The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-01-29
WRECK OF THE HAWKINS
UINY StRyiTOES REACH NEW
JORh AND TJNEYiRD HIJEN.
The Fate or the Others In Doubt CaIixto
Garcia IL Hesrtbroken Over the loss
OF supplies for Cubans.

NEW YORK. Jan. 2S.-Seventy Of the
survivors OF the alleged filibustering ex-
pedition. which sailed from this port on
January 26th. on board the steamer j.
". Hawkins, were landed in this city
late this afternoon by the tug F. Il.
Daizeii The men composing the party
Immediately separated on arrival, and II
was impossible at the moment To get
details as 10 the founderins or the
steamer off Montauk Point, as reported
from Vineyard Haven, Mass.
The captain Of the tug Dalzell says
that while cruising Off the highlands
this morning he was hailed 10y the
| schooner Leander y. Beebe. bound from
Baltimore for Boston. The schOoners
captain reported that he had picked up
seventy men. who were I'm eight He
boats. while on his way up the coast, ana
requested that the Dalzen land them IN
New York. The men were transferred
city q '''' luz WIG" '''
TWENTY-FIVE IN BOSTON.
VINEYARD HAVEN. Jan. &.-The
schooner Helen II. Benedict, OF New
Haven. Captain Bracket, from Norfolk
for Boston, arrived here early TINS morn
ing with twenty-five of the PASSENGERS
and crew OF the wrecked steamer J. W.
Hawkins. which went down off Montalk
on the 18th Instant. during violent
gale II is reported that this steamer
left New York on the 18th with 10 per
sons on board. mostly Spaniards. claim
inB to- be bound 10 Bermuda, with an
She Was making some water when she
LEFT port and when she encountered tne
rough weather outside with heaVy yea,
she filled In about twenty minutes. nose
on board had barely time 10 get INTO
the steamers boats. one OF the Doats
was picked up by the Benedict ana her
twenty-five occupants taken TO WOOD
Hole whence they embarked ny tram Ioi
Nar
II was reported by those rescued t9at
the steamers true destination was 1uoa'
and that her cargo consisted OF tz',NT
worth Of ammunition, one gun ON po"i"
having cost 5000.
The four-rasted schooner, Alice y:
Grossly. Newport News. for Boston, tel
in with another boat from tne s,e'',.
about sixtv-five miles southeast by eass
of Sandy Hook lghtship. which con
tained tweuty-three persons, but oWlhs
to the rough sea only thirteen were
saved, the other ten being drowned.
The Grossly landed the thirteen SUI
vivors al Hoods Hole this morning, anu
they left on a train for New YORK ''"s
afternoon.
~. picked up seventy-hye OF the sur
yivors. and n is supposed put back with
them to Delaware Breakwater
The men say but little. There were
three Americans among those az Woo
Hole. the others being Spaniarhs. Ihey
say that thousands Of dollars I'm money
went down with those who were drown
ed. and IN the private casks on the
steamer.
TOLD THEIR MISSION.
srhc most dojected-loodng man on
board the Hawkins was an old man. who
told mo he was Calixto Garcia and was
I'm charge of the expedition" says Cap
tain Dennis. OF the Beebe. He was ac-
companied by his son. Carolos. Garcia
seemed completely broken down. lie
said that the Cubans had played one OF
their strongest cards of the revolution IN
sending out this expedition. and that more
than 100000 worth Of arms and ammuni-
ton had been lost by the sinking of the
Hawkins.
WAS IT A BLIND?
At the Headquarters Of the Cuban junta
I'm this city 10 was declared by the lead
ors tonight that the Hawkins was not
q hlibustorer. so far as they knew. They
said tho story was started hv Pinkerton
men. because they had been unable 20
catch the Garcia party and declared that
Garcia was and has been in this city for
sOr7c tiH'o .nef.
Many shipping men 10 not believe t"@'
the Hawkins was hliDusterer They
think She was boat bought by tho
Cuban iunta to throw the Spanish of
the track Of the real hlibusterer. which
viii soon Doe beard from at distant
point of Cuba.
The Campania Was Grounded.
WASHINGTON. Jan. Keeper War
dell. of the Long Branch q. JD life
saving station. made his official report
to-day 10 Superintendent Kimban which
seems to establish the fact that the cam
pania grounded. as well as the St. Paul,
brf that the Camuania did not go so