The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1898-04-16
CONSULAR REPORTS ARE
4 GIGANTIC TALEO OF woe
Civilized World Has Scarcely Known
q Tragedy on 50 stupepdous a
Scale.
WOMEN AID CHILDREN VICTIMS
Reports From the Consuls Are For.
ward Il to Congress aud Tell
the Snddest Tale of the
Century.

Washington, April 13.-The consular
reports with regard to the situation in
Cuba, which were transmitted yester-
day, We're prepared in response to reso-
lntions of inquiry adopted by the
house and senate. The correspondence
was prepared for transmission to con-
gress just before the blowing up of the
Maine, and having been held since
now includes communications up to
April !. 1t covers the communications
of Consul General Lee at Havana, Con-
sui McGarr at C~ienfuegos. Consul Brice
at Matanzas, Consul Hyatt at Santiago
de Cuba and Consul Barker at Sagua,
la Grande. The communications make
about 10000 words. They deal largely
with the distress and suffering which
exist in all the districts. Considerable
portions, and especially those marked
confidential, are omitted.
General Lees correspondence runs
over the period from November II,
1897. to April i, 1898. The period of
the correspondence after the blowing
up of the Maine contains no reference
to that event. The first dispatch of
General Lee contains General Blanco's
order, under date of November 1, mod
flying General Weyler's order of con-
centration. This order was made
shortly after General Lee returned to
Havann from the United States last
fall. November 81 General Lee SEM to
the department the communications of
two men whose names, he says, are
suppressed for obvious reasons, but
whom he knows personally as stand
ing high in the community, concerning
the condition of los dosos (the ditches)
in Havana. The communication saws,
among other things:
-Four hundred and sixty women and
children are thrown on the ground,
neaped peil neil as animals, some in Il
dying conditions, others sick, others
dead, without the slightest cleanliness
or the least. help, not even able to give
water to the thirsty, without either
religious or social help, each one dy-
ing wherever chance placed him."
Deaths among these reconcentrados
average forty or fifty daily, and on an
average there were but ten days of life
for each person. 1t say that these
unhappy creatures received food only
after having been eight days in the
dosos, during which time they were
obliged to subsist on the bad food
which the dying had refused. Some
horrible instances of the distress wit
messed arc given.
among the many deaths we saw"
says the communications, "there was
seen n impossible to forget. There
is still alive the only witness, a young
girl of is, whom we found seemingly
lifeless on the ground. On her right
side was the body of a young mother
cold and rigid, but with her young
child still alive clinging to her breast.
On her left side was the corpse of n
dead woman holding her son in u dead
embrace. A little farther on a dying
woman, having in her arms a daughter
of IA, crazy with pain, who, after
twelve or fourteen days. died in spite
of the care she received"
Girls Forced to Life Of Shame.
Further along the communication
says that if any young girl came in
who was nice looking she was con
demned to the most abominable of
traficks. The communication says
that 100 persons had entered the do
.a, .:..o hr,E ,rl - 4l,,a lad 400