Show iEMY 1 Ei WAS THREE TO ONE ty nll jj lie c U S Torpedo Boat Winslow Thought tho Odds Not Too Great Even With Her Lighter Battery a ssalled by Three Spanish Gunboats tho Winslow Goes Straight at Them Disabling the Pinzon Causing Her Three Antagonists An-tagonists to Retire Into Cardenas Harbor orbod U Currlnl M ri > nnil dun Whllo tho Aimrlrun Armmnimt Wits Only Om n1 Were SurinHed When the Win rnd furSlain l ardn Fired Meet Pilot unit Surps Straight far Th od End Alt ThmThy Wants Retired Ot le I t Just In Times to Esfe the Return or lit VH Ouobo maebis huT times I York May 10A dispatch to VMT World from Key West says nt lo boat l Win Ow engaged The torpedo J Spanish gunboats ort Car < lnaA disabled afternoon She Day Solids unscratched and cam out on ueuf Borwirdo inslgn Ilagley and odd Winslow thought the mn of tM and their a fair one of th < t e 10 one for the a fair match lie on e founders J gpuMi a oire tie n of six pounders It sam a brilliant minor engagement n Winston nnd the gunboat Ma on the blockade oft Car clilas were iwa jesterday The harbor Is l ttlcUy strewn with mines and torpe 1M In the entrance to the channel three mall gunboats have been bot the beginning of the wui Via up Blncc Otcirionall they have stolen out tot to-t > dn but never venturing beyond harbor running like rats at the Inner the eight ot the American hlps Torpedo boats have tried to draw inside IUI tar the Enemy out by dodging a safety aliened A few day ago moored by Spaniard in a buoy wa entrance of the bay to mrk Ile tho at position for entrance of o the gun I bolts A signal station on tha si hor Write was Instructed to notify th jmkonti Inside when the torpedo boats Teretlithin the limit distance marked by the buoy Th whims that the gunboats I ccdd rin qut open lire at the un mile ncr thus marked off for them ujKtiMt without the chance of being alt The men of the Wliwlow eed I toy and guessed Its purpose Sunday V afternoon the Machla 0001 away to eastward for a jaunt I lli the Wlnslow was left alone 10 obtain the blockade me Winslow toamd In nearly to i I aj nt tf en hoa I tie range buoy ulien I the gunboat tipped their cubUs and ran to their I safety limit The slxpounde were trained at too thousand diuld In a Ira minute thore signals told ths I Sfanlalls that then toipedj hoot must I the-n raree The si lxluund crackled and three shells throw Nvater spouts goal nd the Wins low nut she mam not truck Inled ot running away the drove bend attacking the boats Lleutenrt HOlnod 100 uoner saw the run white finoke puming from tile Piurlh Lan than he Gave the worl L-an < l two forIvard onpound dropped fhHlH In the mlddo of the llotllla Oil Ilungid the Wlnvlon to within WOO yards of th gunhal Ahllc the row raised by the rapid fir onplunders Aan like a rattling tattoo The Spanish were apparently staggered at tills nme Onslaught Ingle handed and fired vlfidly I lIdllie Ills AVInafnoV now swung around Lroudlde 10 brlllg her two alter gun ito I-to Nor 44 the b fleet ttervd i bpontsh g i 4hellvfionsloawusuon maneuvered I so I thai she 18 lllplng all three boat II once The sea uas very heavy and torpedo boa rolled so wildly that It was Impossible to do good gun practice I rom her deck but tile rapidity of her Ce and hmllkablc elf < < tIne un dar th circumstances demoroll ell three OPponents a hlh aft Wild 1lnslow had filed bout 60 shi < A lan grftdu4fly 10 work bock 10101 the hdtr lit the harbor Th were tIll hammerlg away With rI1 iiixpouridels but their fire I I 1 r1d i bl flro was Ild r 3 PJasid over the Wlnsluw and on exploded 100 tt IItern At last 0 onepuund hell from the Vinslow Work the hull lle of the gun I boat Ilinzon a little 1 after amidships PPr h I y lot EXPloding a 1 the Inside i I rnkn yelled The IlInzon I he Id evidently disabled while mile t1 r utuladem Went to her assist I an fir fills limo the Spanish boats hd i I treated nearly Int he position there they could net boo Itollawed i be Ins Of minem I The Ilinzon got Under I I nar slowly I J rll v1i and I l1ropd houldward with I the help of a a r hercallstirt et UrID9 this episode he Mach I as lead KuMd and xilen WItIlln the two ill gage let fly teed fourinch shells Ilikh T he flotilla acciferdtud managed tile to SPnlah creep back flight I Into Clidemem Thin barbr tl safety Is the hottest encounter ot the lu In Cuban waters UP to date at Itgh It rattre was III Miniature I so to spealL n b Ppnlh gunboats at Cardon lerr Are Imal of the unarmored Winslow I craft but About mounting tile heavier guns 1I1111 the Three Friend came near 11tRa ea l Oclock It forenoon a 1 114 turle Of xnasLs fnurky amoke IlOrtheint from Morro Cantle for ut ten Mile I tl eJI as V tile fleet tl ere haW proved In to a lie Trial tile file Norwegian conven nlerchalltman by flo atr erg Surrounded yih1 gunboats N rt Mangrovd It mail hport Spa lh caner and two h 1 f rT blrg hid dispatch be its The Dratz been Capin reI Ili the morning Ah ii milles etho east of Morris by the New 114na I j Illch PickNi ill also a deep fill fishing r schooner The Bratzberg turned Airs Mill JK and 11 I 6 pilii were built I Mill lth cattle Pens which to in hel The Steamer was trying Overha run uleq the blockade I In Havana when lutionarny by the e Wit o and was In 1 bows Stopped b shot across thy This I 1 0 letearner which IVA u Captured le timo Ig several days ago from A A Parts bound for Havana with car rltfO 90 of far Key live cattle She was taken We that Went but lr 11ed on condl the a neutral 1 dtfr would be taken to Tile on onvgl Dratzberg palled away with the at lolagad Jf flying Still turned with up PrOamie CILIT a today with her cargo of cattle missing a n1 headed for 1Ivna lIr papers wrn nut aUtoclory nor wo hr con eluct approved A prize Crew from the Newport was put on board and ordered to take the nratzbeni to Key West for further Investigation The schooner was taken along In tow ot the captured gtaenier DLANCO8 nCPOUT Madrid May 9An official dispatch from Havana art That on Amrl can cruiser and a large torpedo boat attempted to force the Cardenas channel chan-nel and opened flro on the Spanish gunboats Antonio LOpez Llgera and Alertn After a hilthours engagement engage-ment the American warships the dispatch dis-patch says were forced to retreat Spaniards Mop a llrltbh fchlp Gibraltar May 10Th British steamer Nava from Barton April 2 u for london has arrived here and reports re-ports having been boarded nt I oclock this morning 18 miles ort Europa Point by an armed party from a Bpanlsl cruiser which fired across the steamers bows The officer In command of the boarding party examined the Navai papers and allowed her to proceed |