The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-01-11
HORRIBLE OUTRACES.
Additional Details of Arrest Of DR..
Belancourt Given.
MASSACRES COMMITTED BY TROOPS.
Sixteen Persons Fall Victims to the
Machete at La data.
MEN ABANDONING FAMILIES
Groups of Rebels Cross the TrOch0
Into Pinar Del Rio--Cinim Made
thut MuccO Is Stfil Alive.

MuceO IN sun Aklvcs
New orleans, La, January 1o.A special
to the pcayune from Havana says:
Awful! Horrible! can't find the right
wcrd to describe the state OF things extant
here in this pearl OF the Antilles!
DR.. Gaspar A. Beiancourt, woilknown
dentist of this city, and personal friend
of President Cleveland, was arrested on
and detained at tho chief Of poices Of
fee, and up to 2 O'Clock p m. next day
wasn't allowed any food, nor any notice
given of his detention TO his family. The
servant missed him at his Office aud went
to his private rooms and also found be had
not slept there; then he became alarmed
and notified his son at about y O'Clock
Sunday. After many inquiries it was given
out at the prefecture" that he was there
| and incommmicado which means he can
| not have any communication with outsid
ers. After some talk with the officer on
duty he was allowed glass of milk and
rolls, and later during the day provision for
bed and covers, so he might be comfort
able that and succeeding evenings. He had
been kept in a sitting position on small
wooden bench through the previous night
an old gentleman 50 years old and used
TO good life and its comforts, and of late
has been complaining OF ii! healtn.
| The doctor is an American citizen, and
Consul Lee was Immediately notified by
the doctors son ana proceedings begun ny
first asking the cause OF ms arrest, and up
TO this hour General Lee, the United states
| consul at this port, has not received any
official communication answering 1t.
The family OF the doctor has tried in
vain TO see the chief Of police or some iunc-
| tionary and get some satisfaction, and to
| no purpose-he is out or sleeping, and can
| not be disturbed
| The doctor was for many years resi-
dent of your city, and has among your
people relatives tDr.. q. Kchnke is his
brother in -law). and many friends and
| former patients. who will nc doubt recol-
lect him. He was established for many
years On Magazine street.
1t was quite proyidential that Consul
General Lee had arrived out few days
| before, and is quite active in all matters
| concerning his duties, for had il been any
other ad interim, things would drag and
| look gloomy for the old doctor. God bless
| General Lee.
You must know that in the town Of
| Guanabacoa half an hours ride from here,
| Oh lHc HlBHl VI inc AotHi inc most HoTIlDlt
| outragos nad been committed by the Span
| ish troops under the newly installed com
mandantc, Colonel Fondesviela This
butcher has succeeded Count O'Reilly,
who was relieved on account of incompe-
| tency. yelept drunkenness. Fondesyela
| was the same cOmmandante who did all the
massacres that Mr.. Creelman of the World,
about a year ago, exposed In the columns
| OF his paper at Campo Florido and for
which General Weyler expelled him from
the island. This wicked officer and his
command arrested in the streets and
| knocked at peaceful citizens abodes in the
night and marched them out to a neigh
boring hill and Inacheted them, up 10 the
number OF sixteen, at place called La
Jata, Their names are Nunez, Rios an
undertaken; Pastoriza baseball player;
Sotolongo, aged 50 years; Two brothers
named Acosta, some coored men, whose
names have not been able to find out up
to now. And what's more. he did not al
low the bodies to be given burial. He
! loudly expressed his intention OF leaving
| them to the vultures to deyour.
II is also rumored here that DIR. Miguel
Almagro, who owns a place called La No.
| ria a short distance from Guanablcoa
has been murdered. The residents Of this
town are terror stricken, ard are coming
in from all parts of this city The men,
particularly do not sleep in Guanabacoa,
but leave their families aud return in the
morning to look after them till they can
arrange quarters in the capital to remove
out of the reach of this monster.
! IL is well known here that groups OF
rebels have crossed the trocha westward
into Pinar del Rio to re-enforce and notify
people and their comrades that Maceo Lies,
though badly wounded. II was at first
given out by the rebels that he was dead
TO prevent the too close pursuit into the
province Of Matanzas, where they sought
to carry the chief when they found there
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