The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-30
MISERY AND BLooDsHED.
Concentrates Dying and the Rival
Armies Fighting.


Havana, Dec 29.-The correspondent of
the Madrid Impartial, who has ridden over
a greater part of the island reports to his
paper that he saw at San Jos Lajas, this
province 1850 concentrates thrown into
the streets or dying in wretched huts,
mere living skeletons. He states that TO-
Coo have died within a year Most of the
concentrates, he says do not care to work
when they leave their homes. They car
ried with them all their belongings, and
have gradually sold these. Their physical
strength is wasted, and they need a help
ing hand to lift them even from the gut
ter.
Several correspondents of FL Diario de
la Marina describe the horrible misery,
due to fevers and sickness, of different
towns of the province of Santa Clara.
There are many abandoned without shell
ter or medical assistance.
The winter season approaches. The wo-
men are half nude. with their naked in
fants wasted with cold and hunger.
The insurgents have burned $1,000 tons
of sugar cane on the plantation Santa Rita
and Andres and large FIELDS at Bermejo.
Matanzas province. in all, it is estimated,
80 600 tons.
Gen. Bernal, in the province of Pinar
de- Rio, ordered several companies to re-
connoiter and engage groups of insurgents,
but the troops met bands of some $50 and
others of fifty and met them with the
usual loss. The bands are augmented by
pacificos and concentrates who have late
ly Joined the insurgents.
Gen. Bernal, in the lower part of Pinar
del Rio has ordered several men to
be shot who had been captured after
joining the insurgents.
A party of 200 infantry and twenty cav
airy. under Col. Raoul arrange, has gone
eastwood on a commission.
The Spanish forces have had several
skirmishes at the Dehcias farm with the
insurgents under Gen. Maxine Gomez.
Gen. Alexandra Gomez has left the neigh
borhood of Havana and gone to Matanzas,
where he is awaiting the arrival from
Santa Clara of 1,50O cavalry under Briga-
diers Suarez and Cardenas
On Sunday last in this province Leader
Luis Delgado was assassinated by two of
his neighbors who had induced him to con-
fer with them. 1t is supposed they were
government agents.
At La Gaya farm in the southern part
of the province of Puerto Principe the in
surgents established over a month ago a
well fortified camp, built two. houses for
officers, began to collect horses and re-
constructed forty-five miles of telephone
lines to La Luca farm, the camp of Lead
er Monocal.
Gen. Pando, failing to continue his march
| into the inSurgent stronghold in Eastern
Cuba on account of insurmountable obsta-
cles, has been compelled to construct a
military line and posts along the river
Cauto to Bayamo. He reports that an ex-
tensive zone sheltering the insurgents can
not be invaded. as he has no ports to sup
ply his troops with food, thus being COM
PEELED to construct military posts. There
is also serious economical problem of
getting food and supplies.
Obeying the orders of Gen. Blanco, Lo-
renZo Cordero left Pinar del Rio for the
camp of Gen. Rodriguez and Col. Pereco
DiaZ. They refused to allow him to speak
of politics under the penalty of being kill
ed He tried to remain with the insur-
gents, bur was compelled to return to the
city.
A number of track hands have been ar
rested for placing a dynamite bomb on a
railway track. No one provides for them,
and all are dying of starvation.
The insurgents have burned 1000 tons
of sugar cane on the Naroso estate.
At Manolito. Pinar del Rio, an explos-
| ion killed several soldiers.
The Spanish regulars have destroyed the
insurgent camp of thirty-seven huts and
burned two negro children near Pinar del
Rio.