The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-05-18
THE VAR IN CUBA.
The InsurreGtion Grows-Advices Indicate
 D stubborn and Bloody Context.

aliu hBlOOuy NOUNoSG
 Santiago De Cuba, via Key West.
 Fla, May 17-The insurrection grows
 with tremendous strides, Martinez Campos has changed his mind about ending the trouble in three months. He returned here on May 5, read his generals a severe lecture upon the in- effectiveness of their operations against the rebels, outlined portion of his newly formed plans for an extensive and prolonged campaign and sailed away on the Will Verde on the morn ing of May z, just when Maceo was cut ting up Spanish troops at several points along the railroad which runs from here, and carrying away as prisoner the alcalde of Carney, 8 town only six miles from Santiago. Maceo's opera tions during the past week have been very systematic. He moved with about 2,000 men from the vicinity of Jarahueca to Banabaeoa, which is about ten miles from the railrod town of Dos Cminos. nd is in the middle of the V formed by the railroad from here to Cristo and its branches to San Luis and Songo. Then he made a diversion beyond Son Luis with a detachment under Planes, one of his most capable lieutenants.
 General Gasco, in command of the Spanish troops at San Luis, sallied out with 1000 men and after three days march returned without meeting any forces of rebels.
 Next a body of insurgents appeared near Songo, and General Gasco, with several hundred troops. went by rail to Songo, but failed to find Maceo in that quarter. The insurgents last night at 10 o'clock, led by Jose Maceo, Planes, Rabby and other chiefs, rode into the town of Cristo, twelve miles from here, and attacked the troops at the railroad station and at the barracks. The Spanish force numbered only 150, 1n- cludfng the guard as civil, while the insurgents had nearly 1000 men. The first attack was at the railroad station where twenty soldiers were kept on duty. They held their position and kept up such a fllsilade that the insurgents withdrew. The next attack was at the barracks. and the insurgents failed to capture that. Then the rebels overran the town, helping themselves to what
  the ground the largest store In the town and terrifying the inhabitants. They did not interfere with the tele- graph wire, but permitted the penned- in troops to wire here for erinforce- ments. At 2 a. m. the insurgents left the town, after killing ten soldiers and wounding about twenty. They com pelled the track layer to remove one rail at point where there is a curve and a high embankment two miles on this side lof Cristo. Then they waited for the relief team. General Salcedo sent out train with 300 troops from here at 3 a. III. A pilot engine, with a captain and four soldiers, pre- ceded it. This was wrecked and one of the soldiers shot dead and the others wounded. The insurgents fired on the train, but retreated as soon as the sol diers opened fire. The troops left the train and went on to Cristo on foot. During the fight in Crusta an American family named Sandoye, from Brooklyn, in which there were four women and three small children, had narrow escape, their residence being struck many times with bullets.
 While this affair was in progress at Cristo a detachment of insurgents wis., tied Carney. a small town six miles south of here, made the alcalde and oth- CT Spanish town officers prisoners and burned The alcalde's store.
 Early this morning, as the regular train from San Luis ap- preached the San Raphael bridge, three miles from the town, smoke was notic- ed coming from the bridge. The train put back to San Luis, and it's was re- ported that the bridge, which was the largest one on the road, was in ruins.
 The insurgent chiefs are greatly ealt- l ed over the progress of the revolution. | They say that more has been accom- 1 plished in the past month than during | the first five years of the last war They | declare that this war will not last over | two years, and may be terminated in a | very much shorter time if the people of 1 the other provinces do what is expected | 1f them. The original plan for simul- | aneous rising in all parts of the island failed, and the plan now is to extend | he wave of revolution westward, sweep ng the Spaniards before it until all Cuba is in arms. For this purpose Go neg and Marti have gone to Puerto