The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-07-11
EVENTS AS SEEN
IN HAVANA

OF the Alfonso XII Confirm ed La
Lucha IIus n WAY to Defeat Us.
Other Details from a spanish Point
of View.
Havana. July 90 p. m)-On July
the produce, money and stock en-
changes suspended operations obscrv-
ing the day as one of mourning for the
loss of Admiral Cervera's fleet.
Captain General Blanco has rewarded
the corporal and privates who landed
on June 10 at Cayo Tiedra. province of
Matanzas, in sight of the American
warships and captured a quantity Of
American effects. Colonel EscariOs,
who recently arrived at Santiago with
relnforcements after Il heroic march
from Manzanillo. during which he had
several engagements, has been pro-
NOTED to the rank of brigadier gen.
eral.
The civil governor of Havana has de-
Cidcd that the festival which was fixed
for July 10, Tor the purpose of collect
ing money to establish free kitchens 70"
the poor of the city, shall rot be held
because of the destruction of the Span
ish feet off Santiago.
At Union he Reyes, province of Ma
tanZas, memorial services have been
held for the officers and men who lost
their lives when the Spanish feet was
destroyed. All the civil and military
authorities We're present at the SER
vices. as was also an immense course
of people representing all classes of
society.
THE ALFONSO XII
The French cruiser D'Fstaing ar
rived this afternoon from Fort de
France Island of Martinique. Some of
the members of the Spanish mail
steamer Alfonso MI. which run ashore
and burned at the entrance of Mdriel
harbOr in preference to letting the
American ships capture her, have
reached here.
4 considerable number of gifts to
the Red Cross society to be used in
the establishment Of free kitchens and
in helping the poor have been received.
Many aristoCratic ladies are assisting
in the relief work. La J.ucha in its
editorial column today says:
The actual problem confronting Spain
is the easiest the nation has had in all
her history, although at first sight it APP
pears most difficult and complex. 1t is
not necessary to employ in It's solution
either slyness or the expenditure of any
! millions for great defense, rs has been
required in other wars. 1t il only a qucS-
ton of resistance which can be sus-
tanned if the Speniards have only provls-
ions and ammunition. To beat the Yam
KEGS in cuba needs only three or four
hundred men for a period OF two or three
years. The cost which that signifies to
our neighboIs is greater than one hundred
islands of Cuba is worth to them.
While a party of Alquzar guerrllas
| We're reconnoitering along the railroad
and examining drain between AL
| uuizar and Canas, a dynamite bomb
exploded, killing fifteen members Of
| the party.
All the officers of the Santiago gar
rison, in spite of the bloody engage
| ments already fought and the prospect
! of tOday's encounter, are animated
with the determination to fight to the
end and declare their willingness to
seal with their blood another of the
| glorious pages in their COuntry's his
| tory. They have "A quantity of provis-
! ions and ammunition
THE INSURGENTS.
Private advices received here affirm
| that the insurgent forces which took
| part with the American troops in the
| attack upon and the taking of San
! Juan Hill and Caney, sustained heavy
! losses, their killing numbering 40. 1t
| is asserted that they are disgusted be-
| cause the Americans used them as
! guides and obliged them to march in
| the first line of the vanguard.
| An attack was made upon Rio Soco
| town, Matanzas province, by a party
| o. insurgents. but their assault was
| repelled and two of them We're killed
| and several wounded An engagement
! has taken place in Esmcralda, PROV
| ince Of MatanZas, between a detach-
| mcnt of Spanlards and a party of in
| surgents under the leader Pelon. Sew
eral Of the insurgents were killed or
| wounded and the Spaniards captured
| number of firearms. The Spanish
loss was one officer and nine privates
| wounded
The Spanish mail steamer Alfonso
| MI was pursued off Cienfuegos by
| three American cruisers. The Alfonso
| MI fled toward the Isle of Pines.
where she lost sight of her pursuers.
| When eight miles from Havana she
was intercepted by three American
warshlps and was run ashore at the
entrance to Mariel, with the object of
saving her cargo. After grounding the
steamer was fired upon by the Amer
lean ships and a number of projectiles
from their guns fell on board of her.
While the work of removing her cargo
was going on the Alfonso XII was ap-
preached by an American boat. evil
IDENTIFY with the intention of blowing
her up by means of torpedoes. The
boat, however, was driven away by a
revolver shot from aboard the steam
er aud the fire from the shore by
Spanish soldiers. The ship was sub
sequently destroyed by fire caused by
explosive bombs from the American
J vessels.