| Show VICTORY AT cienfuegos key west fla may 14 copyrighted 1898 by the associated pressa presa the united states cruiser marblehead barbla the gunboat nashville and tu the auxiliary cruiser windom steamed up to the harbor of cientuegos cienfuegos early wednesday morning with orders to cut the cable connecting havana with santiago de cuba this task was accomplished complis hed but only after a terrific fight between our warships and several thousand spanish troops which lined the shore and lay jay concealed behind improvised breastworks A seaman named regan of the marblehead was killed outright in one of the working boats and six men were severely wounded in addition a large number on board the ship received minor wounds captain maguire of the windom am believes that several of the six fadly badly wounded men who were brought tto to key west this morning in the win sow cannot recover following is the pat bat of killed and badly wounded killed regan seaman sadly badly wounded john davis da vis of new york john J conran of fall river mass ernest herman Hoch hochmeister neister jharry harry Hendrick Hendricks son soon all of 6 the marblehead robert boltz cas ter county N C of the nashville soon after the arrival of the war chips off cienfuegos Clen fuegos four boats boa ts were launched and proceeded in shore for h the purpose of grappling for the cable n order to cut it the warships lay to about 1000 1000 yards or more off the har bor it was observed that the spanish t troops had assembled ashore but it was not known that heavy guns had beatt beato placed in a masked battery and that the old light house far out on a neck of land had been transformed into a formidable fort the small boats proceeded cautiously I and for more than an hour worked unmolested on the cable suddenly jam just as the work was about completed ate he shore battery fired a shell at th the bbs bloats ts it was followed by others and 4 the spanish infantry opened fire then with their rifles F then like a flash the marblehead tent sent a shell inland and followed it with y A perfect shower of shot then the 41 r windom cut loose with her four pound r in the meanwhile spanish bullets tell fell ta fa every direction around the small z boats though the attack had come suddenly Imd denly and fiercely the blue jackets were not dismayed and protected by the terrific return fire of the warships az y work was continued and the cable cut 1 when the boats returned to the ships r began who was in one of the marble heads boat of which there were two W found to have been killed six r weri en were badly wounded fv 1 the spaniards had by this time suf ered atred severe loss their shots from the light ligat mouse house struck the warships y r several loveral times and although they did x met do much damage the fire aroused the ibe determination of the american boffl eer to extern exterminate binate the forts there after for the moment the fire of the y adae hip was waa concentrated on the light faase and the improvised fort waa blown to pieces As there were great bumbers of spaniards in and behind the fort at the he t time there la is no doubt that many of them were killed the marblehead and the nashville steed their heaviest guns as well as their small rapid fire guns and hun freds of shots shota were thrown into the spanish troops on board the ships A number of menbere men were slightly wound fea C comander orn abder washburn maynard of the neaville nashville was slightly wounded by a spent bullet when the commanders of the max marblehead end and the nashville called for fen volunteers to man the boats and cut the hp cable the men responded with a jump winslow of the nashville took command of the Nash villes boats the shore surrounding the entrance of the harbor was waa first belled and the boats proceeded in 7 the cable was deep in the chai channel inel and was found with difficulty one of the relays of the cable had been cut when the spaniards Span lards opened fire the marines in the boats replied at once and ft a machine gun from the forward launch sent in a stream of bullets while heavy shells from the warships drove 44 ove the spaniards ards from the rifle pit at athe the shore sho remany mamy of them seeking ref tn iii the lighthouse tort fort which ni afterwards torn to pieces by a kj it florn rom the windom with dedewa dea ewA 4 courage ago the amerl ameri em bailem stuck to their air posts and succeeded in dragging up the second relay of the cable and severing it seven men badly wounded was the count and one of them regan died while on the way back to the ship winslow was shot tn in the hand and a number of others were more or less leas injured I 1 on the nashville captain maynard was standing forward with the ensign when a spanish bullet passed through the ensigns shoulder and struck maynard on the chest cheet slightly wounding him the marblehead was struck scores of times by bullets from machine iguls guns and the nashville suffered to about the same extent the te windom also had many marks of the fray her shell blowing up the lighthouse and scattering the spaniards in all directions ended the battle botz and hendricks who with four others of the wounded are at the naval hospital here are expected to die the remains of regan were burled buried at sea new york may 14 A special dispatch from key west reports that in the fight at cienfuegos commander washburn maynard and cameron M winslow both tf the gunboat nashville were slightly wounded the dispatch adds that the spanish loss Is estimated at and that of the united states fleet four killed and four wounded the lighthouse was demolished it to is reported the arsenal destroyed and tin batteries on shore silenced the town was set on fire by shells from the american fleet washington D C may 14 the navy department has just received a dispatch fi from om ca commodore m dodoro remey at key west confirming the report of a severe engagement at cienfuegos last wednesday he transmits the report of captain mccalip of the marblehead showing that one man wa aa killed herman regan a marine on the marblehead and several injured severe losses were inflicted upon the spaniards and the object of the attack which was to cut the cable was accomplished complis hed madrid may 14 10 a m an official dispatch received here from havana dated yesterday says since daybreak today five of the ships have attempted to cover landings at several points hut but the americans were repulsed and re barked their troops As there were no spanish ships aval available lable the troops followed along the shore the movements move menta of the americans and prevented their attempts to land two americans were captured a spanish officer was killed and a few bew soldiers were wounded the conduct of the spaniards is worthy of the highest praise they fought the enemy while the latter was backed by big guns note it is probable that one 0 of f the alleged repulses of attempted landings of americans americana in cuba refers to the gallant manner in which parties from the M marblehead arble head and nashville cut the cable under fire off cienfuegos Clen fuegos 0 on n wednesday last ladt as air related in a cable dispatch to th the e associated press from key west today washington may ii 14 the foil following owing telegram came to the navy department deVart department ment this afternoon from commodore ret het reiney heiney toey iney at key west wes key west pla fla may 14 Secretary navy the windom arrived this morn ing in with the following named men dead or wounded patrick regan private marine dead herman W private marine shot through the law jaw probably fatal harry hendrickman Hendric kaan seaman shot through the liver probably fatal ernest Sunt enle enic apprentice first class fracture of right leg john J doran mate make second class gun shot wound in right buttock john pavle davis gunners mate third class claa wound in right leg wm xavery livery apprentice entice first class wound left leg very slight flight robert voltz seaman on nashville severely wounded cameron neron winslow slight wounds in hands casualties occurred in cutting cable at cienfuegos Clen fuegos commander mccalla mccalls Mc Callas le report summary winslow placed to in command of steam and sailing launches of nashville anderson andersen second in command boats were to drag for and under the protection of the guns guna ot oi the marblehead and nashville Naab ville sua ceedee in cutting cables leading adine le south mouth and west but not third cable in shore under the are of retry on sapa shor with maxim gune gunal lighthouse destroyed when enemy took shelter the officers and mn men performed their work with the utmost cool coolness hess and intrepidity under trying cl re mccalls Callas Mc aas report mailed efte the cable which was cut at dengue gos cos extended from that eltrym city 16 santiago de cuba cahl it does not 6 cable communication with cuba aa a there it another line in operation between santiago de cuba and King kingston jamaica the severed cable is id owned by the cuba submarine company the one operating to Kt kingston ngon tj ft owned oried by the west indies canamar Pa namar company the latter is in the only une itee not in control of the united states kates government the cable from havana to key west ld is controlled oy 10 B S ot ota A fici ficiala als |
