The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-04-30
REruGEEs PROM CUBA.
over -Four Hundred Starving People
Taken to- Port Antonio.

Taken to- Port Antonio.
Copyright. 1898. by the Associated Press.)
KINGSTON, jamaica April 29.--The Ger
man steamer Remus, from Hamburg for
Baltimore, touched at Port Antonio, this
island. early to-day. and landed there AL
German, Cuban, British and American ref
ugees from Santiago de Cuba. The Remus,
which is loaded with iron ore,l agreed with
Brooks Bros, of Santiago de Cuba, to take
the passengers as an act of charity and run
out Of its course to Port Antonio in order
TO land them. The refugees are mostly
women and children, many of them persons
OF refinement. There was no accommoda-
uon for them on board the Remus, and
therefore they were compelled to stay on
deck all night. and they had nothing to
eat as the ship was not provisioned for SO
many people The refugees, not having had
any breakfast, were very hungry when they
arrived, and were worn out by their COM
fortress night at sea. One of them said:
We may as well starve here as there. The
Spaniards have attached all the food in
santiago de Cuba for the army, and the
civil population of that city, about twenty
thousand persons, is almost entirely without
provisions. Many Of the children and wom-
en- on the Remus were sick from lack OF
1000. PulaSh u. Hyatt the United States
consul at Santiago de Cuba, who left there
some time ago for Jamaica, under instruc-
tons from Washington. came to the rescue
Oh the refugees, and at his own expense
caused dinner to be prepared for all of
them on the wharf where they landed
The refugees confirm the reports that the
oPahiards are abandoning the small cities
ana the plantations which they have been
guarding. burning the plantation buildings
before leaving them. The insurgents activ-
lty mas greatly increased recently evidently
owing to the news they have received from
oVn rai1 limo nm
and Guanabacoa.
The city of Santiago de Cuba, when the
.e1ugees lett, was in state of semi -panic,
fearing the blockade of the port by the
United States fleet. There were about Is 900
spanish troops there and in the city; but
low The agents of the insurgents commu-
nlcate daily with the city of Santiago de
The Bandera Espanola, daily newspaper
or 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 Ha-
vana will not be bombarded. This, it is
sald, has tranquilized the city of Havana"
Mr.. Hyatt left fifty tons of provisions in
the United States consulate at Santiago de
CuDa and one hundred tons of supplies,
which had just arrived, in the custom house.
The British consul al 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 one hundred tons of provisions stored
in the custom house, owing to the technical
devices adopted by the Spaniards to prevent
him from doing SO. These provisions which
consist Of -four corn meal and rice, have
not yet been confiscated by the Spaniards,
but it is said that this will probably be
done before long
The Spanish steamer Leanora arrived at
Port Royal last evening from Manzaniilo,
having on board twenty refugees, including
several Americans.
At Port Antonio the crew of the American
schooner Marie Sanford, of Wellfeet, Mass,
has refused to take her out of the harbor,
fearing CAPTURE by the Standards