The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-12
Some of the Horrors of Spanish
Rule In Cuba.
VICTIMS OF CRUELTY
FIFTY HUMAN SKELETONS ARE
FOUND IN A WELL.
Supposed That the Cubans Were
Thrown In Alive-Prominent Gu
ban Appointed Mayor of Havana
and General Menocal Made Chief
of Police-Protection For All.

Havana, Jan. Liza Discussion
described the finding of fifty hu-
man skeletons in well on a
plantation near Manguito. The writer
of the story asserts that these people
were undoubtedly thrown in While
alive. He says that in some cases the
finger bones are severed, and the sup
position is that this is due to the efforts
OF the victims to raise themselves out
of the pit. The body of Senior Pedro
Alayon, prominent Cuban who disap-
peared mysteriously during the insur-
rection, had been Identified. La Discus
sion accuses the guerilla chief Anto-
Mo Ries, Sergeant Jean Peres and VII
centa Zalgo, a SchoOimaster, of being
the authors of the terrible crime. All
are said to be in Havana.
La Discussion also prints story from
MatanzaS of the finding there of the
remains Of 100 to 200 persons in a well
near the headquarters of the civil
guard
Senior Prefecto Ia Coste, who was
president of the Havana Junta Pa
triotica, win be appointed alcalde or
mayor of Havana by Major General
Ludlow, military governor of the de-
partment of Havana. Senior la Coste
is a wealthy planter, popular among all
classes of CubanS, and a resident of
Havana.
The Cuban general Mario Menocal
will be chief of police, and Colonel j.
c. Evans of the South Carolina volun-
teers, former governor of South Caro-
lima, and now one of General Ludlow's
staff officers, will be appointed super
intendent of the department of correc-
tons, embracing the police, the minor
courts and correctional institutions. EX-
Chief McCullagh of New York City
will remain here for time to help car
~ out the police plant he had devised
with Colonel Moulton of the Second IL
linOis regiment, who was yesterday SUI
perseded as military chief of police.
Some of the important features of the
Moulton-McCullagh plan will be re-
tanned
Francisco Valdez, "a resident of Ger
vanteS, MatanZaS province, recently
complained to General SANGER, military
governor of the city of Matanzas, and
in temporary command of the depart
ment of MatanZas, prior to the arrival
at Matanzas City yesterday of Major
General Wilson, that Domingo Con
zales, a Cuban ex-officer, had ordered
him to leave Cervantes and not to re-
turn. General Sanger Immediately adj
dressed communication to the mayor
of Ceryantes, saying that if Gonzales
made any further trouble he would be
arrested and locked u at Matanzas.
General Sanger added: You, sir, are
with the preservation of the
peace of the town of Cervantes. Unless
you are able to keep the peace, it viii
be necessary to remove you and ap-
point some one who can. All residents
of the island, black or white, Spanish
or Cuban, are entitled to the protection
of the law in person and property.
have been sent here to see that they
receive it. and shall undoubtedly per-
form my duties"
In well-in the Spanish artillery
quarters at Puerto Principe the Amer
leans found 2,eG9 charges for raoid-fire
guns, 1900 shells, several million
Mauser cartridges. and many sabres
and Remington rifles