The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-06
Lively Time at the Landing of a
Small Expedition.
ONE BULL'S-EYE SLOT
WILMINGTON DIDN'T DO a
THING TO SPANIARDS.
Sudden Disappearance of a Block
house and Soldiers As If They
Had Been Swallowed Up-Com-
munication Established With In
surgents-our Side Uninjured.

[ New York, May 5-The Mail and Ex-
press Key West correspondent cables
| the following account of a landing of
a small expedition from the tug Ley
don in Cuba, consisting of General
! AcoSta and FIVE Cuban scouts, under
/ the leadership Of Captain Dorst, U.
I S. A:
! The tug left Key West Monday after
noon, ard at daybreak yesterday her
men made the first attempt to land an
interpreter to confer with a party of
Cuban insurgents, who were waiting on
the beach.
While this conversation was being
| held, the people of the Leyden discov-
cred so Spanish cavalrynen coming
down from a hill toward the shore. as
| If accommodating.
The Leyden signalled danger to the
insurgents and the latter took to the
| bushes. Up to that time eight cases
of Winchester rifles had been landed.
Seeing the cavalrymen, the Leyden's
boat returned alongside. lying about
quarter of a mile off shore. The cav
alrymen levelled rifles at the tug, but
hesitated about firing. The insurgents
in the meantime had opened fire. driv-
ing the cavalry back up the hill, the
latter firing as they fed.
Inducements. They paid no attention
to the insurgents. but began a sharp
fusilade at the tug.
BULLETS THICK AND FAST.
Bullets flew around the tug so fast
that the lookout aft came down. The
Hayden, seeing no chance to land the
men she had landed and steamed back
to the flagship off Havana, reporting
it would be impossible to land the
cargo unless protected.
The gunboat Wilmington was imme-
diately ordered 10 help the Leyden. On
returning to the landing point, the VIII
mington held off shore about mile
and half, the Leyden going close in
to the beach. The tug was slgcailed
by the insurgents that the coast was
clear.
Manned by four men, boat then
left the Leyden with ammunition and
two large boxes of dynamite. When
short distance from the beach. man
aloft o. the Leyden sang out that the
cavalry were coming down to the beach
again II strong force.
WILMINGTON'S FIRE.
The Leyden then signalled the Will
mington, and the latter came triffe
closer to shore and with stern facing
the beach, fired four shots from her
four-inch rapid-fire guns. The cavalry
men retreated, and the boats cargo was
then landed
While waiting to attack the cavalry
men, the Wilmington fired at block
house further down the beach. There
were some so Spanish regulars sitting
on top of this block house, watching the
Leyden and the insurgents.
The Wilmington's first shot went
wild. The twelfth and last shot hit the
bull's-ey When the smoke cleared
away, the block house, the men and all
had disappeared as though swallowed
up. The Spanish colors that had flown
from the house were seen high up in
a tree where a shot had driven them.
The Leyden and Wilmington returned
to the flagship and the former then
came here. There are dozens of holes
in the tugs smokestack from the bull
lets Of the cavalrymen.
ARRIVAL OF THE TUG.
Key West, Fla, May 5.-10:40 am
The United States dispatch boat Ley
den, sent to Cuba by the United States
government early in the week, re-
turned at O'Clock this morning with
four of the six Cuban scouts who left
were landed with those who have re-
turned, and communication was estab-
lished with the insurgent forces under
General Pedro Delgado.
The Leyden was twice fired upon.
She has shot marks on her smoke
stacks. The Spaniards who opened fire
on the dispatch boat were driven back
by the insurgents.
1875 p-m.-It is officially reported
that rome of the Americans or Cubans
of the expedition were killed or
wounded.