The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-07
SPANIARDS IN A PANIC.
THEY FLED, THINKING THEIR GEN
ERAL HAD BEEN SHOT.
when They Found Their Mistake Il Was Toe
Late 70 Rally Them-Many Moro Instances
OF tho savage Atrocities which spain

when They Found Their Mistake II was Toe
Late to Rally ~Them-Many Moro Instances
OF the Savage Atrocities which Spain
Has introduced Into the Cuban Struggle
HAVANA, June 3, via Key West, Juno eat
Rincon del Parazo, province OF Puerto Principe,
n sharp battle has been fought between tho
Spanish column of Gen. Jimenez Castellanos
and several insurgent bands, numbering 1000
men. The engagement lasted four hours, and
tho spaniards had all tho advantage until Major
Don Agustin do la Tore was struck by a Cuban
bullet and dropped dead by the sido Of Gen.
Jiuenez Castellanos. The Spanish soldiers, be-
lievinR that their General was the mar killed,
retreated in disorder, and before the General
could convince them that he was alive the Gu
bans had attacked and carried the Spanish posi-.
tons with their machetes.
Gen. Jimenez Castcllanos retired after his de-
feat to Rincon, carrying his wounded mon. who
numbered ITO. The body Of Major la Tore was
sent to the city Of Puerto Principe.
Another crime by Lieut.. Col. Fonsdeviela has
been added to the bloody list which makes his
name Infamous. At La Fe, near Guanabacoa,
eighteen pacilcos asked his permission to go out
of the town in search Of vegetables and fruits.
They were gathering mangoes and sweet pota-
toes. each with Fonsdoviela's signed permission
in his pocket. when a body Of 200 Spanish guer-
rillas came up, and, surrounding them, began TO
attack tho defenceless countrymen with ma
chetes. To the cries OF the victims that they
were there with tho permission of Fonsdeviela,
the assassins answered that they also had orders
from Fonsdeviela to kill them. The eighteen
pacifcos were hacked to pieces.
In the outskirts of Santa Maria del Rosario,
Havana province, another barbarous deed has
been committed by the spaniards. Two boys.
one 8 and the other z years old, were found by
the. Spanish guerrillas. When asked IL they were
Spaniards or Cubans, the boys answered that
they were Cubans, and for this crime the COM
mander of the guorrillas ordered their imme-
date death. They were macheted, and the
trustworthy person who writes this fact to me
from Santa Maria del Rosario, says that they
died like heroes, crying "Viva Cuba ibre!"
Two soldiers Of the guerrillas were so Mortified
by the cruelty of their commander that they de-
serted to the insurgents.
In Santa Clara province more atrocities have
been committed. The Spanish forces under
command Of Sebastian Murillo attacked q
Cuban hospital at Ojo de Aqua, near Cienfuegos,
killing many sick and wounded persons, besides
two physicians and two nurses. The case is OFF,
cially reported here as the capture Of a pre-
~fectura, and tho report says that the surgical
Instruments and medicines were sent to
Cienfuegos.
Near the city of Santa Clara, nine Cuban
country women were assassinated by tho Span
fish guerrillas after having been assaulted.
All of the above facts are derived from the
best sources Of information. The correspondent
of H SUN has the signed statements made by
witnesses OF these atrocities. besides the Span
ish official report Of the assault on the hospital
near Cienfuegos.
At Catalina, a few miles from Havana, the
insurgents made an attack on the town on FRI
day morning, which was repulsed by the garri-
son. The spaniards had pine killed and thirteen
wounded, among them Lieut.. Victoriano Lopez.