The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-05-15
Soldiers and Batteries Try to Stop
the Work.
SHELL KILLS SPANIARDS.
Cable Cutters Went In Small Boats
From GunhOdtS.
The fighting at Cienfuegos: Copyright, 1898,
by the Associated Press.

Ihe nghting at ClenfuegoS: Copyright, 1888,
by the Associated Press.
Key West. Fla, May 1.-THE United
States cruiser Marblehead, the gunboat
Nashville and the auxiliary cruiser Win
dom steamed up to the harbor early
Wednesday morning with orders to cut the
cable connecting Havana with Santiago de
Cuba.
This task was accomplished, but only
after terrific fight between our warships
and several thousand Spanish troops which
lined the shore and lay concealed behind
improvised breastworks.
One man, seaman named Reagan, of
the Marblehead, was killed in one of the
working small boats and six men severely
wounded.
In addition a large number on board the
ship>recelved minor wounds.
Capt s. e. Mcguire of the Window be-
lieves that several Of the six badly wound
ed men who were brought to Key West
this morning on the Window cannot re-
cover.
The following is the list Of killed and
BADLY wounded:
Killed:
- REAGAN, seaman of the Marble
head.
Badly wounded:
JOHN DAVIS. of New York.
JOHN j. DOORAN, of Fall River. Mass.
ERNEST SUNTZEANICKLE.
HERMAN WOCHNEISTER.
HARRY HENDRICKsoN. all of the
Marblehead.
ROBERT BOLTZ, of Cartaret county.
North Carolina, of the Nashville.
Soon after the arrival Of the 'warships off
| Cienfuegos, four boats were launched and
proceeded in shore for the purpose of
graphing for the cable in order to cut 1t.
| The warships lay to about 1000 yards or
more off the harbor.
| It was observed that the Spanish troops
had assembled ashore, but 1t was not
| known that heavy guns had been placed
| in a masked battery and that the old
| lighthouse, far out on a neck of land, had
been transformed into formidable fort.
When the commanders of the Marble
head and Nashville called for volunteers
TO man the boats and cut the cable the
men responded with jump.
Lieut. C. MGR. Winslow of the Nash
Vile took command of the Nasvllle's $
| boats.
The shore surrounding the entrance of
the harbor was first shelled and then the
boats proceeded in. The work Of finding
the cable was slowly and cautiously pro-
ceeded with. The cable was deep in the
channel and found with difficulty.
One of the relays of the cable had been
cut when the Spaniards opened fire.
The marines in the boats replied at once,
and machine gun from the forward
launch sent in stream of bullets, white
heavy shells from the warship drove the
spaniards from the rifle pits on the shore,
many Of them seeking refuge in the light
house fort, which was afterward torn TO
pieces by shell from the Window.
AS there were great numbers OF Span
iards in and behind the fort at the time.
there is no doubt that many Of them were
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killed.
With desperate courage the American
sailors remained calmly at their posts and
succeeded In dragging up the second relay
Of the cable and severing 1t.
Seven men badly wounded was the
count and one Of them, Reagan, died while
en- the way back to the ship. Lieut..
Winslow was shot in the hand and num-
Der 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 Capt. May
nard on the chest, near the heart. wound
ing 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 aIso had many marks OF
the fray
Her she'll blowing up the light
house and scattering the spaniards In ali
directions ended the battle.
BoItz and Hendrickson, who, with -four