Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-09
REBELS DESTROY
MANY BRIDGES
Continued from pare one.

SHHthHM8H NEntEa nHNe 0me.
plicated conditions and is anxious to
divide the responsibility with congress
The principal features in the revolt
today were attempts by the Western
railway to get trains toward Pillar del
Rio and the advancement of an armored
train with machine guns and recruits
to the country now occupied by the
insurgents
Wire communication both by railroad
and government lines was cut repeat
edly further east tonight and neither
the government nor the railroad is able
to communicate beyond Passo Real,
two miles east of Pinar del Rio City.
1t is rumored the train which re-
turned to Passo Robles Friday night
started west from Paso Real.
Between La Herradura and Consola-
cion del Hur It encountered insurgents,
but the result of the engagement is
not known.
1t is believed. however, that the
troop train got through to the vicinity
of Puerta Golpe. where two more rail-
road bridges were blown up this morn
ing.
-Four hundred more reinforcements
left Havana to cooperate with the ma
chine gun corps IN an endeavor to
reach Colonel Avalos at Pinar del Rio,
and another machine gun battery start
ed for Santa Clara In an armed train,
which is taken to Indicate that the
government does not overseriously re-
gard the unofficial" armistice.
The government considers that the
use OF the word armlstice would mean
recognition of belligerency.
May Turn Against Guerra
The veterans who are searching for
peaceful settlement profess that the
Santa Clara and Havana insurrection-
lists are ready to quit and turn against
Guerra If he does not show a similar
tendency.
But Guerra's conduct and especially
the attitude of the Liberals In Ha
vana, who supposedly are members and
advisers of the revolutionary junta.
preclude tho probability that peace is
at hand.
A permanent veterans peace commit
tee was constituted today. 1t includes
General Menocal, Nodrase, Cebreco,
Reicio, Agramonte, Molnet and Pardo
and Colonel Lazo.
The cigar and cigarette manufac-
turers and their $4,000 men and women
employed in Havana are awakening to
an appreciation of the consequences of
their being no tobacco crop in Pinar
del Rio.
The number of persons more or less
directly employed in the Havana fac
tories, with their dependents, is esti-
mated to approach 100000. The fac |
tories use only Pinas del Rio and Ha-
vana tobacco.
The Havana factories must, unless
the insurrection ends soon, suspend |
work next summer for a year or more |
or until the crop planted a year hence |
is available. 1t is claimed that the |
regions never were before tied |
up by an insurrection.
The Western railway has received |
a telegram from Paso Real saying the |
band commanded by the Paiz brothers |
is still holding up the armored troop |
train between Herradura and Conso- |
lacion del Hur and that firing is con-
tinuing
The Associated Press correspondent
at Paso Real telegraphs that country |
men report that several skirmshes |
have occurred in that district.
They say that Colonel Avolos camped |
Friday night at Puerta Golpe and !
moved eastward today.
The statements Of the countrymen, |
however, have not been authenticated. |
The mayor of Guayabal. near GUIANA |
jay has Joined the insurgents. He |
was accompanied by seventeen rural |
guards, who deserted. 1t is learned to- |
night that Speaker Freyre Andrade
ard Carlos Zealdo, former secretary
Of state, strongly opposed the extra |
session of congress, put that President |
Palma and the cabinet insisted.