The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-17
THE EXPLOSIVE BURIED.
While Marching Over Road
Two Officers and Sixteen
Men Were Blown Up.
TROOPS FLED IN WILD TERROR.
One Entire Company Then Deserted
and Joined the Insurxent
Forces.

SANTIAGO DE CUBA, CUBA (via Key
West, Fla.), Sept. 16.-In the engage
ment between the Spanish Colonel Ca
nellas and Jose Maceo in Santa Maria
Savigne, near Ramon de las Yaguas, on
August 81, the rebels had prepared more
than sixty holes filled with dynamite on
the different roads the troops had to pass.
When the engagement was over Spanish
regiment marched past one of the traps
and the dynamite exploded blowing to
pieces Lieutenant Francisco Ruiz, Captain
Gregorio Romero and thirteen soldiers.
When the troops saw this they were so
filled with terror that company deserted
to the rebels and remained with them.
During the engagement between the Span
ish General Dinares and the rebel leader
Rabi, in Descanao del Muerto, near Man
gangis, the Spaniards took Spanish
soldier prisoner who had joined the in
surgents at the beginning of the revolu-
ton.
His name was Pedro Rovira Esterez, and
he belonged to the regiment of Havana.
He was brought to this city, tried by court
shot this morning in front of the slaughter
house in the presence of all the troops that
were in the city. He was so weak that he
had to be taken to the place of execution
in carriage. This is the first execution
of rebel in this city. He was taken pris-
oner because during the engagement he
went into the Spanish ranks to obtain
arms and killed a Spanish lieutenant and
Cuban mulatto.
HAVANA, CUBA, Sept. 16.-A force of
600 rebels made an attack a day or two ago
upon plantation at Altamira, where
force of Government troops were stationed.
The insurgents were forced to retreat after
sharp fight, in which number of them
were killed, and the Government loss was
five killed and three wounded.
NEW YORK, n. va Sept. 16.-In an
interview this afternoon with represen-
tative of the United Press Senior Dupuy de
LONE. Spanish Minister, said that he was
in receipt of a personal letter from General
Campos, i'll which the campaign for the
fall was fully outlined. No active opera
tions will be undertaken until the excessive
heat is over. To push matters now would
cause an unnecessary loss of life owing to
the great heat on the coast and its many
types of disease. Early in October some
aggressive work may be done, but no
serious battling will be in order before
November or December. Then siege trains
and assaulting columns will be sent against
the rebels. They will be hemmed in and
attacked simultaneously on all sides by
the best regiments in the island.
Meanwhile vigorous organization goes
on. Immense quantities of supplies are
being received and distributed to bases of
supplies all over the island. Small fortifi-
cations have been erected in a number of
places.
General Campos in his letter said that
more troops had been sent him than he
had asked for. General Campos believed
that he had all the men necessary, ar
tillery, cavalry, engineers and infantry.
In addition to these are the Cuban volun-
teers and commissary corps. Spain, I'M
asked by him, has modified third army
corps of 25, 600 men and they are ready for
embarkation.
The Recorder says: Spain will fight the
Cuban patriots with convicts. A royal de-
cree has just been issued directing that the
convicts in the various penal institutions,
both on the peninsula, Africa and else
where, be liberated forthwith and en-
barked for Cuba.
| The Herald correspondent at Puerto
Principe says: 1t is reported that General
Bartolome Masso has resigned and that
the Presidency is now in the hands of the
Cuban Assembly at Najasa. Delegates
| from the provinces of Santiago and Las
- \ =
resignation, but Masso thinks that Gomez
should be President, and the election OF
the latter is now believed probable. The
appointment of Masso to take command of
the insurgent army at Camaguey is also
talked of.
The Herald's Havana special says that
Major General Salce do, who was lately re-
lieved of his command by General Mar
tinez Campos and received passports for
the peninsula, is to-day much talked about
in Cuban cafes.
Salcedo's column of 1900 men having
been ingloriously repulsed on the heights
of Jarajueca the latter part of April by
Maceo's body guard, numbering less than
$50 men and all of them badly armed, he
returned to Santiago disposed to wreak
vengeance upoii ihoulS Siit oy III pdtHlLcIS Ill
this city. His orders were so arbitrary and
unjust that Campos refused to indorse
them. Salcedo endeavored to convince
Campos that the time had arrived for the
bitter persecution of rebel sympathizers,
and suggested that by way of example the
political prisoners Frank Agramente,
SAM and others confined in the castle at
the mouth of the harbor should be pub
licly shot. Campos refused to agree to
this, and Salcedo became such an unruly
assistant that it was decided necessary to
put more willing man in his place.
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John A. Pemon Dead.
HOLLIDAYSBURG, Pa, Sept. 16. -
Hon. John A. Lemon, ex-Auditor-G General