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States Consul-General Williams in sup
port of her husbands claim to Amer
lean citizenship and has asked the
Consul to intervene in his favor.
REIGN OF TERROR.
HAVANA, Feb. 26-Refugees from
the town of Punta Bravo and Guatan,
twelve miles away, have arrived at Ha-
vana, and state that a reign of terror
exists in that locality in consequence of
troops having massacred peaceful citi-
zens at Guatan, Saturday. the 22d.
The official Government report issued
Sunday stated that a fight occurred
near Punta Bravo on. the previous day
between the troops sent from Mariana
and the insurgent bands of Villa Neuva
and Acosta, resulting in a glorious vic
tory for the Spanish arms, twenty in
surgents having been killed and fifteen
prisoners taken. Residents at Guatan
have Identified eighteen OF the dead as
pacificos peaceful citizens). Two were
insurgents and the prisoners are nearly
all said to be peaceful One of them
named Ladislo Quintero claims Ameri-
can citizenship. He is wounded by
ball in the arm.
On the morning of the 22d band not
exceeding forty insurgents under Villa
Nueva and Acosta were attacked on the
highway by troops under Lieutenant
Zieugesti and civil guards under an
Alcalde at Hoyo Color ado, town two
miles west of Punta Bravo. The fight
occurred at the western entrance of
Punta Bravo, twelve miles from Ha-
vana. 1t resulted in the wounding of
one Spanish soldier, who was shot in
the head and died half an hour later
The insurgents withdrew, and the
troops entered Punta Braya. Lieuten-
ant Zieugusti then moved his detach
ment back to Hoyo Colorado.
The Marquis de Cervera, Alcalde of
Mariana, in command Of troops there,
sent 200 men, including the Battalion
Publico, volunteers and a section of
horse artillery, all under command of
Captain Galvo The troops found a
group of about twenty rebels at a
stone bridge on the highway at the
eastern entrance of Punta Bravo at 4
D. M, and some scattering firing fol-
lowed. Both sides admit that no losses
occurred. The rebels retreated south
along the road leading to Guatao, firing
right and left at everything in sight
A miIl1man loading a wagon in front of
his house an eigth of mile outside of
town was shot and wounded. He ran
and concealed himself in the house
Some of the troops left the line, broke
into the house and shot the man dead in
his room. The people of Guatao fled to
the woods or hid in houses upon the ar
rival of the troops, who fired indiscrimi-
nately
The town contains about forty houses,
many of them only thatehed huts. Sew
eral men were shot running to the
woods, and others in places of conceal
ment. Some were too cid to run. One
man sick with erysipelas was killed in
bed The troops entered the houses and
shot men in the rooms. One woman,
whose husband hid IN bedroom, stood
in the front door, pleading for his life,
was struck with the butt of musket
and knocked insensible. A soldier
broke down the door and shot her hus-
band One man 5S years old was killed
All mentioned were peaceable citizens.
The three brothers Chavez, cigar
makers, working in Havana, left work
ia this city Saturday noon and went to
Guatao in the afternoon to visit their
mother. One was shot dead running to
the woods and two were taken prison
ers. Troops brought the bodies of the
dead from the roads and fields and
placed them on the ground in front of
the main store. The prisoners who were
captured in houses and fields without
arms were pinioned and compelled to
walk to Mariana. They were bruised
and ill-treated on the way and required
medical attendance upon their arrival
Three physicians of the Red Cross
Society went to Guatao and found thir-
teen dead and no wounded. The
bodies were buried in the cemetery at
Guatao Four prisoners taken on the
morning of the fight on the outskirts of
Punta Bravo were killed in the fields,
making eighteen citizens slain.
The Spanish papers claim the insur-
gents took refuge in the houses at Qua
tao, firing upon the troops from the
same A careful examination of the
houses and huts show no signs of bull
let's: no outer doors or windows were
broken, and there is no signs of con-
f1ict. The only stone building in town,
a church, was not entered.
Among the dead was the gravedig-
ger. making it necessary to obtain a
negro to dig the graves.
The residents of Mariana say the
troops were drunk when they returned
with the prisoners Saturday night Ed
ward Sanchez, keeper of a dry goods
store at Mariana, and a member of the
volunteers, openly boasts that he went
into a bedroom at Guatao and shot a
man under the bed. The facts above
related are verified by persons who
went to Punta Bravo and Guatao. The
authorities arrested through mistake
Charles Michaelson and his interpre-
ter, Lorenzo Belancourt, who were no
further than Mariana, and were not re-
sponsible for the story.
Marquis de Cuvera, in an official re-
port to the Captain-General, says:
Worthy of all praise, your excellency,
is the conduct of this column of which
feel myself proud. Captain Galvo and
all others merit the consideration Of
your excellency. I can asure you the
efforts made exceed all praise All
worthy, your excellency, for they have
done to-day what your excellency SO
gloriously did at Jaina Santo Domingo
thirty years ago.
The. action of the troops so close to
Havana has created a sensation here
General Weyler, when asked if he had
investigated the affair, said there was a
combat and persons were killed with
arms in hand. The prisoners were also
take with arms. he said
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