The evening times., 1898-08-25
AT CAVITE.
When the Insurgents Captured
Some Spania rds.

Some Spaniards.
Letters written by our soldiers while
encamped at Cavite are Just being pub
lished. Among them is one from an Illi-
nois man. who writes to the Chicago Rec
| ord. He says:
lone of the most remarkable sights
have ever seen was presented on the
afternoon of Saturday, June 4, when about
| fifty officers of the Spanish army were
brought into Cavite. The insurgents had
captured a force of Spaniards numbering
about 800 the day before. and only the
officers were being brought in. Among
| the latter was Gen. Leopoldo Garcia
| Pena, the governor of Cavite province.
He had been captured with all his officers
| and garrison at San Francisco de Mali
bon. The insurgents, after the capture,
placed all the private soldiers under a
| guard at Malibon and loaded all the Off
| GERS with their personal effects, in about
| thirty .carromatas,' or native carriages.
| and removed them to Cavite. Just as
| they reached the outer gate the process
| sion halted and the insurgents searched
| the possessions of their prisoners. An i'm
| mense crowd of women and children and
| insurgent soldiers had swarmed out and
were watching the proceedings. The
Spanish officers, some of whom were big.
| handsomely uniformed men of magnffi-
! cent appearance, stood in groups talking
| unconcernedly while their ragged and
motley captors searched their bundles.
| The row of vehicles extended half way
across the praya. or narrow isthmus con-
Meeting Cavite with San Rogue. The gov
ernor was one of the finest-looking men I
ever saw. He talked with his officers
and appeared annoyed by the curious
stares that were directed at him. When
he saw the three Americans looking at
him from the crowd he turned his back
and walked away.
"The contrast between the Spanish oH-
GERS and the insurgents was almost pain
ful The former were good-looking, mill
tary appearing men, with ciean' trih UNI
forms and most of them carried little
canes The latter were little men, with
every kind of costume and every style of
weanop IT was as If CoXey's army had
cantured a regiment of Gordon highlan-
ders and were searching their possessions.
The humiliation of the Spaniards must
have been complete, and In deference 10
their sensibilities we Withdrew as soon
as possible The governor is now confined
in a cheerful dwelling in Cavite, and must
he rejecting how very differently an In
surgent leader would be treated II the
conditions were reversed. All the Span
iards that have been made prisoners can
well attribute their treatment to the pres
ence of the American feet. for Admiral
Dewey would not tolerate for an instant
any cruel methods of punishment, even
II Aguinaldo were inclined to resort to
them.
..The Spanish during the last revolution
solved in a different way the problem OF
caring for their prisoners. All the promi-
nent ones were shot on the Luneta at
Manila the morning after they were cap
tured. In the evening the band played
and the fashionable carriages rolled along
over the spot of the early morning trag-
edy. There was no sentiment and no
mercy. On one occasion force Of iEsur-
gents were taken and were imprisoned in
n dungeon, whose floor was knee deep
in mud. When the morning came 1t was
found that sixty had died during the
night. Even now reports are coming from
Manila to the effect that the Spaniards
are shooting a great many citizens who
are suspected of collusion with the
rebels"