The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-15

province Of Havana he could locate his camp
and IN Eve minutes have a chair. Ss the who,s
machines, and other household articles which
the people had to leave behind. All the large
tho Gu hSns' had an dnssstpoyed. so that the spsnlSrds
could not uso them for fortihcations. al tno
small houses the Spaniards had destroyed.
SPANISH MASSACRE AT HOSPITALS.
Describing the assault OF tho .Spaniards upon
n hospital. DR.. VIM said that he found In one
case. on getting up in the morning and golng
the patient and twelve paciftos. Three OF these
were women and two were year-old babies. The
s sLPi, s5dn had Go,vh held S,th them moc gSp es 'n At i sssst f@p
time when the Spaniards came upon q hospital
just as tw Q men were bringing a cup OF conee 70
his hand for the coffee, but the men handed ~
past him to the patient, w~herenPon the SpaniaTa
soldiers Killed the two men and set about killing
others. This work. tho doctor said, was done
bad RSd r expected ' would crush tie revolution.
The doctor said that the taxes were eol,ee ese
BY q detachment Of men zen t iron n,, EaSn ref o ! IN
first of each month the taxes are collected
from railroads and plantations that nro still
goes into The towns. Tho doctor said that the
Cuban. soldiery fought willingly, that they
that when they read soS,elimes that the junta
talked about buying the island from Spain they
protested that The Jun tSoi ha ,hs NO ,T right s 70 pay
for. There was not a fighting man in the army
who wanted to surrender, although there were
some who .werc not soldiers, and never would
surrendered to tho Spanish forces, came to
America, and to the Junta. who. to get them
lines.
men who lived in Havana, dudes, as wo would
call them here and some bachelors with diplomas
from the, college. They would come back to
you get us horses and negroes and we want com
mands in tho army The officers would say:
yYoq gem Sss yourself Sps re hof rs i,s and negroes Ssd i t SSeg
would fight for n day or two and then slip into
the brush and wait their chance to come into
the Spanish lines
spANIARDs FIGHTERS.
DR.. winn said that the Cubans fought cavalry
always, but remarked that 1t was hard to fight
infantry without making q pitched battle. He
troublesome, even when they did come out of
the cities; they would como in sight Of the in
surgents and open fire. but not within a distance
to hurt, 80 the Insurgents did not care much.
The Spaniards would stay there and shoot for
half q day and then 70 back to town; He saiidd
with anything to eat. and that they always went
to the nearest town at 5 o'clock to camp;
Cuban population living in Cuba Libre was good.
and that the Cuban soldiers were pretty husky
enemy of the spanish soldiers, and that they
were dying rapidly. He said that Gen. Castillo
had kept practically the same ground ever since
the invasion. He said that the Cubans on the
whole had gained ground since the beginning of
the war. and had gained strength and gained
knowledge.
Or. II. W. Danforth of Milwaukee, who was
with President Cisneros for a year in Cuba, said
that the civil Government, as far as his observa-
ton extended. had power over the whole Of
Cuba outside of the cities. 1t had the power
through the Governors of the States, who were
appointed by the President or elected by the peo-
ple. The President had procedures established
about every three to six leagues all over the
island.
DR.. Danforth said that he was of the opinion
that freedom eventually would be obtained by
the Cubans. and gave as his reasons that in the
last war Spain had on the island $50, 900 SOL
diers, although only two provinces were in insur-
~rection, while the revolutionists then had only
from 5000 to 1000 men and yet kept up the
struggle for zen years: whereas now the whole
island was in insurrcction, and while Spain had
only 800, 600 men in the field the revolutionists
had from sc. 600 to $4,000. He explained that
800, 900 were the whole number of men that
Spain had sent to the island. and said that on
Jan. l she had there $4,000. DIR. Danforth
said:
81 desire most positively and emphatically to
deny the OF Mr.. Olney or President
Cleveland that the Government is a military
usurpation. l claim that there is a civil Gov
eminent. exercising its functions and in force
to-day just as much as the civil Government in
the United States"