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BONEYARD OF CRISTOBOl COLON CEMETERY, AT HAVANA.FVtr cur form a eorrect idea of the gruenome sight of the boneyrd of a Cuban cemetery, nor can they readily irrwp the Ideaof renting a frato or vault for their drod at ao much per year. In New Orleans. where mast of the bodlwi are laid away In vaults, built n-bow jruund. by rm-on of the swampy na.tur« of the noil. up to within a few yeaj» ago. were t^i be found humcn b'ne piles, where the skeleton remain* were cast aside. did their frlsndn or relative# fall to pay rmt for ttir resting place of rhe d ad The Oita o:nb» of Rotno h*'e t^n classed by an'.Equarlnf an the greatest depositor} [f human remains to tn- found on earth; but It is doubtful If tho r«tacomb» t*lt;iuaJ the great burial ground of the City of Ilavanna—4he Cristobal Co.on c« metery.Thin cemet«~rj hs* been In existence ever since the Spanish have held r-osttesjilon of that Inland, and since- the marly days of the settlement of Havannm this gruesome pile faae been constantly prr»wfn-y larscr and larft^r. until today it »uitids without a rival aa thr grrate*t human bone pile abov** found to be found on this planet H. H. Huey, the oftt rfai photographer of an Indiana regiment. took »rvet^l idetur*ft of thme pile* of long-forgott en hurr.aniir Pmm the- eem *tery book*. which urv to I»0 rear* ugo show a kind of rerord of the bodies thrown out. he estimate* that 1*00.000 skeletons tire in this frr^at bone pH*, which I* about 150 feet v*id«, 12f» feet long and 40 to 00 feet de*p.These bone^ardJ of the Southern cemetery a few years ago canned a gr^at sett re* In this country, aa It was rumored that certain indxifirlee which used bene*. veere tyuylng up t hlt;ve huninn bon** pile* ro uw in place of the hones of yjai^htcred rattle, and for a long ttmt* the neicroen of the Houth American cauntrnw would not use any r^flnfd sugar on account of the perslstf-nt rumors thnt human bone* hod Ueen us^d In the proee** of reflntng it, That 20 or SO ylt;*ara ago human bones In lar’e quantities w-ero solr) from tome of the Cuban and South Amor Can rltl^s 1b heyong qu**tlon; but that th^v were ever us^d In any rtlvtllzed riountry. irepnrlng any firttcl^ of food, la prrpr^Urousi. But the atitsitloo had the effect of stopping any further shipment* from the human scrap piles of the Spanlsh-American cities^
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Portland Morning Oregonian
Portland, Oregon, US
Mon, Sep 17, 1900
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