The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-03-25
Sacking stores and Houses INT Ha-
RAISING the Spanish Soldiers i'm
Every Possible Way.
ZINARES DEFEATED
ATTACKED At NIGHT BY LARGE
BANDS OF INSURGENTS,
And Forced to Retreat. Though In
t%renched I'm "A Strong P~OsitiOn-GO-
mcz I'm santa Clara Province.

HAVANA, via Key West, March 24.-Ac-
cording TO official advices here, the insur-
gents on Thursday night attacked and
burned the greater part of the village of
Blanquizal. near ManZanillo. The insurgent
leader. Acosta. at the same time attacked
the Notifications in the vicinity of Hoye
Colorado, in the province of Havana. 1t is
claimed that the Spanish were successful
and the insurgents repulsed in a number of
encounters.
1t is reported that the insurgent leader
Pancho GARLIC, said to have been wounde
i'm a recent engagement. is recovering from
the effects of these injuries.
Advices have been received here to the
effect that forty insurgents recently sue
ceeded in derailing a train Ell route from
Isabella to Sagua. The engineer and seven
of the trainmen were captured. After trav-
cling with their prisoners for some dis
| tance, the insurgents removed all the cloth
ing from the train employees and then set
them free.
An insurgent spy recently captured near
| the town of Salud made a confession, upon
condition of a pardon being granted to him.
He said that the insurgent forces would at
tack the town the next day. The local gar
rlson was at once reinforced, and when the
Cubans made an assault on the town they
were easily repulsed. The spy also be-
trayed the insurgent committee in the town
and as a result five persons were arrested
upon charges of plotting against the crown
of Spain.
TWO thousand refugees from the famine
stricken districts in the province of Mat
anzas recently called at the headquarters
OF the government i'm the town of Matanzas
and demanded permission to go out into
the country for the purpose of obtaining
food.
1t is reported here that the insurgents
recently captured Jiguani on the road from
Bayamo TO Santiago dc Cuba, also Santa
Rita, located on the road to Holguin.
Smallpox is ravaging Bahia Hondo.
Hundreds Of persons are dying. The ref
ugees are said to be in a pitiful state. The
situation can only be compared to that re-
ported from India.
II is persistently rumored here that the
San Juan de la Splayar and Sagua la
Chica flibustering expedition was escorted
to the interior of Cuba by the insurgent
leader Lunez.
Advices have been received stating that
the insurgents recently burned the town
of Salamanca, in the province of Santa
Clara. The church edifice was destroyed
by fire and the contents tossed into the
street and burned. According to other add
vices the insurgents succeeded in setting
fire to that portion of Guano village in the
province of Pinar del Rio rebuilt since the
former destruction of the town during a
raid of the Cubans.
All of the tobacco fields in the San Juan
Martinez district in the province of Pinar
del Rio have been destroyed during recent
Cuban attacks.
According to advices received here the
insurgents have fired on the towns of Ar
royoa Polio and CalabaZar, in the province
of havana. CalabaZar was burned and the
splendid house owned by Sebastian Mastre,
the former inSurgent leader. was DESTROYED
by the flames. Senior Mastre is now resid-
ing in Mexico. where he was recently mar
ried TO DoioreZ Rubio, widow of the Span
ish naval officer.
Great discomfort exists among the guer-
rilla forces at Caibarien owing TO the fact
that their pay has been reduced one-third
by the authorities.
The recent military operations in Santa
/ Clara province have been without practical
results. General Gomez. who was encircled
by several Spanish columns at Damagal,
Santa Clara, succeeded in evading them,
and il is said will invade. Matanzas dur
ing the latter part of this month. Reports
as to the RECOMMENDATION of peasants at
Santa Clara are contradictory, but prob
ably about five thousand men have joined
the insurgents
Both the insurgents and the regulars burn
the cane fields and farms. leaving the cOun-
try bare. 1t is reported that the insurgents,
| aking advantage of the darkness. entered
the outskirts OF Holguin and sacked sew
| eral stores. They burned fifteen houses. A
| great many families have fled TO La Salud,
where several hundred houses have been
put up during the last fortnight to shelter
them from the weather.
General Zinares, who, with 1,600 men. left
for San Luis Palma Algranizar. was re-
peatedly attacked by large bands of
insurgents. He finally arrived at the
Losas ranch, where Cibicco was in
trenched in a strong position
near a hill. In the engagement
which followed he was defeated. Accord
ing to the official reports General Zinares
was attacked during the night. and the next
day. while he was accommodating in the
vicinity of Piedras, but defeated the insur-
gents. whose losses are said to have been
twenty-six killed. The Spanish troops had
five killed and twenty wounded.
Rear Admiral Jose Navarro, commander
of the Spanish fleet in Cuban waters, au-
thorizes the correspondent of the Associated
Press to deny absolutely the report that a
Spanish gunboat has been dynamited in the
Cauto river.
Holguin Not Captured by Rebels.
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