The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-06-06
NEWS FROM SANTIAGO
RESTRICTED TO REPORTS OF SHIP
CAPTAINS
TORPEDO BOAT TERROR SUNK
Food Grows Scarce on Cervera's Fleet
and the Men Are Put on Short
Rations


Associated Press Special Wire
KINGSTON, Jamaica, June 5, p. M
Copyrighted. 1898, by the Associated Press)
A dispatch from Port Antonio says:
"A vessel that has arrived here from
Santiago de Cuba reports that the Ameri-
cans sunk on Friday night the Spanish tor
pedo boat destroyer Terror"
The assumption, based upon dispatches
from Madrid, has been that the destroyer
Terror, after leaving Fort De France, went
to Porto Rico, and it is probable that the
Port Antonio dispatch confuses her with
her sister destroyer. the Furor, as has sew
eral times been done in dispatches from
other points.
A Reported Battle
| CAPE HAYTIEN, Hayti, June 5, TAO p.
m.-The United States troop ship Resolute,
formerly the Yorktown, under convoy Of
the torpedo boat destroyer Mayfower, the
converted Ogden Goelet's yacht Of the
same name, arrived at Mole St. Nicholas
yesterday and departed shortly after.
Advces from Mole st. Nicholas say that
yesterday afternoon Saturday some dis
lance off Jean Rabel, a seaport on the
northwest coast Of Hayti, half way be-
tween Port de PaiX and Mole St. Nicholas,
a combat took place between three Spanish
and four American warships.
The American ships are said to have
withdrawn from the combat. One of the
Spanish warships entered the harbor Of
Jean Rabel for water. The officers of the
ship lying at Mole st. Nicholas were ex-
tremely reticent.
Jean Rabel is an insignificant seaport, and
there is no Geographic station there. 1t Is
thought possible that the Spanish ships
encountered were the vanguard of the Ca
dir fleet. The names of the American ships
are not ascertained but it is believed here
that they were scout boats.
Food Grows Scarce
PORT AU PRINCE, June 5, p. H.
copyrighted. 1898, by the Associated
Press.> According to the latest advices
from Santiago de Cuba there were not more
than seventeen ships in the offing all day,
and It IS believed there that three missing
vessels have gone for provisions and mu-
nitons Of war. At 6 o'clock this afternoon
the Haytien steamer Nouveile Vodredgue
arrived here from Cape Hayten, after
touching at all ports along the coast. She
reports that yesterday at Mole st. Nicho-
las she saw the United States troop ship
Resolute awaiting instructions. The vessel
passengers on the Nouvelle Voldregue that
the Resolute had been pursued between
Jan Rabel and Mole St. Nicholas by two
Spanish corvettes.
From the same source it Is learned that
Admiral Cerveras squadron in its entirety
is not in the port of Santiago de Cuba, but
that only cruiser, supposed to be the
Cristobal Colon, one torpedo boat and two
o,1yi1iarv rruiSprS are there.
dispatch from a government source at
Port Au Prince says:
"A Haytien informant, now in Santiago
de Cuba, cables that the restitution there
has greatly increased since the lombard
ment began, and the military commander
has been forced to reduce the rations of the
soldiers, among whom there is much discon-
tent"
There has been no direct communication
from Santiago thus far today.