The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-12-18
ROANOKE, VA, FRIDAY. DECEMBER IS 1896
WAS MACE0 REALLY KILLED?
Steamer Passengers From Cuba Say
He is Alive.

Key West, Fla, Dec. II. .-Passengers
who arrived here from Cuba last night re-
port that General Pratt had wired Gen.
eral Wcylcr from the province of Matan-
zas that he had IN engagement in that
province with Antonio Maceo's forces,
led by Maceo himself, and that upon re-
ceirt of the telegram conveying this in
formation all the festivities which were
in progress in Havana to celebrate the
death of Nlaceo were ordered to be sus-
pended.
The passengers further stated that n
number OF newspaper reporters, to con-
vince themselves Of TIE truth or falsitv
OF the report of AIacco's death, went to
Punta Bravo, province Of sIlavann, and
one OF them had an interview with the in
sur5ent chief, Baldomcro Acostn. who
told him that the Spaniards who had
come To search for NInceo's body would
not lind 1t, rs Maceo was ut the head OF
his army and was moving towards
Orientc. He also stated that he had nc
companicd Miacco to the province OF
Matanzas, where he left him, after an
alfectionaae parting. When he left
Maceo the latter Was suffering from II
Slight wound. The passengers also con
vcyed the information that the Cuban
paper La Lucha, in its issue OF the 18th
instant, gave II mcagrc account of a bat.
tie which had been fought at Rosario.
near CabAnas, in the extreme northern
part OF the province of Pinar,, del Rio.
General i}ernal WAS in command of the
Spanish forces, ard the government
troops sustained loss of one lieutenant
colonel and two lcutcnauts wounded.
Captain Snnchez killed, and eighteen
soldiers wounded. The enemy are said
to have lost heavily. The column of
General Bernal continued its march to
Cayabos, when they had another minor
engagement. suffering a loss of one man
killed and eleven wounded.
New York, Dec l1.-Dr. j. Castillo.
Of the Cuban innta, says thai in the
opinion of the iunta there can he little
doubt OF Mnceo's death, and that It gen
orally is believed that. he sscnlme to his
death through trcachery on the part of
DR.. Iertucha. In order to learn the fact
about the engagement in which the
patriot was killed, cmissarics have been
sent from Havana to find the troops
which he commanded.
Several have returned and report that
they could find no trace of the insur-
gents, showing chat they had retrentcd
further inland. Five soldiers. who were
wounded in nuts, which had been turned
into hospitals We're found, and they told
the agents of the j,nta that Maceo was
not dead However, nos much faith is
pinned on the assurances OF the wounded
men of Maceo, since the general may have
been shot after the soldiers had been rem
dcred hors de combat
AS inquiry proceeds no additional con.
iirmation of the story that Maceo was
lured to supposed peace conference can
be obtained, although it seems to be Ger.
tain that Maceo was cntrappcd into an
ambuscade through the Vaccinations of
Iertucha.
Efforts are being made to bring to this
country an officer who was on Macco's
stan and present when he was shot, so
that lie may he sent to Washington to ap.
pear before the foreign relations commit.
tee uf the Senate