The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-02-03
In MORTAL TERROR.
Residents of Havana Are Between
Two Fires.
FEAR lNCENDIARISM AND WEYLER.
Exodus Continues, aud All Who Can
Arc Leaving.
EAR lNCENDIARISM AND WEYLER.
NEWS or INsURGENT SUCCESS
Bloody Fights In which the Spanish Were
Defeated-Forty Nine Generals
on Hand.

avowed mission OF meeting and destroying
tho insurgent forces, 1t has become owl
dent TO those he has left behind him that
there is probably more danger in the
rear than In the front. Whispers of
bloodshed and Of incendlarism are freely
heard. and the Importance which is at
tached to these whispers is best Judged of
by the fact that the police authorities have
placed the city In prison. as 1t were, and
up to a few nights ago no business houses
on Gale Obispo were permitted to be
opened for purposes of trade. This is the
great notion and retail street OF the city.
The owners have been notified to bar up
their doors by 5 o'clock In the evening
so that now the coming of nightfall finds
every door barred and tho people scat
tered in mortal dread. lest II they be
found in twos or threes they may be
seized and sent into the dungeons of
Nora.
An officer of the Havana volunteers
stated last night that he considered n mob
riot imminent. and that at any moment at
the striking OF a match the City OF Ha-
Nund InlEHL sDt III ne
farther away that Marin goes to discover
Gomez the closer seem tho soldiers of
Gomez to encroach upon the suburbs of
this city.
But few days ago II was reported
with quite a flourish that tho Spaninrds
| had taken full possession of the railroad
lines running from Havana TO Batabano.
and that the running Of steelclad trains
constantly up and down the road would
keep 1t free from the insurgents. Today
II has developed that that road has. been
| cut In dozen places by the followers of
| Gomez and the telegraph lines have been
interrupted. and that the insurgents run
| at will wherever they want to. Meantime
| the exodus from the city continues. The
| rich and the poor, Spaniards and Cubans.
are equally desIrous of getting out Of the
touch Of danger. Vessels bound for Vera
Cruz, bound for Tampa, bound for New
York, bound for tho smallest ports In the
| West Indies, are laden with women and
children. being sent off by their male
relatives In a word, II may be said that
| Havana is confusion, and the confusion
of Havana Is past any that ever preceded
1t. Those who remain, having the black
pail of Weylerism hanging over them, are
in dread.
IT is said that the general officers COM
ing over with tho new captain general
number seven. This, added to the num-
ber already on the island, makes forty
nine. With forty-nine generals struggling
| against each other, drawing double pay.
II would look as though the revolution
| might be brought to close but these
forty-nino generals have no idea of risk
ing their comfort or their lives. They are
satisfied when they gather up young boys
here and there and sentence them TO
| death.
The news of the week has been OF con-
| tnued insurgent success. The train from
Nuevetas to Porte Prince was blown up
with dynamite near Minas. In which ten
Spanish soldiers were killed and nifty
wounded
A cable dispatch from Trinidad. In the
province of Santa Clara. says that nu-
merous parties OF rebels infest that vi
cinity, a large body of men is at Tai
merijo, being part OF the coldmn of the
rebel Generals Rabi and Jose Maceo. The
town of Rio de Ay. ten miles from Trim
dad. was reduced to ashes by the rebels.
Trinidad is garrisoned by 400 men, who
are surrounded by the rebels and who
will certainly be massacred II an attack
| is made.
The Soledad plantation, near Cienfue-
COS, was the scene OF bloody fight on
Thursday. a garrison of scventy-1ve
Spaniards guarded the property Hearing
of the approach of General Nunez with
600 men they retreated into the fort. The
rebels fired the buildings when the flames
spread over the fort and the Spanish
were forced to evacuate. The Spaniards
taking position on the road threw them
selves into square and repulsed two
charges OF the rebels. though with great
loss on both sides. on the third charge.
which was made with great desperation
by the rebels. the panlc-stricken Spaniards
were scattered in all directions. Lieu
tenant Nille1as was among the first KILL
ed: forty Spaniards were killed and the
rebel loss was nearly as heavy,
message from Pinar del Rio says the
Vueita Abajo district is a scene OF ruin.
and that all the rich tobacco plantations
are destroyed The government views the
situation more seriously every day. Cen
eral Marin IL anxious for General Weyler
to arrive in order that he may be relieved
Of the Inevitable defeat and disaster which
lies ahead OF him. Farm products are
scarce and in the Havana markets prices
are going up.
Twenty political arrests were made In
the Island of Porto Rico yesterday ON the