Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1898-05-15
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Captain Sig bees Ship Sails
from Old Point.
COMPANY c LEAVES TODAY
Huntington Rifles Start for
Camp Lee This Afternoon.
WILL TAKE 100 MEN
Hundreds of People VIII say Good bye to
the Boys at the u. pot W hil. The.
Soidiers' Home Rand i'Hys Co.,.
-. National Airs. flag Tor
WILL TAKE 100 MEN

Owing to the dense fog that hung
over Hampton Roads yesterday norn-
ing and other reasons That were not
made public by Captain Sigsbee the.
auxiliary cruiser ST. Paul did not weigh
anchor before daybreak to join the fly
ing squadron which left HAMPTON
Roads Friday afternoon under se;,l,I
orders.
The st. Paul took on the greater part
Oh her ammunition here which came
ny express. Included in this supply
were TWO carloads of s.nokeless powder
Out only one carload was transferred
10 the ship up To Friday. Sometime
after daybreak yesterday the St Paul
steamed down to Old Point where the
cruiser New Orleans was lying. but re-
turned to her anchorage ut s O'Clock
ana remained until 3:l5 in the after
noon. when She again moved down to
Ola Point. While here the St Paul
1inished taking on her supply of smoke
less powder
pulled UP her anchors at Old Point and
started on q bee line for the Virginia
capes, going. it is supposed, to Join
Commodore Schley.
The New Orleans is still at Old Point
and it is not known when she will sail
but it is thought she will remain to
protect the gateway to the Chesa peake
Bay TIL the monitor Canoncus. which
has been ordered to Fortress Monroe
arrives.
SPANISH SHIPS ON THE COAST.
It is reported that Spanish warships
are cruising along the Atlantic coast
with the proba Bile intention of harrvinr
the coast. and by some it is believed
Commodore Schley has been oruered to
engage the Spaniards
captain Mann, of a British tramp
steamer which is now in New York,
a .Srr1,N a
Heved to be a Spanish torpedo boat
and torpedo boat destroyer off Nam
tucket Shoals lightship. early Wednes-
day morning. This is the story Captain
Mann told:
AT about 1890 o'clock "Wednesday
morning, the moon being up. we sight
ed, about one-quarter of a mile or our
port quarter, q low-lyins, dark gray,
one funnel boat that looked like a tor
pedo boat. This was in latitude ooSs
and longitude 67:45, about six miles
east OF South Shoal light. which is
twenty-seven miles east OF Nantucket
The boat ran UP near us under cover
of our smoke. The boat displayed no
light and no signals. Running along
with us for short time, she suddenly
sheered off and disappeared in the
darkness. I think the boat had one
mast but of this 1 am not certain.
About ten minutes after the boat
disappeared rocket was sent up from
This rocket was followed by a display
OF the flash and dot lights of the Ar
dols system. After little these sig
nails We're answered, evidently by an
other boat that was off to the south
west.
I'VE held on our course and at $50
o'clock. on the same morning. twenty
miles or Nantucket Shoals light, we
sighted another boat. This vessel was
much larger than the first and was
ofvotn 1a 4. a.
the boat we had sighted a few hours
before. This boat I took to be tor
pedo boat destroyer. She had two fun
nels and one mast, with a short arm.
well forward OF the first funnel. The
vessel was high at the bow and carried
a Shield. behind which was mounted q
gum The vessel. when we sighted her.
was some distance away; I could not
make out her nationality. owing to the
haze. She was headed northward and
was steaming slowly
after sighting this last boat ran in
within hundred yards of Nantucket
Shoals lightship. to report what I had
seen and to find out if the men on the
ship would like to be taken off. When
they heard the story they Informed me
that they were not afraid, and that
Spanish torpedo boats or torpedo boat
destroyers would not be likely to inter-
fere with their business and that they
would stay where they were. They
had seen, which have done"
MONITOR FOR HAMPTON ROADS.
The Navy Department, through Adj
miral Erben. assigned the old-fashioned
monitor Canonicus to Hampton Roads
to act in conjunction with Fortress
Monroe in defending the gateway to
the Chesapeake Bay. The monitor is
expected to arrive in few days.
COMPANY C LEAVES TODAY.
The Huntington Rifles. or Company G.
as the Organization is known in the
Fourth regiment will leave this after
noon for Camp Lee. at Richmond. An
order to this effect from the adjutant
P. Thornton Marye for the last ten
days and the men have been holding
themselves in readiness to move at
any moment. Yesterday morning the
expected order came. 1t reads as fol-
lows:
RICHMOND, MAY II.
CAPTAIN P. T. MARYE:
PROCEED WITH YOUR COMPA-
NY. LEAVING NEWPORT NEWS
RIVE RICHMOND $50. WHERE YOU
WILL RECEIVE FURTHER Or
; DERS.
w. MALE.
ADJUTANT GENERAL.
There will be 100 men in ranks when
the Huntington Rifles board the train
at the Chesapeake & Ohio depot this
afternoon at 4:31 o'clock; but strange
to say there will be but two of the
charter members in uniform-Second
lieutenant A. f. Rix and Private Wal
ter 3. Richardson. These men enlisted
when the company WIGS first organized,
pnd one Is an officer while the other