The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-01-29

Y IlSuI StIlu WCAL Oul pS l4OtlS Island sound, We had excellent wealth CT until Sunday, when it began to get rough. On Monday morning early the vessel sprang aleak. The waves and wind just opened her seams, Pumps Were manned, but they soon checked 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 then the costly arms and ammuni- tion. It broke our hearts to throw these arms away, but we had to keep the ves- sel afioat somehow. Gradually tlfe Hawkins settled down, and at 11:30 o'clock on Monday morning we took to the boats 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-fve miles south-southeast of Barnegat and the sea was very wild.'
 Captain Denyse said the men saved absolutely nothing but two valises of bank notes. These were in the posses sion of General Garcia.
 Jose c. Hernandez, one of the men brought here on the Dalzell to-day, states that there were 120 filibusters on the Hawkins All were Cubans. In ad- dition there was crew of sixteen. The ship was commanded by Captain Hall There were ITO men prepared to go to Cuba, but fifty were left behind be- cause the Hawkins could not carry them. There was a great quantity of medicine stores and surgical instru- ments on board. There was also san- itary corps, consisting of eight physi- clans. They were all Cubans, but most of them graduates of medical colleges in American-in New York.
 The cargo included two Hotchkiss guns, 1,2OO Remington and Winchester rifles and 100000 rounds of ammuni- ton.
 Tn addition to this there were 5000 pounds of dynamite and a lot of raw material for making heavy explosives. Calixto Garcia was in command of the revoiutionists and his son, Carlos Gar cia, was second in command. General Rosa was also on board.
 | Hernandez says that six men were drowned while trying to get into the last two boats which left the Hawkins. One of the drowned was chemist who intended to make heavy explosives in Cuba.
 The Hawkins went down twenty min- utes after the men left her. The only member of the crew of the Hawkins that was picked up by the Beebe was Crowley. He declared that all the men were saved and that not a man was lost. When the Beebe picked the men up they were in double-end whaleboats which could could live in any sea.
 A batch of twenty-five of the rescued men arrived late tonight on a train from Boston. Among them was Lieu tenant Antonio Maria Caina, who is a brother of lawyer in this city. He estimated the loss of men at from six to nine. He could not give any of their names He said that the real trouble began Sunday afternoon when the flaw kins was struck by a head sea. She was | so laden down by her heavy cargo and the weight of her passengers that the sea broke over her decks and got into the hold. The load of water thus ac- cumulated sunk her still lower. | Captain Denyse of the tug Dalzell as- serted tonight that the Hawkins was absolutely unseaworthy.
 At the headquarters of the Cuban Junta here, it was declared tonight that the Hawkins was mot a fiibuster as far as they knew. They said the story was started by the Pinkerton men because they had been unable to catch the Garcia party.
 Many shipping men do not believe the Hawkins was a filibuster. They think she was bought by the Cuban junta to throw the Spanish off the track of the real filibuster, which will soon be heard from at some point off Cuba
 Boston, Jan. 2S-A Globe special from New Bedford, Mass, says thirteen of the survivors of the wreck of steamer J. W. Hawkins, being part of the boat load saved by schooner Alice B. Crosby, reached that city tonight Four were Americans and nine Cubans. After havlng supper they left for New York | by train. As the Cubans could talk no
 English it was difficult to obtain any in- formation from them. Although osten- slbly fitted out for the Bermudas the Hawkins was really bound for Cuba and she was loaded deep with stores and ammunition for the insurgents. When
 the boat was picked up by the schooner Alice B. Crosby the occupants made frantic jumps for the vessel. Ten of the poor fellows were unable to secure a
 hold on her side, fell into the sea and were sucked under with the undertow Several others narrowly escaped a simi- 1 lar fate
 | H. M. Clarity, who shipped as as- slstant steward of the Hawkins, said
 there was ID use in denying that they were bound on a filibustering expedi-
 ton, although the crew were not SUD- | posed to know anything about it. 1 Fireman Thomas Kelley, who was, he says, the only man saved out of the engineering department, said he was not told the nature of the trip when
 he was shipped. The men were prom ised good wages, which was sufficient ! lnducement to ask no questions The two American seamen saved with the
 party which was picked up by the Alice
 B. Crosby are named Henry Nelson and
 Frederick Thompson.
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