The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-09-25
CUTTERS TO CRUSH CUBANS.
NINE VESSELS SECURED IN THIS
COUNTRY FOR SPAIN.

They Are to Patrol the North Coast
of Cuba &c Cut on Outside Supplies
Destined for the RebeIs-The Ves-
sells of Very Light Draught, Only
go 10 20 Feet Long and 10 Carry 10
TO 20 Men Each.
New York, Sept 24-Within month nine
American-built steam cutters under the
Spanish flag viii be cruising on the north
coast of Cuba. The late Admiral Man
uel DelgadO Parejo sent Lieutenant Com
mauder Triana to this city on special
duty. and the orders for these cutters
were placed very quietly Not until they
We're completed did the fact of their own
ership become known The last of the
nine We're shipped to Cuba a few days
ago.
The lengths of the cutters vary from
sixty to seventy feet and their speeds are
from eleven 10 fourteen miles an hour.
Their average draught is four feet. Their
crews-numbering from Is to 20, all men
from the Spanish navy-wiu be ohicered
by men Of known ability.
The posts Of the new vessels Will be on
the north coast Of Cuba between Matan-
Eas and Santiago de Cuba. They are
built especially for rapid in-shorc work.
Their armament will be of a very destruct-
i've type, including American gatling guns
and Nordenfeldts. smugglers of contra
band war viii be their prey
The Berenger. Pontoon, Service and the
American cutters, in all thirty-nine cut
tors and floats. viii add immensely to the
effectiveness of the Spanish naval forces
in Cuba. With these and the double line
lf v-a Is 20 s.-
all outside relief will be cut off from the
rebels now in the central part of eastern
Cuba
Havana, Sept. 24-Reports have been re-
ceived here that Col. Hernandez. com
mandlng the government troops in the
Sagua district, overlook band of rebels
IN the plantation Of Carload and routed
them. Pursuing them, he attacked them
again at Libano. killing three, taking
ulfee prisoners ana capturing quantity
OF horses, arms, ammunition. etc. 1t is
also reported from Sanu Spiritus offi-
cially that Lieut. Coils Navas and Caves
battle with the rebels at Olaleita on Sept
Il, in which four rebels We're killed.
Hanava, Sept. 24-Eudaldo Tamayo, An,
tonic Bravo, Alfredo Betancourt and DE,
siderio Fajardo have been arrested at
Santiago de Cuba for connection with the
rebellion They will be deported to Spain
Madrid, Sept. 24.-A special to the I'm
paiciai from Havana says that on Sat
urday last force Of COO rebels surprised
a party Of 35 government troops under
Capt. ReeStra at Palma Sola in the la
qua district. The soldiers made a stout
resistance, but We're OverpOwered by
numbers and twenty were killed. Capt.
Reestra and the remaining sixteen of the
party succeeded in making their escape.
Baltimore. Nd, Sept 24-Ohicers Of
the steamship Westgate at this port from
Cuba, report that spanish troops have
~Decn stationed, and that stockades VIII
be erected a the property of the
Spanish American ore Company in and
near Daiguiri.
While the Westgate was loading her
cargo of ore at Daiguiri, Spanish soldiers
put IN an appearance and two Spanish
men-ofwar arrived in the harhor The
troops surrounded the mines and placed
men on guard along the railroad to the
wharf IN Daiguiri and on the wharf prop
erty. The mines of the Spanish-American
company are very large ana Sc 000.000 We're
spent to develop them. They are in
country that is thick with hlibusters who
nave already stolen steamship load of
explosives which had to be replaced bv
shipment from Baltimore.
Philadelphia Sept. 24-After an unsuc-
cessiui search FOR Yumuri, a Cuban sea-
port, the British steamship Culmore. a
fruit carrier, which was sent there 10 load
bananas Tor Philadelphia, returned to this
port tonight and reported that the entire
town had been devastated by the insur-
gents torch on Sept. IS and destroyed
hot nome having escaped the ravages
oI the names. Several Of the refugees
We're picked up along the coast of the
former town and brought to Philadelphia
ABOARD the CulmOre. Among the num-
Der We're Col. Miguel Arrue, a prominent
Irult exporter with his wife and family
ana }. Rodiguez and several women ano
Sihlaren who formely lived in comforts
pie homes at 1umuri. They were for the
most part, engaged in shipping bananas
3lu cocoanuts TO Philadelphia and New
Prominent citizens of Yumuri were
symp&thizers with Spain in her warfare
upon me Cubans, and the insurgents
uttermined that IN order to render such
sympathy Intellectual they would destroy
the town Hundreds of persons. many
OF them from the poorer classes. were
IeIt homeless. A mountain railroad or
tIult elevator, used to carry the bananas
from the mountain where they grow,
% the seashore, was also totally de-
troyed. 1t was novel elevated road and
transported bananas by unique means
Ten or twelve miles to the coast This
road was owned by ]. ID. Hart and a syn
Qleale Of Philadelphia and New York
fruit dealers. and cost the proprietors
many thousands of dollars They pro-
pose 10 hold the Spanish government re-
hsa u to