The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1898-05-17
SPANIARDS WERE ALERT
THEY REFUSED THE EFFORTS
CT EXPEDITION.
The INSURGENTS FAILED TO CO OPERATE
l"o Efforts Were Made 10 Land, One II Ca
banas and One Al Matan1as---The Span
iards Were Alive TO Both
Plans.

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copyrighted lNg> hy Associated rressl
Key West. Fla. May l5-The steam
or Gu>~ic, which left Tampa. Fla, May
10, with two companies of the First In
fautry on board. iii charge uf seven
Thousand rifles aI4i two hundred thou~-
and rounds OF ammunition. intended for
the Insurgents in the province ~ Piuar
del Rio. remained eff the coast 81 cuba
Thursday. Friday aud yesterday. con-
ynyed by tn, auxiliary gun boat Man
ming, IN a vain attempt L. land hrr ear
20. Captain j. IL. Dor>t. of the stan
Of General Miles and formerly United
States Military Attachc a. Vienna. head
cd the expedition which returned here
this morning. lie says the Gus~ic viii
20 "a Tampa. Fla. Previous 10 leaving
Cuban waters. the Dorst cXpcditiouary
force had II shirini>h with Spanish cav
airy near talaua~. fifteen miles wet
Of Havana. where All attempt WAS made
to land part Of the cargo. On Friday
morning CAPTAIN porst abandoned the
attempt ut that point and steamed east
ward 10 MutaHzaS, where an arrange
mcnt had been made with the insur-
gents 10 send supplies ashore ~ Point
MAYA, a mile or 80 east of the entrance
of the harhor.
Inc 'rdNSlt ana ittI convoy NtNltEti}
morning steamed until about two miles
Of shore, when the rattle Of mi>kctry
from Il considerable force Of Spanish sol
diers concealed behind uudcrbruSh
ashore, warned them that they would
receive Il lively welcome if thcy landed.
The Spanish troops seemed L. have been
furnished with information of the con
tcmplatcd landing ut both points.
After this second failure Captain Dnrst
decided 10 abandon the attempt 10 land
the arms and ammunition anu returned
to Key West.
\ more disgustcd looking lot Of troop
prS than those aboard the tiuSsic this
morning, it would be hard to find. They
had received orders not 10 speak of their
trip and s~ullcnly lined the rail of the
GuSSic as tn" Associated Press launch
ran alongside of her. But grunts were
the only answers which could be obtained
to the questions asked.
Soon after the arrival Of the GusSie.
Captain Dorst was rovcd ashore and re-
ported the failure Of his expedition by
cable 10 the War Department.
Naval officers here say that il Captain
DorSt had secured the corporation OF
some the ships of the blockadingSquadron
ut the point selected for III" landing. the
Spanish troops ashore could have been
SlclItd and IL way would have been
cleared for the landing of the soldiers
and the cargo they had IL charge, bur
no instructions were gwen 10 the SHIPS
to cooperate with Captain DorSt's cXpc-
dition and the GuSSic was several times
compelled To hclyc to. while cruising up
and down the coast by the blockade yes
seis whose commanders We're under the
apprehension that She was trying 10 run
the Blockade. The United States gun
boat MachiaS. which was lying of Ma
tanzas on Friday night. reported that sig
mai lights We're seen ashore east OF Iolnt
Sahilla and some Of her officers say they
believe the insurgents. having ascertain
ed that the rendezvous nj Point Maya
had been discovered by the enemy. de-
sired a landing To be made at another
point but Captain DoTet held to his orig
inal plans and found the Spanish troops
awaiting him. He did not return empty
handed. however. At Cabanns the
| American party captured Il prisoner OIL
war III Il shack.
Captain Dorst says the failure Of the
expedition was due to the fact that the
| Cnbans were unable to meet the land
ing party at the rendezvous and thu
Americans could not land supplies with
no one to receive them.
The arrangements for making Il land
ing at CabanaS were made ten days ago
by Captain Dorst. with General Delga-
do. i'm command of the insurgcnt forces
in the province of iinar del Rio. ana
the supplies to be landed near Matan-
zaS were to be conveyed To Genera
Gomez BY a force Of insurgents cucamp-
cd three miles back from the coast line.
Both Of the Cuban parties were unabi"
apparently. to appear AT the rendezvous
owing TO the activity Of the Spaniards-
CAPTAIN Dorst is convinced that the
SpaniarlS have a good system 81 com
municating along the coast and that they
can quickly raise enough troops to pre-
vent the landing Of q small force. such
* the one he commanded. ana the cap
tain believes the only WAY arms and
ammunition can he sent 10 the lnSnrg-
EMS is to land them under the cover 81
war ships with guns sufficient 10 beat
off any attack. Then, he said, the arms
ana ammunition should be conveyed
inland by United States soldiers.
The captain SAYS the company which
landed through the surf at Cabanas, had
4 narrow escape. The soldiers wer"
fired upon by Spanish cavalry concealed
in the tangled undcrhruSh and the fire
was replied to with the result that one
Spanish officer and three men were hit.
Only one man on the American side was
wounded. The latter. u newspaper cor
respondent. received u slight flesh wound
in the arm.
On Friday the SpaniardS tried 70 hit
the Gussie from a masked battery and
some Of their smells burst close on board
bnt nonc of the fragments struck.
Ernest Suntzenech. one Of the Amer
lean seamen wounded at CienfugoS last
Thursday. died mt the Marine Hospital
here yesterday evening and was buried
today. He was 4 first class seaman ap-
prentice and belonged to the United
States cruiser Marblelead. He was shnr
through the left leg. in q boat. while