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Show SPANIARDS DESTROY VILLAGES. Three Days' Battle, In Which Moors Have Lost Heavily. Lisbon. Specinl dispatches received hore from Molilla say the fighting is genoral on tho Moroccan coast. Tho now Spanish artillery has wrought terrible havoc among tho Moors, who havo lost 1,000 in tho last three days. Tho Spanish casualties amount to 350. A Spanish column has destroyed the villages near Rcstlnga. A Moorish desortcr, who has como Into tho Spanish linos, declares that Spanish prisoners after being horribly tortured and mutilated, nro decapitated decapi-tated and their bodies flung Into a hole on Mount Gurugn. Estimates plnco tho number of Spanish prisoners prison-ers at 1.000. Tho water being doled out to tho Spanish troops is lnsufllciont, and driven by their overwhelming thirst, they havo drunk from stagnant poolB. Many cases of poisoning havo resulted. result-ed. Already fifty-three men havo died from this cause. |
