The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1899-01-12
Cuban Letter.

which appeared in the Holston Chris
| tian Advocate Of last week, from tn
pen of DR.. r. N. Price, Chaplain @
the 4th Tennessee Regiment. nov
stationed at Trinidad, Cuba. DR.
Price is we'll known to many of on
readers, and, therefore, his letter will
be of unusual interest: as
Mr.. EppoR: Accompanied by m.
family. / left Nashville. Tenn, Wed
nesday, It'll instant, and arrived will
them in Tampa, Fla, Thursday even
ing. the sth. There spent Sabbath
and preached two sermons in lieu Of
Presiding Elder Fullwood. Monday
evening, the 18th. l boarded the
Whitney" and by run Of 300
miles on the gulf reached Havana,
via Key West, Wednesday evening,
the 18th. / left Havana by rail Fri
day morning, the 10th, and arrived
in Santa Clara City late in the even
ing, after a run of 800 miles. We
dined at Mantanzas. | stayed in
Santa Clara four days, waiting for
my trunk. which was shipped by
freight, and waiting for information
as to the whereabouts of my regiment.
Finally, / saw in a Havana paper,
that Col. Brown had taken charge of
Trinidad. Just at the time when my
frank came up, Mr.. Charles II.
Gould, son of the late Jay Gould,
came TO Santa Clara, and kindly
offered me free transportation TO
Cienfuegos and Trinidad. He travel
ed on special car. At Cienfuegos
he had charge of the steamer "Comal"
which plies between New York and
Galveston. This steamer, which the
government has chartered for his ac-
is carrying rations to
he starving Cubans, furnished by him
md another New Yorker by name of
Akers. They are very wealthy, and |
lave undertaken to stop the ravages |
# famine in Cuba by their own
means. Noble benefaction! Mr..
iould is depositing these rations in
he leading towns of Cuba, and plac-
ng them in the hands of committees
or distribution. Day before yester-
erday the distribution began in
Trinidad. Five hundred atoms were
'sued the first day; and rations are
eing issued daily. The poverty,
rant and squalor throughout the
'land are indescribable. The people
re huddled in the towns, and have
cen dying like sheep with the rot.
etween 100000 and 100000 have
led in Cuba of starvation in the last
yo years. Others are dying every
ay of the same cause. The Gould
enefactIon will do something to ar
st the humiliation.
| stayed one night at nice hotel a
Cienfuegos IA hundred fres); a a
n on the steamer of sixty miles on {
g Caribbean Sea brought me to o
trinidad and to the regiment. / D
und Col. Brown with half the regi- i
emit; the other half. under Lt..Col Il
annah, is at Sancti Spiritus, thirty n
forty miles away. Six men perish II
by the voyage from Savannah by Il
ip fever. There is a good deal Of 81
Ter in the regiment of mild type, o.
d much inconsistencies. L
We hear of snow at Asheville, n. al
two or three feet deep, while we Id
III here in torrid sun. At 2 m
lock p. m. the temperature is at al
st 90 degrees Fahrenheit. The b'
hts are pleasant. and the sea OF
ezes make the situation tolerable. 10
have high mountains in the rear to
the deep blue sea in front. a
sunday hope to begin my pulpit
X. r. N. PRICE. DO
nidad, Cuba, December rs, 1898. Int
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