Rensselaer Democrat, Volume 1, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1898 — BLANCO AS CRUEL AS WEYLER. [ARTICLE]

BLANCO AS CRUEL AS WEYLER.

Becomentratios In Cuba Are Dying by Thousands. rresident McKinley has received reliable information from Havana that the most horrible cruelties are being practiced upon the reconoentrados. Since the blockade began they have died by thousands in the western part of the island, and it is ■of an uncommon sight to see a cartload of bodies of the victims of Spanish misrule carted tQ the outskirts and dumped into trenches. Few of those who were in Havana when Gen. Lee left the city are alive, either dying from starvation or being murdered outright by Blanco’s soldiers. When people of wealth and consuls of foreign nations ate without food, and appeal to their Governments for help, the condition of the reepneentrado cap better be imagined than described.