New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-05-15
m BLOCKADED CIENFUEGOS.
WHAT AN AMERICAN CORRESPONDENT
SAW LAST WEEK
ONLY ABOUT ONE SHOP IN FOUR OPEN FOR BUsI-
NEss-FoOD PRICEs-THE REFUGEES

on THE ADCIA.

on THE ADCIA.
Copyrighted 1895. by the Associated Pr-s.)
Kingston. Jamaica. May IA correspondent
OF the Associated Press who passed through the
Cienfuegos blockade on the steamer Adula last
Monday succeeded in entering that city and get
ting q good idea Of the situation there. He left
Centuegos on the steamer with a number Of
refugees on Tuesday. and last evening he sent
the following dispatch ashore from the Quaren-
tine station
When about forty miles of Cienfuegos on
Monday afternoon we sighted the American
hlockading ships consisting Of the Mar5lehead
the Nashville and the Eagle Thu flagship
Marblehead bore down us at full speed. and
fred blank shot across our bows. We came
~ and boarded by a lieutenant We
showed him permit from the State Depart
rnent 10 pass the blockade for passengers on
condition that carried no cargo. and were
eventually allowed TO proceed. TIE officer OF
me Marblehead said the flagship thought the
adua a Spanish troopship which Is ex-
pected daily.
INSIDE THE HARBOR
About four hundred yards from the narrow
entrance 10 the harbor a Spanish twenty-ton
gunboat. mounting one Quick-fring FOUNDER
aft poked her nose out from the mangrove-cov-
cred reef and stopped US. Our papers had been
vised by the Spanish Consul at Kingston and SO
We were allowed 10 enter the harbor.
The harbor entrance to Cienfuegos IS about
two hundred and fifty yards wide, and there
forts on either side Of It. These forts have long
rows Of old-fashioned guns. and just inside the
harbor there is a modern fertilization building
Of timber. earth and sand.
Mr. Fowler. British Vice-Consul. told the
~ he a.ej hat he
spaniards had eight or modern high-power
guns TO mount on the works. Their calibres
are probably four to six inches.
Inside the harbor were three other tiny gun
boats The only warship Of any consequence in
port was the third-cass cruiser Galetia GA
liciaN. The correspondent counted four guns
In her main battery and she had quick
frer at.
BEATEN BY THE EAGLE.
The Galetia went outside the harbor few
DAYS ago 10 engage the United States auxiliary
gunboat Eagle Commander w. II. H Souther-
land a vessel about one-third the Galetia's size
The engagement was short. sharp and decisive.
One OF the Eagles six-pound shells splintered
the corner Of the Galetia's deckhouse and the
Spanish cruiser quickly retreated into the har-
Dor
Besides the warships there were two 2000-ton
merchant steamers the Rio Jano and the AL
ava Of Bilbao and three coasting steamers in
side the harbor Of Cienfuegos. These vessels
were caught in the harbor by the American
Nockading feet, and will doubtless fall into It's
hands in course Of time.
A crowd OF about two thousand curious people
gathered at the wharf 10 meet US. and the cor
respondent told there had not been so much
excitement in Cienfuegos since week before
the preceding Saturday. when few shells were
thrown at the forts by the American warships
following an attack made upon the Eagle. No
one was hurt
The correspondent went ashore and walked