The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1898-04-08

1SNlDc1 that tuu ctkhA NaJ'
be counted from the publication
OF the proclamation In the head
town OF tbs municipal district, and
stated that n news was furnished
Of the enemy which could be made
use OF it would serve a. a recon-
mendAtion.T
EFFEcns OF an INFAMOUS Foley.
Under this Infamous decree all
the country pOeople In the four
Western provinces, about 10000
in number, remaining outside the
fortified towns when Weyler's or.
der was made were driven into
these towns, and these are the re-
concentrates. Their homes were
destroyed, the cultivated lands dew
astale1, their implements OF hus-
bandry broken up, their live stock
and food supplies for the most part
eonfiscated. @MOst OF the people" !"
says Senator Tn urston, @Were old
men, women and children. Slow
starvation was thsir Inevitable
fate. A conservative estimate in
dicates thst 10000 OF these people
have already perished from starva-
ton"
In addition 70 these horrors Gen.
Weyler showed his murderOus
spirit iB other ways Persons sus-
pected OF completely in, or sympa-
thy with, the Cuban cause were ar
rested aud thrown into prison, there
TO lie without hope Of trial. Many
American citizens were among this
number, while scores, II not hun
dreds, OF others were shot after q
cOurt-martisl which was not even
a formAlIty. The treatment OF Gu
ban prisoners Of war was in utter
violation OF every rule Of civilized
warfare. They were in many cases
remOrsclessly bntchered. Even
under the sway Of Gen. CampOs,
who wac esteemed by the Span
iards as too lenient for their pur-
poses, orders were given, and In
every instance carried out, TO shoot
all officers OF the Cuban army who
might be captured, and that all
who supplied food or medicines to
the insurgents should also he shot.
Old men, women and children were
ruthlessly slaughtered by the Span
lsh soldiers At the recApture OF
Bsire, aud when the hospital at
Gran Pisdra was taken over sew
enty wounded and dsfenseless Gu
bans were slain. In the country
Weyler's trOops had orders to mis-
treat women and 10 killevery non-
com batAnt, without regard TO age.
In the cities he appointed as In-
spec tors OF Police the most infa-
nous robbers and murderers from
the Spanish penal colonies in Afri-
ca.
In q short time more than O0,OO0
persons emIgraied from Cuba panic
stricken. The whole country out
side the towns b@came a desert.
Senator Proctor says: "Outside Ha-
vanA is all changed. Itis not peace
nor is 1t var. Ii i desOlatIon and
distress, misery and starvation.
Every town aud village is surround
ed by 9 trocha, a sort Of rife-pit,
bot constructed on a plan new to
me, the dirt being thrown up ON
the inside, with barbed iron fence
on the outside Of the trench. There
are frequent block houses inelOsed
by a lrOcha,and with q guard slong
the railroad track. With this ex.
ceptiOn there il no human life OF
habitation between these fortified
towns and villages, nor throughout
the whole OF the four western PROV
inces, except, to a very limited eX.
tent, among the hills where tn.
SpaniArds have not been able 10 gC
and drive the people to the town,
and burn their dwellings. Isau
no house nor hut in the 400 miIei
OF railroad ride from Pinar del Ri,
province In the west across the ful
width Of the Havana and Matanza
provinces, 10 the Sagua La Grand
on the north shore, and to CieniuC
gOs on the south shore Of SAINT
Clara, except within the SpanisI
trOchas."
A MONSTER USPARALLESED-