The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-05-24
IS BOOK or BLOOD.
SRanfftails of Horrors commit
cd |ubn from 1SGS to 1873.

/
- Ethe Baltimore American.
The Iations that Capt. Gen. Wey-
g Ter M depended upon to enforce the
r usual bish methods against the Gu
= han iients render interesting "A publ
d CA ted twenty three years ago. deal
inc q he atrocities committed i'm the
D ysrrngf 1S6S-1S73, which has been placed
r an tlelves of the Enoch Pratt Ebra-
rv 1bok or pamphlet is entitled ''The
+ RooI Blood"-an authentic record of
{ the Ix adopted by modern Spain to
! 1 NH md 10 the war for the independ-
t | enc CUBA.
/ drahlmOst exclusively from Spanish
Soi1 and deals with details of The
bu1es committed curing the regimes
Of 5. Lersundi, Dolce. Cabellero de
no Cehalies, Pieltan and JOVeller,
tb1t three being representatives OF
/ tblanish Republic. Between Dec. s.
iS4d Nov. Is, 1873 incomplete records
s6that, exclusive of those slain m
~ there were 1927 political prisoners
| lied. OF these many We're shot on
pads when being taken TO the cities
! flial. HilarO FamayO was the nrst
ibt publicly executed, and while in
| y instances the names of the victims
Jar, there are i'm the Est such deslg-
| pms as the following.
! Ome rebel chiefs and many insur-
Is, of whom fate only the earth that
lives them in her bosom after they
shot, can render an account"
-Four prisoners"
IA Mexican general
Two spies.
Eighteen more sent TO Guantanamo to
ers.
= some prisoners of high rank"
An IDIOT
asarss as A4Glfaaoaaetca
unta, hanged, head down, by the Span
!. a. mulatto. 80 years Old"
zone who uttered sediious words"
"A lady Of % years of age, condemned
death for her crime of coneealing III
ar room a rebel.
zone who smet as rebel
For the crime of being an uncle 20
In February. 1863. a decree was publish
that all insurgents caught with arms
their hands should be shot Between
.at time and Nov. 10, 1873, there were A.
? prisoners taken, whose fate was never
ade known.
one hundred and ninety-One persons
ere condemned to death in the garotte
a military commission sitting In Ha-
ma; but they escaped execution by be-
& out of the reach OF the Spanish hang
an. EightX-tOur were delivered TO the
ilitarN courts by the captain-general
i'd many of them mysteriOusly disappear
\ Thirty-one were transported to the Pc
Il colony of Centa, and l65 We're sentenc-
to the chain gang for terms ranging
ON two TO ten years. Among the latter
ere many students and one woman.
To the barren and unhealthy island Fer
lndo Pc, off the coast of Africa, were
mt 250 of these. Many died during the
Usage or in the hospital after landing.
n idea of their position in society may be
I'd when it is known that Al were clerks,
farmers, II property holders, 10 carpen-
rs, > clergymen, 4 engineers, druggis Is,
lawyers, z administrators of plantations
bankers, brokers, 4 maSons, s notaries,
A surveyors, teachers, and
manufacturers.
About 12,000 persons suffered the cOnfis-
ton of their property, and of these 1000
ere women, whose only crime was that
ey were wealthy natives OF Cuba.
Some of the extreme measures reSOrted
by the Spanish authorities are inStanced
the pamphlet. On April 4. 1869, Count
almaseda issued a proclamation, in which
ordered that every man above the age
10 found away from his habitation, and
It able to show justifable motive there
T, should be shot; every habitatiOn that
d not float a white flag as a, sign of peace,
he reduced to ashes This order led Mr..
amilton Fish to write that "in the inter-
hoped the document was forgery
Capt. Domingo TrainO wrote in 1859.
IOre than three hundred spies and con-
traitors are shot monthly in this iuris-
1L lOll. 1Eell d40iiNf III LILY DdAiAs AdN e
ready disposed of nine, and it Will never
weary of killing"
Capt Pedro Pardon in the same strain
rOte in the same year: Not a single Gu
IN will remain on this island, because we
DOT all those we find in the fields, on the
rms, and in every howell We do not
ave a creature alive where we pass, be
man or animal. If we find cows, we kill
EN-; if horses, ditto; if hogs, ditto; if
en-. women, or children, ditto; as to
FUSES, we burn them. So every one re-
ives his due-the men in balls. the ami
ais in bayOnet thrusts. The island will
main a desert"