The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1898-09-13
CAPTURED DETAILS
IN DARKEST CUBA
TALK With MIX. N. q. GONZALES AS
TO MS EXPERT ENCE
Frat C"nnrii IN Freed Cuba-Th'ngs Seen
tn" Si".y Of Which VIII Mako Entcr.
tnining Rrading-a Hur-
ried Resume.


me-" said Mr.. N. G. Gonzales, last
night, shave made a little mistake
II assuming IN your editorial and
local welcomes, which l highly ap-
preciate, that | would at once take
up my old work Of writing editorials.
simply can't do it. have lost the
hang Of tho thing and lost tho run
OF tho news. / feel shockingly lg-
norant. just think of it! Not a
campaign speech have 1 read and I
am just now trying to discover by
hard study Of the files Of Tho State
something about the battles before
Santiago. About threo weeks after
C"rv"ra's squadron was annihilated
Hahana paper with an incidental
re!eronce to it reached our camp,
"hd thluk it was about tho 10th of
August that two copies of tn" Diario
q" Ia Marina of Hubana OF August
| and 2 tod lis that SANTIAGO had
fallen. I've got to catch up :; little
with tho nows before | can fill nv
old place."
You are going to take adv v,ntaoe
of the delay to write about your Gu
ban experiences also, aren't y"u?"
swell, l may make start, but as
1 kept pretty full diary thorn won't
be much new work in that lac. I
have nothing of any exciting inter
est to tell and my notes are largely
OF personal experiences Of l., gen
eral moment, but SO many riends
have asked mo to print them that |
will do SO. They will at loast throw
light on tho situation in darkest
ICuba' and embody facts about the
country and it's people which tho war
brrespondents have overlooked. I
.'tted down all tho Information of
~ sorts L could obtain and had op-
portunity to put On paper. 1t will
not tell Of groat battles and sioQes,
but it will at least show what central
Cuba is now and may yet become"
"Your own experiences were not
exciting?"
"No, not at all. I did not so over
with the idea Of doing moro than to
pnt myself in the position ! asked
the young men Of South Carolina to
tako-that is, a position in which to
TO shot at by Spaniards and to shoot
back-und "s L was not abe to d.
rect the policy of General Gomez I
could not provide exciting situations
My fight turned ont to bo moro
against starvation than against Span
'ards, L am sorry to say. Twas only
IN ono encounter of arms"
"Whero was that?'
SAT Moron, the town at th. head
OF the trocha. With 40 men we at
tackled 1T on the night of August ~
four hours, as it turned ont, after
the protocol Of peace had been sign
cd. There were three regiments of
Spaniards in the town and it was do.
Tended by 10 block houses We
tackled eight of these ut distance
of ranging from so to $50 yal,ls and
kept up the fight for an hour, losing
One man! But may as we'll give
an outline of my very humble udven-
lures III order to save mysolf tho
task of repeating it further by word
or mouth. During the last ten DAYS
So many kind friends have bombard-
ed mo with questions that my voice
is weary aud / am weary Of nv
voice.
mo, | never recovered my horse
aud L marched 10 miles in threo davs
and got rid Of 80 pounds in doing it,
and then q fast of 40 days from ra-
tions kept mo from rosuming them.
Everybody starts by asking mo if
got back my horse. A Cuban officer
took pity on mo and loaned mo
broken down ono, which by good
fortune and good caro- | was able to
restore and make available later. |
landed on the south coast, and do
parted from the north coast. In an
air line tho distance is ubont 100
miles but we zigznggod hundred
molo. a command Of Gomcz's army
with tho two dynamite guns taken
Oyer by our oXDeditiOn roduceI md