New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-04-30
NEWS FROM EASTERN CUBA.
REPORTS BROUGHT BY A BIG PARTY OF
REFUGEES.

TROOPS BURNING PLANTATIONS AND COIN"
TO THE COAST INSURGENTS
GETTING MORE ACTIVE.
DOWNRIGHT 1893 by the Associated Press)
Kingston. jamaica April 29.-The German
steamer Remus from Hamburg for Baltimore
touched at Port Antonio. this island, early TO-
day. and landed there AL German, Cuban. Brit
sh and American refugees from Santiago dc
Cuba They will be detained short time IN
quarantine to comply with the law. and VIII be
brought to Kingston by train this afternoon.
The Remus, which is loaded with iron ore'
agreed with Brooks Brothers, Of santiago "c
Cuba to take the passengers as an act OF chai-
ity. and run out OF It's course to Port Antonio IN
order to land them.
The refugees are largely women and cnidren
Many OF them are persons of refinement anu
there was no accommodation for them on poard
the Remus. Therefore. they were compelled 10
stay on deck all night. and had nothing 10 eat
Al the steamer was not provisioned for so many
people The refugees. not having mad any
breakfast were very hungry when they arrived
and were worn out by their comfortess night a'
sea- One Of them remarked:
1--WE may as we'll starve here as there inc
Spanards have attached all the food for the
Cuba about twenty thousand persons. Is almost
entirely without provisions"
MANY of the women and children were sick
from lack Of food They had nothing except the
contents CT n few lunch baskets since sailing
from Santiago de Cuba at , p. IN. yesterday
Pulaski D. Hyatt the United States Consul 1T
Santiago de Cuba. who left there some time ago
for Jamaica under instructions from Washing
ton, came to the rescue OF the refugees. ana AT
his own expense caused dinner to he prepared
for I'll Of them on the wharf where they landed
The refugees confirm the reports that the
Spanards are abandoning the small cities ana
the plantations which they have been guarding
burning the latter before leaving them. The in
surgents' activity has greatly Increased recently
evidently owing to the news they have received
from the United States. and they are making
raids up to the very outworks OF Santiago de
Cuba and Guantanamo.
The city OF Santiago de Cuba. when the refu-
gees departed. was in state Of semi-Danic
fearing the blockade Of the port by the United
States fleet. There were about fifteen thousand
Spanish troops there and in the vicinity. Food
excepting army supplies. was running low. The
agents of the insurgents communicate daily with
the city.
The "Bandera Espannola." daily newspaper
O, Santiago De Cuba in its issue Of yesterday
printed the following kilograms from Havana
received over the submarine lines around the
Island:
\ dispatch dated from Washington. gives the
ASSURANCE" that Havana VIII not be Doinbarded
This il Is added. has tranquilzcd the city or
Havana. Dispatches from Key West Tampa
and Mobile say the Americans are organizing an
expedition to eastern Cuba. and that they are
engaging Separatists to act as Pilots and IN
terprct,rs" Another dispatch announces that
the Spanish gunboat Ligcra attacked an Ameri-
can tOrpedO-b3at destroyer OFF Cordenas recent
IS, and caused her serious injuries.
Mir Hyatt left at Santiago de Cuba hfty tons
OF provisions In the United States Consulate.
and one hundred tons Il supplies. which had
just arrived. In the Custom House. The Brit
sh Consul nj Santiago de Cuba. acting for the
United States has distributed the nifty tons left
in the Consulate. but he has not been able 70 get
the one hundred tons stored In tn" custom
House. owing to the technical devices adopted
by the Spaniards TO prevent him from doing 50.
There provisions. which consist OF Hour. corn
meal and rice, have not yet been contiscated by
the Span!ards, but they probaDly Will De taken
before lOn.,.
The British third-Class cruiser Pearl arrived
here to-day While she salu'ing the Com
modore AT Port Royal the sound ~ her guns
made the population believe that naval battle
was taking place outside the harbor. and crowds
OF people ran down 10 the beach.
The Spanish steamer LeonOra arrived al Port
ROYAL last evening from Manzano. having on
board twenty refugees. including several Ameri-
cans.
At Por, Antonio the crew OF the American
schooner Mary Sanford. OF Wellfleet. Mass.
has refused to take her out u me harbor. fear
nG capture by the Spanlards.