The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-05-15

| copyr.sh.ed. 1895, by the Associated Press.
| KEY WEST. May H--Amid . perfect
storm of shot from Spanish rifles and bat
| teries the American forces cut the cable
at Cienfuegos Wednesday morning. Four
| determined boat crews. under command
| of Lieut.. winslow and Ensign Magruder.
| from the cruiser Marblehead and the gun
| boat Nashville, put out from their ships.
| the coast having previously been sheiled.
! This work OF the volunteers was per.ious.
The cruiser Marblehead and the gunboat
Nashville and the auxiliary cruiser VIM
dom drew up TO thousand yards from
shore. with their guns manned ready for
desperate duty.
| One cable had already been cut and the
work was in progress on the other. when
the Spaniards, in rifle pits and a battery
in an old lighthouse standing out in the
| bay, opened fire. Tho warsh.ps poured in
thunderous vo.ley, their guns belching
forth massive shells into the swarms OF
the enemy. The crews OF the boats calm
iy proceeded with their desperate work.
notwithstanding the fact that number
| had fallen, and finished ii, returning to
this ships through binding smoke and
q heavy fire. One man in a Marblehead
boat was killed and six were seriously
wounded. one OF whom. Robert Volta. 10
now at Key West and is expected to die
before morning. a bullet having passed
through tho base Of his brain.
Harry Hendrickson, who also may die,
was shot through the abdomen.
More than thousand infantrymen on
shore kept up a continuous fire. and the
bullets from the machine guns struck the
warships hundred times, but did no great
damage.
Commander Maynard. of the gunboat
Nashville. was slightly wounded by rifa
bullet, which before strikteg him passed
through the arm OF an ensign. whose
name Is unknown.
Lieut.. WInsiow was shot In the hand,
making three officers wounded in all.
| After the Spaniards had been driven
from the rifle pits many OF them took
| refuge In the lighthouse fortress. upon
which the fire Of the ships had been CEN
| tered. A four-inch shell from the Win
! dom tore the structure to pieces, killing
many and burying others In the ruins.
/ The Spanish loss Is known 10 have been
| very heavy, the warshIps firing hundreds
OF shot and she'll right Into their midst.
The cable which was cut at C.enfuegos
extended from that city to Santiago de-
Cuba II does not sever cable communica-
ton with Cuba. as there is another line
| between Santiago de Cuba and Kingston.
Jamaica. The severed cable Is owned by
the cana Submarine Company. The one
/ in operation TO Kingston Is owned by the
West lnd.es-Panama Company.
| The ofiicial Account.
| WASHINGTON. May 1.-THE following
telegram came TO the navy department,
| 'his AFTERNOON from Commodore Remey:
| KEY WEST. May Ito the Secretary
| OF the Navy: The Window arrived thi,
morning with the following wounded and
| dead: Patrick Regain. private marina
| dead Harman ". knchneister. private
marine, shot through the taw nrohahlv
| fatal: Harry Hendrickson. seaman sbot
| through the liver. probably fatal: Ernest
sontezsnieh. apprentice. fracture OF righ.
u.s. sNAsh - AFsA RtaESWA4U mate H.
/ shot wound In the right bullock. John
| Tewis, gunner's mate. wound II, thn
| right leg. William Levery, apprentices
wound In the left leg: Robert voltz sea-
mar on the Nashville severely wo,tnsea.
Lieut.. Cameron Winslow sigh. wo,,as
| in the hands. The casualties occurred in
| the cutting OF the cable a. Ctenfuegos
''REMEY."
The Killed and Wouudca
Lieut.. V1nslow. who was wounded n
the battle ot Clenfuegos. was born In The
District of Columbia, and Is a member O.
| the naval family OF that name. He grad
uated from the naval academy in 1875. ard
since then has had an active service II,
all parts Q; the world.
He was the first commander OF the tor
pedo BOAT Gushing. one o. the first vessel.
az that type in the United States ravv
He was ordered 20 duty on the gurb,a.
Nashville in October. 1906 and has served
there continuously 10 date
Patrick Regan. who was killed on The
boat CT the Marhleheaa. was IN the marine
corps. and his next OF kin lives in sligo,
ireland.
Robert VeIs. seaman on sha Nashville.
y TO was severely wounded, Was barn n
San Francisco. Ills next of ktn IS Emma