The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-01-29
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terial for making heavy explosives. All
these things we threw into the sea, which
by this time was boiling around us and
sending great waves over the decks. We
worked all night and when daylight came
we had thrown all of the cargo and coal
overheard. Still me water continued TO
gain on in the engine room and at last
it put out the fires.
AT intervals all through the hours of
darkness we burned rockets and fired sig
nails of distress, but Ii was not until about
O'Clock IN the morning that We saw any
other vessel At that time we sighted three
schooners.4 and shay sailed as close TO US
on the steamer, but only five of them were
available. The sixth was so covered with
wreckage which had been thrown over II
coal. that we could not launch her in time
We got into our boats as fast as we could,
but there was terrible sea by this time
and the work was dangerous and slow. We
found out afterwards that We. were about
39:5S latitude and 1888 longitude west.
"Calisto Garcia Iniga was in command of
the the revolutionsts, and ;r his SON. Carlos
Rosa was also on board. These officers or
dered US to take the boats. and we did so.
l was in the first boat. There were about
twenty men besides myself in that boat,
and 1t was greatly overcrowded and hard e
manage in the rough sea. The other sixty ode
men came in the other two boats. Six were
drowned in trying to get into the last two
boats. / do not know the names of all who
were drowned, but one was a French chem
list. who was with the expedition to make
heavy explosives when we got to Cuba.
There were two of these chemists but only
one of them was lost. Another of those who
were drowned was man named Alveriche
party. as were the other four who went
down in the sea- The boat / was in was
picked up by the. schooner Leander v.
6essS He% res boats of TO- sav
steamship, and the other two were picked
up by the schooners Helen II. Benedict. of
Boston, and Alicia b. Crosby, of Portland
Me.
I'VE left the ship at o'clock on Monday
morning, and twenty minutes later we saw
her go down. She gave great lurch TO one
side ard then settled into the sea. The
schooner Leander v. Beebe sailed for this
port. but I was taken off her off Long
Branch at 1890 o'clock this morning by the
this city. / landed at Pier s, North river, at
1880 o'clock. ard reported at once to the
headquarters Of the revolutionary party, in
the Manhattan Building. There they told
me that they had received kilograms from
woodstock. Mass, and from Boston, say
ing that the rest of the crew and revolu-
tionists were all safe, with the exception OF
the six that were drowned when we left the
steamship. :.
Hawkins: They were al Cubans who had
cause Of freedom for. Cuba. We were not
drilled in this city, but were enlisted here
for the cause. We only knew that we were
going to Cuba. No one except the captain
and the commander knew what part Of
Cuba we were bound for"
1t was learned at the Office Of F. B. Dali
zell & Co. that their tug, which brought
schooner Leander v Beebe forty miles
southeast of Barnegat. n. j.
The Hawkins survivors on board asked to
be taken off and brought to New York.
Seventy of them were transferred to the
Dalzell and brought to this city, Hernandez
landing, as before stated. at Pier s, North
river. The remainder disembarked at Pier
As, North river.
At the Cuban headquarters, No. &c Broad
way, it was denied that the Hawkins was on
it's way to Cuba. 1--WE would have known
about her." said Secretary Gonzalves de
Quesada, eff she had been fitted out for
Cuba The report that Garcia was aboard
is absolutely false, he is still in this
city,