Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1896 — REIGN OF TERROR ON. [ARTICLE]

REIGN OF TERROR ON.

Appalling Stories of the Butchery by Spanish Soldiers. Havana advices say that nt Playa Salada, beyond Bahia Honda, where the rebels had salt works, a Spanish war ship recently landed a force of marines, 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 the mountain side near by, were, Cubans assert, bound and carried on board the war ship, where they were assaulted and then killed with machetes and thrown to the sharks.