Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-11-22
THE HORRIBLE CONDITION
Ut Affairs in Cuba Abundantly Shown
by Yesterdays News.
Reconcentrados and Soldiers Dying
Like Sheep From Disease and
Hunger - Horrible Episodes OF
Daily Occurrence : Ravages of
Small Pox-Disertions to the In
( surgents-Outrage on Americans.

Havana, via Key West, Fla, No
vember 21.-La Lucia, in a recently
published editorial, expressed doubt as
to the sincerity Of the friendship for
Spain professed by the American gov
eminent, and says:
II the American government does
not prevent the sailing from the ports
of that country of expeditions in aid
of the insurgents. and does not re-
spond in other ways to SPANS efforts
to come to favorable terms, it is use
less for Spain to maintain friendly re-
lations with America"
Reports from Matanzas say that the
Conservatives, having become enraged
at the change in the governments pol
Icy, are disturbing public order. Ex-
Mayor Crespo initiated the disorderly
conduct by publicly giving offense to
Senior Armas. the new civil governor
of the province. The chief of police
followed Senior Crespo's lead by en-
deavoring to prevent aid being given
to the
SUFFERING ECONCENTRADOS
by newspaper correspondents and
others. OF the reconcentrados in Ma
tanzas, numbering less than $4,000,
seventy-nine died in two days, thirty
seven perishing from hunger. Yester-
day seventeen deaths were reported,
large proportion of which were the re-
suit of starvation, and the same is true
of many other towns. Owing to the
lack of proper clothing and blankets,
the situation of the reconcentrados is
becoming worse as the winter season
approaches, despite the efforts made to
relieve them.
HORRIBLE EPISODES
are Of daily occurrence among the re-
concentrates. After lying for three
days upon the sidewalk in front of
house in Matanzas, a poor negro wo-
man, who was suffering terribly and
was unable to move, was carried away
by flood caused by a heavy downfall
of rain. A short time afterward her
dead body was discovered few blocks
away, and at last reports was still
lying in the gutter.
A cab driver who was carrying
sick man to hospital, observing that
his passenger was dying, dragged him
from his cab, leaving him on the curb
stone, where he finally died. Cases
similar to these are of daily and fire.
quent occurrence. Reports from Cam
delaria say that a man who was sur
fering from smallpox was driven by the
authorities into the insurgent camp at
Cejedel Negro, Pinar del Rio province,
where threats were made to hang the
man if he was not taken away.
On Wednesday the remaining cane
fields on the plantation Portugalete,
owned by DR.. Manuel Calvo. were
DESTROYED BY FIRE.
Marshal Blanco has appointed thirty
tour new employees at the custom house.
Of these five are native Cubans and the
remainder Spaniards and Reformists.
The Autonomists are greatly disguised
by these appointments.
Sixty persons employed about the
docks, and five hundred others in varl-
Gus parts of the island, have Joined
the revOlutioniSts and number OF
prisoners at Guines, who were pardoned
under the recent proclamation, have
returned to the insurgents.
Smallpox is ravaging the neighbor-
hood of the insurgent headquarters in
Pinar del Rio, and there are in the hos
pitais in the hills LOO persons suffer-
ing from the disease.
1t is stated by a prominent resident
of Pinar del Rio, according to an Off
cial report, that there are only 300 in
surgents in the province, i1cluding the
bands which have recently entered the
province under Mayia Rodriguez and
other leaders.
General Hernandez Velascos confirms
the statement that the insurgents in
Pinar del Rio are
ABUNDANTLY PROVIDED
with ammunition.
Several of Gen. Velascos' men have
arrived at Pinar del Rio, suffering from
wounds received in recent engage
ments.
The financial situation of the military
administration is bad. The soldiers
have not been paid in eight months.
There is a scarcity in the meat sup
ply for the hospitals and in many towns
no meat has been obtainable for many
days.
Gen. Losada, sub-fnspector of the
health department, said recently to
the correspondent of Ell impartial, OF
Madrid, that there were actually $4,000
sOiu1tIS III the AOopItdiS III SuDd dIu
that about 15,co0 of this number were
not suffering from any disease. but
simply from
NEED OF NOURISHMENT
A band of insurgents recently fired
On the town of San Nicolas, in Havana
province.
Rio Seco, province of Havana, re-
ports that a fresh band of insurgents,
well armed and equipped, have ap-
peared in the vicinity. The leader Is
not known.
The police recently visited the house
OF George w. Hyatt, chief Of the re-
lief department of the United States
Consulate, at IL o'clock at night, to
make inquiries as to the destination of
a quantity of food which had been
taken into the house during the day.
The female inmates, becoming fright
ened, refused to open the door and in
sisted upon being informed of the OBJ
Ject of the officers visit. The police
fnally retired, upon learning that the
inmates
WERE AMERICANS.
The insurgents, it is reported, have
captured $50 mules from the Con-
solacion del Sur government reserva-
ton.
A dispatch from Madrid saws that
Senior GiHerge, deputy tol the Spanish
Cortes, AID leader of the new A1it0n-