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Show mam. mm- mm mm m mm mm t . Ten Men From the Taconia Assaulted and Roughly Handled Han-dled by Santiago Police; the Government Govern-ment to Make an Investigation. WASHINGTON, MAT 1. TEN 8AD10RS OF THE CRUISER TA-COMA TA-COMA WERE INJURED IN A CLASH WITH POLICE IN SANTIAGO, CUBA, YESTERDAY, ACCORDING TO DISPATCHES DIS-PATCHES RECEIVED HERE TODAY. TO-DAY. WHILE A FULL REPORT OF THE AFFRAY AT SANTIAGO IS NOT AT HAND IT IS LEARNED AT THE NAVY DEPARTMENT THAT COM-MANDER COM-MANDER TAPPEN HAS CABLED THAT TEN OF THE PERSONNEL OF THE TACOMA WERE HURT. THESE WERE: HENRY LEE, FIREMAN SECOND CLASS. FRACTURE OF SKULL, GUNSHOT WOUND IN LUNG, CONDITION CON-DITION SERIOUS; ENSIGN A. T. BRISBIN, FRANK LEGHORN, ELECTRICIAN, FIRST CLASS; ELMER EL-MER F. ANDERS, APPRENTICE SEAMAN; CHARLES B. SHACKEL-TON, SHACKEL-TON, MACHINIST'S MATE, FIRST CLASS; GLEN CAVENDER, SEAMAN; SEA-MAN; HARRY J. STURTEVANT, ELECTRICIAN FIRST CLASS, AND LOUIS CLINE, ORDINARY SEAMAN, SEA-MAN, CUTS AND BRUISES, BUT NOT SERIOUS; LESLIE B. DUSTIN, SEAMEN, COMPOUND FRACTURE OF LEFT FOREARM, SERIOUSLY INJURED; CLAUDE J. PEMBER, ELECTRICIAN, THIRD CLASS, INCISED IN-CISED WOUND OF LEFT FOREARM, j SEVERE. Commander Tappan's dispatch says-that says-that these men, with the exception of the Ensign, composed a liberty party of the Tacoma and were attacked by the police while returning to theirship at 1:30 o'clock In the morning. No. cause is assigned for the attack, nut it is said that the men were singing, as sailors 8re apt to do when thev have bad a bappv evening ashore and on returning to their ship. In almost all large ports, unless the men are absolutely disorderly or are destroying property or interfering interfer-ing with citizens, the police let them proceed on their way without molestation molesta-tion beyond perhaps "a friendly warning to refrain from disorder. Sailors Had Been Welcome. So far as the naval officers here know, this has been the custom at Santiago ever since the American ships have made that a station port. Indeed, the sailors are believed to have been welcome wel-come visitors, for they spent, a great deal of money in -the native shops ssd markets and contributed much to the social life of the town. The officials at the Navy department are at a loss to conceive what may have been the reason rea-son for the change of attitude on the part, of the Sanitago police. They can scarcely believe that the men were much to blame, and they are certain they were not the aggressors because Commander Tappan reports that they were "attacked" by the police po-lice and the character of the injuries sustained by the men is an indication that they were assaulted with clubs and swords or bayonets. No mention is made of any injury inflicted upon the. police, which is not surprising in view of the fact that the strictest watch is kept upon the liberty men to make sure that they carry ashore no weapons. Went to Ensign's Aid. In the absence of an explanation to the contrary it is believed at the Navy department that either Ensing Brisbin got into trouble through interfering in behalf of his men when they were assaulted, as-saulted, or that the sailors became involved in-volved through attempting to succor their officer when he had fallen into the hands of the' police. According to State department advices, ad-vices, Koss F. Holaday, the American Consul at Santiago, is assisting in the investigation which will be made by the civilian authorities by order of Gov. Magoon,- supplementing the inquiry in-quiry that is being made bv Commander Comman-der "Tappen. The naval officials here have no doubt if these inquiries disclose the fact that the police have been guilty guil-ty of unwarranted attack upon the sailors, the civil authorities of Santiago will mete out the proper punishment. |