks, who Is well known In New
York. and whose accounts OF the reck-
les cruelty Of the Spanish forces IN Cuba
are thoroughly trustworthy. remained
In Havana long enough after the Guh-
tao massacre to fully verify the stories
which he heard and 10 secure these
graphic sketches Of IL. which he man
aged to bring away with him. not
wIthstanding that he was searched by
Weyler's men on embarkinG.
The murders occurred on the after
noon OF Saturday. February e, ana
Mr.. I.uks left Havana on the 9th, nVe
days later. In the meantime he had
been busy collecting all the information
he could from reliable sources, Spanish
nS well as Cuban. He could not tell
that any other account would succeed
IN getting out Of Cuba, or that any story
would be sent abroad except the reports
doctored and sent out, by Weyler, SO he
obtnined all the facts he could TO bring
away In his memory, besides his
sketches.
Among all the horrors OF the Cuban
war, this bloody work at Guatno VIII
stand out prominently TO the eternal
sS,.rso ~ ,sNNyeytar. the Butcher."