The San Francisco call., 1898-01-18
INSURGENTS
 HAVE WON
 4 VICTORY The News Held Back by the Spanish
 Authorities. Explosion of a Bomb Is a Cause of Great Excite
 ment in Havana. The Particulars of This Matter Also Are Suppressed by
 the Censor. PANDO AT SANTA CRUZ. Ordered Back to His Post Under More Than a Suspicion of Cow srdice.
The Particulars of This Matter Also Are Suppressed by
 the Censor.
PANDO AT SANTA CRUZ.
Ordered Back to Ills Post Under More Than a Suspicion of Cow
 ardice.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

NEW YORK, Jan. 17.-A special ca ble to the Sun from Havana says: A d.. namite bomb was exploded to-day near Dejame, Havana, at the moment when a Spanish military train was passing with soldiers. The explosion shattered the cars, disabled the lCcomo- tive, destroyed the rails and killed and wounded many Spanish soldiers. The press censor has refused to allow any reference by direct cable to the num- Der of killed and wounded.
 At this time of general excitement in Havana the startling news of the ter rible defeat by the insurgents of Gen eral Molina Is causing a great sensa- ton. Molina, with his 1900 men, met the insurgents at Camarioca and Punta Maya, MatanZaS Province. The Gu bans were led by Jose Clemente Go meg, Rojas and Tabares, and num- bered 800 men.
 The engagement lasted four hours, and was a sharp one. The Spaniards made three attempts to dislodge the patriots from their strong positions, but were repulsed every time with heavy losses. In the third bayCnet charge of the Spaniards the Spanish captain, Emilio Cervera was killed, and Lieu tenant Manuel Gonzales was severely wounded.
 Leaving fifty dead on the field, Mo lima retired, reporting to General Blan- co that the positions of the insurgents were bravely defended by them in or der to gain time to remove their wound ed, but they were finally dislodged
 after two hours fighting, and left six dead on the field
 sides Captain Cervera and Lieutenant Gonzales, were only three privates kill ed and twenty-eight wounded. He re- ports also several soldiers bruised.
 General Pando has arrived at Santa Cruz del Sur, in Puerto Principe Prov ince, from ManZanillo, Santiago de Gu ba. He made a trip by steamer in or der to ask for endorsements from the Spaniards in Puerto Principe. His sit uation at Manzanillo is desperate. His troops are threatening to revolt on ac- count of the ill-treatment they receive,
 as they are starving and receive no | payments. Furthermore, the insur- gents under Garcia and Rabi have ex- tended their control to the very doors of ManZanillo. As soon as General Pando arrived in Santa Cruz, General Blanco cabled stringent orders to him | to return immediately to Manzanillo and remain there attending to his duty. l It is just reported from the Palace that l Pando will return to ManZanillo to- l day. Among military men here the
 whole affair is making much comment 1 In spite Of the decree of General Blanco forbidding troops to destroy | property in the country and not to harm women and children, an official
 report is published to-day of a savage attack by the battalion of Canarias on families of insurgent soldiers at the | farm Herrera, in Pinar del Rio Prov ince. The report says that seventeen
 modern rifles and twenty-six old rifles
 were captured, and that everything
 was destroyed by the troops, including some acres of vegetables and stores of 1 food and tobacco kept by the family Five women, ten children and four
 men, the report says, were made pris- oners. The affair is a very good illus tration of General Weyler's methods. Another official report to-day says that twenty Cuban families, numbering
 ninety-two persons, mostly women and
 children, have been made prisoners
 near Sancti Spiritus and brought to town. This is another instance of con-
 centration. Five thousand more regu- | lar troops were brought into Havana ! yesterday by Generals Salecedo, Ma l rote and Bernal, who were summoned ! by General Blanco to reinforce Gen | eral AroIas against rioters.
 | WASHINGTON, Jan. 1S.-Consul l General Lee cabled to-day from l Havana, asking that more re- 1 lief supplies be forwarded by 1 the Central Cuban Relief Committee. l This request is considered to be ample
 evidence that no obstruction is being
 interposed by the Spanish Government
 to relief supplies being forwarded from
 the United States.