The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-11-03

Havana, Nov. S.-The transport Pan
ANA from Santiago which was reported
lost with all on board arrived here this
morning at a. m. and landed seven
american passengers, including some
military officers. She left Havana at
about 10 a m, her destination appar-
emily being New York
New York, Nov. 3.--A dispatch to the
Herald from Santiago de Cuba says;
# e r71nored that the transport Pan
anna went down in gale in the Wind
ward passage last night This rumor
Is based on the report of a fishing
schooner which reached here from Cape
ATavsf. 1t is not known whether any
of the passengers and crew reached the
shore in safety.
Some foundation for the reported loss
of the transport is found in the Iact
that a large amount Of wreckage sup
posed to belong to the Panama mas
been picked up. Eight articles marked
Panama" were found in the water.
but no trace of the vessel was seen SO
far as is known here.
The Panama, which was taken from
the Spaniards as a prize during the
war was In bad condition when she
sailed from Santiago on Monday. Her
engines were out Of order and her hun
damaged. Her condition was such
that Postmaster Hugo Hydeman con-
sidered her unsafe and declined to place
the mails aboard her. Many seamen
here say the vessel has been unseawOr-
thy for a long time.
When the Panama sailed from this
port she had 800 persons on board, in
cluding officers, passengers and crew
Among the passengers were Represen-
tative John DaIze1 and former Con-
gresham at Large Huff of Pennsylva-
MIA, who, with a party Of seven Penn
syIvania railroad men had spent sever
al days in Santiago, investigating plans
for constructing a railroad to connect
Santiago with Havana, with which
they had been favorably impressed.
There were several officers of regi-
ments, now stationed in Santiago, who
were on their way home, having been
granted leaves of absence on account or
illness. Most of the passengers, how
ever, were from Porto Rico. The Pan
anna was bound for ports on the north
coast of Cuba, for Havana and New
York.
There Is no te1egraphic communica-
tion between here and Cape NIaysi. The
light house on that point is badly 10
Gated. The site is misleading, CaIetus
and north bound vessels The Boston
fruit steamer Belvedere- was wrecked
there in May. Gen. Wood has ordered
all vessels bound eastward to be on the
lookout for any traces of the Panama
and her passengers and crew.
Pittsburg, Nov. 3.-The members of
the West Indian party from Pittsburg
and neighborhood. who are believed to
gresham John DalzelI, ex-Congress-
man George f Huff of Greensburg,
Judge Jacob F. SlagIe of the common
pleas court, Allegheny county; DR.. c.
Bingeman of Pittsburg, J. G. Treach-
er, editor Of the jeanette Dispatch and
another gentleman of Greensburg, a
friend of Mr.. Huff. When the party
aeft Pittsburg, about two weeks ago it
was reported that Messrs. Dalzen and
Huff were going as the agents of the
Pennsylvania railroad, but this has
since been denied.
Mr. Huff's object was. no doubt, to
look after coal lands in Cuba and Porto
Rico. Mr.. Dalzeu went to investigate
political conditions in the two islands.
The other membe of the party were
invited guests and on their part the
Journey was undertaken for pleasure.
W NOV. Sine war de-
partment has received no report from
any official source of the rumored
wreck of the transport Panama The
officials are confident that if Gen. Wood
at Santiago where the rumor originat-
ed, attached credence to it, he would
have notified the department. The
weather bureaus report shows that the
recent West Indian storm passed far
to the westward of the Panama's
course.
New York. Nov. S.-A dispatch to the
Herald from Washington says:
The transport Panama was bringing
back several pieces of ordnance and SOL
diers who are Ill from the several regi-
ments, many being from the Third i'm
munes, a Georgia regiment which has
been the greatest sufferer from fever of
the regiments which went to relieve the
First army corps.
The regiments now in Santiago are
the Fifth United States infantry, Twen-
ty-third Kansas, Eighth Illinois and
Second, Third, Fifth and Ninth i'm
munes.
The Panama also had on board the
bodleS OF these soldiers:
captain W. N. Dickinson and Lieut..
Dennis NJ. Niche, Seventeenth infant
ry; Lieut.. Thomas A Wandboro, Sew
enteenth infantry; Sergeant NJ. D. Rus
sell FlfsI volunteer cavalry; Privates
Fred 2 Taft, Silas Undergrave jr; F.
Hackenson, James Wheeler, Harvey
Randall w C. Greene and J. Q. King,
second 4aSSachuSettS volunteer infant
~; Private C. Culman, Thirty-fourth h
Michigan volunteers; PriVateS A Czeis-
and Sidney Grho6oI5 c,,--~,-+--