The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-11-27
HORRORS NOT HALF TOLD
Correspondent Goes from Havana to Mats
zas Through Cities of Dead.

zas Through Cities of Dead,
Mtanzas, Cuba, Nov. 1e 1887. by the way
of Tampa, Fla. Nov. 2l.-(Correspondence
New Yori, World.)-The half OF the story
of suffering in Cuba has not been told.
In Havana and its suburbs the streets
are dotted with beggars. the hospitals are
overflowlng with starved innocents. and
the spare barracks are filed with the des-
titute and dying.
But from Havana to this place there is a
succession of small cities almost free from
sickness and hunger. Nobody is left there.
The once swarming population is gone.
They are cities of the dead.
Protecting forts overlook empty houses.
Pallid, ragged Spanish soldiers guard a few
"a very few-human skeletons. Very soon
they will have only themselves to protect
They need il. 1t is almost a question
whether WeylerisIn has not been as awful
for them as It has been for the peaceable
Cubans.
The Towns Of Campo Florida, San Miguel
Minas, Jaruso, Bainoa, Aguacate, Mocha,
and Buenavista were trebled and quad
rupled in population by Wsyler's concen-
tration OF the surrounding country people
under the rifles Of their respective sets of
little forts.
furniture and their babies in OK carts
their cows and pigs. wives and children on
foot, and built long streets of palm-pil-
Jared, raftered, thatChed, and sided houses
Today nothing remains but the wood The
animals have been eaten, all articles of
of value have been changed into bread, and
the people, everything having been used
up, are dead.
Our train stopped at each place mention
ed. We counted Only twenty-five women
and children and three men in the palm
house lanes. There are two trains a day.
They are the great events of each miser-
able twenty-four hours, and we counted
twenty-e,ght spectators There should
have been visible 5,0oo. There were at least
1S.0e0 to 5000 reconcentrados in those PAIN
bark villages when Weylers victims first
began to die, and We counted twenty
eight survivors.
Even the Senator OF Spain can be con-
WINGED of the determination of a people IN
which he assisted when he supported Spsiu
in supporting Weyler. He needs but take
a tre:n from Havana 10 Matanzas, a three
hours ride through a beautiful but abon-
doned country. The sQualid, abandoned
villages are proof enopgh. Three hours of
silence and ruin would show him exter7ni-
nation, even though he never-before had
heard Of Cuba nor claimed there had been
10 war.
The facts, the awful facts, the almost
Unbelievable facts, are everywhere They
force themselves upon the sight. the smell.
the hearing. and the reason
Eighteen of them, told by the sun. are fol-
lowing this dispatch. They are photo
graphs Of starving women and children,
taken IN the huts OF the suburbs, and even
in the very streets Of Nantanzas The m
innpsssioned figures are based upon them
decidedly not upon Cuban statements ana
the writings OF Spanish officials and also
upon the correspondents personal obser-
vat,on. I guarantee them
Should any one be objected 10. should sen
satienaIisn be cried. 1 demand invsstiza-
ton. Should Senor Dupy de LONE belit,le
single state-nent herein made should ae
attempt TO deny 70 President Mckinley. o.
10 Secretary OF State Sherman. or 10 Con-
gress that his government has deliberately
attempted 20 sxte-zninaie the Cubans, and
has almost succeeded N doing 50. or thar
General Blanee's humane measures VIII no,
save q tithe OF the remainder. I demani
that TIE consular reports be pub,,shsi ].
They more thar establish each .act shall
state, and they have beeea openly called
b. Ss-or Mcret. Spain's Minister OF the
Colonies, an5 Ssncr de Lome's superior
officer as '''the honest reports OF men who
are accustomed 10 tell the t.uth 10 theIr
government
Nantsnzas. city or 5000 inhabitants.
has given reeoncen;ra6os much better
charsces for dying gradually than has any
OF the silent Villas first mentioned. Mash
nea; has come here from FleE-dz-