The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-04-29
EIGHT OF THE CREW WOUNDED
STRUCK BY SPLINTERS FROM THE
DEMOLISHED WOODWORK.
P-ixe Crew Put Aboard and Taken to
Key West-The Terror Assisted
by the Machias.

KEY WEST, Fla, April 2S.-Aside from
the news of the Matanzas bombardment,
which set the town wild with joy, the event
of to-day, practically marking the end of
the first week of the war, was the arrival
of a big prize, the steamer Guido. She was
captured by the Terror and the gunboat
Machias ten miles off Cardenas at o'clock
yesterday morning, but not until after a
stern chase. Five shots were fired, four
by the monitor and one by the gunboat,
though the shot from the Machas did not
take effect Two of the Terror's shots went
through the pilot house and one struck
a long boat and the upper works. Manuel
Rivas q sailor, was in the pilot house of
the Guido, and the flying splinters pene-
trated his breast. inficting wounds which
may cause his death. He was brought
ashore and taken to the hospital this aft
ernoon Captain Kiehiondo received flesh
wound in the wrist from a splinter when
the shot went through the pilot house. The
Guido was bound from Corlinna to Havana
with cargo of provisions and money,
thought to be for the Spanish troops. The
Terror first sighted Ter and began the pur-
suit by sending a blank shot across her
bows. The Spanard promptly put out all
her lights and started in a desperate at
tempt to run away. The monitor then
brought her six-pounders into play and sent
three more shots directly at her, all finding
the mark. She also trained her big twelve
inch guns on the Guido, prepared to sink
her if she did not heave to- Meanwhile
the Machas had come up and sent a shot
from a four-inch rifle at the fugitive.
Captain Kichiondo, seeing that he had
two such powerful enemies to combat sur
rendered Lieut.. E. +. Qualtrough, Ensign
TJ,-h nd fxyO rinpS nut
aboard as a prize crew and brought the
steamer into Key West. AS soon as Cap
tain Kichiondo and his crew learned of the
conditions existing in Cuba they asked 10
be landed there.
The Guido is a steel screw steamer of 3,1S3
tons gross and 2,S72 net. She was built by
HarIand & Wolff, of Belfast, and is regis
tered by the Lloyds as A l. She is owned
by Lafecha, is three hundred feet long.
forty-one feet wide and has a depth OF
twenty-six feet Her port of registry Is
Bilbao She carried crew of thirty-six.
All Of the prizes still lie in the harbor,
and, according to instructions received by
United States District Attorney Stripping
to-day from the Department of Justice, viii
remain there indefinitely. These instruc-
lions were to the effect that the crew and
passengers Of the Panama, which carried
four fourteen pound guns, and which was
captured by the Mangrove, should be held
as prisoners of war. The crews of the other
prizes are also to be detained aboard until
further orders, and will be allowed no COM
munication with the shore. 1t is conceded
that. whatever the result of the Presidents
proclamation will De, it will not affect the
Panama, which was an auxiliary cruiser.
e. Brown Patterson, attorney of Key
West. recently appointed by United States
District Judge Locke chief prize commits
sioner to adjudicdte the cases of ships cap
tured from the Spaniards, has created a
sensation by resigning his office. He has
been retained by the owners of captured
vessels to represent them in the prize cases.
Judge Phipps at Key West. has heen APP
pointed to succeed him.
1t was reported to-day that d box, thought
to be from one Of the magazines of the
Maine had been found off Southeast point.
twenty-six miles from here, but nothing is
known of the circumstances at the naval
station.
The Indiana arrived this afternoon from
the Tortugas, where she has been coaiing.
The steamer City of Key West, which ar
rived here this afternoon, reported that she
sighted to-day the missing Spanish schooner
Saco captured by the monitor Terror and
carving prize crew under Paymaster q.
Simpson. The Saco was then at Rodriguez
key. off Key Large, seventy miles from
here. She had been blown out of her course
while making for Key West. All on board
were safe.
The Red Cross Societys ship State of
Texas, with nurses and medicine, arrived
this afternoon from New York. She will
proceed to Sagua la Grande.