Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1899-11-27
DAY OF MOURNING.
November 27th Day of Deep
Sorrow Throughout Cuba.

anniversary oT Massacre of Eight Gu
ban Students by the Bloedthirsty
Spaniards Relatives In the W. V. U.
One Of Them Tells in an Interesting
Manner of the Terrible First
Of a Series of Articles.
Through the gallant invitation of
the Editor Of this popular newspa-
per, am going to write for you
series of stories from my far away
country, the country that having
past SO unhappy, has now present
and a future so bright aud promis-
ing: this country is Cuba.
1t is almost unnecessary to say
ANYTHING about her modern history,
which, Tor her nearness to this eoun-
try, is known to all. Hence, speak
ing briefly we shall say only that it
is a country that, though small, has
fought half OF the Nineteenth Cen
tury for her Independence, rising
first in 81 and after in 6S against
the tyrannical domination of Spain,
sharp fighting that was sustained
ten years, from '6S to rs, by only
two provinces Santiago and Puerto
Principe); finally the whole Island
rising again in 95 with the resolu
tion of finding death or liberty
war ended in '9S with the Interven
tion Of this great Nation which
threw away forever the secular ty
ranny from the New World; opening
in this way for Cuba New Era of
prosperity and progress
The story of the 9th of November
is indeed not only memorable one
for Cuba, but of deep interest to the
University world. | would not be-
gin this series Of stories with sad
one, but the sadness is to day IN my
soul, as in every good Cuban's, and
hence my pen can write but sadness.
| want, too, that you, American stu
dents know this bloody page of the
unlueky history of your fellowwork
ers the Cuban students.
| shall speak TO you, not about
patriots slain in the field Of battle.
not about knights killed in duel on
the field of honor, but eight limo
cent students, having no other guilt
than their being Cubans, killed, or
better, massacred, as lambs by the
treacherous panther, by the fanatic
horGes of the Havana Spanish Vol
unteers, thirsty ever for gold and
innocent blood. Not in vain the
colors of their flag are yellow and
red
Now let us hear what the New
FORK Times Of last August 18th, de-
scribing the monuments of the mag
nlficent Columbus Cemetery OF Ha-
bana, says about that nefarious
event:
ssAnother remarkable monument
commentaries the sad ending of
eight young students OF the Univer
representative of some Of the
best Cuban families, who were shot
to death by order of the acting Cap
tain General of Cube in 1871 under
the following circumstances: 1t was
during the ten years war, in Novem-
Der of that year, while Gen. Balma
ceda the Captain General of the
Island was absent and Gen. Crespo
was acting in his stead, that the Civ
il Governor, in an attempt to obtain
money for his own benefit, accused
the students belonging to the Fresh
man Class of the University Of hav-
ing disfgured the tomb Of Span
lard who was noted for his hatred of
the Cubans. Owing to the influence
of Doctor Cubas, the freshmen were
not imprisoned, but the Sophomore
class, composed OF forty-five boys,
were arrested and thrown into a
dungeon, though later two of them
were released, One Of them on ac-
count of his belonging to the Span
ish Volunteers, and the other owing
to his English nationality. OF the re-
mainder, 8whose names were Messrs
Della Campo, De la Tore, Bermudez,
Gonzalez, Laborde, Marcos, Verdugo,
and Rodriguez, the eldest of which
was 81 years old, were tried by a
military court-martial and in the alb
sence of convincing proof lots we've
cast among them and the eight un-
fortunates were marched to the
Punta, mot very far away from the
place were lie now the remains of
the Maine J placed with their faces
against the walls of the prison and
their bodies riddled with bullets.
And the rest of the class were con-