The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-15
CIENFUEGos INSPECTED.
Condition of the City and State Of
It's Defenses

Kingston, Jamaica May 14.-(Copy-
right, 1898, by the Associated Press. y
/ a correspondent OF the Associated
| Press who passed through the Glen
| fuegOs blockade on the steamer Adula
on Monday last, succeeded in entering
| that city and getting a good idea. Of
the situation. He left Cienfuegos on
/ the steamer with q number of refugees
/ on Tuesday, and last evening he sent
| the following dispatch ashore from the
quarantine station:
! When about 40 miles of Cienfuegos,
on Monday afternoon, we sighted the
American blOckading squadron, con-
sisting OF the Marblehead, Nashville
and Eagle. The flagship, the Marble
head, bore down upon US at full speed,
and fired a blank shot across our bows
We came to and were boarded by q
lieutenant We showed him a permit
from the state department to pass the
blockade for passengers. on condition
that we carried no cargo and we were
allowed to proceed. The officer Of the
Marblehead said the flagship thought
the Adula was a Spanish troop ship
which is expected daily.
when about 400 yards from the nar-
row entrance to the harbor, Spanish
20-tOn gunbOat, mounting one quick
firing One-pOunder aft, pOked her nose
out from the reef and stopped us Our
papers had been viewed by the Span
ish consul at Kingston, and so we were
allowed to enter the harbOr- The har-
Der entrance of CienfuegOS is about $50
yards wide, and there are forts on
either side of it. These forts have long
rows of Old-fashioned guns, and just
inside the harbOr there is a modern
fertilization building of timber, earth
and sand. The British vice-consul, Mr.
Fowler, told the correspondent Of the
.
have eight or ten modern high-power
guns to mount on the new works. Their
caIibers were four to six inches.
A SPANISH CRUISER. ~
Inside the harbor were three tiny
gunbOats The only warship of any
consequence in port was the third-class
cruiser Galatea. The correspondent
counted four guns in her main battery,
and she had one quick-fire gun aft. The
Galatea went outside the harbOr few
days ago TO engage the United States
auxiliary gunbOat Eagle, Commander
Sutherland, a vessel about One-third
the Galatea's size. The engagement
was short. sharp and decisive. One of
the Eagles six-pound shells splntered
the corner of the Galatea'S deckhouSe,
and the Spanish cruiser quickly re-
treated into the harbOr.
Besides the warshipS there were two
:. 0O0-ton merchant steamers, the Rio
Janiero and the Alaya, and three coast
ing steamers. inside the harbor Of CT
enfuegos. These vessels were caught
in the harbor by the American block
ade fleet, and win doubtless fall into
the hands of our sailors in due course
of time.
"A crowd of about 1000 curious peo-
pie gathered at the wharf to meet US,
and the correspondent was told there
had not been so much excitement in
since the preceding Satur-
day week, when a few shells were
thrown at the forts by the American
following an attack made up
On the Eagle. No one was hurt.
THE correspondent went ashore and
walked unmolested through the prin-
cipal streets of the city. About one
shop in four was open and business
Vas utterly hfeless.
FOOD PRICES.
Blockade prices for food are charged
n Cienfuegos. Flour sells at % cents
Der pound, meat costs 40 cents q pound
and if you want milk you must pay 20
,ents a quart for it. On the other hand,