The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-13
BUTCHERED BY SPANIARDS.
ATROCITIES COMMITTED BIZ THEM
IN SANTA CLARA PROVINCE.

A Four-Hcar-Old noJ KILLED By . Bayonet
Thruat-Pacincos ana Even rnVniid Ola
Women shot-A Mother Cut to Pieces with
R1achotes-spanish Troops SUFFERING for Food.
HAVANA, Oct. 9.-The correspondent Of THE
BUN In Santa Clara province, now In the field
with the Cuban division commanded by Brig
adler l. Gonzalez, sends tho following account
OF crimes committed by the Spanish army in
that part OF the island.
On Sept. 10 IL Spanish column among the
hills FL Nancy, near Jatibanico, found seven
families of %pacilcos who had there escaped the
evils of the concentration. They were all driven
to the town Of Arroyo Blanco and on the way
the women were robbed and assaulted by the
soldiers. After marching for moro than ten
Spanish leagues, barefootcd, they arrived In the
utmost state Of exhaustion. One OF the women
demanded her child and was tortured to make
her keep silent. A detachment OF Cubans fol-
lowed the column to rescue the victims, but
without success, although several volleys wero
exchanged with the column.
The Cuban Lieutenant, Angel Hernandez,
accommodating among the hills FL Nancy,
where the families wero made prisoners, found
near a tree the missing child Of the hapless
woman. The child was dying, wounded in tho
chest by the thrust Of a Spanish bayonct. Iie
was treated by u Cuban doctor, but died In
two hours. He was only. 1 years old.
IN INC department OF BallnarltO inc pour
countryman, Susano Garcia, was living In a hut
with his wife, his mother.in-law, 81, years old
and an invalid, and three children. The
old, woman, ;and:carried Garcia, his vito and tho
children prisoners to the town of faYualay;
s SUI deailty'o " heart f fsiiare PRODUCED SduSa" by yi her SUI SUI.
ferings.
pacifico,, Bartolo Ramos, was found by the
family. lie was murdeFoi. The Cubans buried
him. Several. bayonet wounds were in his
On Sept. 10 an old Cuban woman named Ana
Boil WIS found by Il Spanish guerrilla near the
Same place. She was trying 70 escape to a near
was robbed and assassinated.
The same guerrilla, on tho same day, arrested
thc:pacidco Rafael Jimenez and carried him fet.
tered to the town OF Buenavista, where his wife
was dying from starvation. J,nenez went .en oHt
lowing day he was murdered and mutilated in
the streets OF the town.
one committed on Sept. 20, on the sugar estate
Dolores. Petrona Pla Santos and her husband,
dren among the mountains Of Cambao. There q
Spanish column discovered them that day, and
they were brought to the estate Dolores. The
wife OF Santos, on arriving at the estate, gave
birth to u child. Inc Spanish soldiers put her
on "a box OF ammunition and with their machctcs
nate santos tried to defend his wife, and fought
for her with his bare hands, but was quickly
overpowered and shot.
that evening Manuel F%'uentcs, IA prisoner OF war.
All those barbarous instances of Spanish cru
city have been corroborated by witnesses who
Joined the insurgent forces Of Brigadier Con
zales. A sworn affidavit of all the facts was
made and BrigadiersGOnZales signed it himself.
In several small engagements which THE
correspondent witnessed in September the
forces of Brigadier Gonzales We're victorious;
The Spaniards never pressed the fighting. and
always retired, before 1t becam more than a
%skirmish. They never venture out of their for
titled towns less than 1000 strong.
The situation of the Spanish troops In the
city Of Remedies is desperate. About 5000
soldiers are sick in the hospitals and the scarcity
Of food is causing terrible suffering.