Show KILLED INSURGENTS Eighteen Scouts Sis Guerillas an Officer and Others Havana June 26 via Key estA stagecoach bound from Havana for San Jose de Las Lajas a nearby settlement I was stopped on the read by a large band of Insurgents who killed with their machetes the 18 scouts who were escorting the coach six guerillas one Spanish ofllcer a doctor a carpenter ana three other passengers who attempted at-tempted to save their lives by flight The only occupants of the coach who were not killed by the insurgents were a woman and n child The insurgents captured a considerable amount of private pri-vate booty 1700 worth of medicine and 3GOO in cash They also secured a convoy con-voy consisting of two carts laden with provisions and supplies General Weyler has liberated 1 women and 15 children who were taken prisoners in an insurgent camp The insurgent brigadier general Mariano Torres at the head of 100 men at midnight last night looted the town of Santa Rosalia three miles across the bay from Gobara Reinforcements Reinforce-ments wore asked from the latter place and the military commander with 30 men left in a boat for the scene hut arrived too late to be of any assistance The town was already on fire Over 40 houses were burning and tho scene was a terrible one the insurgents in-surgents deliberately firing on the residents res-idents who fEd through th streets several of whom were killed The town is ruined and the residents are homeless Twelve volunteers were killed and 25 wounded a were also a woman and a child The insurgents finaly retired and joined forces with Calixto Garcia and with a force of COO men attacked the nearby town qf Guabajaney which they i abandoned upon the arrival of a party of reinforcements numbering 40 which was sent from Gibara The insurgents in-surgents set fire to and destroyed about CO houses leaving only 35 remaining Say Gomez is Killed Havana June 26Rumors have been afloat here since yesterday morning emanating from official circles that General Gen-eral Maximo Gomez the insurcrent com manderinchief has been killed In a fight near the military line In the province of Puerto Principe The reports have not been confirmed Jater today Ins report of the killing of Gomez was modified to a statement that he was seripuslv wounded La Lucha has a dispatch from Tunas statIng stat-Ing that In the last engagement between be-tween the Spanish forces and the insurgents in-surgents under General Gomez the horse ridden by Gomez was shot from under him Official reports say that no engagement engage-ment of Importance has taken place recentU |