Show CUBANS CAUSE REIGN Of TERROR t Troops Called Out to Suppress Sup-press Havana Riots + CROWDS OF NATIVES ATTACK SPANIARDS t Engineers Were Fired Upon and Returned the Fire Two People Were Fatally Wounded Bv the Rioters mimi 2vp1111 nth w InjuredSpanish Troops Finally Dispersed the CubansEvacuation of the Havana SuburbsAmerican and Cuba Flags PnisedH1vnna Sewer Contract Will Ba Anaufled t Havana Dec I8The Spanish evae uation commissioners informed th AmerIcan commissioners this evening that the Havana suburbs f Cerro ml Jesus del Monte had blen evacuat The Spanish troops left JewI del Mr te at 5 oclock this evening imI1t1L Iy after Which American and Culnl nags were raised crackers were lit c1 and the usual demonstrations malh ty the large crowds in honor of the evt At the hour of filing this dispatch S p m it Is reported that snme of th e troops of the Cuban goeral Mario Me noenl are entering Jesus del Mllt Probably the United Stals forces wi i be sent there tomorrow The subUIb ot Cerro was evafuat I yesterday American and uban flp were displayed from the houses on 11 zada del Cerro and crowds ruh 1 through the streets shnuting Yla Cuba Librc At 50 last evening a crowd of Cubans Cu-bans of the lower class p1ssed a barracks bar-racks of engineers on the Infanta av nue shouting Long live Cuba aol Death to Spain and firing shots intI the air In celebration of the evacuat > n of Cerro The engineers did not fire but tile guard was doubled The crowd then passed on from tln Calzada 11 Monte to the Calzada ill l I Cern stopping the streetcars and compelling passengers to shout Viva Cuba Libre Among the demonstrators ors were a number of butchers vh carried pistols and knIves Jose Gan cedo and his cousIn Teodoro HuerUs who were on the cars were wounded with knives Gancedo dIed today and Huertis wIll probably die Late the crowd met some engineers at the EsquIna de Tejas and fired lpon them seriously wounding one The fn glncers returned the fire wounding a streetcar conductor a civIlian Isidoro Blezols and JolIn Leonard a colord man The rioting continued many shots being fired in front of the Casa de So corro where the wounded were assisted as-sisted Spanish soldiers were ordered to th scene and arrived about 9 oclock As they were marchIng through Cerro thy were fired upon by men concealed behind be-hind pillars One Spanish private fEn wounded and the battalion fired into the all to scare the rioters On resum inmr their march they were aJaln fired upon mind another man was hit Time Spaniards then fired and dispersed the rioters Among the wounded was a colored woman and it is also reported tht there were several others The rioting caused great alarm in Cerro and along the Calzada del Monte where all th houses have kept closed deSors since last night I General Claus called on General Cas tcanos this afternoon by appointment I to bring to the latters notice the a tion of the Havana municipality In attempting r at-tempting to hastily negotiate during the last days of Spanish control a sewer contract involving the city to an indebtedness of millions of dollars The project underlying the contract was approved ap-proved by the munIcipalIty last Friday Fri-day without sufficient examination and the contract was to be executed at thE next meeting of the council tomorrow morning General CasteUanos expressed hIs surprise asserting that he had received no previous intimation of the contemplated contem-plated action and thanked Genera Claus for informing him regarding a proposal which was entirely without his sanction and opposed to his directions direc-tions and desires He promptly announced that his see rotary would inform the civil government govern-ment and the municipal authorities that no contracts of this nature must be entered upon and that whatever had been done in this line must be an nued It |