New-York tribune., 1893-12-29
AMERICAN SAILORS SHOT.
THEY WERE FIRED on BY SOLDIERS OF
SAN DOMINGO.


IMPORTATION KEPT BACK BY THE STATE DE-
p,RTMENT-wHY THE KEAESARGE WAS
orDrREp psoUTH-GENEEALJ JOAQUIN
CAMpos AsSAS~INATED
,..,,, u.os reccived at Washington about a
VOL, AGO Of trouble in San Domingo. Inc man
~, a. L,s,rsarge which was lying in the huuso'
River was at once ordered To proceed 10 "a"
Domingo The cause of the hurried departure vi INC
t<earsarge and the nature of the troup.e III "',
Domingo were made public yesterday Oy Tue "'''''
here OF the steamer George W. 'yue' ~ "Pp,
that = rebellion Is imminent in the black repupic'
,,a,lr,l and Governor has been assassinated IN
the straots of A2ua. one Of the principal to"hs q"
IN. country and more than that American sailors
have been shot by Government troops anu Wou"ue'
50 that one OF them may die. All thIS lui"'"i.'' 'i
has been for some days In the possession VI ''e
State Department. but WAS not considered "P-
parently a matter the public was entlted 10 hho"
about
The sailors belonged to the American schooner
Henry Crosby She was trying to make the port oi
Azua, about ninety miles west OF san Domingo
City. on December II. The captain lost his Dear
ings and approached the port of old AZua' ABOUT
ten miles from the new port. There IS a port "'
Old Azua and the soldiers had been. they said after
IN. affair was over. expecting ii landing Of rebels
there Captain ~ F. Stubbs, OF the Crosby III MS
report To his agents in this city tells the story OF
the outrage in part az follows:
Azua Dec lO-Wc arrived here yesterday the
sh at p m ana as We h1d n, 10 ROY m "1i' t@I @I tr4f
officer Brooks To- take two men IN the boat anu -
II this was the port OF A2ua, as there Was n2l Il
house - be seen from thc ship lie w"n' ~ W',rr 'tr
beach and asked the men II that was the port or
Azua. As h. understood them TO say Aes, h9
started to come back to the snip. as hhl or'"re'
him not 10 land under any circumstance .
There had gathered on the beach some twenty
ance OF the soldiers. which these men provcTr ri TO TO
BE- began to shoot at The 119t st ahG ,hh Thc Nine
ball struck him In the fore part OF tne s iark
hone The mate received a fesn wound in the
hip and had his face wounded by splnr'S rom '',S
% %"nt hno %nio" ,hcr hgan TO ire The shots were ny
ing about my head thick that got INTO t@ne me
Wer@ at least 10 shots nr~l. have dressed C"r
smiths wound and stopped the bl'eiins' ont
"T 0ar aaE w was iyinS At tn mizI.n a, hc i"r 'mr
and / az once set signals !. -. W. " Il lp, ''''
for. "a. ret one hopc this trouble will get to the
Nmcric,n consul that be- may hurry thnss ny, a
know ~ olr arrival. as riny not nav" chance
sine writing the maj tells me that D. only saw
one woman in the cr1wl on me .,,ten, ,',r
thl' there were - least twenty-five or thirty men,
D. IA since writing The aboye W. hayr had a
yisit from twelve or fifteen soldiers ana a pii't
from Ana W. are about six miles - me p'o'
says, from Azua - rh,,.o
s.ut for A doctor. Smiths wound as near as /
can measure II seventeen Inches from whrrr thr NJ
bullet went In 10 where II cam" o"' IL ""S "''''
" p@crnSer i: steamer sails this evening have
taken my sick man on sh"r' W" hhd to carry MN
Tnr oiicrrs Of thc ol,.lc .ntI that captan S'n5Ds
Domingo AMI mat 10 had been f9iWafdnd :" y ''h,
ne'on - ar '- rrI'r;ea n' az o.o"} w." , ~ nrio
The ciyi. ais, brought ,hc n.~s - the e.s'ss-