The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-02
CAMP OF CUBANS CAPTURED.
INSURGENTS RETREAT AFTER sUF-
FERING HEAVY LOSS.

The SpnnArds Lose n Major and IL
Soldiers Killed and 20 Soldiers
WOunded-Cubnns Besiege Giusa
ana Destroy the Block Houses
With ArtiIlery-The Garrison Sug-
renders After Fifty Men Are Kill
cd-Spanish Emissaries Sent Out
to the Cubnns Reported Murdered.
Havana, Dec. l.-Gen. Hernandez, com
manding the second column, captured and
destroyed an insurgent camp, according
to the official report at Arnjuez. and al
so destroyed 500 huts and several other
insurgents camps in the immediate vicin-
ity of Aranjuez. AS a result of this move
ment, The insurgents retreated in thor
oughly demoralized condition after suffer
ing the loss OF many men killed and
wounded. The Spanish column lost a ma
jor and twelve soldiers killed, and had one
captain and twenty-nne soldiers wounded.
According to the latest reports from the
scenes of the engagements the Spanish
cavalry was continuing the pursuit of the
enemy.
Six hundred sick, wounded or otherwise
invalided soldiers have just left Cuba for
S2ain.
The insurgents, according to the official
reports, have lost fifty-four men killed in
skirmisbes with the Spanish troops in the
last ten days. In addition, the govern
ment forces captured twenty-eght prls-
oners and a number of firearms. The gov
ernment troops, during the same period,
the report adds lost twenty-four killed
,g,rI,f tlavaa col
diers wounded.
The Marquis de Apezteguia, leader of the
Spanish conservative party, arrived here
to-day and had a long interview with
Capt. Gen. Blanco. He says that the con-
servative party ought 70 stand by the
government in furtherng the work of
paciicaticn but he has not make any pub
lie declaration in favor of autonomy, The
position he takes is the same as that Of
the central conservative commission,
which recognizes the necessity Of pacify-
ing the island, but does not believe that
autonomy is the best way of bringing that
result about.
Gen. Bernal and Senior Canelajas, editor
of El Heraldo of Madrid who have been
with the Spanish column in the province
of Pinar del Rio, returned to the city to-
day Capt. Gen. Blanco has cOngratulat-
ed Gen Bernal on the outcome of the mill
tary operations in that province.
The dCplorable condition of the country
grows more and more apparent. Refu-
gees and reconcentrados are becoming
more and more miserable, According to
reports from San Domingo smallpox Is
making terrible ravages among the re-
concentrates. Since April last more than
4O0) have died in the city alone, to say
nothing of the suburban towns, which are
likewise infested.
Gen. Pando and Gen. Saliedo arrived
Yesterday with the Rous battalion at Gle
20 de AViela on the Meron-Jaruco trocha,
where they had an engagement with O0
ineurpent cavalrymen under Gen. Maxine
Gomez. According TO the official account
the Spanish lost two killed and eight
wounded. The two generals camped for
the night at the La Riforma farm, which
had been abandoned by Gen. Gomez. All
night the insurgents kept up scattering
fire upon the camp.
The local authorities take no steps
whatever to check the mortality. The
streets of the city are thronged with fam
inc stricken wretched beings who sue
cumb to disease under perhaps some lone
ly portico and some times fall dead in the
gutter, where they remain until God only
knows when.
The correspondent of the Associated
Press al San Domingo says that the worst
African savages are more humane than
the local authorities. More than 300 small
pox cases are known to exist; but no one
is ever Vaccinated
Medical aid is very scarce and the burial
of these wretched beings is most brutally
effected. Often as many as fifteen corpses
are piled together in a car and then dump
ed together in hoe, TO be covered only
with such little earth that the first show
er exposes the limbs of the dead which
are afterward devoured by vultures, hogs
ana dogs.
A few days ago a cart en- route for the
cemetery broke down. The driver un-
htched his horses and drove them away
and the dead were left there. abandoned
until the following day.
The insurgent Generals Rabi and Saliva
dor Rios besiegcd The village of Gusa
about fifteen miles from Bayamo. Their
artillery destroyed biockhouses, killing
the military commander and one leuten-
ant. The garrison, after having also lost
fifty soldiers, killed and wounded, sur
rendered. The insurgents plundered the
stores, securing rich booty, two months
supplies, a good quantity of ammunition
and 200 rifles. The Spanish have sent re-
Inducements to retake the town.
1t is persistently rumored that an insur-
gent leader, Cuervo, who started for the
insurgent ranks to induce the followers Of
Gen. Argusen to surrender has not re-
turned, and it is believed he has been as
SdSSlndteu.
Although 1t is rumored that the insur-
gent leader Ptirre of Guines Havana
province, and leader Pancho Perez of
Sancti Spiritus, had written to the auton-
omist party that they are willing to sur
render and to accept autonomy they have
not done so in spite of the fact that ten
days have gone by.
The column under Gen. BernaI which
went into the Ruby hills and with which
Senor Canelejas went for information as
to the condition of the country, mad a
hot fight and destroyed 800 huts OF the
insurgents. Both sides suffered consider
able loss.
A number of commissioners that have
been sent out by the Spanish authorities
have not returned. 1t is feared that they
have been killed.
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