The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-09-24

Ing the Inhumanity of weyler.
Mrs. Alicia Rienhardt, a Cuban lady, 10
arrived here from Havana on ruesisy
night, odd TO Times reporter yesterlaya
STORY - The wrongs aud eruelties prac
ticed on the Cubans, as painful and sh,ck
! ing H. detail a. any that have been related.
| island Mrs. Rlenhardt was an eye witness
to mani terrible Wrongs and surferirgs-
| almost all of which bearogt the allegations
a. 10 he infamous reputation of Capt
Gen. weyler. Mrs. Rlenlar dt lived bli, "A
/ shori distance fIom the prison in which
Angelina Cisner,,s II confined.
Mrs Licahardt is a handsome woman of
the attractive Cuban type, forty years
old, and S9nIes of tine higher class lf
Cubans. Five months ago her husband.
who is ~ Gcrmsn descent, accompanied
by iis eldest son, a young man of twenty,
came to this city and they have been
| working here ever since, earning noney
| aud preparing so bring the wife and chill.
den from their chamher of horrors to
this coLHlry The husband is an expert
mechanical engineer and drauehtsnian and
is employed 10y a bicycle company, and
| prepared the dra wings for the first chain
less hi, ycle which appeared on the street
last Tuesday
Mr.. Rfcnhardt brought her four chill
| dren with her. Mr.. Rienhardt had pre-
pared neat, comfortable home for his
family az 1909 Twelfth street, and il was
here toe reporter converSed with Mrs
RlcHhsrdt through Col. Asuirre, who acted
as inter prefer, and with many gesticula
lions u horror. PITY and disinay. the fol
lowing story was recited:
IN Havana, al the present time, there
are, b,sl,ie the normal population, Is,
600 Country people, who have teen forced
there by Wcyler. If they stay in the
country they are slaughtered like cattle.
and to escape the machete they have been
compelled to enter Havana, where they are
either starving 10 death or dying OF fever.
The Spanish government furnishes money
for r;ui5ns FOR these people, but the span.
iSh orfici1l> at Havana nianage 10 pocket
a',out one half of the amount. Spanish forti-
! flcaiiuns have been built around The
town, and tie country people live in the
AititAhN 81 = tSt W. y % hSH
As Mrs. Rienhardt told Of the misery
OF heI corntrt men, hen breath came in
short, uulcil gsSps. and in the intense
strain >ha arose number OF times from
the c3ssir aud paced up and down the
room ia an excited hammer.
For four DAYS. previous To my depart
Ure," shr continued, there had not been
n,out h:al OF neat in the city, and the
suffering was beyond the power of ez-
preston. When cattle are Killed with
the in;eaiion of bringing the meat into
Havana for food the hides, hOocs. horns,
ard tails must come also, and the tax
on these parts A. so high that the people
cannot afford 20 pay FOR the dressed
meat. There il only one way to smuggle
the meat i'f0 the city, and that way
brings death.
yellow fcvcl is raging and carts carry
the bodies II the dead. and il is in these
carts ,,iden under the dead bodies, that
meats and provisions are transported to
and from the city- TIE people eat this
infected material. and tie result is certain
death.
lit - not alone ;he Cuhans who suffer
Hoys G the Spanish army eighteen and
nineteen years old. VINO hate Weyler and
his orders a. hearth Y as we do but do not
dare 20 jiso5ey, uowd the streets of
Havana 2HG beg the lasser-by for a cen
tavO.'
1T is a Common occurrence for Weyler
to send tro3Iss outside Of Havana Ia seize
cattle, All in return he gives them
worthless paper receipt. telling them how.
wnen me war IL over, they VIII he paid
by The Spanish government.
The Bishop OF Havana has devoted a
number If houses to the children OF the
ditcneS. bat he can get no nourishment
FOR ther., and his attempts at relief are
futile.
In the hospitals he same medicine is
given FOR toothache as for yellow fever.
Thee Is 40 method, no regularity
Il know OF au instance where nan
was tabca from his house, tie deadly
maChCte used anG after nichtfail the body
was plated i'm a row boat, ken out to
sea and tossed overheard as food for the
sharks. I lived only one-haIf block from
the prison where Miss Cisneros vas i'm
INJURED but ii was impossible to find out
anything atout her, as il is kept a close
secret.
Tell tue American people to help us
We ure depending on them! Tell them
10 come quickly 90 cur aid or there
VIII be no one left 10 help"
Ms. RienhaTdl was fearful!y affected by
the narration of the story. and when size
finisheh the tears Were streaming down
her face and her body shook with sobs.
Col. Ai4lI. Aeuirre added that Spain
has shocked the moral sense of the Chris
tian and civilized world by her cruelty
anu barharity. and has exhausted the pa
tIence Of the American people and the
American Government. Span's hour has
been sounded on the clock of tine and It
VIII not be hong before, as the elder Dumas
said, she viii be relegated to the serri
barbarian nations of the middle ages"
The Single Woman.