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Trains Blown Up

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Parent Issue
Day
5
Month
February
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
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Cineinnati, Feb. 2.- The CommercialTribune' s special f rom Key West says that one of General Weyler's supply trains was dynamited on the railroad near Cieze, north of Cienfugos. Two bombs were exploded under the engine and four under the train, being flred by electricity as the train was crossing a trestle. The engine was blown apart and all the cars were splintered. They rolled over the trestle into the ditch, the fall completing what the dynamite had left undone. Out of the guard of 100 soldiers on it, forty-flve were instantly killed or terribly injured. The others surrendered, as a forcé of 200 Cubans appeared. I.iMitcil the Train. The train was looted, the dnsurgents securing a small field piece that General Weyler had just ordered from Havana. After securing all the provisions and ammunition. the cars were burned. The prisoners were released and the Cuban captain sent Weyler a box of sweetbread with a polite note. The captain of the Cuban band was an American named Burke from Indiana. The famished condition of the people in Pinar del Rio section, and espeeially at Artemisa, San Christobal and Pinar del Rio city, is well known. Hundreds of country people have flocked to these eities, in obedience to the cruel orders of Colonel Hernández, Colonel Can Martin and Colonel Inclan. ANOTHER SERIOUS WKECK. Military Train Blown Up with Dynamite by the Insurgente. Havana, Feb. 2.- A military train with engine No. 17, carrying Captain Dupla and a forcé of engineers, left Artemisa, and while passing a culvert at a place called Oceguera, between Candelaria and Mangas stations, a dynamite bomb eploded, destroying the engine and the armored tender, as well as the culvert, also wrecking several of the cars. Engineer Genaro Rodriquez, an American, Ciraco Carreras, the fireman, and three soldiers were killed. Military Doctor Gonzales Aedo, the conductor, the brakemen and twelve private soldiers were wounded. Captain Dupla and the sergeant escaped injury. The bodies oí the engineer and the flreman were sent to Havana for burial. A repair train was sent out from Candelaria for the purpose of re.pairing the injuries to the lines. All the wounded were sent to Candelaria. Rafael Rodriquez, BO 3'ears of age, of the town of Genaero, was at the station awaiting the arrival of the body of Genaro Rodriquez. The family of Ciraco Carreras, the flreman, was also in attendance. Immense crowds gathered and escorted the bodies to the final resting place. Cross the Trocha. Havana, Feb. 2. - Other reports from the province of Pinar del Rio announce that Mayia Rodríguez and 1,500 men succeeded in crossing the trocha and joining the insurgents in the province of Pinar del Rio. General Luis Rivera, t is asserted, also succeeded in passing the trocha, entering Havana province, and it is now claimed that he is in charge of the insurgents' force in thla province. Since the death of Aguirre he insurgents in Havana province have Deen without a leader, though they ïave been provisionally commanded by Safael Decardenas. It is now expected that an aggressive campaign will be carried on in the province of Havana by General Luis Rivera. Spanlsh Vessds Sirnk. New York, Feb. 2.- A dispatch to The World from Key West says another marine disaster to the Spaniards s reported. Fifteen boats are said ín have been sunk, 100 men are reported to have been killed or to be missing, and the number of wounded is put at eventy-five. The rebels sank the boats near Paez, in Santa Clara province, on he river Caueno. General Weyler haa made no official report of this disaster. Case of the Three Friends. Washington, Feb. 2.- The supreme ourt has granted a writ of certiorari sked by Attorney General Harmon in i he case of the steamer Three Friends nd set the hearing for the third j ay in February, the lüth.

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