The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-01-08
The Insurgents Gradually Sur
rounding the City.
THEIR NUMBER UNKNOWN
Not Believed That They Will
Attack Havana Now.
REFUGEES FLOCK TO THE CITY
The Result of the Battle Not Known
Insurgents Burning and Destroying
Within Eight Miles of the
Cuban Capital.

Havana Jan. THE insurgents are
still in the vicinity Of Havana but
their movements are not OF sufficient
importance to chronicle in detail. The
number of insurgents at Managua and
Calabazar il miles from this city, has
been increased but it is now believed
that Havana itself will not be attack
ed for some time to come.
The insurgents have burned q mix
ed train from Cardenas near Bana-
guises and the Spaniards claim that
they violated all the women and young
girls who were among the passengers.
Railroad communication in the pro-
vince of Matanzas is being resumed,
trains are arriving on time at Limo
mar, Sagua, Cardenas and Matanzas.
The Insurgent band commanded by
Zayas was reported at different times
yesterday at Caimata, Gayabal, Hoyo
and Punta Bravael, showing that he
followed pretty closely the line be-
tween the provinces of Pinar del Rio.
This brought them into the region
into which large numbers OF troops
have been sent to guard the Western
approach to Havana. 1t does not ap-
pear that the insurgents were in any
great force and no engagements are
reported.
The fields of the Valdespino estate
have been burned and the villages OF
Puerto la Guira and Marrero have also
been put to the torch, after being
plundered, according to the report
received here.
The influx of refugees from the
whole of the territory surrounding Ha-
vana continues and apparently it is not
possible to obtain sufficient means of
transportation to accommodate the
fleeing families and their household
goods.
The country seems to be entirely
abandoned to the insurgents army and
no movement apparently avails to
check them.
The Eastern portion of the Island
seems not to have been entirely stripped
of an effective force of insurgents. A
report from Santa Clara says that the
troops encountered the insurgents
band led by Pancho Garlic, and in the
battle which ensued, sustained loss
of fifty.
LATER Word has just been re-
ceived that the sounds OF cannon and
musketry have been heard in the neigh
borhood of Guanaiay, an important
town of 1000 inhabitants in Pinar del
Rio, forty-five miles southwark of
Havana. 1t is supposed that an en-
gagement is taking place there but the
numbers engaged or the course which
the fortune of the fight is taking is
not known.
The insurgents are burning and des-
troying to-day up to within miles of
Havana. The district around the viii
lageo of Calabazar suffered to-day. Gala
bazar is only two miles from Vento
where the apparatus is located upon
which Havana depends for it's water
supply. In the Calabazar and Hoyo-
colorado districts, the cane has been
burned in the fields OF Maulin, CAIRO
and BaracOa.
The Correspondence further states
that after defeating the insurgents
close to Havana, the Spanish gunboat
Ardilla captured four vessels filled
with insurgents trying to escape.
BOTH SIDES VICTORIOUS.
Madrid, Jan. 7.--The Correspondents
states that the insurgents have attack
ed Hoyocolorado, which is three
leagues from Havana. The SpaniardS
were outnumbered and surrendered.
Gen. Campos, it is further stated, de-
feated the insurgents near Havana.