Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-05-28
THREE HUNDRED SPANlARDS SLAIN
Sharpshooters on the Vessels Did
Deadly Work With Their
Guns.
VIEWS OF ANOTHER SLAUGHTER
CuDans Received the Arms Taken
Ovcr by the Easlc--ltcmnrk-
able Picket Work in
Progress.

Key West, Fla, May 21.-(New York
Of the cruiser Marblehead's men of
~Cienfuegos has been terribly avenged.
The number of Spanish dead is now
put at 800. Cuban officers say private
houses in Cienfuegos were turned into
hospitals and morgues so great was the
number of dead and wounded.
Fifteen hundred artillery, cavalry
and infantry fred on four boatloads of
men sent from the gunboats Nashville
and Marblehead to cut the cables.
They were on "A narrow strip of land on
each side of Cienfuegos bay. Into these
800 the Marblchead. Nashville and
Window poured n muTderous crOssiire.
The Marblehead fred no less than 100
fivc-inch shells and 500 one and six
pound shells. The Nashville fired 800
four-inch and 800 secondary batteries.
Scores Of sharpshooters kept up the
deadly work. The ships fred shells
exclusively. The men say that where
many exploded scores of rifles which
had volleyed steadily became silenced.
Two of the enemy's batteries were
silenced in ten minutes. One man
jumped TO tile Notifications at Colo
radios point to get bearings for Il COM
radc. He fell backward the next mo-
mcnt at the crack of "A score Of Ameri-
can sharpshooters on the Nashville,
Marblehead and Window. The Mar
blehead with two five inch guns at the
same time blew the light house off the
earth. It fred at 500 yards and kept
it up until the Spanish ceased firing al
together. Estimates of fearful havoc
are confirmed by Colonel OriZ and
Lieutenant Alvarez.
All the Cubaus who reached the Mar
blchead i'm the open boat had been in
the cocklpshcll thirty hours until they
| signalcd the M~arblehcad. They came
from "A camp fifteen miles west of
Cienfugos. Cubans from the city
brought the news Of n Spanish slaugh-
ter. A hundred were wounded and all
troops have since been withdrawn to
the city. The Cubans received 5000
rounds Of 45-caliber ammunition which
the Eagle put ashore with the CuDans
near camp. The Cubans also reported
that the overland wires TO CienfuegOs
had been cut. The cable from Rdtabs-
no to C~icnfuegos was in ten and a half
fathoms and the cable from Cienfugos
to Santiago de Cuba in fifteen and a
half fathoms. Sections of the cable
were cut out and taken aboard the
Nashville and Marblehcad as souvenirs.
The Marblehcad has other souvenirs
in the shape of two kinds of bullets
fred by the Spanish, one Mauser, the
other of larger caliber, which pierced
n mans cartridge belt withoutiniuring
him. Tunnels of both the Nashville
and Marblehead show shots, but are
only slightly damaged. Hcndriksen of
the Marblehead, though half his jaw
had been carried away, climbed unat-
tended from the cutter TO the ship.
Two ships watched C~ienfuegos, but no
attempt was made TO splice the cable
The Nashville was off San Antonio
Point Wednesday night. The Marble,
head reports remarkable picket work
by the Cincinnati. Although fourteen
miles away the Cincinnati saw the
Marblchcad change its course aud
steamed at breakneck speed toward it