The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-03-18
PEST HonsEs TRANSFORMED

iff tSflfa fTiA liilii5s
INTO kNrTARY HOSPITALS a
FEW DEVOTED MEN AND wo.
MEN sTEMstINs THE TIDE OF
STARVATION AMONG, THE RE.
oNcESrRADos = THE NEW
eRPHASSGE ~ iIAy.NNA-PIr-
IEtI TALES TOLD OF THE RE-;
st;nT OF BUTCHER wEYLER,s;
ISIIuMAN POLICY = WONDER
FrI WORK DONE BY ,tIss'
CLARA BARTON AND HER AIDS.
Special Correspondence W.
HAVANA! Cuba. March 10 Iii Is be-
Z Che power OF pen 10 portray the change
! which :tha RED Cross has wrought
among the suffering in Cuba, Not on
tiy iin, capital has disease and starva-t
.iohs been checked in their wild career.
bit all over the island It's benencent
\ arm has extended. A fortnight ago
y ky ~ Us OF 1000 was sent ny boat,
from the Havana warehouses 70 Glen.
fiesos.a Twehty-hye ions will come
this week d-ee; from New York 10
Statanaas; also twenty-five tons to
Santiago. q large amount to cardenas
ana a .air proportion 70 other places.
Already the destitute In forty towna.
and vbiagcs arc regularly in receipt OF
ritiaas: and stil. the good work goes
OH tren, province 10 province, rs fast
rs lists can he made out and supplies
dispatched under The regulations nee
sessary TO prevent frauds Fully i, 900
people ,are being fed In Havana, 10. 900
: In fatanzas, 5000 In Jaruco and so on
lin like proportion; yet the demand Is as
Ereat{ns ever. and should the supplies
cease, even tos one week. starvation
ard death would resume their awful
carnival. cInde.atizable Miss Barton,
tsbly seconded by her aides, Is working
with tirelcss energy, going from town
j TO town, !nyestIga ting cases and estab-a
fishing new stations for the distrib,l-
lion OF relief: while her corps OF physI-
clans and nurses have their hearts and
y hands full with the cares. OF the sick.
Let mo one Imagine that the tide OF
suffering Is s.aid- All that has Ibeepac-
comp!ished Is but as 4 drop in an ocean
OF misery. Day by day new walls come
i'm from set unvisited districts. and
x fresh cases OF appalling destitution are:
drought TO light. For example: Yester-s
! day Twisted. lin unofficial ca pacity, as
i am notta member OF the Red Cross),
two villages IN the province OF Havann.
The first little town called Arroy de
{ Naranjo. about twenty miles by rail-:
why from the capi,al--a most pictures
qns place, but now terribly poor. The
4 900 Sreconcentrados, detained within.
its borders by half as many soldiers.
Il have as yet received no aid The second
village, Gala bazaE, Is even smaller and
poorer. but with five hundred reconcen-
tcados corralled within It, and a large
tnatnter OF Spanish soldiers to prey
upon the Impoverished country like,
grasshoppe-s on a Kansas field Such
: hnrrowinsl tales that were told rs-suci,
i pi.!ful sishtsas We sawi II; was always
the familiar story-of people driven by,
I ,Scyler.s orders from comfortable,
hoties In the country TO herd within
the tor.it cations. where there: was
nothing TO eat and no work to do. One
! NIL dse-sged man. with tears streaming
DOWN his tirrowed cheeks. said taat
hIs vile and four children had died of
hunger and "mislries;"3 and his own
fearfuiiy swollen fee, and emaclated
franc told a pitful tale OF starvation.
\ One young woman, with n puny baby
In her arms and another Juggling at her
skirt, said that her husband owned "a
small plantation four leagues away.
= They were In comfortable circumstances
but It unopened that her husband was
81 I'll with fever when the soldiers came
4 and ordered them to instantly leave the
Z place. preparing TO fire the house ut
! once. She begged for time to remove
the sick man and collec. some of their
clothes; and the soldiers told her with
oaths and jeers to be quick about 1t.
She FASTENED to obey. The sick man
was carried out and. laid on the grass
by. the roadside; but when she ran back
To bring away a few necessary arti-
cles the house was already In flames
and entrance was impossible. So all
was lost. The Oldest child was /, then
\ hut q week old, and the family were
thrown almost naked upon the world to
& subsist upon charity as best they could.
Y The boy in; her husbands employ was
q filledswit the machete before her eyes
y FOR what reason she did not know. We
kaw many children without q living
Il relative; and In one house number
Of feeble old women covering in the
8 corner like frightened animals, their
husbands and sons having all been kill
i ed. 2 = So ~
We intended to take q coach from
Arroyo de Naranjo to CalaSazar-n dis
fance Of perhaps one league; but the
Spanish army had appropriated al! the
n horses and there was no alternative
i but to walk. AS We were starting, the
Spanish commandante met us-a young
Fellow who happened 10 be a gentleman
--nnd courteous!y rendered us an es-
q cort OF soldiers. When we declined the
y honor. SAILING that We felt; no fear. ne
4 politely but firmly forbade us TO go
without the escort. Said he: You don't
z know what you are undertaking. One
orttwo persons might possibly so un.,
y rpolesteG. hut there are too many OF
4 you; Tour party had been increased by
4 several acquaintance at, Naranjo,your,
correspondent being the only Ame-i-
q CAM soldiers nre stationed all ulone
r the way, on purpose to prevent the
passing OF parties. You will surely be
s. taken for ;insurrcctlonists, or spies. or
RI fred on from the forts farther of. we
4 cav! the philosophy OF the shotgun
& policy and concluded to accept. the es-
X cort.i Thereupon the commandante dis
s. patched a message. post haste, TO sum-
n M OF =