The Daily Ardmoreite

Train Blown Up By Rebels.

New York. March 17. - A Havana special to the World says:

Through Cubans here it is learned that a train carrying Spanish troops was blown up by dynamite while passing over a deep gorge south of Candaria, Pinar del Rio province, and that nearly 250 soldiers were killed or injured. The locomotive and six cars were demolished. The tragedy occurred about the 10th instant.

The Spanish general had learned of a projected insurgent attack, supposedly on San Cristobal, and he sent off 500 troops in armored cars to reinforce the garrison there. About ten miles from San Cristobal the road crosses a deep gorge on a very high bridge about 500 feet long.

The insurgents learning of the departure of the train lined the bridge at the bends and the centers with heavy charges of dynamite, connecting the explosive by wires with a battery in the woods some distance off. Three hundred insurgents lay in ambush near by. It is understood that the Minz brothers were in command. and that Capt. John' Lynn, the young American electrical engineer who has made himself famous in Cuba for his work on the dynamite gun, contrived the affair. The train approached the bridge about 3 o'clock in the morning. When fully on it, all three charges were exploded by the wires. The engine and cars went into the air like so many chips and fell into the deep gorge below, crushing dead and injured alike. There the wreckage caught fire. As soon as the occurred the insurgents dashed from their ambuscade with wild cries and began a massacre. But for the timely hoisting of a white flag by Col. Mores. who was in command of the Spanish forces, every man would have been macheted. As it was the Cubans secured 300 prisoners. including ten officers.