The Butler weekly times., 1897-01-07
LIKE SAVaGEs.
Spanish Guefrillas Torture Non-combatants.
Crops Destroyed and Cattle Driven

recent massacre by Don Melquizo's .
troops In Western Cuba is described
IN a letter received here from an in /
surgent leader In a little hamlet,
40 miles north of Pinar del Rio, /
dwelt about 10 people, most of them
old, and all noncombatants. They !
lived from hand to mouth. having a
few cattle aud some small truck
farms. Spanish guerillas. command
ed by Plerronto, visited the place.
All the people We're assembled and
searched for valuables. the women
and girls being subjected to indig-
mites.
Not finding as much as they want
ed, the guerillas shot two young men
pretending that they were Spanish
deserters. Six others were tied to
trees and horribly whipped.
| Two young women were tied to
trees, their backs were barred and the
lash applied because they resisted
the soldiers advances. Their screams
SO aroused the anger OF the older
women that they made a combined
attack on the suerillas with clubs
The guerilas easily beat them off,
and then fred indiscriminately
among them. killing Is or 20 men
and women and two children. The
others escaped, though the Spanish
murderers fred at them as long AS
they were in sight.
The guerillas then fred the houses
and threw the dead bodies into the
buildings, drove off the cattle, de
stroYed the crops and trampled their
horses over the potato patches, so
that nothing in the way OF food
could be had.
These poor people. left without
food or shelter, took up their abode
i'll the foothills, building themselves
huts of branches and grass. Some
have died Of exposure and not more
than 80 Of the Is now survive.
BRUTAL MASSACRE.
Havana, Dec 30-It is officially
stated that Spanish column has
had an engagement with rebel par
ties under Sotolongo on the Sotolon
go ranch, near Jaguey Grande, Pho
vince of Matapzas. The insurgenti
are alleged to have been completely
dispersed, with the loss of Is killeG
and one wounded. The Spaniard
had a corporal wounded. 1t i:
known that this engagement wal
simply an attack made by the troop'
upon the detenseless Paci6cos 0,
thu ranch, and that Is persons re
i ported to have been killed in battl
!" were brutally massacred.
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