Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1895-03-29
400 PERISHED.
Wreck Of the Missing Spanish
WarShip Found
SEARCH FOR THE BODIES.
Sunk Near the Straits of clDra'ta''
and Only Twenty Inches OF
Her Masts Visible Above
the Water.

The Spanish cruiser Alphonso Kill mas
returned to Cadiz after searcn ior '"'
m ssinc cruiser Reina Regenta, and reports
having found the latter vessel sunk near
Baio Aceitanos, not far from the stral's %
Gibrater. Only twenty inches oil the "eino
Reoenta's masts were above water.
The Alfonso XIII. has returned 10 'ne
scene OF the wrecI with q number Oh divers
and diving appliances, in orIer TO rec, ,v'i
lho bodies OF the crew OF the suuken war
shir.
The Rsina Regenta was reported missing
on March 1S. She had just conveyed 'roln
Cadiz to Tangier the returning Moori'n
mission TO Spain. The cruiser left Tansier
on March 10 for Cadlz, and her whereabou s
bod not been definite ascsrtained until now
piecee Of her boats and semaphore ha5s
we're renorted to have been picked up along
tho shore near Ceuta and Ta:ita. She car
,ied a crew of 420 officers and men, anu d."
bands are believed to have peri he'd.
go soon as the reports OF the m s'inS YES
sel became current, a number OIL SPANS !
0nd pritish war vessels put to sea in search
Of her. A French steamship on Marcn ~
orrivod at Gibraltar, and reported seeing a
hi, vesse supposed 10 have been the heina
Raeenta shore in Aceltunos Bay, proOauiS
poio Acct amos. The commander OF the
Frepch craft added that he Was unatl' u
assist the w4rship on account OF neaVy
weather.
On March Is the steamer Mayfair arrived
at Barcelona, and reported sighting Ve'se'
lieved to be the Spanish cruiser lie ma
Reoenta. on the morning OF Marc1 1V' Oe'
,wean Tarifa and Cape Espartel. Inc war
,hin had lost her fumes and orloge' anu
wos laboring heavily In the high seas ana
fierce gale which prevailed. Athougn sue
u.s annarently unmanageable, the cruiser
tid NOT ask for assistance, and, therefore,
,be Mav;alr did not offer her any. But the
onto,n Of the Mayfair added that he was ol
The oplnion that she could not long nave
orrvived the storm in the condition il
which she appeared to be at the time ne So"
her.
ro+er tbe Spanish cruisers Isla de LUXOR
and Alfonso XlIL return d to Cadiz' al'el
bov.no searched the Spanish and African
coa ,ts and the straits without any news o
the missing waship.
The uncertainty as to the fate OF the Kein'
Reeenta caused great public excitement Il
Madrid and the government was accused
keenjnc back news OF the ship and oil havin
ordere the detention by The censors Oh a.
+ole0rams giving information about her.
But. when a number OF flags, compas
hoy and other wreckage known 10 have DC
lonoed to the Relna Regenta was wa'ne
} ashore at Tayifa, she was given up Tor lost
In Cadz and Car .hagena, where most
Tho Aoo officers and men OF the cruiser DE
lonoed there has been great anxiety an
=, oItenent from the moment she was r.
ported m ss.ng.
The Re.na hegenta, about two years ag
oono % New York as one OF the SPANS
J. squadron which escorted across the Atian'
d the Columbus caraves. The Infanta Isabe
: now reported to have sunk an America
d schooner of the coast OF Cuba, and II
j Nueya Espana, wers the other SHIPS oil II
: Spanish squa dron. The latter arrived
! Fortress Monroe on April 81, 1898, the Keii
J. Reyente having the caraveI Santa Maria
= tow the Pinta was in tow OF the ln:an
y Isabel. a ID the Nina WIS in tow by t
n Nueva Espana. All three oil these Spani
Is warships took conspicuous part ia
e proat Co umbian naval parade In New 70
IL herbor on April 27 OF the same year.
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