The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1898-05-21
sPAHIARDs WERE IN AMBUSH.
Had Erected strenG Notifications
and Masked Batteries.

Key West, May 1.-The United States
cruiser MArbiehsAd. gunboat Nashville
and suxiliAIy cruiser Windom steamed
up TO the haTboE Of cienfuegOs Wednes-
day morning with orders 10 cut the cable
connecting Havana with Santiago de
CnbA. This task Was accomplished, bat
only after . terrific fight between our
wArships and several thousand Spanish
tFoofss. which lined the shore and were
concealed behind imprOYised breastWorks.
Soon after the arrival Of the wArships
of Cieniuegos, four boats were launched
and proceeded inshoTe for the purpose Of
graphing foE the cable in order 10 cut H.
The Warships lay 10 about 1000 yards or
more Of the hArtoF. II was observed
that the Spanish troops had assembled
aioag shore bat II vas not known that
heavy guns had been placed In masked
hattSriea and that the old lighthouse bat.
trFias on the neck 81 land had been trans
formed into n formidable fort.
Tho small boats proceeded cautiously
aud for more than an hour worked nnmo-
Tested on the cable Whrn the work was
about eompleled a shore battery fred
a she'll al the boats. II Was followed by
osheTa and the Spanish infantry opened
Orc then with their rifieA Then. like o
ansh the MATblehead sent = shell in,
land and followed Il with perfect shower
II shot Then the windom cut loose
wtih her s-poandeF.
In The nSAnwhiie Spanish bullets new
in every direction around the small b0atA
/ The blue Jackets wsre not disnayed. and
protected by the terrific return hN by
tba Wafshipa, the work Was continued and
the cable cut
When the baaia returned 10 the ships,
I Regain, who was In one of tho Marble.
heads Lsais. Al which thrrp we're two.
ass found 10 have been killed. Six men
asTr ladly wopnard.
The SP4ntanls had by this time sni
irFvd evVrrs lo~s Their shois from the
lighthouse struck the wAr~hips several
siHes and although they did not do much
damage, the Gre AROUSED the determine.
tina n the American officers 10 extcTlnip.
sts tbs IoriA Thereafter. ioF a moment,
the arv Of the ships Was cOacensraicd
On The lighthnaso and the impruyinca Iort
uas blown TO pi-c-s. A. there weTv
great numbers 81 the Spanish in and BE-.
hind the frat Al The time. thcSe is no
dosibl that Hany II them were killed
Tho MaTbleh-ad and Nashville uaed their
hcavte.s guns ~ we'll a. their small rapid
artng guns and an hundred shot. weTs
thrown into the Spanish tTooPA
TIE Dead aad wsaaasd.
Washington. May 1.-THE following
telegram came 10 the navy department
thi. afternoon from Commodore Rcnsy
key West, May ll--SecTrtary 81 che
Navy The Window arrived this morn
ing with the following dad or wounded
Patrick Regain, private marine. dead
Herman ". kuchncisteT, private ma
rins. shOt through the jaw. probably IA
tally.
Harry HcndrScksnu. seaman, aho,
through tho liver. probably fatal
Ernest suntcnic, apprentice, fracture o.
the right leg.
John ]. Doran. boatswains mate, gun
sho, In the right bullock.
joan Davis, gIinncr's mate, wound Ia
The right leg.
William I.svcry, apprentice, wound Ia
The left leg,
Robert Volta, seaman on the Nashville
severely wounded.
Lieutenant Cameron, Of the Window
slightly wounded In the hand.
The casualties occurred in cutting th,
cable at Cicnfuegos REMEY."