The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-03-19
DIR. DELGADO WAS NEARLY
KILLED BY SPANISH TROOPS
IN CUBA.
BROUGHT 70 HAVANA ON STRETCHER
1t Seemed to be a Deliberate Outrage.
General ,Weyler Promises Prompt
Inquiry and Swift Justice to
His Assaiants.

| Havana, March 16.-Dr. Jose Manue
| Delgado the American citizen who is
reported to have been shot and nearly
killed by Spanish troops under the com
mand of General Melquiz, arrived here
Yesterday. He is so seriously injured
that he had to be carried on q stretcher
The captain general has promised the
promptest inquiry into the circumstances
in the case, and has given assurance that
the guilty persons will be most severely
punished
DIR. Delgado says that a number of the
employees of the Dclgado plantation near
Bainoa, have been killed by the troops,
including the brothers Tipia and the two
Guerras, father and son. The circum-
stances in the case, so far as they can
be gathered at present, seem to point to
deliberate outrage upon the part of the
Spanish soldiers vino were made aware
that Mr.. Delago and his aged father were
both American citizens
But this fact appears to have no weight
with the Spanish officers, and DIR. Delga-
do is said to have been bound and shot
without trial and without any justifca-
ton. The doctor was left for dead and
eight of his fathers employees were kill
ed.
The United States consul general. Ra-
in hand and no stone will be left I'M
turned to bring the Spanards to justice
Captain General Weyler has ordered a
thorough investigation to be made into
the diaster mt CanO, seven miles from
here. by which II soldiers belonging to
the San Quintin battalion were killed and
Il captain, four lieutenants and y soldiers
belonging to the same corps wounded by
the Spanish garrison of that town, who
mistook the Spaniards for band of in
surgents that had previously attacked the
place and had been repulsed
The insurgents have burned the fields,
wharf and sugar depot of Dolores, in the
Remedies district of the province of Santa
Clara, and they have also destroyed by
fire the fields and splendid buildings of
the Laberinto plantation.
The insurgent brigadier Perquito
Perez, died recently in the vicinity of
Barabas in the Rejedios district, in which
neighborhood seven countrymen were
recently hanged for supplying vegetables
to deta chments of Spanish troops.
A dispatch from Viet says that sew
eral families of that place have been COM
PEELED to go to neighboring towns in order
to escape outrage at the hands of the in
surgents.
Maceo is marching rapidly through the
province of Pinar del Rio While passing
through the BatabanO district the insur-
gents plundered n number of houses and
stores and reduced a town to ashes, All
the documents belonging to the municip-
atty and the Spanish bank were burned.
About GO families arrived today seek
ing refuge from the persecution upon the
part of the insurgents, who are reported
to be committing great depredations
Bernard Hernandez, described as the
father of the burned town, was killed
by the insurgents.
Colonies Pratt, Palma and Sola have
killed four insurgents during recent Skin,
mlshes.
Colonel Hernandez at Waterloo and
CaliXto, Pinar del Rio, has split in two
large band of insurgents which were fol
lowing the route of his column. The in
lost four killed
The column of troops commanded by
Colonel Lesaco started in pursuit of one
part of the insurgent forces and the Span,
lsh forces from Neptune, also took part
in the pursuit They caught up with the
insurgents between Minerva and Nep-
tuno. The insurgents, who were march
ing westward, left six killed on the field
and the troops lost seven killed.
The celebrated bandit, insurgent cap
tain and incendiary, Rogue Aleman Her
landcz, has been captured in a wounded
ut Maranco.
The distinguished naturalist, DIR. Juan
iundlach is dead at the age of SIS years.