The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-02-03
PROGRESS OF CUBAN WAR
Il MILITARY LINE HAS BEEN ES-
 TIBLISHED ACROSS THE ISLAND.

IL is pciSNGo " NACeths 'AAo ANopSA
 Commanders Will be Defested-GenernI
 Marin Has Taken the Field-strong Force Against Gomez.
 Havana, Feb. 2.-General Marin, who
 has taken the field against the rebels,
 is directing active operations with a view to forcing Antonio Maceo, who IS
 said to be on the eastern boundary or
 Pinar del Rio to decisive enga cement.
 Yesterday General Marin was at Guira de Moline and to-day he was at Quivi-
 can, province of Havana.
 A strong force is proceeding against
 Gomez, the rebel commander-in-ch who was last reported to be east of Quivican, near the center of the prov ince. Several engagements between
 the troops and rebels have taken place recently, but no details are obtainable A freight train consisting of thirty
 cars was stopped by insurgents yester- day at Pogo Rednodo, a few miles south
 of San Felipe, on the Havana and Bat abano railway. Troops have been sent in pursuit of the rebels, who stopped
 the train by removing rails. The en-
 zine was badly damaged. It is suppos- | ed the rebels made away with the l freight
 The Trocha, or military line, that has been established across the island with a view of preventing Maceo going east ward across the province of Havana, has been greatly strengthened and the' authorities believe if Gomez is to the | east of the line and aceo to the west, General Marin will be able to prevent a junction of their forces and to defeat each of the rebel commanders in detail. | A recent official report stated that the insurgents entered Sabanilla on Janu- ary P, burned the railroad station and | two or three houses and footed several | stores. The garrison of fifty men made
 a strong defence and drove away the in surgents, killing seventeen. The Span | josh losses were given as three volun- teers killed, ten civil guards wounded.
 A later official account stated that elev-
 en people of color, unarnled, but who | were followers of the insurgents, were
 killed and that three women were kill | ed. The true story is as follows: | Sabanilla was entered by about 400 insurgents under Edouard Garcia Jan | uary g. The main body of insurgents,
 number over 1000, camped on the out skirts. Fifty regulars, under Captain Juan Galan, and ten guardia civiles shut themselves up in the barracks and they refrained from firing upon the in vaders. A number of Spanish volun- teers fired upon the rebels from the
 church, which had been transformed into a fort The rebels returned the fire, killing three volunteers and wound ing two civil guards.
 One rebel was fatally wounded. The townspeople received the insurgents
 with cheers and shouts of viva Cuba libre'' were heard on all sides. The people told Garcia that they were without food and he ordered the store
 keepers to open their doors and told the people to help themselves. One shopkeeper who resisted was shot. About twenty stores were footed of provisions. shoes and clothing. The railroad station was burned. Them the invaders left town.
 When they had gone the Spanish
 volunteers issued from the church and fired into the defenceless crowd in the
  cluding several women and children. It is claimed these people were among
 those who footed the stores, but even the Spanish papers say some were in
 nocent of the crime of taking food to
 prevent starvation. The Spanish vol
 unteers then shot and killed the four
 Cubans who had been with the insur-
 gents for day or two. The alcalde is
 now in Havana and declines to go back until a strong force of regulars is sent to Sabanilla. He says that Garcia has threatened to return and kill the volun- teens and burn the town.
 Fifteen hundred refugees from Saba nilla reached Matanzas Monday. Most of them said they fled for fear of fur ther outrages by Spanish volunteers. Others said they expected the town would be burned.