The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-01-29
FILlBUSTERS DROWNED
More Lives Lost In a FiIlhusieTing Expsdi-
tlOn Than In Spanish Cuban Battle.
TEN UNFORTUNATE PATRIOTS PERISH.
E'ut 4" Sea In IL Condemned Steamer
Arms and Treasure I.ost-A Naval
ana Revenue Marine Opera ROUTE
cruisers md Revenue Cutters
Are Sow Searching. for Her.

Vineyard Haven. Mass. Jan. 2S.-Thc
schooner Helen IL Benedict of New
raven. Captain Brackett. from Norfolk
Tor i5oSton. arrived here early this morn
ihS will Twenty-Five of the passengers
ana crew Of the wrecked steamer j. w
Hawkins. which went down off Mpntauk
on the 2Gth instant. during Il violent
Eale ii is reported ithat this steamer
leli New York on the 26th with l75 Der
*oas Oh board. mostly Spaniards, claim
Ing TO be bound to Bermuda with an cX-
curGion party. She was making some
water wheh she left port. and when she
encountered the cough weather outside
with q heavy sea, she filled in abou;
twenty minutes. Those on board had
barely time to get into the steamers
boats. one of the boats was picked up
by the Benedict and her twenty-five oc-
cupants taken to Woods Holl. whence
they embarked by train for Boston and
New York
IL was reported by those rescued that
the steamers truS destination was Cuba
and that her cargo. consisting Of 1000
worth OF ammunition, one gun on board
having cost $1,000. They were, With
out doubt. bound on Il iilibustering cX-
pcditiun to Cuba
The four mastcd schooner Alice H.
Crosby. Newport News for Boston. fell
III with another boat from the steamer
about siXty-fivc miles southeast by east
Of Sandy Hcnk lightship. which con
tanned twenfy-threc persons, but owing
to the rough sea only thirteen We're
saved. the other ten being drowned
The Crosby landed the thirteen survi-
rors at Woods Holl this morning. and
they left on Il train for New York this
afternoon. Another vessel, Il three
lna%ted schooner. picked up scvcnty-tive
oi the survivors, and il is supposed put
back with them 10 Delaware breakwatcr.
The men say hut little. There were
y 'iIs.a n MOI ,l.
lioll. the others being Spaniards
They say that thousands of dollars in
money went down with those who were
drowned and in the private chests in
the steamer.
Washington. d. c.. Jan. 2S-'rhc loss
of the steamer j. w. Hawkins and the
abrupt ending of her Cuban tilibustering
expedition gives the Spanish Minist er
much satisfaction. The Minister has in
formation that several hundred men
are cncamped al Palm Beach. Fla, wait
ing TO be embarked on the liza wilkins
There is nothing left for them now
hut To diSperSc. The Minister cNpectS
that the wreck of the Hawkins will
probably deter Insurgents in this coun-
try from sending out tiihusterS in un-
licensed huIks-ihc Hawkins having no
official papers permitting her to leave
inland waters.
at the Navy Department a good deal
OF amusement is expressed over the
Raleigh and Montgomery are now en-
gagged in There is no longer conceal
mcnt III spite OF the vigorous official de-
mails that these vessels after being hur-
rjcd away sunday night. under sealed
orders. are uoW racing about the ocean
Scc-Sawing towards Palm Reach To as
sist three revenue cutters 10 intercept
the Hawkins. 1t is understood that the
entire Spanish Navy in Cuban waters
numbering n dozen cruisers and as
many small launches are also d.rting
hiihcr and thithcr all around the Island
in vain cndcavOr to sight the in
Nadcrs. II will take two or three DAYS
~ least to put au end to these cXtraor-
binary cNcrtions Of the American and
Spanish ships
New York Jan 2S-Sevcntv of tho
survivors OF the alleged nlibustering ex-
pcditi"n. which sailed from this port
on January 2fth. on board the steamer
j. W. Hawkins. were landed in this city
Fat" this afternoon by the tug e H.
palzcl The men composing the partv
Immediately separated on arrival ana
it was impossible at the moment to
get details as to the laundering of thc
steamer of M"ntank Point. as report
cd from Nincyard Haven. Mass.
that while cruising OFF the highlands
TINS morning he was hailed hy tho
schooner Lcander V. Bccbc. hound from
Baltimore for Boston. Tho sthonnr,.'e
captain reported that he had picked mn
seventy men who were in light life boats
while on his way up the coast. and re-
aueStcd that the DalZeil land them in
New ! ork. These men were transferred
Ia the tug. which brought them to the
city
New York. Jan. 9S.-Thc tug was com
manded 10y Captain Henry Denis. He
reports that he was lying off Long
Hranch early this morning looking for
a tow. Nj 3 O'Clock he sighted tho
thrcc-masted schooner Leander V. Rec
be. from Baltimore To Boston. An Amer
lean ilae inverted. flew from her rigging
and Dalzell ran up and hailed her. ",rhc
schooner's deck" said Captain Denis
tonight. .swarined with men I'm oIl
stages Of undress. Wretchcdness was
written i'm every line of their faces
Very few wore hats, some Of them
were without shoes and nearly all were
minus coats.
What price do you want to take
seventy men into New York;" shouted
the skipper Of the Beehe.
II told him. continued Captain Denis.
and we made the bargain | ran IN
alongside and after an hours danger
Gus work got the seventy men on the
Bal2ell. After the tug got under way
ii was agreed that | put one man off
at Pier s. North river. and did so. He
said he was gunner | did no: ca:ch
his name. None Of them made any Sc
crct about their efforts to reach Cuba
=" t~ht fnr ha,' Frnn,l~,,, rho ,nost do
1ected man on board was an old man,