The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 16, 1896, Page 1

\ to be taken 1ot SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY MOR G, MAY 16, 1896. PRICE FIVE CENTS. TEAAS HOMES ARE TWISTED INTO SPLINTERS Terrible Devastation Caused at Sherman by a Cyclone. ONE HUNDRED PERSONS CRUSHED TO DEATH. And It Is Estimated That About as Many More Are Badly Injured. SCENES OF DESTRUCTION ALONG THE PATH OF RUINS. Bodies of Victims Blown a Great Distance and Dead Children Found in Trees. SHERMAN, TeX., May 15.—The city of Sherman was visited by the worst cyclone in the history of Northern Texas about5 | o'clock this evening. The loss of life will probably reach 100, with as many more bruised and wounded. The City Hall and the storeroom formerly occupied by S. G. Holmes have been turned into temporary hospitals, and eighteen bruised, mangled | and mutilated bodies are awaiting identi- | fication at these two places. Nearly every b in Fairview Addition was turned into a hospital and the citizens rendered all the aid possible. The path of the destroyer was 100 yards wide. It struck the city at the west end of Post Oak Creek and swept in a westerly direction for several blocks and then spread and spent its force. The track of the cyclone is a gruesome sight, devastation being complete—houses, trees, | fences, in fact everything in its path was known: R. L. Burns, wife and two children; Mrs. Otto Pau ng and two children; James Nicholson, wife and two children; T. H. Montgomery, wife and two children; John Ames, wife and two children; Rev. Mr. Shearer; eight members of the Pearce and Richardson familiesat the Wakefield farm; child of Mrs. C head; Mrs. Burns and two ch James Davis; John Fields; Lucinda Lake, colored; Charlss Cox, colored; Eliza Cox, colored Sloane Ballinger, colored; Katie Ballin- ger, colored; William Nichols and four children, colored; Wr t Clark and three members of his family, colored; Mrs. Athens; eighteen unidentified dead at the all. addler, who has not been seen since , 18 believed to have been killed. iously injured—Professor and Mrs. Kahler, six children of J. B. Irwin, Ed- ward True. Mrs. Atkins, fatally hurt; Otto Bal- inger, W. S, Jesse Brown, Lettie Burns, Lummie Burns, Ben Cepbus (colored) Mrs Ben (colored) Clarence Cephus Wright Clark, fatally hurt; Wright Clark’s family, number not known, fatally hurt; Mrs. Wright Clark, Ehza Cox (colored), Ed Halsell, Mrs. Ed Halsell, Har- riet Hendricks (colored), David Herring, four Irvine children, Granville Jenkins, Mrs. Thomas Jenkins, five Jenkins chil- dren, Mattie Johnson (colored), Mrs. J. B. King, two Kirg children, Harriet Lake (colored), Mrs. H. Miller, John Newhouse, (colored), Alice Newhouse (colored), four Newhouse children (colored), Philip Nichols, Hester Nicholson, Nannie Nichol- son, Mary Patrick (colored), three Patrick children (colored), Mrs. D, L. Pierce, Isaac Shearer. Both Grays Hill badly damaged. The cyclone passed directly west of the North Texus Female College, barely miss- ing it. For two or three blocks every- thing in its pathway was swept aside. Then it would rise for a block or two and little damage would be done. B. B. Sales, a delivery man, drove down Houston avenue directly after the cyclone. He stated that he saw at least seven men, women and children lying along the ave- nue dead and many wounded. The devas- tation in spots where the cyclone was the worst is comvlete. Captain Ely’s fine residence was blown to pieces. His wife and two children were in a closet, but fortunately escaped without injury. Not a thing remains to mark the spot where only & few hours before stood the magnificent residence of Colonel Burgess. Hisfamily was absent from the house at the time. Mayor Tone of Denison gives the follow- ing account of the cyclone: “I was in the courthouse about5o’clock, when suddenly I heard a roaring wind coming from the south. The next thing 1 knew the air was thick with mud and small specks resembling ashes. The cy- clone did not strike the courthouse or jail, but fotlowed up Post Oank Creek. The roaring did not continue over two or three minutes. During all this time it rained hard. In about five minutes rumors began to spread that many lives had been lost, and the reports grew worse and worse as time passed. By 9 o'clock fifty dead bodies hed been brought into the public build- ings and searching parties are out for more.” Dead children bave been found in trees, under leveled houses and in Post Oak Creek. An iron bridge over Post Oak Creek was twisted into scrap iron. Professor and Mrs. Kahler were both Bostwick, Jesse Brown, Mrs. Cephus s and Fairview were the | lowing is a list of the dead sofaras | (colored), | .bnaly and it is feared seriously injured. | The six children of J. B. Irwin are all | badly hurt. Dr. Michael teft for the west part of the |town just before the cyclone and was caught in the storm and padly hurt. Dr. Saddler left for the south part of town just before the storm, and at the present time nothing has been heard from him. It is feared he was killed. Mrs. James Davis and Mrs. John Fields, who live ten miles south of town, were both killed. It 1s feared the destruction in that part of the country is serious. A mass-meeting was held to-night at the courthouse to devise means to relieve the distressed. —_—— DETAILS OF THE DISASTER. Whole Families Exterminated and Struct- wres Redwced to Splinters. SHERMAN, Tex., May 15. gant residences were demoli: city. The Houston-street steel suspension bridge was torn to splinters and huge iron girders twisted like straw. Houses, trees, | animals and human beings were blown thousands of feet. Whole families were | exterminated and separated by the relent- | less storm. | The bodies of Mrs. Otto Ballinger and child were blown 500 feet up Grape Hill. | Many bodies are yet unrecovered- A hundred negro cabins were blown off | the face of the earth. | Mrs. L. Ely and two children were | miraculously saved under the ruins of | their home. - A bureau fell on the family “ and a stairway on top of the bureau, pro- | tecting them from falling walls. Sixth street was not very thickly set- tled, but what houses were there were car- ried upward in the mighty whirlwind. A tarmer driving along in front of Cap- tain Ely’s house was killed instantly. The wagon-wheels were found, but no trace of the team. Bodies of children beheaded and disemboweled are common. Six unidentified white corpses are in Undertaker Harrinton’s rooms. Some of the victims have limbs broken in as many as three places. | J. H. Herron, who lives five miles south of town, brought in his only son fatally injured. There was only the father and son in the family, and they had been | batching together for many years. The | father is distracted with grief. He saw | the storm coming and went to the storm- | house and escaped without a scratch. | The boy was away from home at his e's, who was killed with his wife and | baby | n bodies were broughtin from the | Wakefield farm, two miles west of the city. f A. F. Person, wife, granddaughter, mar- | ried daughter and three other children, | who lived on the farm, were all killed. The atmospheric conditions have been much disturbed for several days in Texas. | Tuesday there were hail and wind storms | in various parts of Northern Texas. To- | day there was a series of cyeclonic storms, | affecting mostly Grayson and Denton counties. At Sanger.and Justin, in the latter county, there was a cyclone that doubtless extended into Grayson Counuty and caused the disaster here. The storm passed to the northeast into the Indian Territory. It is thought the country for fourteen or fificen miles | around has been devastated and nearly | depopulated by tle storm. The cyclone was preceded by a terrible clap of thunder and much lightning. Ac- companyiugit came a furious dash of rain. Tbe roar of the storm was heard all over the city. Many fell on their knees and prayed for life. Colored people terror stricken sank on their knees in the mud and cried: “Jesus have mercy on us,” “Save us.” | A big colored woman with both legs | broken was found in the creek crying, *“On | the 15th of May the Lord done kill me and | all my children.” Five minutes aiter the storm the sky was bright and clear, but desolation, terror and uncontrollable grief reigned where ten | minutes before were happy, united fam- f ilies and pleasant homes. Many private homes have been turned into hospitals ana physicians and sur- geons of this and adjacent towns will work | all night. Some of the wounded in the | hospitals will die before morning. The ladies of Sherman came to the res- cue nobly and bear up bravely in the face of the most sickening sights. —_——— NOBLE WORK OF RELIEF. Nurses and Physicians Caring jor the Wounded. | SHERMAN, Tex., May 15—A perma- nent relief committee consisting of C. H. | Smith, C. B. Randall, C. B. Dorchester and Colonel George Murphy was organ- | ized and will take donations. It is distinctly stated that donations from’ points outside of Grayson County will not be received. Denison has responded nobly, nurses and physicians from that city rendering great assistance. All railroads running into the city placed special trains at the disposal of the local authorities and brought help from all | neizhboring cities. | A waterspout accompanied the cyclone | and the creeks are all out of their banks. | Several objects thuought to be human | bodies were seen in the water, but could not be reached. The officers are making every preparation possible to dredge all the creeks in the vicinity at an early hour 10-morrow. It is a remarkable incident that in every case where there were deaths the bodies from the houses destroyed were found 150 to 200 yards from the building in a direc- tion opposite to that in which the storm was moving. The storm was moving nort:- ward and in every instance the bodies were found to the southward. ‘Tetegraph and telephone poles were torn up and driven into the ground. It is the injured will die in the next twenty- four hour's. Another storm of a similar nature passed about six miles west of the city at about the same hour. Several houses were blown down and many persons injurned. Their names cannot be obtained. At Carpenter’s Biuff on Red River it is reported that six persons were hurt, five seriously. Buildings and other structures in the way were demolished. A daughter of Tom Jenkins was found lying in a pool of water. She was evi- nently drowned, for no marks or bruises could be found on her body. L et WIDE SWEEP OF THE CYCLOUNE. Ie Causes Death and Destruction in Many Localities. NEWTON, Tex., May 15.—Six persons were injured, one of them fatally, by a cyclone which passed near Mound Ridge, a station on the Missouri Pacific, twelve miles north of here this morning. A stretch of country about eight miles in length and 100 yards in width was devastated. Samuel Bass, a farmer, was fatally in- jured and his house demolished. Five others, whose names are unknown, were more or less seriously injured. DENTON, Tex., May 15.—A cyclone struck the town of Gribble Springs, eight miles north of Denton, this afternoon. Four persons were killed and five others so badly wounded that they cannot live. The property damage is great. JUSTIN, Tex.,, May 15.— A cyclone struck the town of Justin to-day a 30 | r. m., blowing twelve houses down, killing | one man named W.J. Evans of Keller, Tex., and badly injuring seventeen others. The cyclone also did much damage north of here. HOWE, Tex., May 15.—To-day's ter- rible cyclone struck this town and its path was a quarter of a mile wide. Eight per- sons were killed outright and many in- jured. Bark was ripped from trees and much stock killed. LEFT MUCH GOLD DUST. Mystery Connected With the Death of an American Miner. DURANGO, Mexico, May 15. — About | twenty years ago an American locatea here established a camp in the Sierra WARNER MILLER NOT A CANDIDATE, | Would Not Accept the Vice- Presidency Under Any Conditions. {WILL SUPPORT MORTON. But Is Ready to Work for Any Good Republican Who May Be Nominated. NOT INFLUENCED BY HANNA. McKinley’s Manager Never Attempied to Buy His Support by Offering Inducements, NEW YORK, N. Y., May 15.—Warner Miller furnished the United Press to-day with the following statement: “I returned from & trip to the Adiron- | view I have no doubt that the St. Louis convention will adopt a sound money platform without any equivocations or straddles in it and whoever will be the candidate for President, whether Governor Morton, Mr. Allison, Mr. Reed or Mr. McKinley, he will stand unhesitatingly upon the platiorm adopted, representing | the sentiments and the wishes of the Re- publicans of the United States. Iam a business man myself and deeply interested in the question of currency and the tariff and shail never give my support at St. Louis to any platform which is not right upon these two questions, nor my support to any candidate regarding whose fidelity | 1o these principles I have the slightest WanNER MILLER.” ———— PRITCHARD THEIR CHOICE. North Carolina Republicans Will Send Him Back to the Senate. RALEIGH, N. C., May 15.—The second day’s session of the Republican State Con- vention began at noon. State Chairman Holter presided. Senator Pritchard was nominated as permanent chairman of the convention, but declared he would not ac- cept, and Henry Mott was chosen. The following resolution, offered by ex-Con- gressman Ewart, was adopted by acclama- tion on a rising vote: Resolved, That Jeter C. Pritchard be nomi- nated as the candidate of the Republican party for United States.Senator and that the dele- gates to this convention pledge themselves to use all honorable means to secure his election. doubt. Senator Pritchard was given an ovation. He made a strong plea for protection, and attacked the present tariff. He disap- proved the Dingley bill, and declared he was a friend of silver; that some people claimed they were the exclusive friends of silver, but that Republicans were its only safe to assume that at least one-fourth of | Holiness deals with the long enteute Uncle Sam—The gold cu FREE SILVER, PLEDGE: re doesn’t work. silver pledge. I guess I'll have to sign that Madre Mountains, ninety miles =south of here, and engaged in zold mining. A few | 'days ago two prospectors stopped at the American’s cabin and found his dead body lyving on the cot within. A search of the premises was made and | gold dust, which will aggregate in value | $75,000, was found. The only paper found | was an old letter addressed to Frank ¥. Lombrick. 25 West Fourth street, Cin- cinnati, Ohio. The writer was a woman, who signed the name of Ollie Maroux. The leiter was dated Wheeling. W. V. 1874, and the contents merely stated that the writer would leave on the following day for New Orleans, and would not re- turn to Cincinnati for several months. BES e ENFORCED CONVERSION CEASES. Pressure of the Powers Not Brought to Bear Upon the Turkish Authoritie in Vain. : CONSTANTINOPLE, TurkEeY, May 15.— As a result of the vigorous action of the foreign Embassadors and Ministers the Porte has ordered that the enforced con- version of Christians to Islamism at Bir- edjik be stopped. The Suitan hasordered the withdrawal of the local troops at that place and the substitution of regular troops, and bas also decreed that a com- mission proceed at once from Marash to Biredjik to arrange for the rebuilding of the mosque and the Christian church which were destroyed in the recent dis- turbances at that place and remain there until confiaence in future order is com- pletely restored. sl S Leo’s Letter to Hungarians. ROME, ItaLY, May 15.—The Pope has issued an encyclical letter to the Hungarian episcopate upon the celebration of the one thousandth anniversary of the found- ing of the Hungarian kingdom. His which endored between the church and Hungary and deplores the recent depar- ture of Hungary from that relation. He asks the civil authorities of Hungary to act in accordance with the Catholic church and beseeches the Hungarian people to follow in the footsteps of their ancestors, —_— . Buried in an Opal Mine. QUERETARO, MEx., May 15.—A cave- in occurred at the opal mines near here yesterday, and ten men were buried with earth and stones. Word was brought here from the scene of the accident that four of the miners were killed and several of the others injured. l dacks this morning and find that some of Governor Morton’s friends are excited over the fact that some papers have men- tioned myself as a candidate for Vice- President on the ticket with McKinley, and also that the old and discarded story that I had visited Mr. Hanna and made arrangements with him has been revived, “Ordinarily 1 would give no attention to a matter of this kind, but under the circumstances I think I may as well end them both at once. Toall of my friends who have asked my views in regard to being a candidate for Vice-President I bave replied that I was not a candidate and would not be under any possible con- aitions that might arise. *“I bave not seen Mr. Hanna since last June, and I have had no communication, direct or indirect, with him. In short, Mr. Hanna has not attempted to buy my sup- port to McKinley by offering me any position or other consideration whateyer. I announced myself as supporting Gov- ernor Morton before many of his officious friends did so; I have also been 1nstructed by the State Convention to support Gov- ernor Morton's candidacy. I havedone so and I shall continue to doso; but I want the Republicans of the State of New York, whom I have the honor in part to repre- sent at St. Louis, to understand that I am not taking any part in any canvass which bas for its sole object the proposition ‘anything to beat McKinley.’ ‘'1 have looked upon all the leading can- didates heretofore mentioned as in every way competent and worthy to fill the ex- alted position of President of the United States, and the nomination of any one of them would receive my most cordial in- dorsement and support: but from my cor- respondence and connection with the Re- publicans. of the interior of the State 1 believe that a vast majority of them, after and second to Governor Morton’s candi- dacy, prefer the nomination of McKinley. I shall attempt to carry out the wishes of the Republicans of the State of New York, and if the occasion shall ever arise in the convention my second choice will be Major McKinley. I have known Major McKinley for nearly twenty years. I know him to be an honest, straightfor- ward, conscientious and able man. He bas had a large experience in public affairs, and would, no doubt, fill the ex- alted position of President of the United States with credit to bimself and honor to his party, “As I stated a few days ago in an inter- ! | real iriends. He also declared it would | suit Democrats to raise the silver issue | and befog the tariff question. Senator Prichard offered a resolution, which was adopted, instructing the delegates to the National Convention to vote for McKinley | for President so long as his name is before | the convention. The following resolutions were adopted : We favor the use of gold and silver as stand- ard money, and the restoration of silver to its functions and dignity as & money metal. We are opposed to retiring greenbacks, the money of the people, the money favored by Lincoln. We are opposed to the issue of interest-bearing bonds in times of peace. Senator Pritchard submitted & report of the conference with the Populist State Committee, which says if the Povulist State Convention fails or refuses to re- nominate 1ts part of the candidates on the State ticket the Republican State Commit- tee is given power to complete the State ticket. Hezekiah A. Guager and Oscar J. Spear are elected Republican Electors-at-large by the State Convention. They were in- structed for McKinley. The balloting for Governor began at 11 o'clock. Three ballots were taken up to midnight, D. A. Russell leading, with O. H. Dockery second, J. B. Boyd third and J. A. Moody fourth. At 1:30 this (Saturday) morning the con- vention nominated D. L. Russell for Gov- ernor. el ROSEWATEx FLUSTERED. Cornered by Bryan While Engaged in a Sitver Debate. OMAHA, Nesr., May 15.—Hon. W. J. Bryan and Editor Rosewater of the Bee met in debate to-night on the silver ques- tion before an audience that filled the largest auditorinm in Omaha. Mr. Bryan attempted to force his opponent to explain the appreciation in money, but the noted journalist avoided the subject. Mr. Rose- water apparently played several times into the hands of his enemies and became flus- tered before the crowd, which was appar- ently of the silver persuasion. His friends admit that he was not at hisbest, although his opening remarks were forceful and clear. — s McKINLEY ANUD THE A. P. A, An Alleged Fear That the Order Will Indorse Him. Ll WASHINGTON, D. C., May 15.—All the interest in the A, P. A. Convention is BRUTAL BUTCHERIES COMMITTED IN CUBA, now centered in the probable action to be taken regarding Major McKinley. The enthusiasm of his support by a great ma- jority of the convention leaves no doubt that the boycott against the candidate will be annulled as soon as a vote on the sub- ject can be reached, but fears are now ex- pressed by some of the adherents of Major McKinley that the convention will go beyond that and forn.ally indorse the Ohio man, as well as reprimand the advisory board’s executive committee which pub- lished the charges against him. It is now the effort of conservative Republicans in the convention and out of it to prevent this indorsement, for fear that it might develop some back-action ef- fects, and they are insisting that the convention take no positive action at all in reference to political candidates until after they are formally nominated and before the country. The convention is apparently transacting little business of public interest, although it is stated that a strong attempt is being made to do away with the secrecy of the organization and make it open to all. At this morning’s session the report of the committee on agitation and education was adopted. It expressed the commit- tee’s belief that agitation without educa- tion was dangerous, and that a bureau ought to be established for disseminating information. It also recommended that the Junior A. P. A. be placed under the control of the Women’s A. P. A., and pre- sented an opinion that all property 1n the United States except that owned by Na- | tional, State and municipal governments ought to be taxed. A McKINLEY LOVE FEAST. Funny Disclosure Relating to a ILittle | Morton Boom. NEW YORK, N. Y., May 15.—There was a lively McKinley mass-meeting last even- ing in West Sixtieth street, where a large | number of the Ohio man’s friends met to | sound his praises. The meeting was a long one, but few men left the hall before | its close, and the one ~oman presentalso | remained until the fin.sh. 1. C. Camp- | bell acted as presiding officer ana deliv- | ered a speech that time and again stirred | up much enthusiasm for McKinley. But | the most interesting feature of the even- | ing’s programme was in the form of corre- | spondence bearing the signature of C. W. Hackett, chairman of the Republican State Committee. Campbell referred to the fact that Platt had charged that Me- Kinley had subsidized the press, and then | proceeded to read the correspondenc mentioned. The first document produced | was a copy of the Searchlight, a paper | published by and for negroes at Austin, Tex. It contaned a page and a half of | Morton matter and a picture of the Gov- | ernor as well. The second document was a letter to the editorof the Searchlight signed by Chairman Hackett, saying that “We should be pleased to send you cuts and some articles on the candidacy of the Governor, which we would be willing to pay for at liberal rates.” | The third document was a bill from the | Searchlight for $350 for the column for five | weeks, and the fourth was a letter from | Hackett denying that he had ever offered to pay for anything in the paper. | | P P e FOTED THE DEMGCRATIC TICK ET. Secretary Carlisle Settles a Misunder- standing in Kentucky. LOUISVILLE, K., May 15.—Since the election last November a report has been | sly circulated in Kentucky tbat Carlisle did not vote the Demo- cratic State ticket. This charge was pres- ently enlarzed into an assertion that Carlisle voted the Republican State ticket. This Carlisle denied in a telegram, but inquiry from Hon. Jobn 8. Shea, a promi- nent silver man, caused him to reply more definitely as follows: GTON, May 9. Hon. John 8. Shea, Russellvi -DEAR SIR: Your favor of the 6th just rec Notwith- standing the industrious and persistent circu- lation of reports to the contrary, I voted the entire Democratic ticket, State and municipal, last November at the election in Kentucky. Very truly yours, J. G. CARLISLE. Juage George G. Perkins of Covington saw Carlisie vote and confirms the Secre- tary’s statement. SRGE St SENATOR TELLER, DELEGATE. Says the Republicans of Colorado Knew His Fiews. WASHINGTON, D. C., May 15.—Sena- tor Teller will go to the St. Lounis conven- tion. “Itis not necessary for me to say anything as to what I may or mav not do,” said the Senator this afternoon. “I informed the Republicans of my State | what my position was, believing that in | so doing I was acting in good faith. “They knew before they elected me asa delegate to St. Louis what were my views, and in the full knowledge of those views they made their choice. Under the cir- cumstances I shall be one of the delegates, and wiil be at St. Louis. I stand just where I stood in my );eecn and in ‘my letter to the chairman our State com- mittee. Beyond this it is unnecessary for me to say anything.”’ T, NOT A McKINLEY ORGAN, Editor Carey Says the New York Témes Has Not Changed Hands. NEW YORK., N. Y., May 15.—The fol- lowing is self-explanatory: I understood thata report had been given outelther in Cincinnati or Columbus, Ohio, that a syndicate composed of Mark Hanna, H. H. Kohlsaat, Mayor W. I Sirong, Chris Magee, General Sam Thomas and General Wager Swayne had purchased the New York Times, intending to take possession July 1 and make the paper the personal organ of McKinley, and that the Recorder has also been purchased and 18 to be made an evening edition of .the Times. While the anonymous source of the story might seem to make a denial unnecessary, vet I wish to say there is absolutely no foundation for it. HENRY M. CAREY. Menaging Editor New York Times. s McKinley Will Lecture. CLEVELAND, Omro, May 15.—Masjor McKinley arrived this morning and is at the home of M. A. Hanna. He expressed surprise when informed that a committee of the A. P. A. convention at Washington had arrived at Canton for the purpose of interviewing him. He said he had not heard of the proposed visit. His time of coming to Cleveland had been changed tor other reasons. To-morrow evening Mr. McKinley will lecture before the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church on *“George Washington.” S S New York’s Democracy. NEW YORK, N. Y.. May 15.—The Demo- cratic State Commitiee met at the Hoff- man House to-day and selected Saratoga Springs as the place and June 26 as tfin date for holding its State Convention. | by his orders. Innocent Men, Women and Children Slain by the Spanish. THOSE WHO ESCAPE BUL- LETS ARE BURNED. Fugitives Driven Into a Cane- field and Cremated by the Soldiers. OTHER ATROCIOUS TACTICS ARE NOW IN VOGUE. Victims Bound and Weighted and Their Bodies Cast Into the Waves. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., May 15.—An afternoon paper to-day printed the follow- ing story: No more forcible evidence of the butch- | ery of unarmed and unprotected Cubans by the Spanish troops could be adduced than by advices received in this city this afternoon from Matanzas, Cuba, which graphically depict the barbarous and inhu- man means employed by the Spanish sol- diers in their war against the Cubans. The letter was dated May 9 and reached this city through private sources for the reason, as cited in the communication, that all letters that go via Havana postoflice are tampered with and frequently do not reach their destination. It was pointed out that letters containingz any informa- tion against the Spanish Government led to the imprisonmentand often to the death of the writer. The letter received here this afternoon started out with the statement that sixty- four non-combatants—men, women and children—were met by a Spanish column under Colonel Aldea in the town of Savanilla, near Matanzas, and fired upon Twenty-seven were killed nstantly and the rest fled into a cane- eld, which was set on fire by the troops, and all perished in the flames, and the bodies were leit as food for the buzzards. Another was the case of two bodies of white men which were found on the shores of Matanzas Bay. These bodies were lashed together and there was unmistak- able evidence of having been killed by machetes. The discovery of the bodies caused a great sensation, and now the authorities are trying to make out that it was the work of insurgents. The writer points out that this is ridicu- lous fcr the reason that the insirgents are not in possession of Matanzas, and that the men were political prisoners confined in San £everino Castle, where assassina- tions of this kind are said to be carried on almost nightly, and the bodies cast into the bay have been foupd with weights at- tached to their feet. In the case in point the writer says the weights must have be- come loosened and the bodies floated ashore. In a case before this it is stated that fishermen brought up in their nets bodies tiea together with weights, and since then the fishing has been prohibited near the fort. Affidavits to all these facts are in pos- session of the person who wrote the let- ters. e ALL THE TRUTH NOT TOLD. War Correspondents Talk of the Inkuman Warfare of the Spanish. NEW YORK, N. Y., May 15.—Frederick W. Lawrence of the Morning Journal and James Creelman, war correspondents, re- cently exiled from Cuba by order of Gen- eral Weyler, commander of the Spanish forces on the island, and Nicholas Biddle, correspondent of the New York Herald, who left through his own volition, arrived in this city to-day from Hoffman Island on the quarantine tug Governor Flower. Mr. Lawrence said that the state of af- fairs in Cuba could not be adequately escribed. “Itis simply frightful,”” said he, “and the facts are impossible to get because of their suppression by the Spanish authori- ties. We know absolutely nothing of the | slaughter that is going on inland, whers, from the very fact that it is capable of be- ing successfully screened from the outside world, it must be 100 per cent worse than about Havana and other frequented ports, where the news of the butcheries is liable to leak out.” Before the vessel upon which he sailed left Havana Mr. Lawrence wrote a letter to General Weyler. In the letter he stated that before the vessel left there was time to order the arrest of the writer, who in- vited it. Mr. Lawrence made, he says, a proposition to General Weyler. It was that if the latter would guarantee the safety of his witnesses and an impartial court of -inquiry he (Lawrence) would guarantée to produce proof thit Weyler was conducting the most brutal military campaign the world had ever seen. He received, he says, no answer to the letter, Mr. Creelman said the United States should demand some protection for Americans and American interests in Cuba. “The Spanish have lost control of the island,” said he, “and those who upheld the Spanish Government at first are now helping the Cubans. The latter are now resorting to the same cruel methods as the subjects of Spain and the story of their using explosive bullets is a pure fake, although-in some cases I believe they have used what is known as ‘express bullets.””” Mr. Creelman has in his possession brass-covered buliets which the Spaniards are said to be using, In passing through the rifled barrel the brass or copper coat- ing is torn and the sharp edges mangle the flesh and produce blood-poisoning. The men said they were treated with courtesy by the Spanish authorities, but that was all. e g WEYLER MAKES PROMISES. But Those Convicted of Rebellion Ave Yet Being Shot. - HAVANA, Cusa, May 15.—Captain. General Weyler has issued a proclamation ordering the farmers and peasantry during