i i i DSTRESS IN CiA Insurgents as Well as Spaniards Are Starring HORSE MEAT COMES RIGH SELLING AT 75 CENTS PE POUND AT CABDENAS American Shells Did Great Damage t Cardenas During the Recent Engagement Spanish Less of Life Was Heavy Military Barracks Totally Destroyed Key West Fla May 22enor Er nesto Castro a wellknown lawyer and president of the revolutionary junta of Cardenas arrived here today on the gunboa Annapolis During the recent re-cent engagement at Cardenas Senor Castro was in the bay in a small boat trying to reach the American vessels and get transportation to the United States on an important mission He was compelled to return to the shore where he saw and heard of the results of the bombardment The Spanish gunboats that lured the United States torpedo boat Winslow into the death trap were the Antonio Lopez Lealtad and Ligerau During the fight the former two retired behind the wharves and the Ligerau behind the key I was the Antonio Lopez that opened fire on the Winslow and decoyed her into the trap The Spanish Span-ish troops formed on the public square not daring to go to the wharves All the Spanish flags were lowered as they furnished targets and the families all fled to Jovellanos Senor Castro says an American shell exploded in the very entrance to the Spanish Casino shattering shat-tering the building and setting I on fire The Casino which had been used a a military headquarters and infantry infan-try barracks and which was the largest larg-est structure In the town was utterly destroyed Other buildings were wrecked Some of the shots went so I far a the Triente plantation two miles into the interior The Spanish loss of life Senor Castro believes to have been r heavy I was so reported After the bombardment bombard-ment ceased the military commander pressed all ablebodied men into the work of carrying sand to build new batteries and the next day 1200 men were brought from Matanzas and Havana Ha-vana to continue the work Senpr Castro after passing four days on the Pledras Key signaled the United States gunboat Wilmington and was taken off He says famine prevails everywhere in Cuba In Cardenas rice is 25 cents a pound condensed milk sells at 150 per can and horse flesh brings 75 cents a pound There is no beef or bread The Insurgents are In dire distress Formerly provisions were smuggled from the cities but that relief Is now impossible since the cities themselves are starving The insurgents are trying try-ing to subsist on peppery wood and palm buds Senor Castro tasted meat I today for the first time in five weeks