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The Evening Herald
Shenandoah, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania
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Spanish forces in Cuba report victories against insurgents led by Maximo Gomez and others in Matanzas and Cienfuegos provinces, including a major engagement with 700 rebels, plus skirmishes at various locations and an attack on a passenger train near Cardenas. Reported on March 9 from Havana.
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Their Losses So Trifling as to Discredit the Statements,
HAVANA, March 9.—An important engagement is officially reported to have taken place in the central portion of Matanzas province. Colonel Vienna reports that he met a force of insurgents numbering 700, and led by Maximo Gomez, Antonio Maceo, Lacret and others at the plantation of Diana and at Abreus, in the district of Corral Falso. They were dislodged from their positions by the troops, and made a precipitate flight towards San Miguel De Los Banos. The insurgent loss is reported to be seventy-one killed and forty-two wounded left on the field, as well as numerous others carried off. The insurgents also lost 200 horses. The loss of the troops was three killed and nineteen wounded.
General Pando also sends in a report that Maximo Gomez passed by Ladores in the Cienfuegos district. The columns of Lieutenant Colonel Loisun fought the insurgents at Serpientes, Sancti Spiritus. Volunteer troops at the plantation of Oviedo fought the insurgent leader Bandramos, two privates being wounded and two taken prisoners.
The insurgents attacked, plundered and destroyed a passenger train from Cardenas. The train was carrying ammunition to a fort under construction at Artemisa. The firing was done by a band supposed to be that of Perico Delgado. The train's escort was taken. The insurgents sustained a loss of men and horses.
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Matanzas Province, Cuba
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March 9
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insurgents: 71 killed, 42 wounded, 200 horses lost in main engagement; additional losses in other fights. troops: 3 killed, 19 wounded in main; 2 wounded, 2 captured in oviedo. train escort taken by insurgents, who lost men and horses.
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Colonel Vienna's troops dislodged 700 insurgents led by Maximo Gomez, Antonio Maceo, and Lacret from positions at Diana and Abreus plantations in Corral Falso district, forcing flight to San Miguel De Los Banos. General Pando reported Gomez passing Ladores in Cienfuegos. Lt. Col. Loisun's columns fought insurgents at Serpientes, Sancti Spiritus. Volunteers fought Bandramos at Oviedo plantation. Insurgents under Perico Delgado attacked and destroyed a Cardenas train carrying ammunition to Artemisa fort, taking the escort.