The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-17
CUBES LATEST RECRUITS.
THE DAUNTLEsS PARTY STOPPED
NEAR SAVANNAH.

liz Came From Charleston, But Re-
mained Only n short Time Here, I'm
order 40 Avoid Suspicion and De-
tentiOn-Revenue Cutters Keeping
Sharp Outlook.
The fifty or more Cubans who slipped
out Of the Satilla river on the tug
DauntIess OF Brunswick last Thursday
morning, did not come from Jacksonville.
as has been generally stated and believed,
but from Charleston.
They were the party which has been
waiting for several weeks at Charleston
for the filibustering steamer Commodore
to elude tee vigilance of Uncle Sam. As
is well known, the Commodore has been
penned up IN Charleston harbor for a
month now, closely watched by the United
States revenue cutter Colfax. The Com
modore made a great bluff Of trying TO
get away Saturday. but the evidence goes
TO show that it was only a bluf.
The Cubans who have been waiting pa
tiently for 50 long 10 get away from
Charleston on the Commodore are prob
ably safely landed in Cuba by this time
with their arms and ammunition. They
went on the Dauntless. The partly left
Charleston some time Wednesday after
noon on a special train over the Plant sys-
TEN. 1t arrived at the Savannah,
Florida and Western and Charleston and
Savannah railway junction some time
Wednesday night, and remained there a
short while. The train was taken from
Savannah to Callahan, where 1t was
switched of on to the Florida Central and
Penisular railway, by which they were
carried to a point on the Satilla river,
where they met the Dauntless.
The expedition was kept very quiet by
the railroad people and in fact very few
Of the employees of the Plant system here
knew anything about 1t. A railroad man,
who was going south on his run, and had
a good view of the party at the junction,
and who returned to the city yesterday,
informed a Morning News reporter of the
facts. There was only one passenger
coach, he said and this was filled with
men, probably fifty or sixty, dark, swarthy
fellows, and evidently Cubans. In front
of the passenger coach was another coach
loaded with arms and ammunition. This,
the railroad man said, he knew to be fact,
though how he knew il he would not say.
He learned on inquiry that the party was
from Charleston and that 1t was on its way
to Callahan to be switched off at to a point
on the Satilla river.
Had the party come into Savannah their
| presence here would have been noted and
suspicion would have been excited. BY
stopping at the junction, several miles
out, and at night, observation was avoid
ed, and few OF those who passed the party
at the junction had any idea of what 1t OF
| its errand was There is no doubt Of the
| reliability of this information, and If there
were the following information taken from
| the Charleston News of Sunday is sufh-
| cient confirmation. The statement is
| made in an account of the movements OF
the Commodore during the previous day
THE many Cubans who have made
| Charleston their headquarters for the past
month mysteriously disappeared several
| days ago. Among them were several who
/ seemed TO be officers above the ordinary
Evidently the Cubans gave up hope Of
| getting away on the Commodore, and
| arranged the little coup of last week OF
| the Dauntless. The whole party is doubt
| less by this time safely landed in Cuba
| or at least is pretty near there.
A Fernandina dispatch to the Florida
| Times-Union gives the following descrip
| ton of the Dauntless' cargo:
| The Dauntless was fully prepared for ar
| extended voyage, as far as Cuba, in fact
| she had eighteen days supply of Goa
| in her bunkers, estimating four tons
| day as her consumption. She was not 60
| ing to meet the Laurada. Her cruise wa!
| altogether a separate affair There were
fifty Cubans and one cannon. A large
| quantity Of dynamite was a part of hel
| cargo The guns were packed in cases
| marked e The cases were opened al
| the Satilla river and guns contained there
| in were found wrapped in crocus bag
| ging, six guns to the package, with a han
! die or sling to carry them by The pilo
| expected to reach Cuban waters Sat
! urday morning or night when the eight
| boats would be launched and the landine
| made. If he succeeded in reaching th(
| point aimed for he could go within 40
feet of the shore. If cut off or otherwise
! prevented from reaching his main object
| i've point he could still go within one
| and one-half miles of the shore and ae
| complish his object"
|