The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-06-17
DYNAMlTED BY oUBANs.

DYNAMlTED BY OUBANS.
Eleven spaniards on . Passenger Train
Were Killed.
Havana, June 1.-THE passenger
train which leaves Havana for Matan-
zas daily at A. NJ, was dynamited
this morning about IL miles from this
city, by party of insurgents. 40.
cording to the official accounts, the OBJ
ject was plumber, as IS, 900 was in tho
express car.
The officials had ordered the passen-
ger train to 60 ahead and pilot engine
to follow. At bend in the line, q
terrible explosion completely wrecked
the engine, which fell into a pit 20 feet
below, dragging three cars after it. At
the same moment another explosion
wrecked the pilot engine, which came
to the rescue, and it fell into the pit
also. Both engineers, one fireman, one
conductor and seven soldiers were
killed and three passengers were severe
ly injured, while 80 suffered more or
less serious bruises. The train was
dynamited with electric machines and
bombs placed On culvert at the curve.
The body OF an insurgent was found
lying near the wire communicating
with the bombs. The military escort
of the train quickly recovered, and
opened fire upon the insurgents. who
had advanced toward the cars, and
drove them off.
A Cuban Expedition.
New York, June ia dispatch to
the Press from Boston says: Colonel
Shepard Young, a well-known local
military man, in an interview divulged
the details of secret Cuban expedi-
ton, which left Boston On May 80, and
picked up several recruits in New
York. Today he received cipher tel
egram from Jacksonville conveying the
news that they had just sailed from
that city on fast, light-draught
steamer, 115 strong, armed with rifles
Of the latest pattern. All have seen
service in the militia.
A movement has been started to Or
ganize cOmmissary commission to
supply stores. Colonel Young says:
81 conducted the drills in a hall in
Boston, put them through infantry
tactics, cavalry tactics and artillery
tactics. Every man could load and
fire cannon, no matter what the size,
and swing saber or use a bayOnet.
Not soldier left Boston until he was
drilled sufficiently to take charge of
regiment. The tactics were taught in
this city mostly at night.
''We got word from New York that
a spy had been sent to Boston, but we
did not see him. The troops practiced
with the machete that is used mostly
for front cut The machete is heavier
than saber, and the welding of one is
hard work, but the men soon learned to
use it with skill"
The Queen Had Her Own Mind.
New York, June IL A dispatch to
the World from Madrid says: Senior
Sagasta never advised the queen regent
to keep Premier Canovas and the con-
servatives in Office. On the contrary,
he had laid stress upon the expediency
of the advent of the liberals into office,
with a view to the recall of Weyler
and reversal of the whole policy fol-
lowed by the captain-general in Cuba,
in order to secure the sincere execution
of the reforms and improve the under
standing with the United States.
The liberals persist in their determi-
nation to hold aloof from parliament
hall relations with the government as
long as Canovas keeps the Duke OF
Tetuan in the cabinet.
Marshal Campos positively advised
the queen regent to select any cabinet
that would be willing to undertake
more liberal policy in Cuba and recall
Weyier. Marshall Lopez, Dominguez
and Blanco expressed the same opinion.
Hence profound surprise was caused by
the solution of the crisis.
Havana, June 11.-Captain-Gener
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