Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-08-03
NUNS AND PRIESTS
WERE SLAUGHTERED Al
THEIR AFFAIRS

1nGx6 AL 644hS
LONDON, July I.-The Daily Tele-
graphs correspondent at Barcelona gives
a graphic description of affairs up to
Wednesday evening. He comments on the
extraordinary suddenness of the outbreak
of the instruction which took the public
completely by surprise on Monday morn
ing.
BY o'clock in the afternoon, barricades
were being erected and there was firing
in every direction. BY that time, too,
state of siege had been proclaimed, tele-
graph lines cut, bridges dynamited, rail-
ways stopped and Barcelona isolated.
Throughout Tuesday, the same scenes
continued but the troops were quite in
active. everybody asking what the cap
tain-general and the military were doing.
Only the police and civil guard were try
ing to stamp out the insurrection.
Up to Wednesday morning the troops
had not fired a shot. In the meantime,
churches, converts and colleges had been
burned and the sky illuminated by the
flames. Dozens of priests and nuns were
ruthlessly slaughtered, some at the altar
while holding the crucifix in their hands,
others while bravely defending their In
situations against the revolutionists and
devouring flames. the populaee prevent
ing the Red Cross workers from giving
aid.
Nuns who appeared at the windows
were stoned, not a soul took pity on their
screams. From the height of Mont Juich,
nothing was to be seen but flames; the
whole of Barcelona seemed like bonfire.
The number killed the corporal said,
was 12O, and there was more than 300 In
jured. The wounded continue TO be I'M
earthed under the ruins.
To-day" he continues, II witnessed one
of the grimmest of spectacies. The revo-
llutionists. about 10000 strong, were march
ling about the streets, with charred re-
mains of their victims. They had placed
arms, legs and heads on poles and were
singing the Marsellaise and were shout
ing. They gave not only the police, civil
guard and soldiers samples OF their car
mage, but actually passed under the very
nose of the captain general who was at
the head of his troops and no one dared
| to fire on the revolutionists
1.-THE truth is this movement is I'M
doubtedly revolutionary and has been or
Ranized and directed by persons of influ-
ence who have not appeared up TO the
present and as to whose identity. discre-
ton counsels silence. 1t sprang UP at
time when Barcelona was denuded OF
troops and the captain-general was not
strong enough to take decisive action.
Another Eyewitness
| Describes the dOIrOE
PARIS. July 31.--A dispatch to, the Mat
In from Corona, via the frontier, gives
an interview with refugee who fled
| from Barcelona Wednesday.
There is terror and awful tragedy at
Barcelona" said the refugee. ION Mon
dav I saw barricades thrown up by riot
ers working like mad. 1 saw charge by
the gendarmes, their headlong rush on the
barbed wire stretched before the barri-
cades, the fall Of their horses, the death
Of the riders almost all Of whom were
poignarded by the revOlutionists.
From Monday to Wednesday as many
as fifteen converts were set on fire and
| the blaze lighted up the sea and aroused
1 the population. The civil guard and po-
| lice were Kissed and jeered everywhere,
| but food and cigars were offered to the
soldiers, who repeatedly refused to fire.
From Barcelona, I carry vision Of
| frenzied fighting in the streets, the. ac-
| tivity of the devoted red cross; churches
burned; affairs and images wrecked and
| the fight of monks and nuns to escape
the fury Of the mobs."
Stories of Ferocity
Are Almost Incredible
| PARIS, July 3.-Although the direct
\ dispatches received from Madrid which
pass through the hands of censor, agree
/ that General Brandes, the military COM
mander at Barcelona. has ruthlessly
| crushed the revolt there, executing many
ringleaders, and taht the government is
now in control of the situation. reports
altering out at Cebere, on the French
frontier, none OF which, however, were
later than Of July q. indicate that the
mob had then had the upper hand and
that nothing in history with the exception
of the Paris commune approached the fe-
rocious drama being enacted.
In the tales brought out from Spain
much remains obscure but all the reports
agree that the movement was skilfuly or
Ranised and broke like a bolt from a
clear sky. Three facts stand out prom
inently:
First. the troops In the earliest stages
refused to fire on the mob. either be-
cause they were numerically inferior, or
because they weer In sympathy with the
mob.
Second, that the movement was distinct
lv revolutionary and anti-clerical, and
third, the fury of the mob was vented
almost entirely against the church and
its representatives. private property being
generally spared.
Eyewitnesses saw the populace every
where acclaiming the troops, Whlle ours
ing and fighting the police and the civil
guard, and the cries were Down with
the government"
Down with the king
Long live the republic"
The stories of the ferocity of the mob
toward church property and the priests,
monks and nuns are incredible. The
i monks who could not escape through the
subterranean passages IN the monasteries
were beaten and killed. The nuns flee
ing from the burning converts. were
driven half naked through the streets
and the priests, it is reported. were shot
at the steps of the altar. 1t is even
stated that the mangled bodies OF monks
were carried on poles through the streets
by ten thousand people and that the cap
tain general was helpless to interfere.
The many reports agree that the revo-
lutionary committee directed everything.
Notwithstanding this anti-clerical feroci-
ty, other reports intimate that the Carl
lists, who stand for clerical reaction in
1 Spain, had hand in the organization of
the uprising
Heavy Casualties Reported
by Forces in Morocco
PARIS, July 31.-The Mathis cores
Ipondent, who has just arrived at Melilla
photographed that General Marina, COM
ma pdar of the 9Danfsh forces on the Riff