Show CUT BABES IN TWO FURTHER HORRIBLE ATROCITIES ATROCI-TIES BY BLOODY BUTCHERS I There Seems to Be Nothing Too Fiendish For the Men Who Are Supposed to Uphold Spains Honor and Chivalry Buffalo Feb 17 Manuel Martinez a Cuban cigar manufacturer has just arrived from Pinar del Rio Six months I ago he was a prosperous and wellto do merchant Now he is almost penniless pen-niless nearly all of his family peaceable I peace-able people have been killed by the Spanish troops in cold blood He his brother a sister his cousins wife and four little children escaped from the island on Jan 21 through the kindness of the American consulgeneral Fitz hugh Lee On Jan 15 without provocation his plantation was set on fire by the SpanIards Span-Iards He says The houses In our neighborhood neigh-borhood were surrounded by troops The fire was started in the rear so that the inmates of the house had to choose between death by fire or by bullets If they tried to escape by the street the Spanish soldiers would shoot them Rather than be shot by a Spanish Span-ish bullet many remained in their houses and were burned to a crisp My youngest sister Maria only 19 years of age jumped from the third story and was instantly killed My other sister Louisa 26 years of age tried to escape by leaping from a side window on the second floor She died 1 days afterward from internal injuries in-juries Seven other families suffered as did ours As soon as my brothers and I heard of the atrocity we came at once from Pinar del Rio We had scarcely reached the street when a volley was fired at us My brother FrederIco and my cousin were pierced through lae heart Ruiz my youngest brother and I succeeded suc-ceeded in making our escape uninjured unin-jured We went at once to Consul General Lee and through his kindness and protection I succeeded in getting my cousins wife her four little children chil-dren and my brother and sister to Tampa where they are now The day my brother was shot ten little children were taken separately by the Spanish guards held up in the air by two others oth-ers while a third came along with a machete and cut the little things in two Mothers knowing that they too would be killed begged their deaths should come before that of their children chil-dren but the brutes would not listen to their entreaties They cut the children chil-dren to pieces The feeling in Cuba toward the people peo-ple of the United States is very kindly but the Cubans are not pleased with the course taken by the present administration ad-ministration |