The herald., 1898-04-30
CUBAN REFUGEES
Carried in a Collier to the English
Possessions

Possessions
KINGSTON, jamaica April 90 The !
German steamer Remus from Hamburg |
for Baltimore, touched at Port Antonio, !
| this island, early today and landed there
forty-four German, Cuban, British and
American refugees from Santiago dc Cuba. |
They will be detained j. short time in
quarantine to comply VIII the law and will
be brought to Kingston by train this after
noon.
The Remus. which is loaded with iron
ore, agreed to take the passengers as an
act of charity and run out of it's course TO
Port Antonio, in order to land them.
The refugees are mostly women and |
children, many of them persons of refine
ment.
There was no accommodate for them on |
board the Remus, and therefore they were |
compelled to lie on deck all night and they |
had nothing to eat as the steamer was not |
provisioned for so many people. The refu-
gees, not having had any breakfast, were |
very hungry when they arrived, and were |
worn out by their comfortless night at |
sea. One of them said: I'VE may as well |
starve here as there. The Spanards have |
attached all the food in Santiago de Cuba |
for the army and the civil population of |
that city, about 0,000 persons is almost en-
tirely without provisions.
Many of the children and women on the |
Remus were sick from lack of food. Pu-
laski D. Hyatt, the United States Consul |
at Santiago de Cuba, who left there some |
time ago for Jamaica under instructions |
from Washington, came to the rescue of !
the refugees, and at his own expense |
caused shelter to be prepared for all of
them on the wharf where they landed. |
The refugees confirm the reports that the
Spaniards are abandoning the small cities
and the plantations which they have been
guarding, burning the plantation buildings
before leaving them. The insurgents
activity has greatly increased recently |
owing to the news that they have re-
ceived from the United States. and they
are raiding UP to the very outworks of
Santiago de Cuba and Gunataumo.
The city of Santiago de Cuba, when the |
refugees left, was in a state of semi |
panic, fearing the blockade of the port by
the United States fleet. There was about
5000 Spanish troops there and in the vi
cinity. But food excepting army supplies,
was running low. The agents of the in
surgents communicated daily with the city
of Santiago de Cuba.
of Santiago de Cuba, in it's issue of yester-
day, printed the following telegram from
Havana, received over the submarine lines
around the island:
"a dispatch dated from Washington gives
| the assurance that Havana will not be
bombarded. This, it is said, has tranquil
lied the city of Havana
Mr.. Hyatt left fifty tons of provisions in
the United States Consulate at Santiago de
Cuba and 100 tons of supplies, which had
just arrived in the Custom House. The
British Consul to Santiago, acting for the
United States, has distributed the fifty
tons of provisions which were left in the
consulate, but he has not been able to get
the 100 tons of provisions stored in the
Custom House, owing to the technical de-
vices adopted by the Spaniards to prevent
him from doing so.
These provisions, which consist of flour,
corn meal and rice, have not yet been con-
fiscated by the Spanish, 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
saluting the Commodore at Porto 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 engage
ment.
The Spanish steamer Leonora arrived at
Porto Royal last evening from Manzanillo,
having on board twenty refugees, ,nclud-
ing several Americans
At Port Antonio the crew of the Ameri-
can schooner Mary Sandford of Wellfieet,
Mass, has refused to take her out of the
harbor, fearing capture by the Spaniards
Women Refugees
SAVANNAH, Ga, April 29.-The Nor
wegian steamer Orange arrived this morn
ing from Matanzas. She had on board
fifty Cuban refugees, women and children,
but no men. She was boarded by a crew
from the United States cruiser Cincinnati
after she left Matanzas The Orange is
now in quarantine.
A Horrible Condition
KINGSTON, April 29-Among the pas
sengers arrived here was English Consul
Ransom accompanied by his family. The
| refugees report a terrible state of affairs
at Santiago, and say horrible starvation
stared people in the face, as the provisions
have all been confiscated for the army