The sun., 1897-05-11
GOMEZ Boards THE LION.
he AND HIS ARMY ARE WITHIN
THIRTY MILES OF HATANA.

NE vytns nt Guines-tsrcat Excitement at the
Capital, where wounded Troops Arc Com
| ipE-Gomes Has .. 900 Cavalry, and q, 900
More Cuban Soldiers Are Not Far BEHIND.
| HAVANA, May 10, via Key west.-Eighty
| wounded Spanish soldiers have been brought Ia
Havana by tho railroad. 1t is believed that they
| fought Id n battle against Gen. Gomez.
At late hour 1t is said that Gomez is in Ha-
vana province and that big battle was fought
| yesterday near Guines, thirty miles from the
| city of Havana, In which tho Spaniards were
| routed with heavy losses. Tho sensation this
| news has produced here is very great Not a
single word has yet been allowed to be published
here about Gomez's march.
At an earlier hour intense excitement was
| created here by the news that Gen. Gomez was
| at Bermeja, in MatanZas province, less than hf.
| teen miles from the border of tho province OF
| Havana. The Havana authorities denied the
| fact In semiofficial way and asserted that the
Cuban chief at Berueja was Gen. Quintin Ban
deras with his forces of infantry from Orient.
But Quintin Banderas happens to be in Plnar
del Rio province, and another report was ro-
ceived here confirming the great news OF Gen.
GomeZ's presence 80 near Havana
The entire guerrilla force Of Bermeja was cap
tured by Gen. Gomez, and ten Spanish soldiers
who belonged to tho guerrillas were set free by
the Cuban leader. They returned to the Spanish
outposts declaring that the commander Of the
Cuban forces, who had q talk with them, was
Gen. Gomez himself.
They declare that he has about 1000 well.
armed men, almost all cavalry. It Is said among
tho Cuban soldiers that tho Cuban General,
Francisco Carrillo. is following Gomez with
5000 men, and that he is probably in about tho
centre of Matanzas province.
The Bermeja guerrilla band captured by Gen.
Gomez was composed Of forty-two men, thirty
two of them being Cubans employed by the
Spanish Government on account of their knowl-
edge of the country. Gen. Gomez freed the ten
Spsniards of the guerrillas and ordered tho
thirty-two Cubans to be hanged on the spot as
traitors to their country. Tho order was imme-
diately executed.
This military movement of Gen. Gomez fol-
lowing closely upon the great military march Of
Gen. Banderas from Santiago dc Cuba to Pinar
del Rio, is the decisive blow of tho campaign
against Gen. Weyler.
The crimes of Col. Fonsdeviella In Guanabacoa
are in full course again. Yesterday some fifteen
Spanish soldiers entered the house of a Cuban
named Ricardo Rodriguez and arrested him.
His wife screamed and interfered in his behalf.
Then she was tied to q chair. gagged, and as
saulted. Rodriguez was put in chains and
dragged out of the town to the old place of exc
cution where SO many murders have been COM
mitted by the orders of Fonsdeviella. There he
was cut to pieces by the machetes of the
soldiers.
A curious incident is that Rodriguez's dog fol.
lowed tho victim and his assassins and brought
back to the poor wife piece OF one Of the gar
ments Of his master. The poor woman. when
united from the chair in which she was left by
the Spaniards, ran through the streets In a at of
frenzy, crying for help. She was arrested.
Senior Porrua, Ex-Governor OF Havana, has