The San Francisco call., 1896-12-31
Startling News Reaches Havana
From the Camps of the
Insurgents.
HIS FOLLOWERS HAD BELIEVED
A HIM DEAD.
When Borne From the Battle Field
the Chief Was Found TO B.
Breathing.

HAVANA, CUBA, via Key West, Dec.
30.-"Our Maceo still Iivesi" is the Gu
bans joyful cry. The first rumors, ac-
cepted with incrednlity, are now gaining
ground. Information is coming into the
city daily giving precise details. 1t is said
that when he fell from his horse his fol-
lowers thought him dead, but found that
he was still living and spread the news
that he was dead in order to carry him to
a place of safety. Under strong escort
pitaI where, under the skiIlful treatment
of doctors, the chief is now slowly recuper-
ating. The acute period has now passed.
1t seems that only one wound is danger
Gus, that being in the stomach.
Zertucha's treachery is being confirmed
daily. 1t is said that Maceo's first words
when he was able TO speak were to order
Zertucha's capture, but he had already
fed TO the Spanish lines. Zeltucha wrote
the paper found on Gomez's boGy- Gomez
was killed by bayonet thlpst and did
not stab himself as the Span; u saw.
Guanabacao, situated Go e other side
of the harbor, is terribly excited by the
crimes that the notorious Major Fonde-
villa is committing daily. Families are
moving 10 Havana, being horror stricken.
The daily butcheries by Spaniards
are said to exceed thirty. 1t is hard
ITO obtain facts, as the people fear 10
speak, but herewith is an incomplete list
and dates of those killed:
On the 23d, the same day he took COM
.nand, he ordered the brothers Ruiz killed
on the oath, one man named Sotolongo;
on the 25th, Nunez, and others on the 10Th
Morales, so years old, on the farm of
Norca, and seven more, besides Pastorisa,
well-known in Havana as a baseball
player.
1t is said that during the last three
nights more were killed. All were taken
at night from their homes, bound and
brought to the outskirts of the city,
slashed with machetes and their bodies
left on the field. Their families were pro-
hibted from burying them. No formal
trial was given-not even a sembIance of
one. All were killed at once on Fonde-
Villas orders. Some foreigners appealed
TO their consulates for protection.
The news, when received in Havana,
created a great impression among the Gu
bans. The Spaniards admit the facts and
many of them strongly protest.
Private Information received from Santa
Spiritus reports that Gomez with large
force, Quintin Bsnderas, commanding the
vanguard, is now in that section moving
west; also that another expedition was
landed in that province.
1t is said that the Marquis Apezteguia
sailed to-day for Spain commissioned by
Spanish merchants and planters to ask for
Weyler's recall. WeyIer's unpopularity
among the Spaniards is increasing. Hos
tile sentiments are now openly expressed.
1t is admitted that the cam mpaign in Pinar
del Rio is a complete failure, and that the
marches through the province are simpIv
promenades along the base of the hills.
They are furious when realizing that
%, 900 men do not dare to attack the rebel
stronghoids on the mountain summits.
1t is said that the rebels are quietly wait
ing to allow him to march unnolesteo.
He will soon leave the province ana de-
clare the same pacified, when they will
swoop down from the hills with fire and
sword and lay the whole country waste.
AT the last moment news was received
of an engagement in Pinar del Rio.
Munoz, with 800 men, defeated Colonel
Segura, inficting heavy losses on the
Spaniards, thirty of whom are reported
killed and over 100 wounded.
During the fl hit Charles Dougherty, an
American citizen, was captured by the
Spanish troops and slaughtered. A gold
tot,, ,,-;t =.
his person and is now in the possession of
SeguTa. None of the encounters in Pinar
del Rio are allowed to be printed and no
official reports are given. Weyler's scheme
is to declare the province pacitied and that
the rebels have disbanded and offer no en-
counter.