The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-04-29
RBFOGHES' STORIES.
Santiago de Cuba on the Verge
Of Famine -Spaniards Seize
Red Cross Supplies.
The situation in Jamaica.

1M0 SktuhtAOn IN y 3maACas
by Gable, Copyright 1898, by The Assoc
ciated Press.l
KINGSTON. Jamaica, April g. 1885,
The German steamer Remus, from Ham
burg for Baltimore, touched at Port An
tonic, this island, early today and landed
there AL German, Cuban, British and
American refugees from Santiago de
Cuba They will be detained a short time
in quarantine, to comply with the law,
and will be brought to Kingston by train
this afternoon.
The Remus which is loaded with iron
ore, agreed with Brooks Bros, of Santi-
ago de Cuba, to take the passengers as
an act of charity, and run out of his
course to Port Antonio in order to land
them. The refugees are largely women
and children. Many of them are persons
of refinement, and there was no accom-
mediation for them on board the Remus-
Therefore they were compelled to stay
on deck all night and had nothing to eat,
as the steamer was not provisioned for
so many people. The refugees, not hav-
ing had any breakfast, were very hungry
when they arrived and were worn out by
their comfortless night at sea. One of
them remarked
We may as well starve here as there
The Spaniar1s have attached all the food
for the army, and the civil population Of
Santiago de Cuba about twenty thousand
persons, is almost entirely without pro-
Visions
Many of the children and women were
sick from lack of food. They had moth
ing, except the contents of few lunch
baskets, since sailing from Santiago de
Cuba at 5 P. NJ yesterday.
Mr. Pulaski D. Hyatt, the United States
Consul at Santiago de Cuba, who left
there some time ago for Jamaica, under
instructions from Washington, came to
the rescue of the refugees, and, at his
own expense, caused dinner to be pre-
pared for all of them on the wharf Where
they landed.
The refugees confirm the reports that
the Spaniards are abandoning the small
cities and the plantations which they have
been guarding, burning the latter peIofe
The Insurgents activity has greatly IN
creased recently, evidently owing TO the
news they have received from the unted
States and they are raiding up 70 the
very outworks of Santiago de Cuba ana
The City Of Santiago de Cuba, when the
refugees left. was in a state OF semi
panic, fearing the blockade of the port by
the United tSates fleet. There were about
49, 900 Spanish troops there and in the VIZ
cinity. But food, excepting army supplies,
was running low.
The agents of the insurgents communi-
cate daily with the city of Santiago de
Cuba.
The ssBandera Espannola'' a daily
newspaper of Santiago de Cuba, IN Its is
sue of yesterday printed the following
kilograms from Havana received over
the submarine lines around the islands,
A despatch, dated from Washington,
gives the assurance thaht Havana will
not be bombarded. This, It is added, has
tranquillized the city of Havana
1TaxrV lost No
Mobile say the Americans are organizing
an expedition to Eastern Cuba, and that
they are engaging Separatists to act as
pilots and interpreters
Another despatch announces that tho
Spanish gunboat Ligera attacked an Am
erican torpedo boat destroyer, off Garden
as, recently, and caused her serious an-
Mr. Wyatt left at Santiago de Cuba If
ty tons of provisions in the United States
plies, which had just arrived. in the Gus
tom House. The British Cansul at SAM
tiago de Cuba acting for the United
provisions which were left in the Con-
sulate, but he has not been able to
get the one hundred tons Of
provisions stored in the Custom House
owing to the technical devices adopted
by the Spaniards to prevent him from so
doing. These provisions, which consist
of flour corn meal and rice, have not yet
been confiscated by the Spaniards. but,
it is added, they probably Will be before
long.
The British third class cruiser Pearl ar
rived here today While she was saiut-
ing the commodore at Port Royal, the
sound of her guns made the population
believe that naval battle was taking
place outside the harbor, and crowds OF
people ran down to the beach in efforts
to witness the engagement which 1t was
presumed was taking place between some
Spanish and American ships.
The Spanish steamer Leonora arrived at
Port Royal last evening, from Aanzanilto
ing several Americans.
At Port Antonio the crew of the Amepi- Z
can schooner Mary SaIdford, OF Well
fleet Mass. has refused to take her out
Of the harbor. fearing capture by the
Of tine harnor fearing capture by the
Spaniards