The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1896-09-23
SPANISH BARBARITY|
Weyler's Soldiers Commit
Fresh Outrages.
WOMEN AND CHILDREN MURDERED
Tales of Sickening Cruelties Inflicted
Upon Helpless Pacificos--A De-
feat for the Insurgents.

HAVANA, Sept. 22.-Well autheDtl-
Gated reports of barbarous acts by the
Spanish troops continue to reach here.
Recently the Havana papers published
an account of an alleged battle near
Chuco de Area, in which, after an hours
desperate fighting the Spaniards drove
the rebels off, killing nineteen and TAX
ing many prisoners. The papers eug-
gested that the government should re-
ward Colonel Aguilera, the Spanish COM
mander, for his bravery. The facts in
regard to the battle according to Cuban
sources follow:
son September 18th, ten rebels went
to attack a guerrilla band, but met
troops hidden in the high grass. The
rebels fred volley, killing two officers
and wounding three soldiers. The
troops fred back. Lieutenant Colonel
Aguilera, who commanded the troops,
went then toward a colony named Pablo
Diaz. There he found some twenty-five
persons-men, women and children.
He asked if they had seen any rebels in.
the neighborhood. On receiving neg
ative answer, he ordered, as alleged by
the Cubans; general slaughter, includ-
ing children from to 10 years of age.
The little children were first pierced
with the end of the bayonet, then fin
ished with the machete. OF that colony
nineteen were bTtchered and ak made
their escape. The men of the guerrilla
force boasted of what they had done
when they went back to Vega, twenty
miles from the colony.
Colonel Aguilera started with his
troops and guerrilla force from Vueva
Paz toward the sugar estate Cuervo.
Near a place called Cuzzo he saw
house, went to it and found only three
children in it. He asked where the
parents were. They answered that they
had gone after some fuel to prepare
their breakfast. The colonel ordered
the three children, ten to fourteen years
old, to be locked up in the house, and
after this was done he ordered the guer-
rillas to set fire to the house. The
guerrillas, Mortified, disobeyed at first,
but under the threats of Aguilera they
acted, and the house was burned with
the children in it.
On their return to Eueva Paz the
guerrillas told the people what had been
done. This information is from Span
ish source.
Late reports give official details of a
serious engagement in Havana province
Sunday, on a large estate near Gala
bazas. A small government column,
composed of Havana volunteers. of the
regular engineer corps and cavalrymen,
is alleged to have been attacked by 500
insurgents, commanded by the leaders
Castillo and Delgado, who repeatedly at
tempted to surround and overwhelm the
royal forces. The Spanish made a gall
liant defense. tenaciously holding their
ground and repelling successive rebel
machete charges, until finally reinforced
by volunteers who had been hurriedly
called from Arroyo Narranjo and other
nearby points. When these arrived,
by brilliant Spanish counter charge,
the retels were ultimately routed and
driven from the field.
The enemy's loss is estimated at 100
killed and wounded. In the retreat
they abandoned their dead. The gov
ernment losses were twenty volun-
teers killed and three wounded and two
cavalry killed and two wounded. It is
reported that both Cuban leaders were
wounded in the engagement.
An important decree issued by the
captain-general today places Havana
drug stores under military supervision
and prohibits medicines being sold to
retailers in Interior towns unless au-
thorized by special permits from the
Spanish commandant
TALE OF INCREDIBLE CRUELTY.
Drunken Prussian Father Tries 20 XIII
His Son.
BERL1N. Sept. 22.-one of the most ex-