Evening journal., 1897-01-07
PATRIOTS FULL OF HOPE
Information From the Insurgenf
Camp Near Havana.
NONE OF THEM Is sURRENDERING.

A Correspondent on the Field Tells of the
Condition AS It Actually ESists-The
spanlards Continue to Ruthiessly Stay
Noncombatnuts.
NEW YORK. Jan. THE World this
morning publishes the following from its
Cuban correspondent, Sylvester Scovel
written on the field near Arroyo Arena
province Of Havana:
l have been fortunate enough to get into
Havana get out Of it again and to find an
insurgont force and IN just 10 hours.
This place is six miles from san Pedro,
where Maceo is reported to have been
killed.
1t is not true that either pinar del Rio
or Havana provinces have been "pacliled
The insurgents are not thinking of maxi
ing peace They are more active and hope
full than ever
The observations of The World CORE
spondent who accompanied the Spanish
troops with "a pass granted by General
Weyler misstated the true situation I'm this
respect he saw only the portions of the
province which are deserted by insurgents,
chiefly for the lack of food.
There never were but 5000 rebels In
Pinar del Rio province. 1hoy are still
there. General Weyler at tho head of 30,
600 Spanish troops did not conquer them.
All reports from Spanish towns or forts
arc utterly untrustworthy. Maceo never
fought in heavy columns. His bands were
always scattered. He never had more
than 20O men with him. His plan was to
harass, tease and tire out the enemy
find that the situation here looks bet
ter for the insurgents today than when !
left inar del Rio last August Even the
Spaniards admit that none OF tho insur-
gents has surrendered
/ hope 20 be on the scene tomorrow Of
Maceo's death If the seven Spanish troops
are not pernioiously active and the Gu
bans are energetic / rode for four weeks
with the same force OF Insurgents under
l}aldonero Acostas eight months ago, and
over this same ground Acostas cavalry
men are positively fat. Thoir horses, too,
look better fed
From these appearances at least 1t does
not seem that the insurgents in this dis
| trict, ravished by the bloody san Quintin
battalion and . separate guerrilla organi-
cations are being much harassed.
Colonel Ciruieda, the slayer Of Maceo,
! Is the battalion commander He Is really
a very energetic officer and keeps his in
ly. The case with which the Cubans seem
to have avoided his combinations proves
that they have improved in what was al
ways their strongest portability 20 keep
and get away.
still Killing Paoifcos.
The Pacifco victims Of the San Quintir
battalion and local guerrillas have already
been printed in these dispatches. Both the
peaceable farmers and insurgents state
chat since then these forces have kept fully
up to their record.
The people there live almost under the
shadow of a Spanish fortified town. They
are apt to be very noncommittal as to any
acts rejecting on their nearby neighbors
And yet they have given me aflidavits II
the Spanish language certifying to the alb
solutely unprovoked killing of four mel
and a boy done to death within one mil
of this house.
They also tell how the guerrillas gav
the macheteh to eight or ten unarmed in
surgents at various times. They do no
complain of this, but they do keonly re
sent the killing of peaceable people, wit
are known to hoEe had nothing TO do will
the war;
Three brothers. Jose, Cornelio and Pab
10 GOWN 36, 30 and 2S years respectively
owned some cattle near Punta Bravo. Oh
tanning permission from the military au
thorities, they drove the beeyes to Havani
to sell them. They met a party OF Colone
Ciruiedas guides-the same ones who ar
reported TO have taken the articles From
Maceo's body. A Spanish soldier said u
the brothers: You have two bachelo
brothers in the bush. You are bad poor
-mala gente. Whereupon the soldicr
took them to the road of Rio Hondo AZ
stabbed them to death. Then they hackC
them. One brother had five and each G
the other two had three children. None @
the little ones is over 9 years old, and g.
/ are almost starving.
( This butchery occurred within four da
, Of another instance. On Dec. IL a sing
insurgent galloped by the house Of Herr
IA Gonzalez, three miles north of Pun
3 Brava. Following close after came I,
p guerrillas of La Sisa and some of the a
3 royo Arena band The son, Eginion He
rera heard the noise, opened the doc
looked out and dropped dead, with Spar
ish bullet through his heart He is buric
in the cemetery Of Elcano. All the peopl
hercabout know about il. And in d.
same ground lies 14-year-old lsidoro He
, rora Oarora, also murdered in cold bloc,
: The boy was haullng the family water na
. rel, using yoke Of oxen. A mile of thei
, was some firing.
b The Cruelty OF Guerrilias.
Then the guerrillas Of Pizarro can
along and put two balls through the boy
chest and machete through his throa
They had been unable to catch the insu
: gents This happened at San MauritiI
= farm, three.quarters Of "a league from A
- royo Arena.
. The farmers that sign the aflidavits no
in possession Of The World correspondei
do so knowingly at the risk Of their live
If this letter should be captured in its pa
sage through three searching lines of SCI
tinels on entering Havana; IL tho c0uri
y is held up en- the road by marching co
. umns, or if any enemy should know tn
have sta.d at this house and should 81
r. so to the guerrilla force whose bugle
s. Just now sounding the s o'clock call
J. "Silencio " the signers would be silence
as sure as the Spanish peasant lad soldie
y are now swinging their hammocks +
a sleep.
10 Testimony given knowingly undor SUI
circumstances Is pretty apt to be truthfr