The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-05-06
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Kinsstoa. Jamaica, April 90. -Th. Ger.
man steamel RemMs from Hamburg for
Baltimore. touched az Pert Antonio. this
island. carly today. Z nd Ia nded there AL
German, Cuban. British and American.
refugees from Santiago de Cuba. They
will be detained . short time IN quaran-
tine. to comply with the law, and will be
brought to Kingston " train this aftet.
aoon. 81 Il q. /. ~ .z3sss:s
are, agreed with Brooks Bros. 81 Santiago
De Cuba. 10 take passengers as an act OF
charity and run, out OF her course 10 Port
Antonio. in order 10 land them. r. =.
The refugees are mostly women and
children, many Of them persons Of refine.
ment., There was no accommodation for
Them on board the Remus, and therefore
they were compelled TO stay on deck all
They had nothing to eat, as the steam
r was not provisioned for so many peo-
pie. The refugees were very hungry when
they arrived and were worn out by their
som fortress night ct sea. zs-E > s~..s, .sse
One Of them said I'VE may as we'll
starve here as, there: The spaniards
Cuba for the army, aud the civil popula-
lion OF, that city, about 10000 persons, lis
almost entirely without provisions" >, ,,"-
/ Many of the children and women on
the Remns were sick FROM lack of food.
Pulaski D.: Hyatt. the United States
consul at Santiago de Cuba, who left
instructiahss from~.W Washington Ito,
The rescueof the refugees, and at his own
expense caused dinner to be prepared for
aM OF them ls on the wharf where they
lan0ed.TS *Es E$ j
The refugees confirm the reports that
the Spaniards are abandoning the small
cute. aSn and .the plantations which they have
buildings before leaving them. Z
The insurgents activity has greatly in
creased recently, owing to the news that
they have received from the United
States. and they are raiding up to the
very outworks Of Santiago de Cuba and
Guantamo.
The city of Santiago de Cuba, when
the refugees left. was in state of semi
panic, fearing the blockade of the port
by the United States feet. There were
about Is, GOO Spanish troops there and in
the vicinity. But food, excepting army
supplies. is running low. The agents
Of the insurgents communicate daily with
the city of Santiago de Cuba. :
per of Santiago de Cuba, in its issue of
Yesterday, printed the following telegram
from Havana, received over the subma-
rine lines around the island:
"A dispatch dated from Washington
gives the assurance that Havana will not
be bombarded This. it is said, has tran
quilted the city of Havana" p
Ara HoltliaE Pro Visions.
Mr.. Hyatt left fifty tons Of provisions
in the United States consulate at Santi-
ago de Cuba, and 100 tons of supplies,
which had just arrived, in the custom
house. The British consul at Santiago
acting for the United States has 1istrib.
uted the fifty tons Of provisions which
we're left in the consulate, but he has not
been able to get the 100 tons OF proyi-
sions stored in the custom house, owing
to the technical devices adopted by the
Standards to prevent him from so doing.
Those provisions, which consist of -four.
cornmeal and rice, have not vet been con.
6scated by the Spaniards, but it is said
that this will probably be done before
long. .
The British third-class cruiser Pearl ar
rived here today. The sound of her guns
salutingE the commodore at Port Royal
made the population believe that naval
battle was taking place outside the har-
Dor, and crowds of people ran. down to
the beach expecting to witness the en-
gagemenf. g" '>;1s
The Spanish steamer Leonora arrived
at Port Royal last evening from Manza-
Milo: having on board twenty refugees,
including several Americans.
AT Port Antonio, the crew of the Amer
lean schooner Mary Sanford of Well
fleet, Mass, has refused to take her out
of the harbor fearing capture by the Span
| iards, -"