San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-11-09
GETS CAUGHT IN THAT GALE
OFF HATTERAS AND TOSSED
LIKE A FEATHER.
Silver Heels Lands Her CargOlOn
One Of The Bahamas Where A
British Ship Finds Three
FOurthS Of II And
ConfiScateS 1t.

New York, Nov. 9.-The Times says:
The steamer Silver Heel, which in
the early morning of Sunday, October
II, evaded the revenue cutter Chandler,
and put to sea with cargo of arms
and ammunition for the Cuban insur-
gents encountered other dangers, it APP
pears in the now famous expedition
and she had the company in her tribu-
lations OF the tug P. H. Wise.
Michael Moran, owner of the Wise,
. was sure on the day following the de-
parture of the Silver Heels that his
boat was peaceably engaged in the
humdrum work of towing mud scows
to sea. The tug may have taken a
cash tow of the schooner on the morn
ing in question just to help her to an
ofRng, through He'll Gate, or out past
the bar, but if that was the case Cap
tain Cutler had made no report of the
fact.
The Silver Heels was subsequently
reported off the Florida coast, but
nothing more has been heard of her.
quantity of munitions had been found
by British officials on one of the Bahia
ma islands. Whence it came, whittier
bound, was not Known, and in the alb
sence Of an owner IL was confiscated.
1t has just been learned that these
munitions were a part of the Silver
Heels cargo and that the tug p. II.
Wise, a small craft designed for har-
Dor towing, accompanied the doughty
little schooner to the Bahamas and
narrowly escaped being lost with all
on board. The details of the expedition
have not yet come to light.
1t is presumed that the Silver Heels
went to sea by the way of Long Island
sound. If she did it is a fair inference
that the Wise did not tow her to Mon
tauck, for there was fresh wind that
morning from the west and the schoon-
er, racing down the sound before it,
would have been in better position to
tow the tug. They both got to sea
however.
The Silver Heels is a two sticker of
fourteen tons. The p. H. Wise is eigh-
ty-fve feet long and cannot carry
enough coal in her bunkers for sea tow
ing of any great distance. 1t will be
remembered that after the Wise towed
the schooner to pier 81, East River, to
take on her cargo, which had arrived
at the Connecticut factories on the
Bridgeport boat, the Wise withdrew to
the opposite side of the river, apparent
ly to await the loading of her cargo.
There are ciol pockets on the Brooklyn
shore When tugs of the Wise class go
to sea. they pile their decks with coal.
1t is surmised now that the Wise took
on a deckload of coal. She returned
subsequently to the schooner and as
she towed her out into the stream
marshalI's messenger put off at a hot
pace to the battery to notify the United
States Marshal. Mccarthy, who, with
a force of deputies and Pinkerton men
was aboard the cutter. The chase was
a fzzle. The Wise lowed the schooner
down the coast and the trip was with
out incident until this side of Hatteras,
when the wind began to blow and the
seas began to roll over the bows of the
tug and threatened to demolish her
cabin pilot house. They We're catching
the side of the cyclone that tore up the
coast on the rampage about that time.
The little tug rolled and pitched unmer- |
cifully.
The night that followed was a bad |
one for the Wise. The firemen had d.
mculty in keeping the fires up and the |
water out The seas bombarded the |
engine room door and finally tore it
from it's hinges and threw it into the
engine room. 1t struck the engineers
hand and cut off the ends of his fingers. |
The Wise is back here now, but the en-
tire crew has left her.
The Wise coaled at a point in Vir-
ginia and presumably at other places.
eluded the government officials
and survived the storm of that memoir
tinuing for his friend, Capt. Quinlan,
of the Silver Heels. He saw him TO
able night, Capt Cutler was for con-
the little Bahama island and aided in
putting him ashore.
The fleet Dauntless, of filibuster no
toriety, took away about one-fourth of