Deseret Evening News | 1898-04-16 | Page 1 | American Coal for Spain

AMERICAN COAL FOR STAIN I I 11 Three Thousand Tithe are Bent from TI t Ilnla tu SpIhtVhIp Norfolk Va April 1C Three thousand thou-sand tons of Pocahontos coal have been sent to St Vincent Cape Verde I Islands I went from the Lamberts I Point coaling talon by the British steamship Hampstead Capt Bon Castner Certain and IJullllt ot Phil I dlphlo mere the clearing agents and It woo not learned that the Hampstead had Lleared until after the cutom house had cloned The Hamputead arrived In water ballast from New York nnd a large force was employed In loading the vessel 1 The coal Was I secured a n a ton As the Splnoh torpedo flotilla and the Spanish armored cruisers Infants Jlarla Teresa and Chrlstobal Colon are now at that port It was safe to conclude I con-clude that this coal Is Intended for the I Spanish let I