Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1898-05-21
SPANTARDS WERE IN AMBUSH.
Had Erected Strong Fortified lions
and Masked Batteries.

una hnskeu batteries.
Key West, May 1.-THE United States /
cruiser Marblehead, gunboat Nashville |.
and auxiliary cruiser Window steamed |
up to the harbor OF Cienfuegos Wednes- .
day morning with orders to cut the cable
connecting Havana with Santiago de
Cuba. This task was accomplished. but
only after terrific fight between our
warships and several thousand Spanish
troops, which lined the shore and were
concealed behind improvised breasLworks,
Soon after the arrival of the Warships
/ off Genfuegos, four boats were launched
and proceeded inshore for the purpose of
! graphing for the cable in order to cut it,
The warships lay to about 1000 yards or
more oil the harbor 1t was observed
that the Spanish troops had assembled
along shore but it was not known that
heavy guns had been placed in masked
batteries and that the old lighthouse bat
teries on the neck Of land had been trans
formed into a formidable fort.
The small boats proceeded cautiously
and for more than an hour worked unmo-
Tested ON the cable. When the work was
about completed a shore battery fired
a shell at the boats 1t was followed by
others and the Spanish infantry opened
fire then with their rifles Then like
flash the Marblehead sent a shell in
land and followed it with a perfect shower
of shot Then the Window cut loose
with her 4-pounder.
In the meanwhile Spanish bullets flew
in every direction around the small boats.
The blue jackets were not dismayed, and
protected by the terrific return fire by
the warships, the work was continued and
the cable cut.
! When the boats returned to the ships,
Regain, who was in one of the Marble
heads boats, of which there were two,
was found to have been killed. Six men
were badly wounded.
The Spaniards had by this time sui
/ lighthouse struck the warships several
! times and although they did not do much
damage, the fire aroused the determine
ton of the American officers to eXtermin-
ate the forts. Thereafter, for a moment
the fire of the ships was concentrated
on the lighthouse and the improyised fort
was blown to pieces. As there were
/ great numbers of the Spanish in and be
hind the fort at the time, there IS no
doubt that many of them were killed.
/ Nar1,yi11n ,IcaI tbai,,
heaviest guns as well as their small rapid
firing guns and an hundred shots were
thrown into the Spanish troops.
The Dead and wounded.
Washington, May 1.-THE following
telegram came to the navy department
this afternoon from Commodore Remey:
key West, May l4.-Secretary of the
Navy: The Window arrived this morn
ing with the following dead or wounded:
Patrick Regain, private marine, dead.
Herman w Kuchneister, private ma
rine, shot through the jaw, probably ia
tally.
Harry Hendrickson, seaman, shot
through the liver, probably fatal
Ernest Suntenic, apprentice, fracture of
the right leg.
John j. DOran, boatswain's mate, gun
shot in the right bullock.
JOSH Davis, gunner's mate, wound in
the right leg.
William Levery, apprentice, wound in
the left leg.
Robert Voltz, seaman on the Nashville,
severely wounded.
Lieutenant Cameron, of the Window,
slightly wounded in the hand.
The casualties occurred in cutting the
cable at Cienfuegos. REME4."