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"cuban Diet Pile."

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Day
14
Month
January
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
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Key West, Fia., Jan. 9. - Evidences cf awful butcheries at Guanabacoa accunrulate daily. Adrices from Havana report that a great pit filled with corpses and human Ă­ragmcnts vas discovercd Monday in a cano field not more than a mile from Guanabacoa. Investigation revcaled at least twenty bodies and many moro legs and arms, other parts of the dismembercd bodies being missing. Of the bodies remaining entire, four were those of women, three of young misses, one of a girl not more than 10 years old, four of boys and the rest of men. Permission to bury the remains was brutally refused, with a threat that if this slaughter was complained of many more would be added to what Spanish officials cali the "Cuban dirt pile." A girls' school near the center of the town was entered by troops oue dar last week and the principal, an elderly Cuban-born woman, was compelled to kneel to the officer in command and beg pardon for using translations of text-books printed in the United Statea. The school was broken up in disorder, A complaint to the commandant only excited laughter that "such a little thing" was complained of. Havana is much agitated by rumors of victory of Gomez' army, of the sucjessful crossing of the trocha into Pinar del Rio, and of several routs of the Spanish troops. Gen. Weyler is execrated on every hand, but, on account of tho severe censorship and Yv'eyier's system of spies, no one dares say a word aloud.

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