The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-09-14
GARCIA AGAIN VICTORIOUS
THE CUBAN GENERAL FIGHTING HIS
WAY TOWARD THE TROCHA.

Great Alarm In Havana Lest re should Join
Gomez and HIrcnk the Trocha Terrible
situation In Guines. where Famine and
Festilsnco Rage Cruelty In MntnnSas.
HAVANA, via Kew West, Sept. 3.-The vii
lagos OF Los Melones. Meiia. and San Pedro,
west of Las Tunas and close to the Jucaro- Moron
trocha, have been taken, with little resistance
from their small forts. by the insurgent van
guard Of Gen. Calixto Garcia, who Is reported
as moving rapidly toward the trocha. Intense
alarm is felt in official and military circles In
Havana about the success OF Garcia's artillery
and his effective use Of dynamite guns. A
breaking of the trocha by the Cuban leader
acting in combination with Gen. Gomez, which
was reported blythe Spanish commander of Las
Tunas to be Garcia's intention, is considered
here to be the last blow that Gen. Weyler could
stand. After that the recall of the Captain.
General would be a necessity TO the Spanish
Government.
Another alarming report is in circulation
to-day that strong Cuban forces are moving
eastward also, on the important town OF Hol.
gum, which is no better fortified than Las Tunas
was. The excitement is as great in the capital
as when Gomez and Maceo invaded tho prov
inco Of Havana in December OF 1895, and Gen.
Martinez Campos was recalled.
Tho criticism of Wcyler increases hour by
hour, as news comes OF the alarming situation
in the east. The Gdcetd Odciat prints n decree,
published on Friday at Madrid. forbiddiDg tho
press, under severe penalties, to reproduce or ,om.
ment on, or even mention any criticism against
the Spanish army in Cuba. Tho press censor
has had heretofore control Of tho news Sec
lions of the local papers, but with regard to
editorials there was some leniency. in the be-
lief that no editor would risk the wrath Of
Gen. Weylor. Now the decree explicitly con-
iapNna n apnn az ohn,,f thu artnv n sn ,iIi-
tary crime" which means at least a deporta-
ton to Chafarinas.
The war is as hot as ever in oil the provinces
at tho same time. In Santa Clara province,
near la Vega Santa, the Cubans captured on
Friday q valuable Spanish convoy. An along
pass the insurgents had prepared ambuscades.
At tho given moment a volley was fired into the
mach maabet Of the @s, sp sinsa, 9 TSd t sp.n SrSeF column Sf nal
surrounded, engaged bravely in 6. hand.to-
hand fight. but after an hour they abandoned
the Spanish losses were heavy, and among
them many officers, though the exact number is
At V~iajacas, in the same province. the Span
ish forces OF Tibisial routed an insurSent band.
ws ast rio The ft Spanish p Siqud the 9H cub %lls
that far, but there the Insurgents received
heavy reinforcements. and then the Spaniards
retreated without engaging in new battle.
AtsCasa Blanca, Santa Clara, also, the insur-
gents under Gen. Robau badly defeated the
Spanish battalion of Catalina. The engage
ment lasted several hours, and the Catalina
forces lost over $50 men. Robau made much use
him from the last expedition landed.
The well,known Spanish Captain Fernandez
Cordoba, who was wounded by the insurgents
Of Sagua, Santa Clara.
At ,Sancti %Spiritus,, Santa Clara, 2e4 Span
OF September.
The reports from Pinar del Rio are no less
Spanish Battalion el Infante attacked a Cuban
hospital strongly defended by forces under
tinued t the Whole 1hraih; of last uf frid nSs " Finai hHu a ' On.
%tachment of Cubans succeeded in Turing the
Sspaniards into an ambush near the Rubi hills.
There tho Battalion ell Infante would have
11orcomSnt q The spanish battalion Of Cuba
good order. The loss on each side was about
100 killed.
From Matanzas awful news comes of the stu.
ation of the paciacos concentrated there.
Three hundred and fifty men, $40 women, and
IL children who no were absolutely destitute
paving the streets and other public works on the
promise Of 81 a day each. according to Gen.
having got no food from the Government, they
dS%an sbst 1 he 6, pay on,y T9 ne G issS sST, an ans 90
replied that tnat was less than one day. pay:
locked up in the fortress OF San IS se 'tafa,ea ana
Gen. Weyler has changed his tactics with re-
The following editorial from Ell Pals. the
official organ of the Autonomist party, and a
stanch supporter of Weyler's policy, is a
graphic description Of the actual situation OF
Cuba:
THE official figures OF the mortality in Guines
Havana are really, appalling. In six months
habitants.. In a year. because there 10 no rea-
son to believe that the sanitary conditions will
full rate of SO per cent. OF the population. Ma
laria, .diphtheria, and all kinds OF epidemics
rage there. Neither the awful plague at Milan
nor the bloody war in Paraguay, which re.
duced 10 one'third the population of that .re-
public, was more. horrible than the sufferings of
the people OF Guines. And besides that,
famine Is also devastating the place, and the
largest paw an anlG-bolied man can get is the
In United States money! for q whole days
work.