The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-05-19
I uI,.'I FAR AHEAD.
charleston Has Left acapulco
to Continue Chase.
rue rsMEaALDAcAN GET COAL


-. uav fg-An Engagement took
:. p;..,,,e an Sunday between the
insurgent feet and government torpedo
vessel. lie :..
hure.r chief 81 the navy department SAID
tonight that be believed sie commander OF
she charlcston will not hesitate TO take
shs Ttata. even though be should have TO
,as ~ ss h, her in Chilean waters. The
-, IN. - nations would prevent him from
sar;rg her in q neutralport. Should the
@srs.,,estouss commandef catch up with the
r,ss. rifhin : marine league of Chile
ttcr1sicer saws he thought the Charieston's
.,,s,-ynsnder would seize her and let the
Courts decide the question as to his right
TODD 80.
rb;s afternoon the navy department re-
~stvAd confirmation of the press dispatches
& the effect that the Charleston sailed
e1efhuard from Acapulco last evening,
leSxiur the Esmeralda in port. There
- no word of the Ttata. The presunp-
fion Is that the Charlston's commander
- satisfied the Itata had passed AGA
pri1co, either before he arrived there, or
While be lay in port, and has resumed the
lang chase. II is estimated that the ltata
& steaming along at seven knots an hour,
IA as she was ten days out last Friday
mint. she should at this time have been
Inst off Acapulco, where IL is reported she
NET the EsmeraIda As she is much
smaller vessel than the Esmeralda and
tnrHs much less coal, it is regarded as
within probability that the latter vessel
yrnicht have supplied her with this neces-
asyy articla. which would account for the
1frait the arship is now in respecting a.
further supply of coal. IL it be true that
the Itata was of Acapulco Friday night,
she had two full days stxrt of the Charles
ton when the latter started again in pur-
rlitlast night. This il about the same lead
sfe had from San Diego, so it does not APP
near the chase is any nearer conclusion, but
Il the two vessels now follow the same
5 coure, the Charleston, steaming at four
teen knots, should come up with the
1tsta before tomorrow night. This event
Of course is based upon the supposition,
which is not founded on strong proba-
bility, that the two vessels are steering the
same course. If the Charleston passes
the Itata the next port where they are
likely TO be heard from is Panama. about
100 miles from Acapulco or Payti, Peru,
still further down the coast. AS it is, the
vessels have probably covered less than
halfthe distance to Iquique, the nearest
Chilean port.
TACOMA, May 1s.-[Special. Captain
Durham, of the ship Favonius, which
sailed today for Havre, France, with a
cargo Of wheat, says in an interview, pub
lished in the Ne,es. that he is not surprised
thai the Itata has thus far eluded the
Charleston, as she is a very fast double
decked passenger boat, and not small
transport, as many people believe. The
I<et4 iGiarger tnan any of the Sound pas
81 n 6oats f1ptain Durham witnessed
~ kombardtng of Iquiqui by the in
enxGnf>. many Of the citizens having
come aboard hts ship for refuge. The
EemeraIds WA disguised so as to look like
atsnrainary pasanger boat. while Captain
lunham vas on the Chilean coast, in
order thaI sac right detect and prevent
SHIPS from earring supplies to the in
hehjthnts Of Iquique.
Gyrs or HKxIce. May 1s--The Charles
~ h1e lefl Atapalco for the south. 1t is
eelitse % the Merriam government will al
~ the EsmeraldA small amount of coal.
Government newspapers maintain strict
reticence
The war department has received dis
patch from Acapulco which says there is
no probability of q fight between the
Charleston and the Esmeralda. The Itata
has not yet been sighted Unless she has
been captured by some other Emitted States
cruiser she is probably off Central America
BY this time with fuel furnished by
the Esmeralda. General Pedro Hinjosa,
secretary of war. said this morning that
Mexico only insists that her neutrality be
perpetuated, and she will not interfere
With the Esmeralda. An officer of the
ksmera!da told your correspondent at
Acapulco yesterday that his vessel would
Try and get coal here, but if il was refused
the could get it elsewhere within a few
hours. He said: I'VE are not afraid of a
conflict with the Charleston, but our
orders are to be prudent and not to pro-
yoke conflict He stated that his
captain received long cipher dispatch
from his government in Chile Saturday.
but its contents are unknown.
sas Francisco. May 1s.-The steamship
Newhern arrived from Mexican ports to-
day. The Emeralda was sighted on the
down trip of the Newborn off Cape San
Lucas. Two officers of the Emeralda Wis
tied the Newborn and asked Captain Won
Helms where the nearest coaling station
was. The latter directed them to San
Diego. They said nothing about taking
coal from the Newbern, and after stating
That the ltata had gone to Vancouver took
their leave.
Harry Morse, the head of local detec-
i've agency, has returned from Los An
geles, whittier he went 10 make report to
the United States grand jury investigating
the itata case. The grand jury has Sc
cured the testimony of the two deserters
rom the itata, who left the vessel at San
Diego. Morse states that this testimony
Is 70 the effect that when the Itata started
north prior TO her putting into San Diego
she had aboard some sixty new rifles and
40 old ones. When the Esmeralda
ana ltata met at Cape San Lucas the
former had $50 men all told. and
sixty cannons of different calibers. The
itata had ninety sailors and sixty
soldiers, the latter being in citizens cloth.
ing The Itata carried four sixty-pound
guns hidden under canvas with her small
arms in the forward hold The soldiers
we're slowed away there also. Every ap-
pearahce OF the vessel being prepared for
var was removed two days before she
steamed y. into San Diego, when she looked
IKE ciean-trimmed merchantmen. 1t
was understood by everybody aboard
sist the ltata was on the lookout
iof schooner With rifles and ammuni-
non, when the Esmeralda started from the
south she had only 500 tons of coal and the
I,ata had 1890. The programme was for
she iiata to get the munitions of war
from the Schooner Robert .oa Minnie and