Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1897-01-28
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From Spanish Ranks Join the Insurgents
Shocking Reports of Gen.
Careva's Doings.

Key West, Fla, Jan. 27.-Passengers by
the Olivette tonight report that Gonzalo
Moreno, one of the most prominent cit
izens of Puerto Principe. for ten years
mayor of the city, and rebel colonel in
the last war; has Joined the insurgents
He became indignant at the outrages
committed by Spaniards in arresting dis
tinguished ladies and gentlemen, reported
last week.
Venancio Sorenz, a Spaniard, com .
manding detachment of troops in San
tiago de Cuba. has Joined the insurgents
carrying the arms and ammunition of the
fort he had in charge, consisting of 100
rifles and 5000 rounds of ammunition.
An expedition is said to have landed at
La Caleta, near Cape Maysoe. 1t is also
reported that Luis Rivero, gave a severe
thrashing to Gen. Melguize, near Whales,
and inflicted heavy losses, the Skaniards
losing thirty dead and eighty Wounded.
This is known at the palace, but the fact
has not been given out officially, because
they still persist in making the people
believe there is no fighting in Pinar del
Rio, the rebels being all demoralized and
scattered all over the country.
1t is reported that when Weyler was
marching down Candida HILL near
Guines, six shots were fired on him by
some party hidden in the bushes nearby,
wounding a lieutenant at his side and
private. 1t is also rumored that two of
his adjutantS were wounded.
La Luchas kilograms from Washing
ton yesterday occasioned considerable
laughter, saying that De LONE had COM
municated to the state department that
the provinces of Havana and Matanzas
were virtually pacified and that all su-
gar estates in these sections were actu-
ally grinding, when, in fact not one es-
tate in either of these sections, nor any
other, as far as known in Havana, are
grinding since all cane fields are now on
fire. The Toledo estate, right at the
gates of Havana, has had to stop grind
ing because it has no cane, all having
been burned.
Advices received from Sagua la Grande
from trustworthy source give shocking
details of the doings of the notorious Cap
tain Carreras, of the local guerrillas of
the place, and we'll known for the partici-
patton he took in the outrage committed
on the American citizens last year. On
the 18th instant, passing by the town of
Malpeaz, six miles southeast of Sagua,
he ordered 1t burned, and at the same
time he arrested and carried off num-
Der OF the peaceful citizens of the town.
Amongst them four well known in Sa-
qua, and he had them all hacked to pieces
with machetes. One named Francisco
Diaz was a quiet, unoffensive man, high
ly esteemed for his honesty and hard
working qualities.
The guerilla chief brought into Sagua
the dead bodies of four pacificos, one of
them poor cripple, only 2S years of
age, with a wife and three children. A
French citizen, on whose farm this poor
cripple, Estanislao Rogue, was employed,
says that he viewed the dead body after
being brought into town, and that the
imprint OF the cords with which he was
bound were plainly visible. The names
of the rest of the killed are as follows.
PEDRO NODARSE, aged %, leaves
wife and seven children.
JOSEPH ROGUE, aged 26, leaves wife
and four children.
FRANCISCO DIAZ, aged 3S, leaves
wife and seven children.
ESTANISLAO ROGUE, aged 49, leaves
wife and three children.
A member of Carreas guerrillas gave
the above facts, and when asked if he
did dislike such method Of warfare he
cody replied: "At first it was sickening
to me, but now do not mind it," He
also informed them that they had orders
from the commander of that zone to
kill everybody and everything in sight.
burn everything they could burn, and
that which would not burn, should be
cut down, even to banana trees That
this is being done, there is information
from unquestioned sources. The same
authority says he witnessed over twenty
families trudging into Sagua la Grande,
driven from Malpease. Some of the
women and children were virtually nude
He also says that in the towns of Quen-
mado de Guines, fifteen miles west of
Sagua, there are 300 families camped
inside of the Notifications, with nothing
to eat and no shelter, driven from their
little country huts, which the Spanish
troops burned, together with their cloth
ing, etc. He also learned from a Span
ish officer that three days ago Gomez's
infantry camped on the Manajaboa
.1f.x.k .k,k IT,. H.
Camajuani He also informed the same
party that there is no doubt Gomez had
received big expedition at some point
along the Sagua coast.
One of the ultra Spaniards said to him
few days ago: Il cannot understand
stroying the island. We Spaniards own
or have interests in most of it, and by
the policy being pursued the Spaniaris
are the real sufferers" Beyond question
the troops have authority to lay waste
wherever they go. The situation in Sag
ua can be summarized thus:
The insurgents, convinced that the
troops will destroy everything in reach,
have ensconced themselves behind the
hills and giving them full play but this
should not be regarded as cowardly on
the part of the rebels in making not ef-
fort to prevent their non-combatants
from being murdered, as they have
enough to do in keeping their own against
the overpowering forces they have to
contend with.
The rabid Spanish papers of Cienfugos
report that the local guerrillas of Man
cas-, a town about ten miles from Santo
Domingo, met an insurgent force; that
seventeen guerrillas were killed out
right and the balance had disappeared.
The insurgent account of 1t is they killed
nine guerrillas and captured the entire
band.
AS the gllerrilIas receive no mercy at
the hands of the insurgents. the Spanish
report of the disappearance is about COR
rect.