The record-union., 1896-04-22
But Give No Losses Except to the
Insurgent Forces.
Late Reports Bring Pitiful Stories of
Damage Done by Floods in Canada
The Loss of Property in Quebec
Will Reach a Million Dollars, and
Many Lives Are Also Reported
Lost.

HAVANA, April 2l.-FrOm a staff
correspondent of the United Press
Colonel Villa reports having had several
engagements with bands belonging to
Maceo's command near Segua Cabanes
The insurgents were dislodged from the
Tapia hills after heavy fire of cannon
and musketry. They fled in different di-
rections, leaving behind them twenty
five killed and wounded The troops are
still in pursuit of the rebels.
Colonel Villa also reports that while a
detachment of his command was leav-
ing Cabanes for Branches estate the
rear guards were attacked by rebels.
who We're repulsed. The troops followed
them to Vigia and San Claudio. Nu-
merous rebel groups, who were in am
bush, were dispersed after three hours
fighting. The rebel loss is supposed to
have been large.
No mention is made of any Spanish
loss in either fight. For this reason
Cubans here look upon the reports with
suspicion, believing them to be like
many other official announcements W tn
out any basis in truth.
Forty guerrillas of San Antonio de
Las Flores, in an engagement with a
local rebel band, captured four resi-
dents of that town who had disappeared
in the confusion of the fight with the in
tention Of joining the rebels. They were
killed by the guerrillas.
Official reports giving further details
of the engagement between the insur-
gents and General Melquizo's command,
which were reported yesterday, have
been received. According to these re-
ports the Spanish officers have been in
formed by peasants that the rebels
burned eight more dead and carried
away seventeen wounded.
General Arolas reports that bands of
rebels fired upon the forts at Martin
Mesa and at Mariel, which form the
northern part of the trocha or military
line across the island. The attacks
were unsuccessful, and the rebels were
repulsed. In their retreat the insurgents
set fire to and destroyed a few huts a
short distance from both forts.
Captain General Weyler personally
requested the American correspon-
dents in Havana to transmit the fol-
lowing to the journals which they rep
resent:
Among the documents found upon
the body of the rebel leader Juan
Suarez Gonzalez, who was killed in
the engagement at Jesus Maria, re-
ported yesterday, was a communities
ton from Lacret ordering him to hang
the owners of sugar estates who were
proceeding with grinding operations
and all marauders as soon as their
identity is established"
The correspondent of the New York
Herald" who is following the rebel
party under Lacret, will doubtless
continue to circulate reports of the
kind treatment accorded by the rebels
to noncombatants, which is declared
to be similar in all appearances to the
treatment by other leaders and in con-
trast to the proceedings said to be EN-
ployed by the Spanish columns.
General Wey1er makes an emphatic
denial of the reports falsely printed in
American newspapers. He declares
that no outrages have been or are being
committed by Spanish troops, and that
the rights of pacifcos are respected.
None of this class of persons, he says,
have been molested. Orders to shoot
prisoners have been given only after
trial and conviction by court-martial
of the rebels who have been captured
with arms in their possession and
those who are proven incendiaries
j. FRANK CLARK