The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1897-06-28
GOMEZ REPORTED
SERIOUSLY WOUNDED
Cuban General Said To Have Been ShOt
in a Recent Battle.
RUMOR LACKS CONFIRMATION
Are About Ready To Sur
render.

Havana, June PA passenger train
bound from Havana to Matanzas has been
dynamitcd by insurgents between san
Miguel and Campo Florido. The locomotive
WAS thrown from the track ana turned over
and two ears were derailed. the engineer
ard fireman were injured.
A band of insurgents today entered the
village of Calabaza, in Havana province
and plundercd several stores
Rumors have been afoat here since yes
terday morning, probably emanating from
Official circles that General Maxine Co
mez, tho insurgent commandments
has been killed in "a fight near the military
lire in the province Of Puerto Principe
extending from Jucaro TO Moron.
Tho reports have not been confirmed
Captain General Wcyicr arrived TINS
morning at Jucaro ana continued his trip to
AIan2anillo. II is oil tally stated that hum
drcds of families continue to surrender 10
the Spanish authorities at Trinidad ana
Saacti Spiritus. province of Santa cara
Gneral Scgura in an interview, informed
a correspondent Of 1T Lucha that the III
surgents are 50 weak In the district OF
Sancti Spiritus the local guerilla forces are
sufficient TO fight to insurgents, whose sur
render there to the Spaniards is shortly c&-
pectcd.
1t is reported that the Spanish columns
have brought 9. 800 head ot cattle INTO ol'-atl
Spritus.
Later today ,ho report Of the killing OF
General Gomez was modified to the state
ment thar me has been seriously wounded
but nobody outside OF official circles believes
this report to bc true.
In Lucia publishes a dispatch from
TLnas giving q report of an interview h1d
by its CORES roudcut with The Spanish
pcreral, SegGra. in which the latter SAID
in the last onsag -meat between the SPAN
ish forces and the Insurgents under Cen
oraI Gomez the horse ridden BY Gomez
was shot under him.
According TO official adviccs. numbe" oI
insurgents who have surrendered 70 the ab-
thcrities at Placetas assert positively mat
in the same engagement in which General
Gomtz'S horse was killed, the inSurSenl
leader himself was wounded
Official reports say that no engagements
of Importance have taken place recently.
Excitement Regarding Woodford.
LII Iucha, commenting uron the appoint
ment of General Stewart l.. WoOclord to
be United States ambassador to Madrid
says the report that the general carried
with him some important documents from
President Mckinley 10 Spain has caused
a certain amount of excitement as indlcal-
ing the possibility of direct or indirect
intervention in Cuba upon the part of the
United States The editorial attack of
The impartial of Madrid upon the son OF
General Fitzaugh Lee the United States
consul general here charging the young
man with being implicated in the prema-
ture publication OF his fathers report of
tho results of the Investigation into the
death Of Or. Ruiz the American citizen
who met his death by violence in lti is
refutcd by the Havana correspondents OF
the newspaper which published the report
lie has written a letter to Ia Lucha deny
ing most emphaticaliy that an advance
copy of the report was obtained from eth
or General Lee. his son on from any en-
ployee Of the United States consulate in
Havana.
Wants Spain To Be Energetic.
Madrid june 2G-Don Francisco Siyela,
the leader of the diasident conservatives
has published a manifesto demanding the
I'D option 10y the Spanish government of
an energetic attitude toward tho United
States IN regard to cuba. lie equally con-
dennis the scheme of reforms Tor Cuba
drawn w by Senior CauoVas del Castillo
Che premier and the autonomy scheme adj
Vocated by the liberals