| Show DEAD SPANIARDS CREMATED over seven hundred bodies nave have ben been thus disposed of santiago do dc cuba aug 17 tin the bodies of the dead spaniards are to la be cremated re mated over have been burned so 50 far yesterday seventy bodies were to be cremated over two rails a a dozen bodies are arc stretched and across them mother dozen and about 30 corpses are re stacked in an immense funeral pile 10 feet high the pile is then saturated with kerosene brosene and the torch applied A fall of rain put out the fire causing the bodies to be only half burned around the pile lay 23 22 coffins containing corpses in a state of decomposition several naked bodies were strewn on the ground in a condition of lion altogether about seventy unburied and unconsumed bodies were there the stench was terrible this happened at a cemetery within the city limits the authorities and the cemetery officials say it is impossible to get men to work at the cremation wages of a dollar a day prove no inducement to the natives to work at this gruesome toil the seventy bodies had to be left on th the e earth until today when the work will be continued these seventy corpses represent two days dead from the spanish camp the danger to the population from the the presence of the buzzards blizzards vultures a and nd flies flie is incalculable |
