The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-03-23
lNERlCANS UNSAFE IN CUBA.
nan STATE OF AFFAIRS REPORT
ED IN 4 LETTER.

rbe writer Claims Spanish Troops
RiddIed His House With Bullets in
IN Attempt TO. Assassinate Him.
rte Country Districts Reported
St~e,vn With COrpses Left for the
VuItures to Eat.
Jacksonville, Fla, March 2-The fol-
,,uine letter was received in this city
,-ss+erday by a prominent gentleman of
-hfs citv. from an American in Cuba: 4
r-r7ta TO you a few days ago and yester-
s., received your letter of the third,
M first l have had from you since l left.
was so glad to get it as it was 50
- and full of news of yourself and the
-tHaran How much / long to be with
,., as it seems such a time since ! left,
f,,t see no possibility of leaving the
,ssnd as things are getting worse every
5sv and owing to the last news from
,.onr side. the feeling against us here is
~ bitter. and / am fearing from one
ds,. to another some public manifestation
ogsinst us and some one will perish.
.As 10 my going to the country, it is
slmost suicide. as they are killing people
r,ght and left and letting them lay in the
colds IN be eaten by the vultures- ! have
s.an ten of those unfortunates after ten
~ twelve days killed, among them a
.,or friend of our and another friend
bss 5isappeared and fear that he has met
with the same fate
"T have been told that there are here
scattered about thirty or forty bodles'
Inf did not care to see more than the
ten I saw as it made me sick, the slsht
1 and the smell 4-,-; 17ort,,-
,o+alv for me. tha first day l happened
4 t6 be away from the piazza, as hdu lhe
"A i,abir Of sitting out there after breakfast.
A They seemed to know Y. AS tne IoiCc
Il If tr0ops PASSED the place from the hlSn
road they fired a volley at the mousse anu
most all the shots struck the piazza.
the second time l was going from tlie
Mace to another plantation ana on lhe
road that separate that place from ours
again they fired at me, but IOrJunalely,
9 both cases no harm was done. was
ryi-ed Inv friends to leave the place,
and am intimate friend begged me TO re
main an night at his house, ana WOuld
not hear TO my staylhS AT my 9WH pidI ~
and they were so kind to me during lhe
three or four days 1 was with them that
DO not know how l viii ever repay
"6nr friend. the doctor, is also on the
missing list / hone he has been able to
get away, otherwise he VIII meet the
same face that so many others nave met.
Il do not care to mention names, other
wise l could relateNto you great many
pages to tell you Of so many atrocities
that have been committed in this COM
munity. / could not believe 1t at first un-
til ! made up my mind to go and see
them myself. There have been caSes of
a poor man killed before the eyes of his
own wife ana children for no reason what
Fever.
.4f-I should ever see you again. I will
tell YOU things that will make your blood
run cold | have often heard Of the cuei-
ty of these people, but L must confess
did not believe half of it until / saw with
my own eyes, and now | am ready to be-
leve anything that is told of their hor-
rible deeds"
Madrid March PA dispatch to the
Imparcial from Havana says that Gen.
aVlla has had another severe fight with
Maceo's force in the vicinity of Bahiai
HondO to the westward of Havana. No
details of the battle are given.
dispatch from Havana states that
the rebel leader Perez was killed and the
. insurgent chief NernOa wounded in their
last encounter with the troops. The dis
patch adds that the rebels have hanged
near Guanes sixteen peasants of Span
fish origin
The representative of the United Press
learns that the government has decided
not to buy the cruisers that were offered
III to it by the Glasgow builders. The Span
ish naval commission that was sent to
England to examine the. vessels have made
a report against them, adding that the
Warships now on sale in England are not
OF the type or tonnage required by Spain.