The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-04-01
CUBANS CAPTURE A CONVOY.
THE SPANISH TROOPS GUARDING 1T
PUT TO FLIGHT.
Many Soldiers Killed and wounded
in the StruggIe-CavaIry Brought
Into action in an Unsuccessful
Effort to Hold the Insurgents in
Check-MaceO still in Pinar del
DHn

Effort to Hold the Insurgents i'm
Check-MaceO still in Pinar del
Rio.
Havana, March 31.-Intelligence has
reached iere of a bad defeat of govern
ment troops. On March "a an insurgent
force of nearly 1900 men, led by Varona.
Sosa and others surprised and attacked
the Wadsas battalion between Guiana and
La Fe, il the province of Pinar del Rio.
The battalion was conveying a train of
army supplies.
Five hundred rebels first attacked the
vanguard of the government force and
later 400 men attacked the rear guard,
which was then reinforced. Another at
tack was then made on the vanguard and
left flank and the troops were compelled
to form square to resist the attack.
Cavalry were also used In the attempt to
hold the rebels in check but without avail
After a hot fight the troops were COM
PEELED to retreat. They lost many killed
and wounded. Throughout the fight and
during the retreat of the troops, the in
surgents used their machetes with deadly
The greater part of the convoy fell into
the hands of the rebels. Many oxen that
were destined for the use of troops were
killed by the extreme heat. With the con-
VOy were seventy-four sick and wounded
Spaniards. The official report says, of
course, that the troops won the fight and
that the rebels lost thirty killed among
whom was an ex-sergeant of the civil
guard.
The same battalion had an engagement
with rebel force at Lao Fajado on
March II, in which the rebels are re-
ported to have lost 20 killed and wounded.
No information has been made public
regarding the movements of Maceo, who
is still in the province of Pinar del Rio.
Earppc that hp has
tured a rebel camp near Guantanamo,
province of Santiago de Cuba. In the
fghting the. rebels lost six killed and
four wounded. Twenty-Five prisoners
were taken, p of whom were women and
four men Among them is the mother of
the rebel leader, Perez. The women were
acting as nurses. The troops destroyed
all the equipments, medicines and effects
found in the camp.
The Insurgents are said to have blown
up the cable station near Cienfugos with
dynamite.
1t is stated tonight that Walter Grant
Dygert, the young American who was ar
rested some time ago on the charge that he
was "Inglasito," a notorious bandit, win
be treated hs a prisoner of war. The au-
thorities appear TO believe that they have
completed Chain of evidence showing that
If Dygert il not "Inglesito," he is a rebel.
He Is now i'm the jail at Guinnes.
Five negtoes were garroted here to-day.
They were not rebels, but had been SEN
fenced to death for crimes committed
prior to the breaking out of the insur-
rection.
1t is again reported here that Gomez the
rebel comnander-in-chief, is dead. Proof
of the truthfulness of the report Is lack
ing.
Madrid, lIarch 31.-A dispatch from Ha-
vana to the Impartial says there is rea-
son to believe that Capt. Gen. Weyler has
asked for 10000 more troops and that Senior
De Azcanaga, minister of war, has ap-
proved the requisition. The Imparciar 5
dispatch tays the Spaniards have defeat
ed the rebels under Maceo at Tenevias
Guanes, Killing seventy-two and wounding
300. The insurgents continue TO surrender
in large numbers