Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-06-04
roli.blosdtd Bu'Chsry Of Wounded
Insurgents,
DETAILS OF A SERIOUS BATTLE.
sn,nl.h Victory Celebrated with a Mas
,Lero-Looaiug 10 France
for AID.

tl,oded butchUfy Of more than forty
wounded Cublus 10 hospital and Of
four prisoners after the fight at Las
Lomas do Junlnos, was told TO your
ooristpondeBI W Spanish soldiers who
took part In It, anu they spoke As II the
trs.sacres were every Jay occurrences
with them.
Ouf column, under General ZeRno,
loit san CrlslObal May n operate Ia
the mountsins between here and the
pofln coast. A. midnight We uampUJ,
butat5n. IN. tue buglo sounded Tor Ne
10 beu We we're preparing 10 break
camp When susdun'y there was = call
10 Afus. 4 moment later there came
a refitct rain OF bullets.
Tnen the Insurgents began 70 close
10 UPON ne. Several times they came
d1wn upou us with tremendous Jury,
swinging mschetts ABOVE their hoads,
bot Il was impossible for them 90 stand
bsiote tue nfp OF our MauHors.
We we're under tife ana constant
menace OF ihs maohole until pact noon,
uuiil the enemy apparently Withdrew.
A consultAlion was had by our officers
ana II was learned that retreat was
cut %.
When tho night camo we were eth
on tue mountain eide. Day dawnuI,
aud with light came tho onemy's
fire.
Tbus We fought on, our boys falling
pbuui uu ina dreadful manner, when
fudifuly VIZ heard the distant boom "
nrgluun. We know assistance had nr-
TIytA from Bahia Honda, and tue
"a
fthf.
inc intuTgonti' Gro was gradually
Withdrawn nad we succeeded In takiug
possession OF their camp. They bad
IttfCAtod, but had occupied another
height, where they duiied Us. IL was
All We could do 10 attend 10 cur dead
and wounded. or my battalion We
had 10 bury ton and gather up thirty
tUven wounded.
We then killed four prisoners who
had bson captured, including u China.
man.
On the road the day before our fight
Ia tho forest, we had passed a fine
house. IL was said tho general had
goppsd there and had been we'll 70.
ecivrG W man Occupying the place,
who said ho knew n0thing OF tho In.
turgenis. AZ We came 10 this house on
cur return a halt was ordered anu our
ttlluors went In the house. The general
went up TO tue man, shook hands,
aud then invited him out dOUrf, whore
no ordered him to DO killed with tho
machete. We then examined the
house and found various bottles OF
medicines which Satisfied us that the
house was an insufgont hospital and
tbs man We had killed was their
uOotOr. We then went through the
oulhUutoa aud iOuni upwards OF iOTIy
sick huu woundrd. These We Killed
with cur mAohetes Aud then Eppliod
tho torch,
Those who had died outsids Ct the
house we threw into tho flames, We
then rtsumed our march"
LOOKING TO FRANCE FOR AID.
NEW YORK, June "A dispatch 10
the World from Mauud, saya!
Among tho reasons that have en-.
c0uTagUd ths Spanlatds ~ look TO
France tor assistance, Ia tho fact that
in every b,age Ut thelr difficulties with
the United States anu Cu0A In tho
laut seventeen mOnthe, tue French
lfvss has shown thom more sym athy
than tho preas Of any other European
nation.
Tue Spaniards argue that, even "
France aud Spain had not 10 many
common Interests IN Morocco, IA
MudiltfrautAn questions, anu In
Egypt, tbcir financial aud CONNER.
GiAl relations alone would Justify n
close understanding. Three quarters
Of all the shAttB ana bonds Of the
Spanish railways are In tho hands VI
Invested several hundred mil.
lions OF dollars IN Spanish
pgblic works, gas and electric cCmps-
nice, minos, wine growing estates and
municipal loans. Last, nut not least,
French Investors hold about 100000
GOV OF She Spanish foreign four percent
deUt and about the same amount Of
Cuban OOndt.
French bankers advanced last year
3lO,ulO 10 tho spanish government Tor
the Cuuan treasury, ana since thon
thry have made further advances on
CUBAN bonds Tor war expenses.
Besides the tinanciRl connection
Spain has n o1nBidorabls commercial
connection win france, as ~ percent
OF tho total Imports Into this Kingdom
come from France nnd about 30 per-
cent Of toe total exports 20 to France.
The spAniaTds believe that France
mutt assist lEom some day, because
her Wrat lndia col0n.rg, her interests
In the Panama canal sGuomes anu her
trade with Cuba anu Porto Rico, which
has suffered much already from tho
competition with America, will make
her uoaira 10 CHECK American int, f1r'
unc6 ia Cuban affairs.
AFrER A THRILLING VOYAGE
30 CHICAGO, June "A special to tho
Iime,-h,sald from jacksonville, fla,
tayi;
AIter a thrilling voyage, during
Whioh the was chased anu bred on by
spanish steamer, tho flnhuRtering
steamer Three FIR ends hps rehOhud
Ihls port after iauuiug more than 100
men ana = large cargo OF arms aud am
munlti9n m Cuba. The landing wa
made on the night Of May 20, westo
Trinidad, on tho southern coast OF
SANTA Clara province. Tho meu anu
hmmunillon were received by n alrOng
detachment from General l.. CTeps
column, aud there was not spauiard
IN tight 10 Interfere.
VA the DAY Of the landing, May %,
NHN H.