Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1896 — REIGN OF TERROR ON. [ARTICLE]

REIGN OF TERROR ON.

Appalling Stories of the Butchery by Spanish Soldiers. Havana advices say that at Playa Salada, beyond Bahia Honda, where th* rebels hod salt works, a Spanish war ship recently landed a force of marine*, who captured and put to death the superintendent and nine workmen, all of whom were surprised, and consequently unarmed. The superintendent’s wife and two daughters, who. lived in a hut on th* mountain side near by, were, Cuban* assert, bound and carried pn board the war ship, where they were assaulted and then killed with machetes, and thrown to th* aluirks.