Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1897-11-23
Of 1900 Cubans Reported
on One Plantation.
RECORDS OF The SLAUGHTER.
In Artemesia Parish Alone 5.l23
hon-Combatants Dead.


d last four days Of investigation into
n the Cuban hunger plague proves that
II the condition Of the unarmed country
z and town people is worse than even
a the startling truth first printed and
e proved by The Wcrld.
q II appears now that nearly 70 per
a cent Of the 10000 helpless women.
d children and non-combatants affected
by Weyler's savagry are dead. De-
spite the orders issued by General
, Blanco TO feed the starving, the daily
? mortality Of the remaining ''reconcen-
! tradOs" is frightful.
And the rabid Spaniards, who be
Iieye that only by the determination
OF the race can thisCuban war be won,
, openly challenge the good faith Of
Gene al BlancO's statements as to his
intention to feed and find work for
those whom General Weyler has not
killed.
They jubilantly claim that the new
Captain-General is enforcing the bar
barous concentration the country
people exactly as bis predecessor did.
SUFFERING UNSURPASSED.
Ia the proportion Of dead 10 the
barbarlsm which deliberately inflicted |
such torture upon the defenseless part |
OF a people, starving Cuba is the
worst spectacle ever presented, per-
haps, 10 any age or 10 any stage of
civilization. If the ultra Spaniards
are right, and Gen. Blanco maintains
eveh in modified degree the i'm
prisOnment OF the remaining thou
sands Of destitute people within
Spain's fortified towns, the spectacle
will become even more reYolting.
100 DEAD.
The actual figures OF the death rate
there show an almost unbelievable
state Of affairs. When the estate
was notified Sacoste allowed only the
vigorous men whom he could use dur
ing the sugar season TO remain. With
their families there were 1000 per-
sons. Today there are not 500 left.
The 800 perlshed Of hunger.
The creek banks are absolutely filled 4,
with the buried. There is not
square yard Of ground about the forts q.
that is not taken for a grave. Be-
Tween two slabs Of palm bark for =
;otin each miserable skeleton has >,
been buried a few inches under :
ground.
Usually in Cuba bodies are buried
leep and the graves piled high with
prckly bushes to keep away the dogs o.
and vultures. They don't do IL now. a
The bodies are scaseely worth the L
picking and the dogs have all died or, ii
as a still lively Cuban told me. "they Il
are so weak they have 10 lean against G
the fence to bark" al
ONE ACTUAL RECORD. IL
In the small towns the misery seems p
10 be growing The register Of the p
priest Of ArteBesia Parish shows OF
hat total of 5000 deaths for &C
)erlod OF seventy three years before
,he war. Since Weyler's infamous
, Bando" the deaths have been 5,l23.
AT Artemesia deaths continue eight u
o ten per day. No food Is being issued "
" the authorities, as there Is Inone ~
here. In Madruga during October ~
y people died. The town had $500 y
At Guites there is shell :"
er neither for the troops nor for the =
On-cOmbatants, and both are dying IN
asst The "reconcentrados" have alb ca
Jlutely nothing % eat. Ia one day, -
'Oy. 10, my informant states that 600
ersous died-all presumably from
unger. .
SEVENTY DYING IN ONE HOUSE. 4
Ia one small house the world cores
ondent found seventy persons. Two
cad bodies lay upon the earthen floor
ncoyered. The packed living ones, +
Iost Of them seated upon the mud, z
aid 40 attention ~ the dead. Despair
nd weakness made them Indifferent.
The Total Red Cross Society has It's
inds full caring for the Spanish SOL
ers, who deserve all that can possI-
y be done for them, 80 barbarously
I'VE they been robbed and exposed.
ne OF the saddest features OF the Gu
In huner plague has been the i'm
ense prostitution of the Cuban ~.
nntry girls. II has often been 70 gar
EN- either that or deate. pmei m
sPuRNs SPANS sHEcKLEs. iHs,
HAVANA, via Key West, Noy. "a sell
neral Pando started for this city by .
ain last Saturday, According a. ON ,.. wi.
ll announcement, Ga take char uf e.
o campain agslnst the lnsur nis. sss sass'
, was accompanied by all bis s.an, ssai ssi
d was escorted by a company or ar. sss Sn'
lery. ,sk, .l,,
IL Is stated on good authority, how I've