The record-union., 1897-01-28

KEY WEST (F1a.), Jan. 21.-Passen-
gers by the Olivette tonight report that
Gonzole Moreno, one of the most prom
inent citizens of Puerto Principe, for
ten years Mayor of the city, and a rebel
Colonel in the last war, has Joined the
insurgents, as has also Venancie So
renz, a Spaniard, commanding a de-
tachment of troops in Santiago de
Cuba.
An expedition is said to have landed
at La Caleta, near Cape Maysi.
1t is also reported that Ruiz Rivera
gave a severe thrashing to General
Melguize, near Pinales, and inflicted
heavy losses, the Spaniards losing thirty
dead and eighty wounded.
1t is reported that when Weyler was
marching down Candida Hill, near
Guinez, six shots were fired on him by
some party hidden in the bushes near
by, wounding a Lieutenant at his side
and private.
Advices were received from Sagua
LaGrande, giving shocking details Of
the doings of the notorious Captain
Carreras, of the local guerrillas of that
place. On the 10th inst, passing by the
town of Malpaez, six miles southeast Of
Sagua, he ordered it Burned, and at the
same time he arrested and carried off a
number of peaceful citizens and had
them hacked to pieces with machetes.
The guerrilla chief brought into Sagua
the dead bodies of four pacificos, one of
them a poor cripple, 2S years old, with
a wife and three children. This and
other distressing facts are given by a
r. n. - Io-
The same authority says he saw over
twenty families trudging into Sagua
LaGrande, driven from Ma1paez. Sew
eral women and children were virtually
nude. He also says that in The town Of
Quenmado de GuineZ fifteen miles west
of Sagua, there are 300 families camped
inside of the Qualifications, with moth
ing to eat and no shelter. He also
learned from a Spanish officed that three
days ago Gomez's infantry encamped
on the Manajanabe plantation, which
is between Santa Clara and Camagu-
mia. He also informed the same party
that there was no doubt Gomez had re-
ceived big expedition at some point
along the Sagua coast.
FOURTEEN GIRLS MURDERED.
NEW YORK, Jan. PA Key West
CF'la.) special says: The bodies of four
teen girls had been found in a small
cave within half a mile of the Spanish
encampment Guanabucoa, on a road
visitors are not allowed to travel. They
were discovered by a boy who saw
some dogs gnaWing bones. Driving the
dogs off, he saw that they were human
bones, and noticing from which direc-
tion they had been dragged, he came to
this opening and ventured in, where he
saw the decomposing bodies. The bodies
could not be identified further than that
they were female bodies and young The
girls had been cruelty murdered, and
some had been hacked in pieces.
The publicity given to the many mur-
ders committed at Guanabucoa has
alarmed even the Spanish residents,
who fear the effect on the American
people. After the discovery of the girls
bodies a large deputation of Spanish
merchants and business men called
upon the Marquis de Ahumada, the act
ing Captain-General, and made strong
representations to him upon the subject.
He promised, it is said, though reluct-
antly, to speak to General Weyler in re-
gard to it.
The patrol killed two boatmen Sun
day night without warning as they ap-
preached a quay, and tumbled the
bodies into the water. One of the few
remaining converts was entered by SOL
diers Saturday and but for interposi-
ton the nuns would have been badly
treated