The herald., 1898-01-09
AWFUL SCENES
Among Cubans Confined
to the Towns
WOMEN AND CHILDREN DYING
NEITHER FOOD NOR MEDICINE
pROvIDED
Gen. Pando Admits His Inability to
End the Revolt-AmericanI In
tervention Will Be Asked


HAVANA, Jan. S.-(Via Key West.)
A writer in Discussion describes hor-
rible scenes that are witnessed in the
municipal quarters for reconcentrados
in Havana city. He says that 4SO
wretched beings are quartered in an un-
healthy place, entirely without ventila-
ton, huddled together, and that each
bed in the place Is made to accommodate
several persons, there being only 121 beds
for 500 sick inmates. The medicines
found in the building consisted of one
bottle Of cod liver oil, one demijohn of
wine and q few bottles of other prepara-
tions. All the food on hand was re-
duced to pounds of bacon. IL pounds
of rice, Is cans of condensed milk, half
a bag of sugar and some garlic. Only
one physician and a few nurses werc
in attendance, and they strolled along
the corridors where children, women
and men were suffering. The lack of
food and clothing occasioned horrible
scenes. At one corner a mother held in
her arms the body of her dying child.
crying for help, which was not given,
while three other children watched in
horror the agony Of their dying sister.
In another corner group of five naked
children were huddled together, trying
to keep warm. They were orphans, with
no one to take care of them.
Intimate friends of Gen. Pando say
that he believes himself impotent to end
the revolt in Eastern Cuba by war, in
spite of the sending of reinforcements
from Spain.
AMERICAN AID
HARRISBURG, Pa, Jan. S.-Gov-
ernor Hastings today issued a proclama-
tion calling upon the people of Pennsyl-
vania to come to the relief of the desti-
tute inhabitants of Cuba.
A NEW DEPARTURE
NEW YORK, Jan. S.-The World to-
day says:
Influences have been brought to bear
on Sagasta that have induced him to
direct De LONE to make propositions to
the State Department at Washington
looking to an American protectorate
over Cuba and possible annexation"
said a member of the Cuban Junta last
night.
For some weeks the Spaniards in
Washington have been remarkably ac-
tive and at the same time remarkably
secretive. There have been all kinds of
ministry visits to the State Department
and whispered conferences behind closed
doors between rich Havana merchants
and the agents of the Spanish Minister.
I'VE knew there was something in the
wind, but for some time we could not
find out what 1T was. Finally, by an in
tricate process of detective work by our
Washington agents, we have begun an
unearthing of plot that leads to moth
ing less than the establishment by the
United States of a protectorate over
Cuba and the complete retirement of
Spain from the island.
THE Spaniards in Cuba, especially
the rich and influential realize that Spain
has lost her grip on the islands forever.
They can never again call on the Span
iardS for protection for their lives and
property.
There is possibility that this latest
Spanish expedient may succeed think
voice the sentiment of the greater part
of my countrymen when I say that so far
as we are concerned we should not
greatly object to being ruled by and even
absorbed into the American republic
THE State Department is now con-
sidering the proposition
SAYS HE HAS SURRENDERED
HAVANA, Jan. S.-The insurgent
lieutenant-colonel, Soto, according to
Spanish advices, has surrendered to the
government authorities at Sagua la
Grande with three of his officers and
twenty privates. Senor Ricardo Galbis
has been appointed Governor of the
Banco Espanol.