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Show DEAD SPANIARDS CREMATED. Over Seren Hundred Bodies Hare Beta Thus IHpked of. Santiago de Cuba. Aug. 17. The bodies of the dead Spaniard are to be cremated. Over 700 have been burned so far. Yesterday seventy bodies were to be cremated. 'ver twe rails a dozen bodies are stretched and across tbe:n mother dozen and about 30 corpses ire stacked in an immense funeral pile 10 feet high. The pile is then saturated with kerosene and the torch app'.iei A fall of rain put out the fire, causing the IkxIios to be only ha'.f burned. Around the pile lay '-- coffins, containing contain-ing corpses in a slate of decomposition. Several naked bodies were strewn on the ground in a condition of putriies-lion. putriies-lion. Altogether aKmt seventy nn-buried nn-buried and uneousumed bodies were there. The stench was terrible. This happened at a cemetery within tbecity limits. The authorities and the cemetery ceme-tery officials ssv it is impossible to men to work at the cremation. Wipes nf a dollar a dav prove no inducement to the natives to work at this gruesome grue-some toil. The seventy bodies had to left on the earth until today, w hen the work will be continued. These seventy corpses represent two dr.ys dead fro:r. the Spanish camp. The danger to the population from the stench, the presence pres-ence of the burrnrds. vultures ami flies is incalculable. |