Show SIGSBEE AT SANTIAGO Defied Spanish batteries and Saw the 9 Spanish Cruisers New York June 3The United States auxiliary cruiser St Paul Captain C Sigsbee commanding came into port early today Captain Sigsbee went Ashore and thence proceeded to the navy yard Captain Sigsbee refused to be interviewed regarding the recent service of his ship in the vicinity of Santiago de Cuba at which port it has been said Captain Sigsbee ran the St Paul into the mouth of the harbor and obtained the first definite information of the presence there of the Spanish Admiral Cerveras squadron After visiting Commodore Bunce at the navy yard Captain Sigsbee relapsed re-lapsed from his reserve sufficiently to say t a reporter I had target practice right along r from the first day I arrived at Santiago on May 22 and while none of my men have been 1n the service long I a well guns satisfied with their work at the gunsWe have not been in any fight so far but my men will give a good account of themselves I was on the 25th we captured the Kestormel I knew that the Spaniards needed coal very badly and made every effort to see that they did not set it While off Santiago with Schley I saw two more Spanish cruisers and Schley saw two torpedo boats There is no question that they are bottled up as tight a can be in Santiago harbor I went in so close that I made sketches of their fortifications which I am sending to Washington Their guns could easily have reached reach-ed me but the batteries made no attempt at-tempt to fire for what reason I do not know I may be the Spaniards did not want to reveal the strength and location loca-tion of their guns I a going to Washington Wash-ington with dispatches from the feet and a soon as we have coaled Tnd provisioned pro-visioned we shall put to sea again This probably will not be for three o four days As soon a I arrived outside the harbor of Santiago there were indications indica-tions of Cerveras fleet on the inside beyond the Mils I hugged the mouth of the harbor so closely that it would have been impossible im-possible for anything afloat to sneak out without our seeing them I was either the third or fourth day after our arrival that I saw two Span arva ish vessels which I was sure were the Vizcaya and the Cristobol Colon They crept cautiously into the stream and got to the middle of the channel As soon as they caught sight of me they scampered back a rapidly a they could steam As soon as we arrived off the harbor I aoounced my presence by the courtesy cour-tesy of a salute taking as a target one of the Spanish forts The fort evidently evi-dently did not intend to accord me the courtesy due in return for its guns remained re-mained silent When I was satisfied with the practice my men had had I steamed the St Paul out of range and resumed scout duty outside the mouth of the harbor I was directly under the guns of a for and within easy range that I took the Restormel with 2400 tons of coal te coa aboard This coal was evidently intended forte for-te Spanish fleet and for the Restormel to run our blockade and enter Santiago harbor would of itself have been good evidence that the Spanish were there yO had to fire several shots at her before be-fore she hove to I put a prize crew aboard and sent the collier to Key West 1e5t I |