The Portland daily press., 1896-01-29
HAWKINS WENT DOWN
And With Her Many Cuban
Hopes.
CALIXTO GARCIA GRIEVES OVER
THE WRECK.

He Tells the Story of the Disaster to
u the Expedition-Tt Would Have Been a
Help to the Cubans-Reyenue Cutters
| and Men-of-War are Still Hunting for
the Sunken Vessel.
Vineyard Haven, Mass, January 2S -
The schooner Helen H. Benedict of New
Haven. Capt. Braokett, from Norfolk for
Boston, arrived here early this morning
with 25 Of the passengers and crew of the
wrecked steamer 7. W. Hawkins, which
went down off Montauk on the Goth
inst, during a violent gale with 175 per-
sons on board.
1t is reported that this steamer left
New York on the 26th, claiming to be
bound to Bermuda with an excursion on
board. She was taking some water when
she left port, and when she encountered
the rough weather outside with a heavy
sea, she filled in about 20 minutes Those
on board had barely time to get into
the steamers boats. One of the boats
|
s5 occupants taken to Woods Holl where
| they embarked by train for Boston and
New York
1t was reported by those rescued that
| the steamer 8 true destination was Cuba
and that her cargo consisted of $50, COO
worth of ammunition. one gun on board
doubt, bound on fillibustering expedi-
tion to Cuba.
The four-nasted schooner Alicia B.
Crosby, Newport News for Boston, fell
in with another boat from the steamer.
about 65 miles southeast of Sandy Hook
| ightship which contained 23 persons,
but owing to the rough sea only Is were
saved, the other ten being droYned. The
Crosby landed the thirteen survivors
| at Woods's Holl this nlsrning whe @
they will take a train for New York til 3
afternoon.
| Another vessel, a three-masted sehoon-
| er, picked up7 of the wrecked people
and it is supposed put back with them to
Delaware breakwater
/ The j. W. Hawkins was 1888 tons regis
ter, built at Kennebunk, Me-, in 1880,
and her home port is or was formerly
Onancock, Virginia.
Tickled the Spanish Minister,
Washington, January 2S.-The foun-
Long Island was learned by the Spanish
minister from the United Press despatch
/ IS this morning. He was exceedingly
gratitied by the end OF which he regarded
as fiilibustering expedition and one
Of which his agents have been watching
for long time.
He considers it severe blow TO tie in
surgents who have spent great deal OF
money organizing the epedition which
was in many particulars the most for
E1idable SO far arranged. Maeeo and
Gomez, he stated, had relied upon its
support in Pima del Rio and will be much
disconcerned by its collapse.
The minister has information that sew
eral hundred men ale encamped at Palm
| Beach, Fl8., waiting to be embarked on
the Hawkins. There is nothing left for
| them to do now but disperse. The min
lister expects that the wreck of the Haw-
I ktns will probably deter the insurgents
| in this country from sending out flibus-
| ters in unlicensed hulks, the Hawkins
having no official papers permitting her
10 leave inland waters.
| AT the navy department good deal
OF amusement is expressed over the wild
goose chase in which the cruisers Bal
| eigh and Montgomery are now engaged.
There Is no longer any conoealment in
spite of the vigorous official denials that
these vessels, after being hurried away
! Sunday at midnight under sealed orders
are now racing about the ocean, ziez lg-
| ging towards Palm Beach to assist three
| revenue cutters and intercept the Haw-
| kins. 1t is understood that the entire
| Spanish navy in Cuban waters snum her.
| ing dozen cruisers and as many small
launches, are also Garting hither and
thither all around the island in vain
endeavor to sight the invaders. 1t will
| take two or three days at least to put an
end to the extraordinary exertions of the
American and Spanish ships.
Say But Little.
| Woods Hole, Mass, January 2s.-The
men rescued from the steamer Hawkins
say but little. There were three Ameri-
cans among the crew, the others being
Spaniards. They say thousands of dol
lars in money went down with those
drowned and in private chests on the
| steamer.
The Story of the Wreck.
| New York, January 2.-Seyenty sur
yivors of the alleged tlibustering expedi-
tion which sailed from this port on
| board the steamer J. W. Hawkins, were
| tug E. B. Dalzell. The men Immediately
| separated and it was impossible to get
| from them details as to tine laundering
of the Hawkins. The captain of the
Dalzell says that while cruising off the
Highlands this morning, he was hailed
by the schooner Leander V. Beebe, Bal
timore for Boston. The schooner's oap-
tain reported he picked up 20 men who
were in eight lifeboats while on his way
up the coast and requested that the
Dalzell land them in New York The
men were transferred to the ting
Dalzell sighted the Bebee at point ten
miles east of the stranded steamship st.
Paul. The American flag inverted flew
from the Beehe's rigging and Dalzell ran
up and nailed hor. The schooner's deck,