Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-03-30

Mr.. c. E. Crosby, of New York. the
representative of the Chicago Record is
reported to have been killed while
watching with field glasses a combat
between the Spanish and insurgent
forces near Arroyo Blanco, close to the
boundary of Puerto Principe and Santa
Clara. He came to the island January
80, and is said to have graduated at st.
Cyr France"
Mr.. Crosby was not an experienced
newspaper man, but his energy supplied
any lack on that score and his correspond
ence, which was signed Don Carlos
was the best that came from the insurgent
side. Crosby was of English birth, and as
Consul General Lee suggests. he was edu-
Gated in France and graduated from the
celebrated military school of St. Cyr.
His work has been highly regarded.
Chicago, March 29.-The Record to-
morrow will say:
Mr.. c. E. Crosby, whose letters to
the Record have appeared over the sig
nature Don Carlos, joined the army
of Gen. Gomez early in February, hav-
ing made his way through the Spanish
lines after secretly communicating with
the rebel governor of the province Of
Santa Clara and receiving from him an
armed escort TO the headquarters OF
the Cuban commander. He was pres
ent at a number of the recent engage
ments at which there was hard fight
ing. A letter from the Records Ha-
vana correspondent, Crittenden Mari
oft. gives the information that some OF
Mr. Crosby'S correspondence has fallen
into the hands of the SDaniards on its
way through the lines, and the Spanish
authorities have been trying to seize
him, descriptions of his personal APP
pearance being sent broadcast through
the province of Santa Clara. His last
dispatch was received March q. hav-
ing been written in the camp Of Gen.
Gomez. near Arroyo Blanco, where he
is now reported to have been killed.
BY the same courier doubtless was
sent the important letter of Gen. Max
ino Gomez to President McKinla7 pub
Iished below. Mr.. Crosby copy OF this
letter reached the Record office yester-
day. having come by mail, as it was the
desire of the Cuban commander that it
should not be published before the orig
inal was in the hands Of President Nc
Kinley.
IF Mr.. Crosby has really paid with
his life for his courage and enterprise
the readers of the Record gain from him
as an eanest of his ability as a CORE
spondent knowledge Of the remarkable
letter which was sent by Gomez to
President Cleveland and which either
went astray or was kept secret by its
recipient, as we'll as this later commu-
nication which probably arrived at the
White House last night.
In the Field Near Sancti Spiritus.
March I, 1897.
The Hon. VIM. Mckinley, President of
the United States of America
"Sir:-General Weyler has arrived in this
district of Sancti Spiritus with a numer
Gus army. He comes not to fight nor to
EXPOSE his strength TO the forces with
which I defend these parts but as SAN
culinary and cruel general, who will avoid
combats and spread crime and desolaton
everywhere. II comes TO murder the peas
ants in the field. to kill the children, and
to drive our prosecuted and outraged wo-
men 70 the woods. leaving their homes 10
be burned. their hearths violated and their
gardens destroyed. This is how General
Weyler pacifies Sancu Spiritus or where
ever he may be. Then me authorizes those
who ask him for bread for their children
and alienation for their miserics. TO 90
out into the country and TO steal and de-
stroy whatever they may find
with this. permit me to send YOU copy
of letter which l had the honor to send
your predecessor in office, Mr. Grover !
Cleveland Ii is the hope that it may
move you to sacred action that induces |
me to take up my pen to trouble you
The letter in part is as follows:
"Sancti Espirtu. February 2, 1891
Mr.. Grover Cleveland, President of the |
United States:
"Sir:-Permit man whose soul is torn |
within him by the contemplation of unut- |
terabla crimes to raise his voice to the |
supreme chief of a people free, cultivated |
and powerful.
DO not I beg. regard this action as an |
inopnortune act Of officialism. You your |
self authorized It when YOU conceded to |
me place in your last message to Con- |
Congress.
/
as a request for Intervention in our af- |
fairs. We Cubans have thrown ourselves |
into this war. confident in our strength. |
The wisdom of the American people should !
alone decide what course Of action you |
should take.
u will not speak of the Cubans in arms J
No. I raise my voice only in the name Of /
unarmed Americans. victims of a fright |
f,,I cruelty. l raise it in the name of |
weakness and of innocence sacrificed. |
With forretfulness of the elementary prin- |
c;,1ss of humanity and the eternal max |
inns Of Christian morality-sacrificed bru- !
tal,,, in The closing days Of the nineteenth |
century. at the very gates of the great |
nation which stands so high in modern |
culture. sacrificed there by decaying Eu- |
r,Do,n monarchy. which has the sad glory |
~ setting forth the horrors OF the middle |
ages.
1T is logical that such should be the |
conduct of the nation that expelled the |
Lows and the Moors; that instituted and |
b,,ut m the terrible inQuisition; that es-
tabIisbed the tribunals of blood in the I
Netherlands: that annhilated the Indians |
I'D extermonated the first settlers of /
l,,,l,o. that assassinated thousands of her !
subjects in the wars of South African in
as,sndence. and that filed the cup Of /
IMMUNITY in the last Cuban war
at is not strange that such people |
s,ould proclaim murder as q system and |