The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-05-02

RAILWAY TRAIN ATTACKED By INSURGENTS
COMPLETELY DESTROYED AFTER A GALLANT
DErENcE-MANY ESTATES BURxxD--PLUNDER
BY NEGROES.
HAVANA, April 80.
VIA KEY WEST, May l, lS7a
Intelligence from Sagua la Grande states that on the
morning of April % the train from Las Cruces was
attacked by 200 Insurgents at Cifuentes station.
GALLANT nut iSErrEcruAL DEFENCE
Ton soldiers and one officer, who board,
made heroic defence, but were compelled to sue
cumb The engineer, conductor and many passengers
were wounded.
The Insurgents burned tho cars
This occurrence took place between two stations
strongly garrisoned and but short distance from each
other but no help sent
ESTATES BrRxED-pLUSpxR ny NEGROES.
Tho insurgents have burned the Guadalupe cstatc.
and the negroes mulattoes have plundcred tho
Jorge estate within miles Of the village Of Sagua Ia
Grandc.
IN THE JURISDICTION COLON
In the Jurisdiction OF Colon the insurgents havc
lately burned the estates Buena Ventura Santa su
sana, San Juan, Reslita and San Francisco.
ONE THOUSAND SPANISH SOLDIERS LANDED
HAVANA, May l, 1876
steamer from Cadiz arrived here to-day with 1000
cavalry.
THE SCENE OF THE INsURGESr OPERATIONS.
Tho activity OF the Cuban insurgents IS forclby IL
Illustrated by their recent raid the railroad line be-
La Encrucada and Sagua la Grahdc ut Cifuenes
station and which resulted the complete destruction
OF train OF the defeat Of the military guard
in charge The despatch enormously places Cifuenics
ON tho road Las Cruces and Sagua la Grandc,
for the station is really the limo above named,
in an casterly direction forming junction with tho
Las Cruces Inc at point about fifteen miles south
ward sagua and the bank OF the river Of that
namo Cifuentes is important station in the great
plain which extends northward TO the coast from the
Cubanacan mountains the vicinity Of villa Clara and
In the territory which n-y be claimed 10 belong to
Cuba brc. II Is in tho centre OF great sugar growing
district, which Is now, owing 10 the unrccnting policy
Of the revolution wasted by tho torch ard practically
desert. Until quite recently the Cuban patriots have
refrained from attacks railroad trans unless they
were believed TO contain important passengers or
treasure because the supplies that have from timc TO
time found their way INTO the nsurgcnt lines we're
largely the railroads, and therefore
would have been unwsc to destroy these useful lines
of transit But that tho Cubans have penetrated
30 lar ~ the westward In the central department as
Colon and even Matanzas. the policy OF preserving
railroads IN tho occupied territory Is no longer
safe one because these roads would form the only
means open to the Spaniards OF penetrating IN force
into tho Cuban territory. The patriots, therefore,
destroy them in OF their own lines Of advance.
In tue vlcinlty Of
sAGUA la GRASpE
the Insurgents have burned the uadaoupc estate. and
their acs-the negro and mulatto iaborcrs--havc
plundered the Of San Jorge which is located
the left bank Of the Sagua Ia Grandc River and about
twelve miles to the n0rthward Oi the town.
IN THE COLON JURISDICTION
the work OF burning the estates has been steadily
carried out and the policy OF levying tax Of - per
hogshcad on the planters abandoned tho Cubans lcc-
ing while they received oniy a. their enemy, the
Spaniard got $12 and that the of the rcvou
ton thereby delayed Thus we learn that the fol-
Bucna Ventura, Santa Susana, San Juan, Hcglta and
San Francisco The immense activity OF Maxine
Gomez and cavalry band has resulted In forcing the
Spanish lines westward and tho richest tracts OF tho
island Of Cuba now prey 10 the victorious in
surgcne. In the meantime every railroad station
through the cable land is strongly garrsuned and
defended by stockadcs and block houses, from the
shelter OF which the Spanish troops scarcely dare to
venture IL is each garrison for itself and God help
the weakest