The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-29
TAKEN TO NEW YORK.
General Garcia S adly Tells of tho Wreck
of HIS Ecpedition.

General Garcia S ddIy Tells of tho Wreck:
of HIS Expedition.
NEW YORK, n. Y, Jan. 2S.-The ocean
tug Fred B. Dalzell brought to this city
this afternoon seventy men supposed to be
Cuban flibusters, whom Captain Denyze
picked up from the schooner Leander V.
Beebe at 9 o'clock this morning at point
ten miles due east of the stranded steam
ship st. Paul, off Long Branch. Captain
Harry Denyze was lying off Long Branch
early this morning looking for tow. At
8 o'clock he sighted the schooner Lean6er
v. Beebe from Baltimore to Boston. An
American flag. inverted, few from her
rigging, and the Dalzell ran up and hailed
her.
"The schooner's deck,' said Captain
Denyze tonight, ''swarmed with men
in all stages of undress. Wretchedness
was written in 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 Beebe.
81 told him and we made the bargain.
ran up alongside and after an hours dan
eerous work got the men on the Dalzell.
After the tug got under way it was agreed
that l put one man off at Fier s, North
River, and [ did so. He said he was a
gunner. / did not catch his name. None
of them made any secret about their ef-
forts to reach Cuba and their fight for her
freedom.
1.-THE most detected person on board
was an old man, who told me he was
Garcia and was in charge of the expedi-
ton. He was accompanied by his son
Carlos Garcia. Garcia seemed completely
broken down. He said that the Cubans
had played one of their strongest cards of
the revolution in sending out this expedi-
ton, and that more than 5000, 900 worth of
arms and ammunition had been lost by the
sinking of the Hawkins"
Garcia then related to Captain Denyze
the story of the wreck. He said:
I'VE loaded the steamer James w.
Hawkins for the expedition al Port Morris
ALI day the matches were closed, and no.
body ever had any suspicion that we had
thousands of dollars worth of arms in her
hold. All the work was done at dead of
night. We sailed on Friday night and
went out by Long Island Sound. We had
excellent weather until Sunday, when 1t
began to get rough. On Monday morning
early the vessel sprang a leak. The
waves and wind just opened her seams.
Pumps were manned, but they soon
choked with coal and became useless. Then
the men got buckets and bailed for their
lives. The water gained inch by inch,
and finally the coal went overheard and
the costly arms and ammunition. 1t
broke our hearts to throw these arms
away, but we had to keep the vessel af1oat
somehow. Gradually the Hawkins set
tied down, and at IL 80 o'clock on Monday
morning we took the lifeboats and deserted
the sinking steamer. Half an hour later
the Beebe hove in sight and took us on
board. At the time the Hawkins went
down she was forty-five miles south
southeast of Barnegat, and the sea was
very Wild"
Captain Denyze said that the men saved
nothing but two valises filled with United
States bank notes. These are in the posses
sion of General Garcia.