The Holly chieftain., 1897-02-12
ARE MANY CQBANS
'Pinar Del Rio Thiokly Settled
With Cuban Insurgents.
STILL GENERAL WEMER SAYS NOT

There are 1t is Claimed by Others Over
1000 Better Equipped Force. In
that Country than Ever
| Copyrighted 1857 by me Associated Press,
Havana. Feb 1O-Via Key West. Fla
| The various reports and statements of
'NCa 5fsHS95eHeraf Weyidf, announcing the
paa.fication OF the province of Pin.r del
| Rio and the almost complete disappear
ance OF the insurgents. in that part OF
the island. are far from being borne out
| by facts AS intimated in these dis
| patches when the Spanish commander
made the remarks cited. If Pinar del
Rio was as quotas he alleged it to be.
VIVA. has become 81 the arms. horses.
ammunitions. stores. r.. OF the 100 men
whom he admitted 4ere under arms
| there?
| As a matter OF fact the insurgent
forces in Pinar del Rio seem better OFF,
more Thoroughly equipped and discip-
lined than atsany pSevious stage of the
campaign. In support of this assertion
the following Statements have been
gathered from reliable1 Sources:
CoUNr1NGzEosEs.
I'm the .nelghborhood of Catalina and
Las Cuevas are the sinsurgent leaders
yarona Rivcro and .uis Perez, with
ABOUT l,2oo Haen. Well rmed and having
pIsa plenty Of ammuni'ion though poorly
lin the zone. of Jaucia and Mula is the
| insurgent leader Lazof with some 600
| men. Lazo is &ounded nj both arms. In
the districts n Rayas. Rio del Medic.
Manganacos, Peua Bl}nca, and Pan de
| Azrcar are various grtups of insurgents
with total 4 over 5ot men under Videl
| Ducasl.
AT the heights of EoDernadora and
the Sierra u Rosari3 the insurgents
are under TIE c2mmakd of Brigadier
General RUS BtveFo Ind the leaders
jose Manuel Hkrri6 aIf Perico Delgado.
They consist of infan ty and some cav
airy. estiniatsd toj number about. 500
men. AT Soroa is;a Arce of insurgents
under Antqhio Nu7ez. Nunez, however.
is also said to be &ouI Ided.
| LAT the Iona heigi s is the Torro
| Bermudaz sbaflds and II Bayate and in
| tine district OF Runta k3rava are the in
snrsenY pnder 3Gafasa and Lucas
'.The ftsurgafr 1ead$. FREDERICK Nun9Z
! is at Las EAangas aHi near Aribia La
carlota an( Af.emiS are insursent
forces undeS Eoraui.
These sf6cee all me, those of the
knownyeadsw o4t Insurgents in the
4 field a. 1ssi31ate Rsnumber about s.
:, 6a1. asfc \ = Sffe et'ssI.saii general claims
that Plnar del Rio is pacified.'"
l. In addition to these forces is strong
| BODY OF insurgents which seems to have
misteriously disappeared from the
| nelghborhood of Havana. The wherea-
| bouts of this force is exciting much at
tention. and is known to be causing the
Spanish staff considerable anxiety.
| The friends of the insurgents intimate
that big surprise is being prepared for
| Captain General Weyler when he tries
| to return to Havana.
DYNAMITE.
| On February /. the insurgents destroy
ed, by dynamite. culvert situated at a
point about hundred and fifty kilome-
ters from mere, between Taco and Ba-
canagua, Pinar del Rio. At the moment
| of the explosion an exploring train from
| Vuelta Abajo was passing over the Gull
vert and the engine feel through the cul-
vert and was totally destroyed. and
| one passenger on the train was killed.
| The engineer. two firemen, captain OF
| artillery volunteers, Suarez and five
soldiers of the battlion of Asturis were
/
since died of the injuries thus received.
In addition. eight soldiers were slightly
wounded. They were sent to Palacios
as We're the rest of the wounded. The
| explosion caused a panic among the
| passengers, who We're eventually trans
| ferred to another train. The line was in
| tcrrupted on Tuesday.
DiOnesi Slarragerre, we'll known IN
surgent, surrendered last week at Trini-
dad He was Immediately liberated un-
der the captain generals oeefee. but
| was afterwards arrested at Union, with
a companion, Caciniro Vivas.
SMALLPOX.
Owing to the campaign of La I.ucha
| thousands OF persons are being vaccin-
ated daily throughout the entire pro-
| vince. In spite of this, it Is asserted,
about 5000 cases of smallpox exist in
Havana and during the last four days
thirty persons. or per cent of the en-
tire mortality. have died from this dis
| ease During the month of January. at
Jaruco alone. out of 362 deaths. 3i7 were
dua to smallpox.
| General Weyler. from Las Cruces
marched TO Villa Clara. capital of the
| province of Santa Clara, and 1t was re-
ported from villa Clara that ne will push
| on to Placetas and Remedies.
PEACE TALK is NONSENSE.
Adyices from Remedies say that Gen.
eral Maxine Gomez has moved from the
district of Sancti Spiritus. to La Sgi-
nuae, which caused rumors to be circu-
| lated of a probable conference between
the generals and eventually the conclus-
ion of peace. But these reports have
since been denied from insurgents
sources.
All the rumors published about prom
inent home rulers and former leaders Of
the ten years war being engaged in
treating for peace are entirely without
foundation. and are only inspired by the
| Diarjo de Ia Marina and perhaps repro
| duced by some of the correspondents
| here All the statements to the contrary,
| 1t can be affirmed, on excellent authori-
| ty, that the insurgents expect, in the
| long rum to win something much more
tangible than reforms proposed by the
| Spanish government. 1t is recalled that
| the Dairio de la Marina, during the cap
tain gsneralship of Calleja. announced
| that the latter had the intention OF do
ing a graf deal more In the direction OF
| giving Cuba home rule than outlined by
the cabled reports Of the Cuban reforms
scheme just proclaimed In Madrid.
The Spaniards here. it cannot be de-
MED, are heartily sick OF the war, ex-
cepting only those who are without
money or property and who actually
make better living out of the revolution
than ever did before or could hope to do
again IL peace Is proclaimed. Then this
Is another class anxious for the war to
continue-those who hope to better them
selves considerably should the insur-
gents triumph.
| r.lrc A WV eyv~vv~r.