Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-03-25
INSURGENTS, BURN THE VILLAGE OF
BLANQUIZAL.
INsURGENT SPY coNFEssEs.
BETRAYS CUBAN PLANS AND CAUSES
INSURGENT DEFEAT.
Serious Famine in Mutanzas and
Smallpox In Bahia Hondo-GOmex
Eyades Several Spanish Col
umnx-Gen. Sinares De-
feated by Cubana.

Havana. via Key West, Fla. March a.
According to official advices received here,
the insurgents, on Thursday night, at
tackled and burned the greater part of the
village of Blanquizal near Manzanillo. The
insurgent leader, Acosta. at the same time,
attacked the fortiiications in the vicinity
of Hoyo Colorado, in the province of Ha-
vana. 1t is claimed the Spanish were sue
cessful and the insurgents were repulsed
in number of encounters.
Advices have been received here to the
effect that forty insurgents recently sue
ceeded in derailing train en- route from
Isabella to Sagua. The engineer and seven
of the trainmen were captured. After trav-
cling with their prisoners for some dis
tance, the insurgents removed all the cloth
ing from the train employees and then set
them free.
An insurgent spy recently captured near
the town of Salud made Il confession. upon
condition of pardon being granted to him.
He said the insurgent forces would attack
the town the next day. The local garrison
was at once reinforced. and when the Gu
bans made an assault upon the town they
were easily repulsed. The spy also be-
trayed the committee in the town. and as a
result five persons were arrested upon
charges of plotting against the crown Of
Spain.
Two thousand refugees from the famine
Matanzas recently called at the reld-
quarters of the government in the town OF
Matanzas and demanded permission 20 go
out into the country for the purpose of OBJ
tanning food.
1t is reported the insurgents recently
captured Jiguani on the road from Bayamo
to Santiago de Cuba, also Santa Rita, To-
Gated en- the road to HolSuin.
Smallpox is ravaging Bahia Hondo. Hun
dreds of persons are dying. The situation
can only. be compared to that reported
from India.
1t is persistently rumored here that San
Juan de la SplayaS and Sagua la Cnica
tilibustering expeditions Were escorted to
the interior of Cuba by the insurgent lead
er, LuneZ.
Advices have been received stating the in
surgents recently burned the town of Sal
amanca, in the province of Santa Clara.
The church edifice was destroyed by fire
and the contents tossed into the street and
burned. According to other advices the in.
SurgeEtS succeeded in setting fire to that
portion of Guano village in the PROVINCE of
Pinar del Rio rebuilt since the former de-
struction of the town during a raid of the
Cubans.
All of the tobacco fields in the San Juan
Martinez district. in the province of Pinar
del Rio have been destroyed during recent
According to advices received here the
insurgents have fired on the towns of Ar
roya Polo and Calabazar, in the province of
Havana.
Great discomfort exists among the guer-
rilla forces, owing to the fact that their
pay has been reduced one-third by the au-
thorities.
General Gomez who was encircled by
several Spanish columns at Demagal, Santa
Clara. succeeded in evading them. and. 1t is
said. will invade Matanzas during the latter
part of this month.
1t is reported that the insurgents. taking
advantage of the darkness, entered the out
skirts of Holguin and sacked several stores.
They burned fifteen houses.
A great many families have fled to La
Salud, where several hundred houses have
been put up during the last fortnight to
shelter them from the weather.
General Sinares. who, with 1.6O0 men. left
for San Luis Palma Algranizar, was re-
peatedly attacked by large bands of insur-
gents. He finally arrived at Losas ranch,
where Cibicco was entrenched in a strong
position near hill. In the engagement
which followed he was defeated.
I.uring the next day, while he was recon-
noitering in the vicinity of Piedras. he de-
feated the insurgents. whose losses are said
to have been twenty-six killed. The Span
ish troops had five killed and twenty
wounded.