Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-05-26
THE DANDYs PERlLous JOURNEY.
Newspaper Boats Run from Florida to jamaica
10 Find News Of the Squadron's Movements


An Associated Press copyright DIS
patch from Montego Bay. Jamaicu'
under date of May 25, says
After a journey of almost a thou
sand miles through blindinG ram
and seas which almost ceaselessiy
swept the deck from stem to stern
the Associated Press boat DANDY
steamed into Montego bay snort Oh
fuel and destitute of water, and with
scarcely an hour to spare. The water
tank was wrenched open by the cease
ly straining by a choppy sea ana hau
been drained of Its contents 80 hours
before land was sighted; and the coal
bunkers, amptied by an unexpected
long and hard cruise, were cleared III
most TO the planking. when rift
the fog revealed the shore OF Jaihhiu"
to the anxious captain ard crew. an
other three hours would have LETT the
sturdy little 100 ton boat helplessly
adrift on the sea. for she mas hot
mnsts to aid her in such an emersch-
cy. When the port was reached now
ever. il was found that the damage 10
the tank could be quickly repaired;
The Dandy sailed from Key west
early last Friday in pursuit OF com.
modore Schley, who had LETT almost
% hours before 1t was believed az
Key West that Cienfuegos was MS
destination; but without definite intor-
nation the Dandy was compelled TO go
far out of direct course IN order 10
speak the blockadinS squadron on
Havana. The run to the beleaguered
city was pleasant, but the quest was
frultless, for not one OF Colnmonprt
Watson's ships had seen a spnr OF the
flying squadron.
Captain Murphy of the Dandy looked
grave over the prospect of nm unes-
rorted cruiser to Cienfuegos, where oD-
timing coal would he impossible.whlle
the Dandy's shortage OF coal would
make her escape from the sphilsH
gun boats known TO be at Clenfuegos
extremely doubtful.
Early Saturday morning the sight
Ing of n battleship set all eye strain
ing to the northward at the unpleasant
possibility of meeting Il Spanish man
of war. II added to the satisfaction
which resulted when the ship was
recognized as the United States bat
tleship Iowa, for she Ind left Key West
the day after Commodore Schley's de-
parturc, and was evidently on her way
to n rendezvous with the fleet. short
" after noon the United states tor
pedo boat Dupont, which had been
left at Key West with Rear Admiral
Sampson. came racing from the north
ward and delivered message TO the
Iowa. A..
Without the loss of q moment the
formidable little craft rushed on to-
ward Cienfuegos and the battleshlp
with increasing speed headed Tor IN,
waters between Cape San Antonio ana
the Isle of Pines.
When. at nlghtfall. the entrance 20
the passage was reached, she veered
off with the evident intention OF pa
trolling between the cape and the
island, and there was nothing for the
Dandy to do but to go on alone. sun,
day night the weather roughened anc
before Monday the damage to the tank
which SO nearly resulted seriously oc-
CURED. The water in the forward
tank was already exhausted, and wher
mt noon on Sunday the chief engineer
found the after tank dry, the prospec
ahead of the Dandy was not tbs
brightest. Hard driving against
heavy sea had eaten up her ccal al
most twice as rapidly as had been an
tlcipated and with little fuel and NJ
water the chase after Schley wal
abandoned and the race for safety be
gan.
Montego Bay was the nearest friend
ly port and for that the boat headed
The tank of drinking water was nj
most empty and the small supply o
mineral waters on board was dealt gu
sparlngly among 10 thirsty men. TIL
weather grew decidedly worse and b
Monday morning the Dandy wa
plunglng through binding tropica
rain with squalls which alternate
with dense mists and rendered tn
lookout almost useless.
Captain Ne rphy had counted o
reaching the coast of Jamaica abou
o'clock In the afternoon: and tn
chief engineer, who had been using Sc
water In the boilers since Sunday. an
nounced that the Dandy had Just tw
more hours running in her and tina
some of her woodwork would have I
be burned to make that. The capital
went over his reckoning for errors an
every man constituted himself look
put, for the prospect of helpless drift
Ing In that tumbling sea was not we
come.
II was almost five o'clock when tn
fog lifted for an instant and Shove
the shore not two minutes later. ]
leys than an hour the Dandy swung
anchor in the quiet waters OF Montel
Bay. and ere the morning she WI
rapidly getting in seagolng shape.