Semi=weekly graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1895-1902, 1896-05-06
|NSURGENT VICTORIES.
THE sPANIARDs UABLE TO COPE
WITH THE PATRIOTIC
CUBANS.
A Series if Important Victories for
the Brave Patriots Reported
from the Queen of the
Antilles.
Antilles.

New YORK, May Especial cor
respondence to the World from
Santiago. Cuba, under date OF April
II says: On the 18th inst, 500 Span
iards under commander Carrido had
a severe engagement on the planta-
ton Mon Dasire Guantanamo with
the rebel leader Boone and 700 men.
The fight lasted nearly an hour The
Spaniards lost Captain, TWO sur
geants and fortY-two soldiers killed
and ninety woundedi the insurgents
had twenty killed and thirty-two
wounded, among the latter being
Lieut.. Zambrano, very seriously.
The insurgents placed a dynamite
cartridge on the iron bridge of the
railroad betW cen Gibarra and Hol.
gum on the 18th inst, near the Coco
yugu river. The cartridge exploded
as train londed with soldiers was
passing, killing eleven soldiers and
wounding twenty-four. The tele-
graph and telephone wires OF the
railroad were cut.
The Spanish Col Ardanaz, with
1000 men, had an engagement on the
10th inst. with the rebel forces OF
Miguel Aperiz, Gerardo Cadet and
Felix Grange in Arroyo Seco (Calde-
rom Holguin district The rebels
who numbered l 800 were encamped
in the thick woods, whence they
opened steady fire on the Spaniards.
The Spaniards lost seventy-two
killed and 1S3 wounded The loss of
the insurgents was very light
On the 18th inst. the Spanish Lieu
tent-Gelonel lopez, with battalion
of regulars, fought rebel party in
.Catey (Caanatamamo-)
The insurgents had a Lieutenant and
three men killed and several
wounded The Spanish had two
soldiers wounded.
A severe engagement took place in
the Sagilla hill, seven miles from this
city, between 600 Spaniards under
Col Pricto and the two brothers
Quintana at the head of 900 insur-
gents. The Spaniards were attacked
SO suddenly from the top of the hill
that they were thrown into disorder
and compelled to retreat to Caney, |
Saving DO men wounded or killed |
and losing fourteen mules laden with |
The rebels had four
teen killed and thirty-five wounded.
The town of Cobre, sixteen miles |
rom this city, was visited by rebel
band on the night of the 18th. After
a sharp skirmish the insurgents
reached the suburbs of the town and |
looted several stores. A party of |
men joined the rebels. |
The Spanish battalion of guerillas |
laily commit the most atrocious |
.rimes. On the 14th inst party of |
them entered the house of a peace |
al family composed of the mother
and four children, sixteen, nine, eight
years and eight months old respect
vely, and all, even the baby, were
assassinated. This was near Songo,
n the neighborhood of the sugar
estate. Santa. Ana, the Spanish Lieut..
Peraz, of the Tejedas gnerillas
lilled man named Galinda and a
girl because they told II Lietenant
that they did not know where the
rebels We're. In Caney del Sittio
another party surrounded the
house where n project lived with his
amily. They set fire to the house
and three women and four children,
who ran away from the fire. were
horribly mntilateT These and other
similar cases have occurred in the
asst few days.