The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-05-28
@aIs FROM
HAVANA ARRIVE.
|...ands Tried to Get Away on
the French Steamer.
...-s prices Paid for Tickets
~~.,thy Merchants who Were
sfrseken Over the Prospect
a.~baranent ny the Aners-
.~A m Attack ny the 1nsur.
Great ssHerfng In the City.


.w YORK, May 2T.-The Press says:
- che twenty-seyen passengers
- sse British steamer Arecuna. char
- ey sss Ward line. brought here from
..--.-.a ports. were the families OF ref
from Havana. With many others
- .s.zned from Havana 10 Vera Cruz
~ French steamer Lafayette.
=. ,,fagees are Jose otero. his wife
5. ex. children: Alferdo dc La Fertc.
s.. and two children. and Mrs. F. c.
anasanda.
gxy say the Lafayette tried to pur-
-. eoa, but Gen. Bianeo would allow
"a be so.d. The limited supply now
- i. being guarded jealously and at
-. TIE city IL In complete darkness.
- tlec.ric light has been shut down.
= fse.orEss where coal is used as fuel
:, stopped. ssd the gas and water works
=, sorc.d to get along with as little coal
poss.ble. For THIS reason water is
urcs.
sben The Lafayette sailed for Vera
6a there IVES stampede to get out OF
:. dis. Fully 1900 Spanish and Gu
10 hsA obtained passports TO leave. bur
|~uebsan. prices for passage were de-
essd1. and only a part OF them could
Eeard he rate. As II WAS. the Lafayette
|ask In men. women and children away
I'm Havana. all that she was able to
zryy There were thousands left. who
asssh willing TO pay the price asked.
ia rot GET passports. and they ran
~. ike mad men. offering the fortunate
~ twice the amount they had paid for
kx<ss
passenger named xiqnes paid $i.4oo
aszage for himself. wife and two chill
RI Many others paid as high as $1,000
"a and then they were compelled to
IL % the decks or wherever they could
y room 90 lie down. Three miserable
n stre spent on the Lafayette, with
n seanty allowance OF food for each
loaftr. Nearly all the passengers were
10y Spanish merchants In Havana.
4 ssher Cuban citizens. Jose Otero.
n brought bis wife and three daughters
aat city. was formerly connected with
~ government in Havana. He said:
Wen I left Havana. IL was said that
= ianrgan,s were only fifteen miles
- u. city, and at night the lights OF
- camp fires could be seen burning
I " hills From fear OF bombardment
as United States warships and an at
fxts. ard combined attack Is looked
= rssy hour.
ybst IL very scarce and fresh meat
3 EsrceIy be bought at any price.
IL hockade is fe.t more by the poorer
aes and as they are .he ones who
| IN se<n most loyal 70 Spain, the suffer-
\ sMahE them Is the worst"
Mr. O.sro would say little about the
Epan;A sroops In Cuba under Gen. Bian-
10 but nom other passengers 1t was
learned That the army is about as badly
lemoralned and panic-strickcn as the CIV
tEAns ADMIRATION II scarce. and many
n the troops are clothed In rags ana
|vsshoui shoes. Rations are being doled
EN' 10 them sparing.y. but the soldiers
ya'eh carefully al places where provis-
rs are known 10 be stored. and the au-
sAsFiilss will not allow private families
y purchase supplies for more than one
III a. a tine.
. ssner De La Fer;e Is q Cuban OF French
sseef'. who OWES a large plantation near
kAssnA. He said he had brought his
AHsly hers for safety until the war il
-, but a. the outbreak Of the rebellion,
sGfao oarria, f1e manager or his pam
sssh hat raised regiment OF 1900 men
- his ana neighboring plantations ana
ssd The insurgents.
ssaen the Spanish soldiers heard Of IT,"
senor de La Ferte "they marched
e NY Plantation. burning and destroy
everything above ground. We only
" away with cur lives"
shos C. La Fer;e said he did not think
vas ira that the steamer Lafayette
- aanaisd any arms or ammunition
hAfana or that some OF her passen-
~ ssrs French gunners. He said the
around Havana will he able 10 make
avE repiy 10 homoardment. Although
- os TIE guns are modern and in good
800 the supply OF powder and pro-
r.ass Is short.
sae refugees were met AT the Ward
- W ~ Cuban friends living ia this
" a'a given Joyous welcome.