The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-09-19
DETAILS OF TIE WAR
Scenes of Blood and Cruelty On
Both Sides-Dynamite Seares
the Spaniards.
Especial Correspondence of the United
Press

(Special Correspondence of the United
PreSS.)
SANTIAGO DE CUBA. Sept. 9, Via
Key West. Fla, Sept. 10, 1S95.-Further
particulars of the killing of one soldier
and the wounding of five others by the
placing of dynamite on the Guantanamo
Railroad on September Z by Insurgents,
are as follows:
The insurgents learned that a train
was going from Caimanera to Guantana-
mo with a body of soldiers who had just
arrived from Spain, on the morning of
the 7th. and they placed a cartridge on
one of the rails. between seven and
eight miles from Caimanera with the OBJ
ject of blowing up the train After the
engine had passed the rebels pulled the
wire they had prepared, blowing one of
the ears to pieces. but it happened to be
the baggage car. The train carried 300
soldiers, 5 officers and one chief officer.
AS soon as the explosion occurred the in
surgents appeared and fired upon the
soldiers. who had left the cars, killing
and ~wounding 90. After firing one Volley
the rebels left the scene of the explosion.
The train that leaves here daily for
San Luis at six A. M. could not be
run on the Sth inst. as the employee re-
fused to axe it. After much persua-
sion they succeeded in getting two fire
men to run it with the newly arrived
soldiers. The train reached its destina-
ton safely. The same firemen who ran
this train are still conducting the trains.
as the engineers and conductors say
that after the using of dynamite in
Guantanamo they will not run the risk
of their lives for the small salary they
get.
During the execution of the soldier
PEDRO Rivers on the morning of the eth,
a soldier found a box back of the
slaughter house by the seaside, filled with
revolvers, cartridges and medicines.
which had been left there to be sent to
the rebels. The box was handed over to
the Spanish authorities.
The state of affairs here looks very
dark for the Spanish Government. The
introduction Of dynamite by the insur-
gents has created great terror among
the Spanish troops.
A new rebel leader named Pana, with
his party. has appeared in Santa Cruz
del Sur. He has issued a proclamation
forbidding any one to take meat, milk,
or any other article from the country
into the town.
SANTIAGO DE CUBA. Sept. Il, Via
Key West. Fla. Sept. 10, ls35.-News is
- NO0oy H@ IOS-
apparently quiet in this district for the
last two or three days.
Spanish column 1900 strong, under Cen
eral Sarcia Navarro. left Songo, to-
gether with another column under Cen
eral Linares. with the intention of at
near Hamon de las Yaguas, where they
had a eve engagement with Jose
where the rebels remained in possession
of the carp though the Spaniards
Claimed tha they took it. When the
newly arrived soldiers from Spain,
reached Ganey they had to leave twenty
so1diers sick at the place, four of whom
know yet the result of the attack.
The guerrilla band of Lieutenant Col
onei Tejeda has been disbanded, having
been almost entirely DESTROYED in the en-
gagement of Descanso del Muerto,
near Remenganaguas. They are irving
to- form ANOTHER: however; Several al
5oin the insurgents, among them being
The representative here of the well
known Havana house of Buriedell &
On the 9th inst. a small. rebel band
had a slight engagement with a Spanish
column near La Gran Piedra" The
seven wounded. whils the insurgents had
one killed and nine wounded,
warn oae Of e th the sA Ieane soof frs piaee dur Sssn th IL
attack on Campechuela, a village near
Manzanillo, a few lays ago. RafAel
Cervino, Captain of the Spanish guerril-
las, who defended thai place, n who
was seriously wounded, dying the day
after the engagement, had a son with
the insurgent force and who was pres
ont at the engagement but did not fight
on account of his father leading the en-
envy. When he heard that his father
poor father" and crossing his arms on
his head he retired to a lonely place
and burst out crying. Both father and
son are Cubans.
Two days after the engagement OF
General Linares and the rebel eader