The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1896-04-04
SPANISH BABBARTTIES.
Statements Made by a Reputable
American Journalist.
HORRORS OF ARMENIA RECALLED.

Brutnlities Unequaled Outside of Darkest
Africa or Fasatical Turkey-The Annihi-
lation orCubans and ConHscation ofTheir
Property Urged by Priest.
NEW ORLEANS, April 4.-The Picayune's
special Havana letter. dated March 27,
gives the following summary of events
personally Investigated by the writer
which is declared to be accurate in every
respect:
In Bainoa DIR. Vodal Sotolongo per-
formed an operation on poor old man,
and when he was convalescent he was one |
night arrested and taken to the armory of |
the Guardia Civil, where they lashed him |
all over the body. Then they took him to |
the outskirts of the town. where they COM |
PEELED him to make grave in which they |
buried him after he died from the i'll treat |
ment he had received.
On the plantation Salvador" Of the
Count de Barreto, Lieutenant Betancourt
Cuban by birth, belonging to the troops
of General Aldecoa, shot to death, after
hacking him with his machete a defense
less oolored resident, who was on his way
TO join his family. On the first machete
blow he lost an arm and the second his
head.
In the city of Batabano the chief OF po-
lice and other local authorities arrested
three individuals and took them to the
outskirts of the town, where they were
butchered and left dead on the roadside
the murderers bringing the report to the
city that the insurgents had killed the
| men.
! In the village of San Felipe soldiers
| under commands of Colonel Galbis and
| Colonel Linares captured three inoffensive
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 Beiugal General Calixto
Ruiz was waited upon by seven Cuban in
surgents who wished to surrender, as they
were suffering from bilious fever Howell
coined them, and assured them that they
would not be troubled. However, the fol-
lowing day they were taken out and shot
to death.
The butchery of the peaceful inhabitants
of Guatao still remains unavenged, and
there is no likelihood that this small
sized Armenian incident will meet with
Justice The living are too terrified to
bear testimony against the Spaniards.
On Colonel Marquee de Corvera will
eternally rest the "honor'' of having en-
tered town and given his soldiers the
orders to shoot every one, no matter who
they were. AS result the women and
children, the sick and the dying We're
butchered-with bullets in some cases.
and with cold, glittering steel in others
This has happened again at Lugane San
Jose, Corral Falso and Jesus Del Monte
In Guatao alone, l am informed by relia-
BILE sources, the number of killed, includ-
ing women and children, was forty-seven
persons
On the plantation of Jiquiabo the prop.
erty of Don Carlos Pedroso, in Jaruco
township, q detachment of Spanish troops
assaulted laborer's shanty, and after
tying Eladio Pedroso they shot his wife to
DEATH one of the bullets striking her lit
tie child, which was in her arms, and break
ing her arm.
In the plantation of La Serafina of Don
Felipe Cruz, Sergeant Altamirano shot an
aged laborer named Carlos Sanchez be-
caused he refused to act as guide for the
Spanish column.
On the plantation of Juan Antonio Her
nandez, near San Antonio de las Vegas,
Captain Manuel Ruiz Adame, of the regi-
ment of Isabel the Catholic, shot to death
an inoffensive imbecile who annoyed the
troops.
Lieutenant Corraly Pedroso, of cavalry
battalion, made the statement in the pres
ence of various persons thai 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 gel
hold Of on the simplest charge, as every
Cuban was an insurgent at heart, and that
General Weyler has given instructions tC
the commanders to the operating column.
to dispose of as many insurgent sympa
thizers rs possible,
TO further appreciate the condition o
this country L will relate what l heard il
the city Of Trinidad while there a few day
ago. The Rev. Father Curvoy CanonigC
said: 81 believe that all the Cubans posi-
BILE should be killed off and clear the coun
try, and in that manner make room 70
families which would be brought owe
: from Spain to Cuba. The negroes an,
4 mulattoes should all be killed off, silentl,
! and without exciting any comment an,
) their property condscated, so that whel
we would bring families over from Spail
and colonize the island we would Civ
} them this oonflsoated property, and the
could make good start in life"