Arizona republican., 1898-06-23
ENGINEERS ARE ENGLISH.

Key West, June 22-William Thompson the steward of the British collier Twick- enham. which was captured off Kings ton, Jamaica, on June 10. by the auxil- iary curiser St. Louis, said to repre- sentative of the Associated Press: '"The steamer and, believe, the cargo, are owned by Watts, Watts & Co.,. of Lon don. We sailed from Newo oastle-on-Tyne day after war had been declared. None of the crew knew that war had been de- clared, and I don't know whether the captain did. Our destination was St.
 Thomas for orders. We reached St. Thomas May Is and received orders to proceed to Martinique and report to the Spanish counsel there. Take orders from the Spanish consul the cable from the owners read.
 ''At Martinique the Spanish consul paid our bills We took aboard Chief
 Officer James Fornie of the alleged Span ish hospital ship Alicante He was to be super-cargo and take charge of the coal when we reached our destination The Hayti, the owners refusing to let her clear for Santiago de Cuha Form e
 came aboard after dark, just befor we sailed. I saw Fornie's chart of our sail
 ing course after passing Cape Mavsi
 which had Santiago as our destination. Fornie was formerly an officer in the Spanish navy.
 ''When we were well on our way the captain notified the officers and engineers that they would go to Santiago. They
 held consultation and refused to take the steamer to any but a neutral point The engineers decided they would disable the engines if the navigator steered for Santiago.
 '.The captain was verk angry and said he would get a new crew, but the of fcers and crew could not be bulldoZed and the captain headed for Kingston"
 ''The captain of the St. Louis. in speak 1f fI,a coid O laying for the Twickenham two days, on orders from Washington. We kept twelve miles off the coast. When we sighted the Britisher we got in front of him and fired blank shot, following it ! at once with solid shot. The captain | hove to promptly and came off to us in small boat. protesting vigorously
 against what he called an indignity to a l law-abiding British mariner. He said l the cargo was consigned to himself, but afterward contradicted the statement by ! saving he did not know the consinees'' The steward said: 'HThe Alicante is a 3,00O-ton steamer, chartered from Hen derson, of Glasgow. She is fitted out as 1 hospital boat and is painted white but at the same time she is a collier and Spanish war ship. She carries 3)0 men. I myself saw her coal the Spanish tor
 pedo boat destroyer Terror at Fort de France, in Port Royal bay, twelve miles below St. Pierro, Martinique. An Ameri-
 can on shore told me to watch the Span lsn sn1ps that n1ght, ana Kept sharp lookout and saw the hospital ship coal ing the torpedo boat destroyer. TheAli- cante can make fourteen knots. Her en- gineers are English and the engineers of Cervera's fleet are Englishmen who are | serving unwillingly against the United | States, but who stick to their posts be- | cause they were enlisted"
 | Officer Fornie is still on the Twicken- | ham, and will probably be sent to Fort McPeterson at Atlanta. The evidence in | the Twickenham case is all in, and it
 will be sent to Jacksonville, where the | federal court is sitting