Connecticut western news., 1896-01-30
THE HAWKINSISLOST
CUBAN FlLIsuSTERING VESSEL GOES
 DOWN OFF LONG ISLAND.

SO6NN fIlioOo ENitN0 NGSOEL SoES
 DOWN OFF LONG ISLAND. General Garcia the Reputed Commander
 of the ExpeditIon-Six RevoIutionists
 Reported Drowned-CostIy Guns and
 Ammunition Thrown Overheard.
 NEW YORK. Jan. 29.-.Jose c. Herman deZ Q Cuban, who was on board the steam ship !. W. Hawkins, m alleged fllibuster, which was wrecked of tho eastern end of Long Island last Sunday night, told the following story of the i'll fated expedition:
 We left New York in the Hawkins last Saturday night. The steamship belonged to the Cuban revolutionary party, having been purchased recently by them for fill bustering work against the Spaniards. "On board her were 120 men of the Gu ban revolutionary party. In addition to his was crew of Is men. The ship was commanded by Captain Hall. c. H. Crowell was mate.
 Calisto Garcia Iniga was in command of the revolutionists, and his son, Carlos Garcia, was second in command. General Rosa was also on hoard.
 "All of the men had been enlisted a month or SO before. They had been tried once or twice during the month they wait ed. By tried mean that they had been summoned on false alarms to see If they were really in earnest and wanted to go to fight for Cuba. Of course we were not told the exact destination of the vessel, but we all knew that Garcia would land us somewhere in the eastern portion of the sland and there form an army to go to he assistance of Gomez. We stole out quietly in the dead of night and in a few minutes we were steaming for the sound We ran smoothly enough that night and all the next day. We had no trouble until 8 o'clock on Mon day morning. At that time the sea was beginning to get pretty rough, and the engineer asked for help. He said that the engine room had sprung leak, and that the pumps were choked. Two men from the revolutionary party were detailed to assist in bailing the engine room out with buckets.
 At last the water came into the engine room so fast that Captain Hall told us to ighten the ship by throwing over bags of coal. The coal was piled up on deck. JettisoninE the Cargo. We threw 1t over as fast as we could, but it did not seem to do any good. Then we began to throw over the cases of arms and ammunition. We had great quantity on board. There were over sS0, 900 worth of arms alone. We had two Hotchkiss guns, 1900 remington and winchester rifles and 1000, 600 rounds of ammunition. In addition to this there were 5000 pounds of dynamite and lot of raw material for making heavy explosives. All these things we threw into the sea, which by this time was boiling around us and sending great waves over the decks. We worked all night, and when daylight came we had | thrown all of the cargo and coal overheard. "Still the water continued to gain on | us In the engine room, and at last 1t put out the fires, and we foated nt the mercy of sea and wind. At intervals all through the hours of darkness we burned rockets and fired signals of distress, but 1t was not until about s o'clock in the morning | that we saw any other vessel. At that time we sighted three schooners, and they sailed as close to us as they could with safety. Then 1t was that we were ordered | to take to the boats.
 "There were six small boats on the steamship, but only five of them wore available.
 "We got into our boats as fast as we | could but there was terrible sea by this time, and the work was dangerous and | slow.
 "The officers ordered us to take to the boats, and we did SO. Iws in the first boat. There were about 20 men besides myself in that boat, and 1t was terribly overcrowded and hard to manage in tho | rough sea. In the first three boats that got away from the ship were 66 of the rev olutionary party and four of the crew. | The other 50 odd men came in the other two boats.
 | Six Were Drowned. "Six were drowned In trying to get into | the last two boats. l do not know the | names of all who were drowned, but one | was a French chemist who was with the | expedition to make heavy explosives when | he got to Cuba. There were two of these | chemists, but only one of them was drowned.
 Another of those who were drowned was man named Alderiche. He was a member of the revolutionary party, as were the other four who went down in the l sea.
 | "The boat was on was picked up by the schooner Leander V. Beebe, Captain W. M. Howes, of Boston.
 We left the ship at 9 o'clock on Mon day morning, and 20 minutes later we saw her go down. She gave a great lurch to one side and then settled into the sea. l want to say that the crew of the Beebe be- haved splendidly in rescuing us. One of the crew jumped into the sea and rescued one of our party, who had fallen in trying to get from one of the boats to the schoon- CT. The sailor had great difficulty in res cuing him, as the water was so rough and the weather so cold. but he succeeded after T hard struggle.
 We ran out of provisions on the schoon- er, and when we were taken off by the tug off Long Branch and brought up to this city we were a hungry lot of men.
 "I landed at Pier 6. North river, and reported ut once to the headquarters of the revolutionary party In the Manhattan building.
 At the headquarters they received our news with long faces, for the loss was big one to the eau ,e, but they said they would immediately make it up by sending another expedition, as the men in Cuba were expecting the arms and ammunition.
 "There they told me that they had TO- ceived telegrams from Woods Holl, Mass, and from Boston, saying that the rest of the crew and the revolutionists were safe. with the exception of the six that were drowned when we left the steamship.
 "There wero no Americans on board the Hawkins. They were all Cubans, who had been enlisted in this city to fight for the cause of freedom for Cuba.
 'We were not drilled In this city, but were enlisted here for the cause. We only hho" ohub We Nere ROlnR ID tuDd NO one except the captain and our commander knew what part of Cuba we were bound tor."
 The following Is a partial list of those reported to havo bcen drowned:
 Emile Jallais, aged 45, Frenchman and the chemist of the expedition to com- pound high explosives.
 Francisco Gnitau, aged 36, native of the poionbiap republic, In command of a Cuban company,
 Mariana Alberich, aged 80, a Cuban and member of Che Cuban revolutionary party.
 Victor Gomez, aged 4a, Cuban insur- gent lieutenant
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