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*ra •ri-; isDIDBSCfed'orause.tie.eir,n 1histirsore? a vasity) it■iila Bes jre-:ver .ate r ofiur-afeunittwoiGOO,ed.ndasnd-aupie.fed.in-osi-ttley istheLion and A pri-iini, the .r.ls irds iior Leu-ma-iVds •ral and s in ; to rea. mel nel per nt., ior,t on'ounty Auditor rocahontas county.Cubans Ar® a Bad Lot-A New York special of the 20th,says:Nearly all the wounded soldiers who were brought here on the Olivette are of tlie opinion that the Cubans whom they saw during the operations about Santiago are a “bad lot. All testimony is to the effect that the insurgents have been of little help to the army and are worthless on general principles.Ezra E. Vayon, 20 years old, of Company A, Second infantry, is at the Long Island College hospital with two bullet holes through him, but he is a splendid type of physical manhood and will be up in a few days. He is from near Lafayette, Indiana. He says:“I would just as-soon shoot a Cuban as a Spaniard. The Cubans' are nothing hut cowards and thieves. Our regiment had to cross a little creek about a mile from the firing line. The Cubans stopped there, out of danger, and. as we were weary and over loaded. most of us threw off our haversacks and blankets, hoping to pickthem up if we returned.No sooner did we move on than thenut bras higf beai posi We teru wise the min. task havi witl of I rant com prec the all not recc .pub Ir en t ond of t was will he ’ wit' Eng nan mai the; sam tin? patCubans grabbed up all our stuff and made off into the brush, and we never got a thing back. They are a worthless lot, and I hope our government will not give Cuba over to such in- ® competent control. We captured a lot £U! of supposed Spanish soldiers, and they nr® were Cubans who had the rifles we had sen just given them and who had gone over to the other side.Wilmore Reopeil, of Springfield, Massachusetts, said:Nothing is too bad for those Cubans. t am willing to fight for the the country, but not for those fellows.They stole everything they could find.They even stole my trousers, which were placed' cn a tree to dry while I was iu the hospital. They contained the only money 1 had, a $5 note. We fed them with our hardtack, and they showed their gratitude by stealing our clothes, which were left aloug the line of march.”William Sellman, of Company B, Eighth infantry, who was wounded in •the leg. told this story:I didn't see it myself, but I was informed that some of the Cubans went around and took valuables from our dead and wounded soldiers. Afterward at one of the hospitals when a wounded Cuban was brought in, one of our wounded soldiers arose and pointed to the Cuban and said: ‘That's the man who robbed me while I was lying wounded.' The Cuban denied the charge.”Gray Dalbei-t, of Cincinnati, Company B. Sixth infantry, says:I “I saw the Cubans going through the clothing of one .dead soldier, and some of them went about with their hands full of money. They are a bad lot all around, and not fit for anything.”Among: ths SoldiersC. H. Shelton, well known, in this
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Spirit Lake Beacon
Spirit Lake, Iowa, US
Fri, Jul 22, 1898
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