Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-08-15
.RuN THE BLOCKADE.

sRuN THE BLOCKADE.
/ Story OF nm American Seaman Dlscn.
| from the WoodaIl--Men and Munssson.
landed In Cubs Blew Ep Railroad anss
| Captured : Village and Four Hunoseu
Spanfards-Gen. Campos Sick ana sno
| Spanish Cause Weakening.
BALTIMORE, Md, Aug. 11.-An Amer
lean seaman is responsible Tor tne
statement that the American steamer
James Woodail. which sailed from TINS
port on July 10. ostensibly for FRO
| Qressd, Mex, successfully ran the
| blockade of revenue cutters and war
ships and landed men and munitions
ON Cuban shores in the interest OF the
revofutionists.
Seven seamen, members of the crew
of the Woodall, were discharged In
New Orleans a few days ago and ar
rived in Baltimore yesterday. One OF
these men stated that the WoodaI
landed I53 men and a large quantity
of dynamite, rifles and fevOlvers near
Havana, Cuba, which were taken
aboard off Florida. His statement IS
as follows:
The steamer burned hard coal on
her run down the American coast,
making it impossible for a Spanish
man-of-war to see her smoke at any
distance The crew was informed
that the steamer was to take q lot OF
plantation 1aborers from Florida to-
Mexico; but it soon developed that
two of the crew shipped in Baltimore
as common seamen were Generals
Roloff and Sinchez, of the Cuban rev.
olutionists. While near Cuban waters
and steaming ahead with no lights
visible, Spanish man-of-war crossed
our bows, going toward another YES
sci whose lights we saw in the dis
lance Had we been five minutes
earlier, or had our lights been show
ing, the Spaniard would have caught
us.
Instead OF going to Progresso. the
steamer anchored during the night,
at Panquery. which is not far from
Key West. off the southern extremity
of Florida. There was nothing at
Panquery but one solitary house. We
took aboard from the house in the
ships boats and from schooner which
had sailed from Key West and came
alongside the Woodall 153 men. The
ammunition brought aboard amounted
to 600 pounds of dynamite, 600 Rem
ington rifles. 200 six-chambered re-
volvers, 200 cutlasses and $50, 1000
rounds of ammunition. The men
came from New York, having left that
city for Florida about the time the.
Woodall left Baltimore.
Capt. O. Hudson seemed afraid to
land on Cuban soil, and ran his vessel
back and forth along the island for
ten days until the water in fifteen bar
rels gave out. For fresh supply he.
touched at small island off the Next
can coast, and during the day we lay
there were photographed for the in
formation of the Spaniards.
After this Capt Hudson steamed di-
rect for Cuba and dropped anchor
about IL o'clock at night at a village
forty-five miles from Havana Disem-
barking began Immediately and all
had been landed by a. M, when the
Woodall steamed away in the dark
ness for ProPresso.
It was learned aboard the steamer
later that the 153 men who had been
landed blew up railroad and cap
tured the village and 400 Spaniards.
The steamer James Woodall was
purchased from Baltimore parties
about the list of July by Capt. John
M. Hudson, of New York. Before
leaving this port Capt. Hudson said he.
was going direct to Progresso, Mex.
The Woodall was intended, he de-
clared, for use along the coasts Of
Mexico and Honduras for the collec-
tion of coffee and other products from
the shallow water ports where
steamers of any draft can't go. The.
mailing port of the vessel, he said.
would hereafter be New York, instead
of Baltimore. because he was he man.
aging owner and lived in the former
city.
Gen. Campos Sick and the Cause OF tho.
Spaniards Weakening.
KEY WEST, Fla. Aug. 1.-THE Her
aid of this city publishes dispatch
dated Havana, August 10, stating that
Martinez Campos left Havana yester--
day on board the Villa Verde for Man
zanillo. Passengers by the Mascotte.
state that the steamer Villa Verde
was in the harbor of Havana at IL
o'clock yesterday. and that Martinez
Campos is too sick to move. Promi--
nent police officials in Havana state
that the cause of the Spaniards is
weakening.
Two InsIgnlhcant engagements.
SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Aug. lion
Thursday last q rebel band fired into.
a detachment of Spanish troops on the
Homelio estate in the Guantanamo.
district, wounding two of the soldiers.
Gen. Barro's column has had an en-
gagement with insurgents at Majagua-
DO, killing two of the rebels and
capturing a quantity of arms The
government loss was zoo.
The Proposed FOur-Day Transatlantic
Steamship Service.
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