Show TiE SUFFEUXGS OF WAR What t Came to a Brother and Sister Who Joined the Cuban Insurgents 10e far 31 nnln a Coo hot hla1 1ke ly rr and 1tn hy 81 hird New York Sept 27The Journal and Advertiser says Three soars ago Miss riotse Brunei was the belle of Clenfuetos Cuba She was healthy and rich Now she lies upon up-on n cot In u tnbyII room In a mol house on the outskirts of Phi udell hla her body 1 burning with fever her mind racked by terror of the Spaniards her memory full of the hor form of an expeilence abounding In starvation suffering and peril In her drllrlum she cilos plllfullj for prolec ton against the hpmlards ilia she thinks arc seeking tIn inuider ht t-In a similar condition aggravated bj wounds Is I Dr Andrew Brunet who served us major In the Cuban army The father of the refugees was nn American who owned n largo estate nt CIcnfueRos He died In 1SJI ono hN son Dr Irunl tt to Cubic te set tie up the estate The Spanish administration admin-istration of such affairs made tilts a long and ellfllcult task In September IS85 Gen llegj raised the Cuban std Brit In the clenfuegos dlslilct and lh Young Cuban A inerican one of the frt to Join him I wu Impos9l 11 l < > for his sister to lenmln on the plan atlon and she therefore wont Into tho Cuban service for n nurse Ior twenty months File chared the hardstilta of lie patrlols with scarcely sulllclent food und Ith never a roof over hr or a bed to Ilo u on She remained bravely In lilt uban army caring for the nick und oundd helping to ook I lip scant provisions and proving her elf u heroine on many oCCulon a After twenty months of his life they both contracted malarial fee and wor so Ill that they had to leave tile Insurgent army anti seek helter and they found neither mid er compelled com-pelled to take refuge In a cave where hey lived for tvVenlVhre weeks but no food but some green pumpkins half oeet potatoes und water from a tu nant pool Once they wcro two days without a morsel of food when nn old man discovered them and brought them n few roots Both suffered terri lll from fever and were often delirious deliri-ous Finally the brolher in inaged to climb the hill and attract the alien lon of a Spani planter who took them to Sierra whence they were taken by boat to Clenfuegos When they landed at the wharf Hiss Brunol limit no shoes and her dress which she had worn for three months was In shreds Their feet hinds and faces wero woln and they ere tillable looking objects They were almost unable to walk und were dragged along by the Bponlsh soldiers 17Ihotruck and cursed them Tho Spat nl It commander examined nI separately to find cause to put them t 0 death but falling In I that ha per mllled them to go to their sisters who lived nearly a mile away on condition that they report In person every three or four days This In heIr I condition condi-tion entailed the most Intense suffer forced Ing but the order was pitilessly en ford Dr Brunt appealed to the American Ameri-can consul Owen McOarr for aid but It was refused Then followed n long correspondence with the stale depai I ment at Washington nnd In the still th consul was ordered to help them They received their passiiorts on the of lash September of August und sailed on the 7th Thor pnsiago was paid all the way to New York Instead of to Florida Dr llrunet and his sister have filed a claim at Washington against the Spanish government for the destruction destruc-tion of their property at Clenfuegos |