Show Uf ROAN N l = AT T M WEST I ACCOMPLISHED HIS DANGEROUS MISSION TO CUBA Penetrated the Interior and Held a Conference With General Garcia Saw No Spanish Soldiers Key West Fla May Lieutenant Andrew S Rowan of the Nineteenth infantry arrived here today from Cuba bearing important dispatch from General Calixto Garcia commander of the department of the east ot the insurgent in-surgent army for General Miles or General Shafter commanding the army of invasion Lieutenant Rowan with a number of guides left Jamaica on April 23 to carry Information to and confer with General Garcia He and his companions crossed to Cuba in an open boat landing i on the coast near Pico Ojo Del Toro Province of Santiago de Cuba and a little west of the city of that name They marched through swamps and underbrush to the mountains moun-tains where horses were obtained and thence proceeded to Bayamo arriving at that place five days later They found General Garcia quartered therewith there-with a guard of several hundred troops with headquarters m the principal house on the main street of the city which had been abandoned shortly before be-fore by the Spaniards Lieutenant Rowan had a long conference con-ference with the insurgent general who told him that there were 15000 troops in his command scattered throughout the Island These troops were General j T eeJe sc1re I Garcia Informed him well supplied I with arms but lacked ammunition I General Garcia expressed joy at the intervention in-tervention of the United States When Lieutenant Rowan left the insurgent I in-surgent camp he Vvasaccompanied by General Henry Colazo and Chief of Staff Colonel Hernandez They struck across the country and came out on the north coast near Manation May 7 Throughout the journey across the Island Is-land which was made at the widest part Lieutenant Rowan and his companions com-panions did not encounter one Spanish soldier They took a small sailing vessel ves-sel and put out for Nassau There were six men on board the small craft and the journey occupied two days An awning and I hammock were used for sails and the party suffered much hardship At Nassau the British schooner Peerless was taken for Key West Lieutenant Rowan will leave tonight for Tampa to hand his dispatches to the army commander The substance of these dispatches and of the lieutenants lieuten-ants conference with General Garcia are of course kept secret |