People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1895 — SMALL FIGHT IN CUBA. [ARTICLE]

SMALL FIGHT IN CUBA.

Spanish Troops Put a Body of Insurgents to Rout. Havana, Aug. 1. —While Lieutenant Peralta with a detachment of twenty cavalry was making a reconnoisance of an insurgent camp near the village of Solapa, he was fired upon by the vanguard of the insurgent forces under the command of Colonel Zayas, 300 strong. The entire insurgent command immediately attacked Lieutenant Peralta's company. Major Zubia, in command of a body of 200 soldiers heard the firing and went to the relief of Lieutenant Peralta. He engaged Colonel Zayas, and after a nard fight dispersed the insurgents, who fled in the direction of Agabama. The insurgents left three dead on the field, and in their flight threw away many rifles and machetes. The loss of the Spaniards was only two wounded.