The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-04-29
GIVEN A RUN BY THE GUIDO.
TWO SHOTS THROUGH HER PILOT
HOUSE BRINGS HER TO.

chase of the Merchantmen Started
nv the Monitor Terror and Four
shots Fired-The Machias Also
,Vakes q Hand and Fires Shot.
The Captive steamer a Rich Prize
Loaded With Money and Sugar.
K West, April 2S.-Aside from the news
of The Matanzas bombardment, which set
the own wild with joy, the event of to-
dav practically marking the end of the
frs week of the war, was the arrival of
the 1 prize, the steamer Guido. She was
ca1 ed by the Terror and the gunboat
Ma sas, ten miles off Cardenas at 4
O'Clock yesterday morning, but not until
after a stern chase Five shots were fired,
four ~ the monitor and one by the gun
boat though the shot from the Macaias
did not take effect. Two of the Terror's
snot- went through the pilot house, and
one struck a long boat and the upper
works
Manuel Rivas, a sailor, was in the pilot
house of the Guido, and the flying splinters
penetrated his breast, inflicting wounds
which may cause his death. He was
brought ashore, and taken to the hospital
this afternoon.
Capt. Kichiondo received a flesh wound
In the wrist from splinter when the shot
went through the pilot house.
The Guido was bound from Corunua to
Havana with a cargo of provisions and
money thought to be for the Spanish
troops.
The Terror. first sighted her, and began
the pursuit by sending blank shot across
her bows.
The Spaniards promptly put out all her
lights and started in a desperate attempt
to run away.
The monitor then brought her six-pound-
ers into play, and sent three more shots
directly al her, all finding the mark. She
also trained her big twelve-inch guns On
the Guido prepared to sink her if the
Spaniards did not heaxe to.
Meanwhile, the Machias had come up,
and sent a shot from a four-inch rifle at
the fugitive.
Capt Klchiondo, seeing that he had two
such powerful enemies to combat, surrea-
dered.
Hubbard and two marines were put on
board as a prize crew, and brought the
steamer into Key West.
AS soon as Capt. Kichiondo and mis- crew
learned of the conditions existing in Cuba,
they asked to be landed there.
The Guido Is a steel screw steamer Of
S,13S tons gross and 2,872 net. She was
built by Harland & Wolfe of Belfast, and
Is registered by Lloyds as Al. She is
owned by "Laflecha," is $50 feet long, Al
feet wide, and has a depth of twenty-six
feet. Her port of registry is Bilboa. The
vessel and cargo are said to be valued at
$500, 900. She carried a crew of thirty-siX
All prizes still lie in the harbor, and, ac-
cording to instructions received by United
States District Attorney Stripping to-day
from the department of justice, will re-
main there indefinitely. These instructions
were to the effect that the crew and pas
sengers of the Panama, which carried four
14-pound guns and which was captured
by the Mangrove, should be held as pris-
oners of war. The crews of the other
prizes are. also to be detained aboard until
further orders, and will be allowed no COM
munica ton with the shore.
1t is conceded that whatever the result
of the Presidents proclamation may be, 1T
will not affect the Panama, which was an
auxiliary cruiser.
1t is reported to-day that a box thought
TO be from one of the magazines of the
Maine had been found off the southeast
point, twenty-six miles from here, but
nothing is known of the circumstances at
the naval station.
The Indiana arrived this afternoon from
the Tortugas, where she has been coahng.