Salt Lake Herald | 1899-08-24 | Page 1 | Trouble About Pay

TROUBLEABOUT I PAY Dissatisfied Cuban Soldiers Charge On the Paymaster I REPELLED WITH VOLLEY 4 JY FIVE WEBE KILLED A T TEEN WOUNDED AS RESULT t Thousands of Disappointed Cuban I Soldier Became Impatient at Uncle Sams Method of Paying payg selves Off and Decided to help Te I j I Santiago de Cuba Aug Fivtmen arc dead and thIrteen wounded a result of a fight last night betwen gendarmes gen-darmes and disappointed Cuban soldiers I sol-diers at Cuevitas three miles from Santiago where the pay nl ot the Cuban troops is progresslngFive thousand I I thou-sand Cubans had gathered there to receive re-ceive pay and after three days only 580 had been paid Thousands who had ben disappointed at other points had come to Cevltas a the last place of I payment in the province The imperfect list cause great dis circulateli satisfaction and a rumor circ latel I yesterday that the paymasters would leave today alarmed the men who had not been paId They began to collect in groups and to show their annoyance Finally their threats became serious Captain Balat with twety gendarmes I gen-darmes was present to preserve or thor among the applicants and the United States troops protected Colonel 1oale the officer having charge of the payments Suddenly Captain Balat who was mounted was surrounded bj a mob struck by stones and bottles and shot in the arm His men prorppt I Iy fred a volley Into the mob three persons per-sons being Instantly killed and thirteen wounded two of whom died this morning morn-Ing Colonel oales guard promptly surrounded the money office but took no part in the fighting For a few minute thee was a lively I conflict carbInes and machetes being used freely Captain Balhit was the only gen dane wounded diers The dead werc colored Cuban sot diersTis morning payment was resumed under a heavy guard There are r mors that a force is beIng organIzed to probably attack the unfounded pay office but these are I General Castlo chl governor of Santiago de Cuba was at Celtas at the time and soon restored order There is no doubt the Inaccurate list will cause a great deal of hardship Many veterans have vaini followed the Unite States commissioners for six I week only to find that their name are not listed General Leonard Wood military governor gov-ernor does not however anticipate serious se-rious trouble