The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-08-13
San domingo officials Insult the Flag.


Especial to THE HERALD-Examiner Dispatch. ]
New YORK, Aug. 12.-The United
States government, through the state de-
partment,is investigating the charges made
by Captain John w. Wines, of the schooner
H. S. Marloe, recently wrecked at the
mouth of the Ozania river, in San Donlin-
go. Wines alleges that his ship was delb-
erately run ashore and plundered by the
officials of the San Domingo government.
He asserts that after his vessel had been
run on the coral reefs. he anchored her and
went ashore with the intention of securing
lighters to unload her cargo. When he
sought to return the captain of the port re
fused to allow him to board the ship. When
he called the officials attention to the mat
ter the vessel was being stripped of her
rigging and blocks and was wrecked under
the eyes Of the government officer. This
officer treated his appeal for protection with
contempt
Captain Wines was in the harbor of San
Domingo with his vessel during the excite
ment over the seizure of the Haytien Re
public by the Haytien government He
expressed himself freely at the time, and
he expected some opposition to himself for
his outspoken criticism of Legitimeis ac-
lions. There are but two pilots in this
port both appointed by the government,
and under the law every vessel going or
coming into the port of San Domingo must
be surrendered into the hands of these
pilots. Immediately after the Haytien Re-
public affair the pilots, it is stated by Cap
tain Wines in connection, as he alleges and
believes, with higher government officers
concocted plot for venting their spite
upon American shipping by systematically
wrecking and plundering vessels sailing
from that port flying the American flag.
The first victim was the Ozana, a brig
which was wrecked in the mouth of the
harbor. Little was thought of the matter,
and while the captain fretted about what
he claimed to have been gross carelessness
on the part of the pilots, no further atten-
ton was paid to the affair. The next vic
tim was the schooner H. S. Marloe, whose
plucky captain says the vessel was de-
liberately beached. The Marloe was
wrecked and looted May "a. By this time
the Yankee captains in the port had be-
come thoroughly aroused. When the
schooner James Slater, which had been
lying in the roadstead Just off the port,
30 with two government pilots on board.
Her movements were noted by number of
Americans. The Slater was run by the
mouth of the harbor, going ont of the chan
mel on the east side. The captain saw his
danger, and in defiance of the fact that the
ship was in charge of government pilot,
he ordered his men to let go both anchors,
and throwing the colored pilot from the
wheel house and the ship into the wind, the
anchors held and the schooner swung
around with her head 10 the tide, but she
was so close in shore that her stern struck
hard bottom with such force as to make
her leak badly.
Port Jefferson, ". Y. The Slater was in
command of Captain Charles Z. Tooker, of
that place. Captain Tool1er, with the fate
of the H. S. Marloe fresh in his mind, pre-
pared to protect himself and his vessel.
He armed his men and prepared them to
repel boarders, and then climbed to the
mast head of his vessel. He nailed the
stars and stripes securely 10 the spar and