The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-06-21
HAVANA GETS MO SUPPLIES.
Report Brought By Messengers From
Insurgent Camp.

Kew West. Fla, June 20-A vessel
arrived here from the blockade this
morning and reported all quiet along
the line. She brought an officer of the
Cuban army and pilot. who are car
rving important dispatches to Senior
Estrada, Palma of the Cuban junta
from General Alexandra Rodriguez,
the insurgent commander of Havana
nrovince. The CubanS were taken on
board on Saturday last from an aux
iliary gunboat, which had picked them
up.
gave a very interesting account of their
experiences. After leaving the inSur-
gent camp they made their way INTO
the city of Havana, spent several days
there. proceeded to a small Inlet IN
the neighborhood, stole small boat
and rowed out to sea in the nope OF
coming across an American vessel
They were three days in the boat be-
fore they were picked up. The Cubans
report that there are no supplies OF
rice. maize, potatoes or eggs in Ha-
vana. Flour, they say, costs 90 cents
per pound, and the army has been
placed on half rations.
The Cubans also report that lard is
selling at 80 cents, rice at 20, beans at
/ % and meat at IS cents per pound, and
a,
! horses of private families, stores and
| livery stables have been confiscated by
! order of General ArolaS, the military
! governor of Havana, for the use or
! the troops. There is hardly any traffic
| in the streets of Havana, and groups
/ of more than two persons are not al
/ lowed 10 lOiter on street corners. Inc
| street railway companies, whose cars
are drawn by horses, are obliged TO run
a car every hour, instead of every five
/ minutes, as heretofore, as the horses
! of the company have been taken by
/ the government.
The messengers class as false the re-
port that vessels have succeeded in en-
/ tering Havana harbor with supplies.
/ They assert that since the blockade
began only three small fishing vessels
/ have entered the harbor, and that no
| food whatever is received from Glen
/ fuegos.
The Cubans confirm the report that
work on the defenses of Havana is pro-
ceeding steadily. Two lines of torpe-
does extend across the mouth of the
harbor, which is said to be further
| protected by two automobile torpedoes,
one at each side, dischargeable by
| pressing a button. The only war yes
Sells in the harbor of Havana are small
/ gunboats and the Alfonso XII.
| The trocha. from Guanabacoa, Paula
| Vira and Minergua, to Puenta dc Ia
!, Cherrerea, thickly studded with forts
and roundhouses, protects the roads to
Havana New batteries which have
been built just east of MORO Castle
are known as No. l and No. 4, the
latter being closest to Morro No. 4
has three Ordnez 11-inch guns mount
ed and No. has one gun mounted and
two guns ready to be placed in position
of the same caliber Two other new
batteries have been constructed ON
either side of the mouth of the River
Almandarez, west of Santa Clara, and
the Reina batteries are also provided
with heavy ordnance. 1t is also re-
ported that there are $500 armed Gu
bans in Havana province, pitted
against $4,000 well equipped Spaniards.
The health of the Cubans in Havana
province is excellent. Their camp is
i situated at Zeana.
An auxiliary gunboat off Cardenas
has been visited by a Cuban officer
from the shore, who reported that
place to be besieged by the insurgents
on the east and the warships in the
front. He made the statement that in
two weeks the whole population OF
Cardenas would be starving. The Gu