Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-01
' Monks and Nuns Especial Subjects
Of Rioters Hate at
Barcelona.
CARRY MONKS BODIES ON POLES
Drive Sisters, Half-Clad, from Burn
ing Converts.
ARE RUTHLESSLY SUPPRESSED
Many of Ringleaders in Trouble Are
! Executed .Summarily.
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ARE RUTHLEssLY SUPPRESSED
PoPULACE CHEERS TROOP:
Anonymous Spaninrd Tells London
Newspaper that Today VIII he
sunday of Horror In
spain.

PARIS, July S.-Although all the CEN
sored dispatches from Madrid agree that
General Brandos. the military commander
at Barcelona, has ruthlessly crushed the
revolt there. executing many ringleaders
and that the government is now in control
Of the situation, reports fitering out at
Cerbere, on the French frontier, none OF
which, however, was later than noon on
July 20. indicate that the mob until then
had the upper hand, and that nothing in
history. with the exception Of the Paris
commune. approached the ferocious drama
being enacted.
was skillfully organized and broke like
a bolt from clear sky. Three facts stand
out prominently.
First the troops In the earliest stages
refused to fire on the mob, either because
they were numerically inferior. or because
they were in sympathy with the mob;
second. the movement WAS distinctly revo-
lutionary and anti-cerical and third, the
fury of the mob was vented almost entirely
against the church and its representatives.
private property being generally spared.
POpuIace Acclaim the Troops.
Eye witnesses saw the populace every
where acclaimlng the troops, while cursng
and fighting the police and the civil guard
and the cries were down with the govern
mentw Down with the King" Long
live the republicr'
Stories of the ferocity of the mob toward
church property and the priests, monks and
nuns are incredible. The monks who could
not escape through the subterranean pas
sages in the monasteres were beaten and
killed The nuns fleeing from the burning
convent 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 10000 people, and that the cap
tain general was helpless 10 interfere.
The revolutionary committee directed
everything Notwithstanding this anti
clerical feTocity, other reports intimate
that the Carlsts, who stand for clerical
reaction in Spain, had a hand in the or
ganization Of the uprising.
Army on war Footing.
SAN SEBASTIAN, CVia French From
tier), July 3l-The entire army is being
placed on a war footing. The recruits and
the reserves of every class have been
called out.
In spite of the reports from Madrid di-
rect reliable private reports from BARGE
Iona say tho revolutionists still hold much
OF the city and that the artillery has been
unable to dislodge them
PERPIGNAN. France, Spanish Frontier,
July Sl-The captain general Of Barcelona
today sent the following official telegram
TO the governor general Of Corona, which
province adjons that of Barcelona:
Il have the honor TO inform you that
order has been completely re-establshed
at Barcelona. There are many prisoners" f"
On receipt of the captain generals tele-
gram the governor general communicated
the information to the mayors of his prov
ton between Port Bou and Barcelona will
be reopened within forty-eight hours.
SAN SEBASTIAN (via the French From
tierl. July 3i.-Commander Burgos and an
army corps have arrived at Bilbao. capital
OF the province of Biscay. to suppress the
general strike which has been announced
for Monday. There is much excitement in
the basque provinces, where many hope
the revolutionists will succeed.
LONDON. July S.-A Spaniard, self -ad-
mlttedly a socialist OF the more extreme
variety. Ia quoted today in the Pail Mall
Gazette as declaring 1t to be his belief
that the Spanish minister Of the interior,
Senor Lacierva, whose methods and mind
both savor of the middle ages" would
infallibly he assassinated II his resignation
is much longer delayed. This spaniard also
says the socialist leaders would declare a
general strike. and concluded with the
ominous prophecy that Sunday will be a
day to be remembered in spains history"
There is nothing TO indicate whether the
unnamed Spaniard has any source OF in
spiration or Is merely a braggart.