The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-05

| before the major for examination; the
major himself will be here tomorrow.
After he left 1 found the door of the
house on the hill broken open. A
quantity of bottled beer had been
taken, also my saddles and brides and
many other things. Gloves and other
articles of women's apparel were tossed
in the yard. I went to the station.
The drug store looked as if it had been
visited by mad bull All the shelves
and drawers were thrown out and
smashed. An empty store opposite
was in the same condition. The coun-
ter was thrown down and the door
posts hacked by hatchets. The large
coffee mill was broken and all was in
disorder.
An account of this work was what
the soldiers had whispered to the cap
tain. The officer had remarked to me
with a sheer, The insurgents are very
kind to you, as no harm has been done
here. I was surprised on the follow
ing Wednesday morning to hear shots
as of several volleys of musketry
About 300 soldiers, infantry and cav
airy, were in fact out, having sur
rounded my house. Soon my son ap-
peared, and under command of Cap
tain Gerezo Martinez, in most
BRUTAL AND VULGAR TERMS
he ordered all in the house to go out
side. The soldiers rushed in and drag
ged me out by the coat collar. My
wife, with her baby, was taken out, a
rifle being pointed at her breast.
Elutrie zanabria, negro servant, who
was badly frightened, tried to hide.
He was pulled to the front and before
my eyes a soldier struck him a heavy
blow with his Ratchet, cutting him
deep in the head and arm, leaving a
pool of blood on the floor An order
was then given to take into custody
all men on the estate. Near tree be-
yond hill a hundred yards from the
house 1 stopped about forty PAGES from
the others to talk to the captain who
had been at the house the week before.
AT that moment, negro named Man.
uel Febels made a dash to escape.
Some cavairymen rushed after him,
firing. He fell and they mutilated his
body, taking out his eyes. The officer,
enraged at the negros flight, pulled
out his sabre and shouted to the others
of his party, Get down on your knees.
They obeyed and he had them bound
and kept in that position a quarter of
an hour. While 1 was talking to the
captain my wife and 5-year-old child
we're
BEGGING FOR MERCY
for me. The cavalrymen helped them
selves to corn for their horses and
finally started. The officers told me
that my nephew's life and my own
were only spared because we were
Americans and they did not want to
get into trouble with the United States.
They ordered me to San Miguel with
out waiting a moment. Their expla-
nation of the raid was that the rebels
had fired upon the troops and that they
saw one man run as he fired into my
house, and that under the majors in
structions the whole family should
have been killed. My wife and child
rem were in agony while 1 was away.
My employees were all taken by the
troops. Their names are Thomas
Linares, Cariaco Linares, Eleutrie
Zanabria, Felix Cardenas, Juan Darte
and Florencio Rodriguez. An officer of
high rank in the Spanish army passed
my place after 1 left and came to me
here and said: I know what happened.
The man in command is unfit to be an
officer of Spanish troops 1 heard that
my men had been taken to the Spanish
camp and shot while eating breakfast.