Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-04-21
TELL OF WOE IN CU8A.
Facts from Reports of United State
ConsuIs on Spanish Brutality.

Consuls on Spanish Brutality.
On Jan. S of the present year Consul
Lee reported: THE reconcentrado oFte1
of Gen. Weyler transformed 400,GV 4lj
supporting people, principally women anl
children, into a multitude. Their honei
were burned, their fields destroyed, aN1
their live stock driven away or killed.
estimate that probably 200,G0 Of ha
rural population of the provinces OF fEaI
del Rio, Havana, MatnnZas and sang
Clara have died Of starvation. In sony
parts of the island | am tod there
scarcely any food for soldiers and clI
zens, and that even cats are used Tor l0Vl
selling for 30 cents apiece"
On Dec. T Consul Lee reported: 4 ~
no effect of the governmental DISTRIBUTE
to the reconcentrad0s. Reports from
parts of the province show % per ca
have died, and most of these are WOLFE
and children" -,
In his letter of Nov. % Gen. Lee S71
eff any young girl came in ito Los r vnl
who was nice looking she was lhl"I"V
condemned to the most abom!na"e
traffics."
On Nov. q Consul General Lee relm
ed: "In Los Fosos (the ditches', III ~
yana, 400 women and children w.
thrown on the ground hcaped peli-E+hn
animals. some in dying condition. ona
sick. others dead" Deaths aEeraseu tI
or fifty daily, and Oh the oVefass . s
,,l
were only ten days of life for eacl l.,a
No one was given food until after Tel,a
ing eight days in the ditchcS' p~ en-
these eight days they were obliseo TO-, 10 ~
sist on the food which the d!lns "''
fused" ,.,.or n
Tn Sagua Ia Grande Consul B2rker
ported there are $4,000 starving peJtI
Whole families, without clothing y, ..onr
nakedness, are sleeping on 'he ,, srU'
without bedding of any kind. Fulp
per cent are ill, without medlc"i "'''"
or medicine. 1on ID
Consul Brice at Matanzas, on JAN
1898, reported that in his dlS'['c e., r ~.
were 10000 people in an ac'u"i :J 9' tber
condition In addition. he said' , nt
were thousands Of famlileS OIL Inr rid
classes living on one meal o"i rocgirI
daughter of a former Governor % woo
food on the streets. c,ho said
Consul Hyatt Of Santiago oe dor al
GA census of the island taken ~ Doo rparI
comnared with the one taken 'n ,sr, tbs
400 7 feel confident, would SNOW 'issrc
two.thir1s of the residents are ln lEo I'd
and the Spanish army "o"'' "
better showing. .;,,oo accord
In Sagua la Grande pro, ' w. rkor sen
ing TO the advices of Consul b ,Iarrb "A
to the State Department On a m", Of tDl
1898, within sixty days ~ per perez o. \ stat
remaining population will feac timate ID
of craving hunger. In tins eS,,N well Of
inclndos the Spanish soldiers 40
4ho na o;scos and reconcentradoS. uo,,ort
the e. p1el nn % ai 1897, Consul Hyatt rf Go
cd that in the city Of San ~" ?;UDbabitantI
from 20 to 40 per cent of the l,,''" out o.
1 uorn of of,icted with paludal fever T.rgUsnII
We're cam all'e OF 10000 soldiers at N EFn Init
nearly 5000 we're in hospitals r,on1rted p
ed States sanitary inspector ~
coo people sick in bed ,.;os If sagua
In the SIX pc. the death roll from ISL ST.
/ 1897, to Nov. -, lo9' i official, and
This. says Consul Barker FL ddded to cover
fnlly q per cent should be a mas kept
deaths dellt So Of f which no record "D'