The Portland daily press., 1896-01-29

dress. Wretchodness was written IN every
line OF their faces. Very few wore hats
and some were without shoes ana nearly
all minus of coats.
What price do you want to take
seventy men into New York; shouted
the skipper of the Beobee.
81 told him and we made bargain.
| ran up alongside. The sea was high and
! both vessels labored heavily. After an
hours dangerous work we got the
seventy men on board the Dalzel. After
the tug got under way, it was agreed
that put one man of at Pier 8, North
river and did SO. He said he was
gunner. / did not catch his name. None
OF the men made any secret about their
efforts to reach Cuba and their fighting
for her freedom.
'sThe most detected man on board was
an old man who told me he was Cusllxto
Garcia and was in charge of the expedl-
tIon. He was accompanied by his son
Carlos Garcia seemed completely broken
| down. He said tho Cubans played one
| of the strongest cards of the revolution in
sending out this expedition and more
| than 500, 600 worth of arms and ammu-
milton had been lost by the sinking OF
the Hawkins Garcia then related to
Captain Denyse the story of the wreck.
He said:
I'VE loaded the steamer James W.
Hawkins for the expedition at Port
Morris All day the hatohes were closed
and nobody ever had any suspicion we
had thousands of dollars worth of arms
in the hold. All the work was done az
the dead of night. We sailed Friday
night and went out by Long Islands
Sound. We had excellent weather until
Sunday, whom it began to get rough.
Monday morning the vessel sprang aleak.
Wave and wind just opened her seams.
Jumps were manned but they soon
| t1oI rrrF ur,Ci
Then the men got buckets and bailed for
their lives.
The water gained inch by inch, and
finally the coal went overheard and then
the costly arms and ammI ni6ion. 1t
broke our hearts to throw Gnese arms
away. but VIC had to keep the vessel
afioat some how. Gradually Hawkins
settled and at H. 80 Monday morning, we
took to the life boats and deserted the
sinking steamer. Half an hour later the
Beebe hove in sight and took US on
board. At the time Hawkins went
down she was 70 miles southsoutheast of
BarneRat and the sea was very wild.
Captain Deuyse said the men saved had
absolutely nothing but two valises filed
with United States bank notes. These
were in the possession of Gen. Garcia.
Jose Horndez, one of the men, states
there were one hundred and twenty
flibusterers on the Hawkins, all Cabuns.
III duuitIOu EUef0 was crew OF sixteen.
The ship was commanded by Captain
| Hall. There were Que hundred and
! seventy men prepared to go to Cuba and
fifty were left behind because Haw kins
could not carry them. Thare was great
Quantity of medical stores and surgical
in ,truments on board; also a sanitary
corps consisting of eight physicians, all
Cubans.
The cargo included two Hotchkiss
guns, 1900 Remington and Winchester
riflos, LOCO, 600 rounds of ammunition.
5000 pounds of dynamite and a lot of
raw material for making heavy ex-
plosives. Calixto Garcia was in command
OF the t1Iibustsrs. Six men were drowned
in trying to get into the boats.
Seventeen at New Bedford.
Boston, January 2s-A Globe special
from New Bedford, Mass, says 18 sur
vivors of the wrecked steamer j. W.
Hawkins reached that city this evening.
Four are Americans and the others Gu
bans. They left for New York By train.
They were picked up by the schooner
! Alice 3. Crosby. When the schooner
came up to to the boat, many of the
wrecked men frantically jumped for the
schooner nd ten were unable to secure
a hold nd FELL into the sea and were
sucked und5f with the undertow.