San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-31
RELEASED FROM HELL.
CuDsnS Get Out OF A Place
As Terrible.
CONFINED ONLY AS SUSPECTS:
IN SPANISH HELL HOLES
FOR MONTHS.
Brute Weyler Evidently Got Scared
And Released Them We're Fed
On Tainted Meat In A Rot
ten Cell And PTOiied With
BayOnetS For Fun.

New YORK, Aug. 0l.-Ine 1lnes
says:
Gen. Weyler, in issuing recent pro-
nunciamento declaring that three of
the Cuban provinces were pacified, or
dered that all pacilicos who had been
held In durance as suspects, should be
released. This order gave freedom to
thirty-four young Cubans, among 9th
ers, who had been prisoners fer two
and a half years at the Spanish penal
colony at Ceuta, on the coast of Nor.
Deco. They were taken across the
strait to Gibraltar and left there pen
niless.
Jose Prinelles, of this city, who was
provided with a subscription fund,
has just returned here with fifteen Of
the released pacificos, this being as
many as the fund enabled him to pay
passage for. The remaining nineteen
are still in Gibraltar, some with
friends, and all getting food and shell
ter as best they can. Those who have
reached here are Arturo ,Prinelles, a
brother of Jose, and nephew Of the
late Gen. Agremento; =. Gonzales, son
of the late Gen. Cecilio; G. Campos,
A. Herra, NJ. Diaz, A. De Feria, a
nephew of the Cuban brigadier gener-
al of the same name; p. Sandoval, p.
Casres, z, Cano, r. Casanoyas, ]. Car
denas, n. Maurique, S. Valdez, N. Els
pinosa and r. Barrios.
They all came in the steerage of the
steamship Kaiser William III.
None of them, Mr., Prinelles said,
had ever been allowed trial or hear
ing, and being only suspects, they
were not subjected to the full rigor of
prison discipline at Ceuta. They were
in fact allowed the liberty of the town
but they found 1t desirable to avoid
encounters with Spanish soldiers or
officials, as their meeting on the street
generally resulted in being insulted
or knocked down. They had to return
to the prison. or castle as it is called,
at a certain hour in the evening and
he locked up for the night. They were
fed on beans, onions and very bad
meat-generally, tainted There were
over four hundred men in the prison
and many Of them were sick, but if
one complained he was confined to a
cell and denied medical attedance in
stead of being sent to the hospital.
The prison they described as being
filthy. No attention was paid to san
itary conditions. The cells were gloo-
my, damp holes, pungent with musty
filth that Interested the floors. OF the.
mortality in the prison, the pacificos
knew nothing. They thought of the
place, even as they had known it, with
horror, and SIr. Prinelles said that
they did not like to recall it. They
were satisfied to be free.
Casoniva was found with friends in
tn Cuban quarter of the city last
night. lie is one OF seven VINO, Wien
first arrested were sent to the Isle of
Pines. Gonzales and Cesaros were
with him. They made desperate at
tempt to escape and succeeded for
four days in eluding the guards. They
had no food and little water and were
finally captured and returned to pris-
on where they were logged. At the
end of six months they were taken to
Havana and with forty others were
placed on a transport ship. They
were. manacled and confined to
small compartment between decks
during the seventeen days voyage TO
Ceuta.
/. Arturo Prinelles' father and moth