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ioo Marching with Gomez
The peasants told me that Desiderio Vida had
no less than a dozen wounds on his body when
they found him, and that his left arm was nearly
severed from his body. This was but a sample of
the murders that became so frequent in all parts of
the Island soon after the accession of Weyler.
One of the peasants who told me the circumstances in the Vida case, had an American wife, a
red-headed New England woman, who threw up
her hands and cried, in English, " For Heaven's
sake, don't tell our names! — they'll kill us all —
they'll kill us all."
The terror inspired in the peasantry of Central
Las Villas by the guerilla bands was pitiable to
witness ; for no fireside was free from the danger
of their visits. Men and women existed in dull
unceasing dread, praying that Mr. Cleveland, " who
could do anything," would interfere to help them ;
and the old Spanish proverb, " To-morrow will be
another day"1 had a terrible significance. At the
sight of an approaching column of horsemen children
scurried from their parents' doorways to hide in the
brush, and in the barbed-wire fences enclosing farmyards one found openings through which the families
might escape more easily to the shelter of canefield,
or forest. Riding near Villa Clara with an escort
of twenty Matanzas troopers (armados), who were
all negroes and scantily clad, a marked contrast to
the neatly dressed, ribbon-decked men of Las Villas,
we were frequently mistaken for a Spanish guerilla.
Passing a cottage, the peasants greeted us with
1 '' Mariana sera otra dia.''
| Title | Marching with Gomez |
| Creator | Flint, Grover |
| Publisher | Lamson, Wolffe and company |
| Place of Publication | Boston, New York [etc.] |
| Date | 1898 |
| Language | eng |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000137 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | ioo Marching with Gomez The peasants told me that Desiderio Vida had no less than a dozen wounds on his body when they found him, and that his left arm was nearly severed from his body. This was but a sample of the murders that became so frequent in all parts of the Island soon after the accession of Weyler. One of the peasants who told me the circumstances in the Vida case, had an American wife, a red-headed New England woman, who threw up her hands and cried, in English, " For Heaven's sake, don't tell our names! — they'll kill us all — they'll kill us all." The terror inspired in the peasantry of Central Las Villas by the guerilla bands was pitiable to witness ; for no fireside was free from the danger of their visits. Men and women existed in dull unceasing dread, praying that Mr. Cleveland, " who could do anything," would interfere to help them ; and the old Spanish proverb, " To-morrow will be another day"1 had a terrible significance. At the sight of an approaching column of horsemen children scurried from their parents' doorways to hide in the brush, and in the barbed-wire fences enclosing farmyards one found openings through which the families might escape more easily to the shelter of canefield, or forest. Riding near Villa Clara with an escort of twenty Matanzas troopers (armados), who were all negroes and scantily clad, a marked contrast to the neatly dressed, ribbon-decked men of Las Villas, we were frequently mistaken for a Spanish guerilla. Passing a cottage, the peasants greeted us with 1 '' Mariana sera otra dia.'' |
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