The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-02-28


 of William Mattlngly, 8 handsome young fellow from Bay City, Michigan. His jaw is crushed and his whole body a mass of injuries, and so excruoiating are his sufferings that he is kept most of the time under the influence of opi- ates. The burned and powder black | ened faces of all are covered with | sheets Of cotton batting, put on hel- met-fashion, with slits for eyes, mouth | and nostrils; and Sister Mary Wilber- I torce,tor the English Red Cross society, who is their devoted nurse, calls them her crusaders in battle array. This dear little woman has washed and dressed their wounds from the first, cheered the living and closed the eyes or the dying, as only an angel in nor- tai guise could do.
 Some thirty bodies are now in the morgue, or rather horrible bits of bod ies, brought up from the sea during the last few hours by ropes and grap bling hooks and dumped into boxes, to be buried as quickly as possible Out in the splendid Cemetery de Cristobal colon, Where several wide graves have each received their complement of cof- 11ns' other trenches are kept in readi- ness for receiving the remains of our boys as fast as they are found. fs
 Yesterday I made trip with some Cuban friends to Jaruco, thirty miles from the capital. As we crossed the Terry at live o'clock in the morning to the railway station on the other side of the bay, we passed close to the mel ancholy wreck of the Maine, a fleet of small boats at their gruesome fishing for bodies by the light of crescent moon. When We passed that way a few days ago, en route to Guanabacoa, how proud we were of our gallant Warship and the men who swarmed her decks! The road to Jaruco lies through most beautiful country of rolling hills and royal palms; or rath- CT, now beautiful it must have been be- fore this dreadful war. Nature has done her best for it, in climate soil and scenery. Three years ago rich planta- tions prosperous. villages, country houses and sugar mills covered every mile of 1t; now all the canefields and orchards are burned, the houses and mills in ashes, the villages mere heaps Of ruins. Here and there is small Il NA0SAh1 AoA Ss VI e 5LldW -lIltttCAEo CtlIQ- ing station for a portion of the Spanish army; but not sign of other occupa- tion or single trace of the former in- l habitants. The latter, who have not been killed in battle or died in prison are all among the reconcentrados who are starving in Havana and Jarauco
 or are among the two hundred thou I sand already dead by starvation The insurgents have burned cane fields and I killed the cattle and destroyed the vil- lages to prevent the Spaniards from being benefited by them, and the Span- iards in retaliation have destroyed the people. Our train was strongly | guarded by Spanish soldiers, for every hillock might hide troop of insur- gents and trains are frequently at tackled. Under pretext of adjusting refractory window a dark-vigaged, poorly-d dressed stranger--evidently a rebel in disguise, whispered in my ear, Don't be alarmed j the insurgents will not attack this train: there are Alneri- cans on board!n 1t is said that the movements of all foreigners in Cuba are closely watched by spaniards on one side and the rebels on the othera so ! tAtebN tHG FCAITGIIlts
 kindness and courtesy we are con- stantly receiving, there is always the uncomfortable feeling of being ''be- tween two fires.''
 Our visit to Jaruco happened to oc- cur on the second anniversary of the raid of the late insurgent chief, Maceo, | when he laid the city in ruins. Before that day it was a rather important place of twelve thousand inhabitants; now it numbers about five thousand, three-fourths of whom are in a state
 bordering on starvation. Aside from the sadness of its/dessolation it is one
 of the most picturesque places I have ever seen. The streets struggle hap
 hazard up and down stony hills, the pink and blue and pea-green houses 1 mostly mere rooffess shells with only , portions of their walls left standing , the church is a. fort surrounded by a , hastily erected barricade of stones and the most prominent features are , now the quarters of the Spanish sol- , diers, the prison and the graveyard l The latter is an immense bare enclos-
 ure on top of a hill. A small high l walled space shows the cemetery of } two years ago-all the rest having been ; added since Maceos raid. I asked how
 many were killed in the battle. "Oh , nobody was killed then" they said l ''There was no battle. Maceo only 7 rushed through, burning villages as he went. Afterwards the Spanish sol 3 diers followed in pursuit and mur- . dered many people; but most of those , in the cemetery have died of "miseria.' : : That is the disease which afFiicts al
 rural Cuba. The name was coined by } the physicians who attended the starv- {. ing reconcentrados and now it is SC 3 recorded in the burial certificates. Il r means misery" nothing more--tht l gaunt shadow that has depopulated the 5 country. It happened that the frs . carload of food from the United States 5 was attached to our train. We did no know it when we left Havana, ant were in no way responsible for thu , good deed; but the grateful Jarucan! : could not be made to understand that
 In spite of our repeated protest and ex
 plantations. that we came merely as