The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1898-04-08
FIHa!FlaFaIEDlN.
Story Of Cuba's Strug.
gle against Spanish
InhumaniIy.
From the Beginning Down
TO Date.

commnnded by Gcn. bartolome
Masso, now President OF the Gu
ban Republic, Ia the province OF
Santiago. against the Spanish
forces under Gen. Lachanibre.
Thls was the beginning OF = sirug-
gle for frevdom in which there have
been frighlful losses Of life, not 81
much by The carnage Of battle as
by the rAvagcs Of disease aud star
vsilon. Senator ThurstOn, OF Ne
braska, stated to the Senate that Of
the $4,000 soldiers Spain hiss sent
70 Cuba less than 6O,OO0 are now
available for duty. The remainder
are dead. sick In hospitals or re.
turned TO Spain ineapacitsted. II
IL currently reported that 1000 are
now sick In the hospitals on
the Island. Senator Gallinger, Of
New Hampshire, estimates that
10000 OF these soldiers ars dead.
The losses Of tho Insurgents can
not be estimated. A. they are,
however, natives Of the island, and
accustomed 10 its climate, the In.
roads Of disease, while, no doubt,
considerable, ~ Is always the case
In warfare under even the must "a.
vorAbls conditions. are nothing like
20 large, comparatively speaking
~ thoss suffered by the Spanish.
Ills not among the combatAnts
on either side that the greatest
losses by death have been suffered,
The rural Cuban population who
took no activs part in the insurrec.
tlou, though theirsympz;hiss wsr'
with the Insurgents, are those who
have felt, with tsrribls force, the
horrors Of war. Under Gen. wey,
Isfs atroclous concentration, 295,.
900 of these. according 10 Spanish
authority, have perished. whlIs
Senator GallIngsr, on the estimates
Of Red Cross Society, places tn,
number At $4,000. and says thaI
10000 more must die unless I'm
mediate action IL taken for the re
lief. Dr. Lesser, who IL on Oh,
ground, and an authority on III,
result OF famine, says that nearly
1900 Will die in any event.
These are the results OF a thre'
yesrs'slr,gglO which has cost spalI
In addition 10 the terrible loss o
life among her sOIdIsry. = larg'
amount of money the United StaieI
millions Of dollars In commerce
besides 100000 directly spent ii
the detection and prevcutios Of 81
ibusisrIng expeditions, has shock
Cd the civilized world End nov
seems lIksly to involve this coun
try In war with Spain.
STRUGGLES FoR LIBKKTY.
This struggle 10 but one OF man!
attempts on the part Of the Cuban
70 free themselves f,om SPaln's In
t0leFable rule. From 1873 to lS6
there were slI Intellectual attempt
af revolution. In lSi9 Gen. Nar
elsO LopeE raiseI the flag Of revolt
and after some victories over IN
Spanish, was captured and cxecui
cd In Havana in 1850. The sue
eseding eighteen year. were mark
Cd BY almost constant .souble, eul
mlnatlng in lsss In an insurIectio
which was continued for ten years
Spain was glad 10 obtain peaee b
concessions and promises Of reform
every one Of which, the Cubans a
logs, has been broken.
In 1894 the present insurrectio
was organized In this country b
Joe Marti. a Cuban exile, assIste
By BENJAMIN A. Guerra and Cor
3. rnlo Quesda, the former q me
appsut and the latter . lawyer {
Eg6u York city. Marti raised $40
I 900. entered into negotiations wit
Gen. MaxlmO Gomez and Gen. Al
tonic Mnceo. veterans OF the Insu
roctlop of 1858. A large amount I
var matarial was fought by Ma
q and vessels were chartered
transport Il to Cubs, where arrang
ments we're made for Its reesptiO
In the provinces Of Santiago, Pue
10 Principe and Santa Cara but
Fsrnandina. Fla, II was seized |
the United States authOrltie
This uss . blow to the affair
the very outstart, but the Cuba
people clamored Cor the uPrisir
20 begin, aud early In 1896 Nal
fixed February - as the date, al
went tnSanio Domingo to join Ge
0omes. Bsrtoloms MsssO, one
tho flrst " take the field In Isl
aud who vas pardoned nom 4
chain gang In Spain only In lSS
was the frat to engage In this Ia
uprising.
On February -, 1875, he sestl
hls business Affairs, paid hIs oh
gallons, even to the last PEN
and took the held. The people
pondod In Santiago, Santa Cha
Ina MAlanEas. In the prOvinces
Puerto Principe and Plnar del l
ne 0ovognment had previous
nnnncs,sd all arms and ammu