Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-04-01
CUBAN WAR NOTES.
Report Of I SERIOUS Ddslt d Spanish
Troops
II IL Charged That He IL "Ei Ia.
slesito,, or q Rebel. ut Lesst-
G. mes Again said to Have Depart-
ed This Life.

HABANA. March n.--News has reached
here Of bad defeat OF government
troops. On March .24th an insurgent
force OF nearly 1900 men. led by vsrona,
ssosa. and others surprised and attacked
tho wadras Battalion between Guiana
and La Re. In the province Of Pinar del
Rio. The battalion was conveying train
OF army supplies. Five hundred rebels
first attacked the vanguard OF the gov
ernment force, and later. 40 men at
tackled the rear-guard, which was then
reinforced Another attack was then
made on the vanguard and left flank,
and the troops were compelled to form a
square to resist the attacks. Cavalry
were also used In the attempt to hold the
rebels In check, but without avail. After
hot fight the troops were comp sllsd to
retreat. They lost many killed ana
wounded. Throughout the fight and du-
ring the retreat of the troops the insur-
gents used their machetes with deadly
effect. The greater part OF the convoy
fell into the hands OF the rebels. Many
oxen that were destined for the use
OF the troops were killed by the extreme
heat. With the convoy we're seventy
four sick and wounded Spaniards. The
official report says, OF course. that the
troops won the fight. and that the rebels
lost thirty killed, among whom was an
ex-sergeant OF the civil guard.
The same battalion had an engagement
with rebel force at La Fajado on March
i4th. In which the rebels are said to have
lost twenty killed and wounded.
No information has been made public
concerning the movements OF Maceo, who
is still In the province OF Pinar del RIO.
General Barges reports that he has
captured rebel camp near Guantanamo.
province OF Santiago de Cuba. In the
fight the rebels lost six killed and four
wounded. Twenty-Five prisoners were
taken. twenty-ono of whom were women
and four men. Among them is the moth
er Of the rebel leader, Perez. The women
were acting as nurses. The troops de-
stroyed all the equipments, medicines.
and effects found In the camp.
The insurgents are said to have blown
up the cable station near Cienfuegos
with dynamite.
DYGART A PRISONER OF WAR.
HABANA, March Silt is stated to-
night that Walter Grant Dygart, the
young American who was arrested some
time ago on the charge that he was
FL lngleSltO, nOtOrlOuS DdHull, Will
be treated as a prisoner of war. The
authorities appear TO believe that they
have a complete chain Of evidence show
ing that II Dygart is not III Inglesto,"
he Is rebel. He is now in the jail at
Guinez.
Five negroes were garroted here to-
day. They were not rebels. but had been
sentenced to death for crimes commit
ted prior to the breaking out of the
rebellion.
IL Is again reported here that fiomez,
the rebel commander-in-chief. Ii dead.
Proof OF the truthfulness Of the report is
lacking.
MORE TROOPS CALLED FOR.
MADRID, March 3l.-A dispatch from
Habana to the impartial says there Is
reason to believe that Captain-General
Weyler has asked for 1000 more troops,
and that Senior de Azcarraga. the Minister
of War. has approved the requisition.
The Imparciai's dispatch says the Span
iards have defeated the rebels under
Maceo at Tenerias Guanes, killing seventy
two and wounding 800 and that the in
surgents continue to surrender in large
numbers.