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Show haxIjpon a bock. THE CINCINNATI STRIKES UPON A REEF. Accident Happened as the Cruiser "Was Leaving Fort at Santiago Rock Detlned in the Chart But Xot liaoyed. Santisgo. de Cuba, Dec. IS. While the United States cruiser Cincinnati was leaving port about sunset yesterday yester-day she ran at full speed upon a rook clearly defined in the charts, but r.ot buoyed. Last September General Leonard Wood, considering that the absence of a buoy there might lead to some accident, anchored a small one, the first one ever placed there, but the Bessie, on entering the harbor one night, carried it away, and since then ( there has been no buoy to mark the i location of the rock. The Cincinnati probably is not seriously ser-iously damaged, as she is not making water. For the last twenty-four hours the government collier Southey and the Mayflower have been engaged in an effort to pull her off. Thus far they have been unsuccessful, but it is hoped that they will have better luck tonight at high tide. The principal risk now is the tearing of a hole in the cruisers bottom while pulling her off. Captain C. 31. Chester, the cruiser's commander, insists that the landmarks are in the wrong places and have not been altered in any way since the American occupation. Pilots are not compulsory upon the entrance of warships, war-ships, but the Santiago harbor is difficult diffi-cult and a warship would invariably take one. Hereafter a large buoy will mark the rock upon which the Cincinnati Cincin-nati struck. |