The evening times., 1896-09-21
CUBA's SUBMARINE TERROR
Will Blow Spanish WarshipS
Out of the Water.
HOURS BELOW THE SURFACE
Hundreds of Tons of Dynamite Sent
to In. Isia nd to Destroy the Trochs-
Weyler's Fortificationst to Be Wiped
Out of Existence by II Long Range
Bonn b. Throwing q I'll.

Baltimore. Sept. 21-For some months
the Cuban patriots have made the Ches-I-
| peake Bay and this port a center for opera
| lions. despite the watchfulnesS of Spanish
| spies. and have carried on their work with
| unvarying success
Advices from New York, received here
| yesterday through a private letter 10 u
Baltimore gentleman. state that large
steamship recently sailed from a point on
| the Chesapeak having on board the
Draker, a submarine boat invented by j.
| Neeiin, a FrenchnaH, and n hundred tons
| of high explosives intended for use IN
| Cuba, which were in charge of j Petro-
| loff, Russian, who is the inventor Of =
oomb-throwug gun of very long range and
very destructive power.
The Draker is about twenty feet in
length and ten in diameter. and includes
many Of the qualities of the average sub-
| marine boat. She Is Il double-ender: shap.-!
| ike an egg, and can travel beneath the
water for several hours, and has accomnIo-
dations for several persons.
PROPELLED BY COMPRESSED AIR =
The vessel is propelled by compressed
air, and Is supplied with appliances Ior
furnishing air 10 its occupants from oxygen
and nitrogen. and revivifying it contin-
uously.
The speed of the boat is from ! > tn 20
EEots per hour, and it IS intended to dis
charge beneath the water, at the hull nf
an enerny's ship, obstructive dynamite
bomb of great power. sufficient to destroy
the largest armored battleshp or cruiser.
I is made OF steel throughout, ana by an
automatic arrangement eau lie raised or
lowered to any regl'red depth of,water
at the will or its occupants by means of
q patent air arrangement.
II is intended to use this submarine mon
ster. constructed at the order OF the Cuban
iunta, around the coast of Cuba rs soUn
as hoStlities are resumed, mainly for tie
protection OF expeditions bringing men and
ammunition To Cuba. and is said by compe-
tent authorities to lie the most improved
war vessel OF its kind ever constructed
The steamship is to land the Russian in
| ventOr. Petroloff, with his gun and bombs,
on Cuban soil. where his especial work
| will be 10 destroy the trocha, or military
line. that Gen. Weyler has drawn acrpss
the island. 1t is said that within week,
by the skllrul use of his bombs, which
are of deadly composition, containing
structive materials, Petroloff can destroy
.he trocha and ruin its defenscs.
CRUISING IN FRIENDLY WATERS.
Acting under orders from the Junta, the
steamship that left the Chesapeake viii
not go directly to Cuba, but will cruise In
friendly waters until the patriot forces
on the island are ready for cooperation
At present the vessel is supposed 10 be in
the Gulf of Mexico, although no authentic
knowledge of her whereabouts is, of course,
| given out
She left here about September / having
received her cargo al small port OH the
| Chesapeake. Her cargo was shipped over
| land from New York, the submarine boat
| being taken aboard in sections in cases
marked .dry goods I
Cuban sympathizers and agents of the
Junta seen by reporters last night stated
| that they knew nothing. whatever of such
| an expedition leaving this city, but de-
| clined to state whether they knew of Tho
| construction OF n submarine vessel for the
Cuban cause.