The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-05-20
ANOTHER LIFE LOST.
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10 Killed During an En-
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Key West, Fla, May A.-The United
States cruiser Marbiehead, the gunboat
Nashville and the auxiliary cruiser Win
dom, steamed up to the harbpr of Glen
fnegos early Wednesday morning with Or
ders to cut the cable connecting Havana
with Santiago de Cuba. This task was
accomplished, but only after a terrific
fight between our warships and several
thousand Spanish troops which lined the
shore and lay concealed behind impro-
vised breastworks. One man, a seaman
named Regan, of the Marblehead, was
killed outright in one of the working small
ooats ana SIX men were severely wounded.
In addition a large number on board the
ship received minor wounds.
Capt. e. Mcguire of the Window be-
lieves that several of the six badly,
wounded men who were brought to Key
West this morning on the Window can
not recover.
The following is the list of killed and
Killed: :
kEGAN. seaman OF the Marblehead.
Badly wounded:
John Davis Of New York.
John ]. Donran OF Fall River, Mass
Ernest Sunzanickle
Herman w. Hochmeister
Harry Hendrickson. all Of the Marblehead.
Nashville.
Soon after the arrival of the warships
on Cienfuegos, four boats were launched
Sand proceeded in shore for the purpose of
graphing for the cable in order to cut it.
The warships lay to about 1000 yards or
more off the harbor.
1t was observed that the Spanish troops
known that heavy guns had been placed
in masked battery and that the old
lighthouse, far out on neck of land, had
been transformed into q formidable fort.
The small boats proceeded cautiously
and for more than an hour worked unnlo-
Tested on the cable. Suddenly, just as the
work was about completed, the shore bat
terry fred shell at the boats. 1t was fol-
lowed by others and the Spanish infantry
opened fire then, with their rifles.
Then, like fash, the Marblehead sent
shell inland, and followed it with a per-
feet shower of shot.
The Nashville was quick to follow suit,
and the little Window cut loose with her
4-pounders.
In the meanwhile Spanish bullets fell
in every direction around the small boats.
Though the attack had come suddenly
and fiercely, the bluejackets were not dis
mayed, and, protected by the terrific re-
turn fire of the warships, work was con-
tinued and the ca BILE cut.
When the boats returned to the ships,
RegaD, 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.
fered severe loss. Their shots from the
lighthouse struck the warships several
damage, the fire aroused the determina-
ton OF the American officers to exter-
inmate the fort. Thereafter the fire of
the warships was concentrated upon the
lighthouse, and the improyised fort was
blown to pieces. As there were great
numbers of Spaniards in and behind the
fort at the time, there is no doubt that
many of them were killed.
The Marblehead and the Nashville used
their heaviest guns, as we'll as their small
rapid-6re guns, and hundreds of shots
were thrown into the Spanish troops.
On board the ships a number of men
were slightly wounded.
Commander Washburn Maynard of the
Nashville was slightly wounded by spent
bullet
The dispatch adds that the Spanish loss
is estimated at 400 and that of the United
States four killed and four wounded. The
lighthouse was demolished, it is reported,
the arsenal destroyed and the batteries on
shore silenced. The town was set on fire
by shells from the American fleet
Key West, May 14.-When the COM
manders of the Marblehead and the
Nashville called for volunteers to man
the boats and cut the cable the men re-
sponded With jump.
Lieut.. G. MGR. Winslow of the Nash
vile took command of the Nashville
boats.
The shore surrounding the entrance of
the; harbor was first shelled and then the
boats proceeded in. The cable was deep
in the channel and was found with diff
Guilty. One of the relays of the cable
had been cut when the Spaniards opened
fire.
The marines in the boats replied at once
and a machine gun from the forward
launch sent in a stream of bullets, while
heavy shells from the warship drove the
Spaniards from the rife pits at the shore,
many of them seeking refuge in the light
house fort, which was afterwards torn to
pieces by shell from the Window.
With desperate courage the American
sailors remained calmly at their posts and
succeeded in dragging up the second re-
lay of the cable and severing it.
Seven men badly wounded was the
count, and one of them, Regain, died
while on the way back to the ship. Lieut..
Winslow was shot in the hand and a num-
her of others were more or less injured
On the Nashville, Capt. Maynard was
standing forward, with an ensign, when
a Spanish bullet passed through the en-
signs shoulder and struck Maynard on
the chest, wounding him only slightly.
The Marblehead was struck scores of
times by bullets from machine guns and
the Nashville suffered to about the same
extent. The Window also had many
marks of the fray. Her shell blowing
up the lighthouse and scattering the
Spaniards in all directions ended the bat
tie.
Boltz and Hendricks who with four
others of the wounded are at the naval
hospital here, are expected to die. The
remains of Regain were buried at sea.