Birmingham state herald., 1897-04-24
THREE HOURS OF FIGHTING Indulged ,in by Insurgents and
 tSpaniards, THE FQ aWER WERE W0RSTEO Hair-Rai S Adventure of an American in the ln Sgent Camp-Some Arrests of
 sforeigners by spaniards.
THE FQ aNER WERE WORSTEO

Havana, April 3.-Lieutenant-C Colonel Alien, with the Maria Christiana bat talion, engaged the insurgents at Pur- gatorio, Havana province, his advance guard pursuing them to the Providence farm Here they were entrsnched and thres hours fighting follow q. Tie Span- iards captured the camp and important documents. The fleeing insurgents left sixteen killed on the field and many wounded. The regulars lost none, but had sixteen wounded.
 Ordsrs have been given for eXpu1s.on from the island of Guirge, a naturallzsd American. He was captured in a boat near Havana. Enrique Palma and AIi- gard, Italians, and French lady, Ma riana Flandana, have been lodged in jair in Santiago js' Cuba on a charge of as- sisting the insurgents.
 An Am. rican named Kely,who left Ha- vana short time ago for the insurgents, and was strung up on the charge of being a spy, was interviewed on his arrival here today. He admits the adventure, but is reticent ac to details. He denies, however. that he had any understanding, or compact, with the Cuban junta in New York.
 He says he went out from Havana alone and joined the insurgents as an electrician A few days aft=r he was sent wl.h a sergeant and eleven men on an ali ged mission to meet Sylvester Sco- vell, who, 'lhe ircurgenlts said, would soon land. They halted by the side of an cld we'll, stripped Kelly naked, shot him, and, believing him dead, tied rope around his neck and threw him inl.o the well. The walrr was up to his armpits. The insurgents then dropped stones on him, but fortuCately these missiles did not hit him. They then went away. He escaped from the we'll about midnight, and arrived at the Spanish outposts, whsre he presented himself entirely naked with a view of surrenderlng under the amnes.y decree. When the com- mandant called on the guard to receive him he was frightened. He ran and was firsd at. The Spanish started in pursuit and he was finally caught and taken into, custody. They asked him why he ran off, and after hearing his story treated him, Kelly says, with all consideration, gave him food ard clothing, furnished him With a bed and kept him until an order for his release. arrived.
 Mr. Kelly's head was grazed in several places by bullets, his face and eyes are burned and punctured with powder and his halr, 1Ofmeriy an dupuiH Is Ho" ar most white. He says the insurgents robbed him of a money belt containing s600, but this latter statement is dis credited here because when he originally left Havana, en route for the insurgent camp he neglected to settle his hotel bill. He intends to return to the United States next week. He says the Spanish officers treated him much better than he could have expected under all the circumstances
 Several of the newspaper correspond ents who will leave Cuba tomorrow, gave a dinner this 1yening to Consul General Lee at the Hotel Inglaterre. Among the American journalists present were MT Springer, Dr. Burgess and MT. Childes.