The San Francisco call., 1896-01-12
Meanwhile the Destruction of
Sugar Plantations Goes
Steadily On.
DEFEAT OF THE INSURGENTS.
In Many Battles on the Island the
Spanish Claim to Have Been
Victorious.

HAVANA, CUBA, Jan. 1.-THE insur.
gent bandit leader, Perico Delgado, and
his followers united with band of rebels
and entered the village of Cayaiabos yes
terday, where they burned church and
committed number OF outrages. Their
act has created a strong feeling of indigna.
ton among villagers and others who have
hitherto been friendly to the Cuban cause.
A rebel band entered Canabanes las
night and set fire to a number of houses.
Railway communication between Guines
and San Felipe has been interrupted One
hundred rebels made an attack on q train,
perforating the cars with bullets The
leader of the band is unknown. The vii
lage OF Brayides was burned by insureents
and five houses in Mochu have N
burned. The rebels, after setting fire 70
the villages, retired in the dir6cfion of
the Arizona and Elena sugar estates.
Another band entered Mangas and
burned the municipal archives.
The rebel leader, Nunez, and soma Of
his followers, have derailed and OFer-
turned locomotive near San CrlstobaI
General Aldecoa, in an official report to
Captain General Martinez Campos, states
that he encountered body of insurg ents
under General Maxine Gomez on the
Mirosa estate, twenty miles south of this
city, and, assisted by a force under Gen.
eral Galvez, succeeded in dislodging the
insurgents and compelled them to retire
in complete disorder, leaving two of their
number dead on the field. The Spanish
suffered loss of one killed and twelve
wounded.
COLON, CUBA, Dec. 80 (via Tampa, Fla,
| Jan. 11.)-T5-day the column under the
command of Lieutenant Colonel Perara
returned to this city. Yesterday it had a
sharp and bloody engagement with the
| rebels under Gomez. The number of the
latter was estimated to be 5000. The van@
guard of Colonel Ferara's column, COM
posed of detachment Of Santiago cavalry,
met twenty mounted rebels between the
town of Calimete and the Triunfo sugar es-
tate. The rebels fired a volley at the royal
troops and instantly retired in the di-
rection of their main body on the estate
The column advanced, and on nearing
the estate a general fire was opened on it
by the rebels. Later a detachment of
mounted rebels charged with machetes.
They were allowed to get near enough to
the troops before the command to fire was
given. The first volley emptied twenty
saddles, when the rebels precipitately re-
turned to shelter back of some temporary
| barricades that they had erected. Colonel
Perara advanced his column, taking up
several positions.
Steady fire was maintained on both
sides when the royal troops charged en-
| masse, wherepon the enemy fed The
| Spanish loss in killed and wounded in
dislodging them was large. The engage
ment commenced at 6 A. NJ. and lasted un-
til 8. After the rebels fled the royal troops
gathered in their dead and wounded, taxi
ing them to Calimete From the latter
place they were transferred to-day to this
| city, where the dead were buried
| The casualties are as follows: Dead.-Two
Iieutenants and seventeen soldiers;
wounded-two captains, two lieutenants
and forty-seyen soldiers. Some of the lat
| ter have several bullet wounds.
UNION DE REYES. CUBA, Jan. 1 (via
Tampa, Fla. Jan. 1D.-To-day between
1000 and 5000 rebel cavalry were reported
as being near Alfonso XII.
| The Conchita estate ceased work to-day,
| it's canefields having been destroyed by
| fire. Las Canas estate reports its whole
cane crop destroyed by the rebels. Gem
| eral Martinez Campos has ordered the
military commander at Alfonso XII not
to drive the enemy towards Eastern Cuba,
but to westerly direction. Reports come
in from all sides of firing caneields and
railway property.
! To-day a battle was fought near Alfonso
|