Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-09-22
SERIOUS BATTLE ON CUBA,
The Insurgents reported Defeated
With Great Loss.
Arnniards Charged with nurdst =, u
Women ana children Ia - Mos
Cruel Manner.

NEW YoRK, sept. GA Herald
special from Havana sayG Late re-
ports give official details Of q serlCui
engagement In Havana province,
Sunday, ON large estate near Gala
bazaf. A small government column
composed Of Havana volunteers, mem.
bors OF the regular engineer corp,
aud cavalry meo Of the lino Il alleged
10 have been attacked by 600 iD-
durgeutp, oommandod by the leaders
Caatilla and Degalio, who repeatedly
attempted 10 aurfousd and ovorwbelm
the royal forces. The spanish made
gallant doionsr, tenaoiously holding
their ground aud Tspeiiing successive
REBEL mAcheto charges until finally
reinforced by volunteers who bad teen
huTfieuly called from Arroyo Narfanlo
aud other nearby poinu. When these
arrived by brilliant Spanish counter.
charge lhs rebels were ultimately
routed ana driven from tho field. Tho
opemy's loAs Ia eatim aled at 100 Killed
aud wounded. In the retreat they
abandoned tneir dead. IL IL reported
that both Castillo anu Dblgade were
wounded In the engagement.
An important decree issued by the
captain general today play = havoc with
tue drug siofes' military super ylsion
and pfphibits medicines Deins soid 10
retailers IN the Interior towns unless
authorized by special permits from the
Spanish commhnjani.
Well authenticated reports OF bar
barous acts by the spaniih troops con.
tinus 10 reach hero. Hccently tho
Havana papers published an account
VI an alleged battle near Chuco Do
Ara Ia which inter an hours desperate
nghting tho bpaninrds drove tho
rebel, oil, killing fiiteen and taking
many prisoners. Too papers suggested
that tue government SHOULD reward
Colonel Auelera, tho Spanish com.
mander, iof his bravery.
The facts In regard " tho battle, &C.
cotding to Cuban sources follow:
Ga Sept 10 ten rebels went to at.
tauK guerilla baud, but met troops
huden In tho high grAss. Ihs rebels
fred n volloy, Kiiling two officers and
wounditg three sliisfs. Tae troops
ffed back. Lieutenant Colonel
Aguelefa, who commanded the troop,
then went toward colony named
Pablo Dinz. There he found q family
Of twenty-five persons, women, mun
anu children. Heaskod II they had auen
auy rebels In the north n,ighborhOod.
Receiving u negative answer, no Of
aufe1, rs alleged by the Cubans, q
general slaughter Including children
nom one 10 ton years OF age. Tue
lille children were lrst pierced with
the end Of the bayonct, then finished
with tho machete. or that colony
nineleen were putcheIed and elk made
their escape. the men OF Agusrra's
force boosted OF what they hAd done
when they went back to Vegs, abcul
two milea from the colony. Col.
AguelAta on Sept. 18Th, started with
his troops and u guerilla from NeuvA
Paz toward tho sugar plantation OF
Cueryo. Near a place called Cuzko,
lao saw "a heust, wont u II anu fOu nu
ouly three ohiluron la II. He asked
where the parents were; the answer
was that they had gone alter some
| fuel 10 pIepafe breakfast. The colonel
/ ordered tho three children, 10 to IA
years old, 10 BE- locked up In tho housu
ana after tbia was done no ordered tho
guerrilla 10 SIT IRE TO tbe house. The
guerrilla Mortified disobeyed nj first,
but under the threats OF Aguelara he
complied iand tho house was burHed
with tho children In II. Tue guerilla
later told the people what had been
done.