The herald., 1896-06-09
MORE TROUBLE FOR SPAIN
Barcelona Bombthrowing the
Work of Anarchists
THE LONG LIST OF VICTIMS
Made Up Chiefly of Innocent Women
aud Children
cuban Insurgents, Assisted by Companies Of
Frenzlsd Women, Make an Attack on
General Weyler's Trocha
Associated Press Special Wire.

are eight dead, II dying and 1OS injured.
Inc person who threw the bomb into
the crowd before the church of Santa
Maria del Mary yesterday during the
corpus Christi procession has not yet
been apprehnded. The impression is
general that an anarchist did the work
as result of a widespread anarchistic
plot. The police are working on this the
ory, and have arrested 20 men known to
entertain anarchistic sympathies. In
connection with these arrests they
have secured a number of documents
which give some clue to the plot of which
yesterdays bomb throwing was a mani
festation. These documents indicate
that the center of agitation is direct
with the purpose of precipitating a num-
Der or anarchist demonstrations accom-
panied by acts of violence at different
Polnts simultaneously or following
close upon each other so as to create a
reign of terror in the different European
cities. Yesterdays outrage was accom-
panied by features Of peculiar atrocity.
1t was while the people, both those in
the procession and those looking on,
were devoutly kneeling when the bomb
was thrown by the unknown assassin.
Whether by design or not. it did it's
deadliest work among the innocent and
harmles, the majority of the victims be-
ing women and children. Those of them
VINO were not killed outright were hor-
ribly mutilated and subjected to excru-
ciating torture by their injuries. It is
oelleved the outrage was directed
against General Desbujola, one of the
dignitaries of the city who was CARRYING
the banner at the head Of the religions
procession. Other city officials also
took part in the procession.
CUBAN AMAZONS.
KEY WEST, Fla, June SIN the re-
cent attack which Gen. Antonio Maceo
made on the trocha, four companies of
CUBAN women took part, according to
advices received in this city. These
women have joined the insurgent army
because their homes have been Destroy
ed by the Spanish. Many Of them mourn
the loss Of relatives killed by Weyler's
troops. In consequence the feeling
against the Spaniards is one of the Bit
terest hatred. When Maceo moved to at
tack the trocha he was accompanied by
these Amazons and $50 men unler Cen
eral Bermudez. 1t was Maceo's purpose
1000 men into the Havana province The
attack was made at night some distance
nortn or san Marcos and was successful.
although the Spaniards in their official
report say Maceo was repulsed.
"A letter received from Cuban leader
describing the attack saws:
I'VE struck the strong line about 8
O'Clock at night, taking the Spaniards by
surprise. There were. two battalions Of
troops at the point attacked, and we
doubled them up and poured in a fire
that killed over 100 and wounded nearly
zoo more. The Spaniards broke and fled,
a rev OF them taking refugd in a. small
fort. We used our field piece and dyna-
mite against the fort and soon demolish-
ed 1t. The Amazons fought like furies
Nearly every one of them had suffered
grevous wrongs from the Spaniards
and they took the opportunity for re-
yenge. They rushed on the wounded
Spanfards, hacking them with machetes
Maceo tried to stop the slaughter. but
the women were aroused thoroughly and
were not easily commanded. Finally
Maceo had to threaten to- shoot the wo-
men unless they stopped hacking the
Spaniards. One woman, whose daughter
mad been taken by a Spanish officer,
would bring her machete down on a
wounded soldier and scream out: "That
for my Christina"
After the battle, Burmudez, with 1900
men, crossed the trocha into Havana.
province, while Maceo, with the re-
mainder of Bermudezs column and the
Amazons, returned II the stronghold in
the Pinar del Rio mountains"
The letter says Maceo had 2OO0 men.
nearly all of whom are we'll armed. He
mas ten cannot, three Of which were cap
tured in the recent attack.
AS soon as the rainy season Is well
advanced 1t is believed that Maceo will
make another assault on Weyler's line.
Maceo thinks the yellow fever will deci-
mate the troops stationed on the trocha
so as to render it easy to carry the line.
NO AMERICANS HURT.
NEW YORK, June S.-A dispatch to
the World from Barcelona says:
The anarchist outrage Yesterday. ex-
actly thirty-one months after the Liceo
theater explosion, presumably was
aimed at the host in the religious pro-
cession. The American consul-general
went at once to the spot. AS no Ameri-
can was involved he called on the cap
tain general to offer coincidence. Extra
protect the United States consulate day
and night.
Your correspondent has seen six of the
dead in the hospital and eight of the
wounded. Fourteen are dead, mostly of
the poorer classes.
There is rumor that the leader of
the assassins is woman.
The Chronicle says: Mr.. Taylor, the
United States minister to Spain, has re-
turned to Madrid somewhat hurriedly
without making the proposed investiga-
tion in connection with his books.
LEE is RESERVED.
HAVANA, June S.-The Diario de la
Marina last evening publisheds an ex-
tended interview with the United States
Consul General, Mr.. Fitzhugh Lee, in
which Gen. Lee was made to comment
freely on the Cuban question and upon
the relations of the United States to it.
1t is doubtful if this interview was en-
tirely exact. Gen. Lee maintains a
strict reserve and is devoting himself to
the study of the Cuban question before
he expresses any views upon it,
Antonio Maceo is actually at Balesina.
on the south coast of Pinar del Rio. La
coste, the insurgent leader, has burned
several tobacco houses and a grain
warehouse at -Palomina, Havana pro-
vince.
Trustworthy advices from the province
of Pinar del Rio say there has been
serious conflict among the colored and
white insurgents serving under Maceo
during which twenty men on each side
are said to have been killed and many
are reported wounded.
A Packer Drowned