The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-04-27
THE BLOCKADING FLEET.

Officers of Flagship New York Highly
Eiated Over Mangrove's Capture.
Copyrighted 1898 by the Associated Press.)
On board the flagship New York, off
Havana, April 6.-Midnight.-Th cap
ture of the Spanish steamer Panama
with her rich cargo by the Mangrove
is the best prize expected in these wa
ters for many a day. When the
achievement became known on the New
York loud cheers broke from the crowd
ed decks. Intense satisfaction is felt
among the officers of the New York
over the capture, as a vigilant out
look has been kept during the last few
days and it was feared that the Pan
anna might have slipped into Havana.
1t would have been most detrimental to
the blockade had the provisions which
she carried gotten into Havana. The
first news from Havana reached the
squadron this evening when the Brit
ish steamer Luceline was stopped by
the flagship. The Luceline is COM
manded by Captain Tucker. She halls
from London and was bound from Ha-
vana for Bermuda and Philadelphia.
She has about 200 Cubans, men, women
and children on board, beside a cargo
of horses and sugar. She is the first
boat known to have left Havana since
last Friday, when the blockade was
commenced.
She was coming out from Ell Moro
about d. m. and was about six miles
from land before the New York started
pLa tha
fagship's smokestoeks as she rushed
through the calm water to cut off the
steamer, who was also going at a
good pace Lieutenant Marble was
sent on board by Captain Chadwick.
The Cubans on the Luceline shouted
"Hurrah" and waved their hands at
the New York. Captain Tucker gave
satisfactory proofs of the Luceline's
identity. When asked what explana-
tion was given in Havana for the ap-
pearanec of American ships outside Ell
Morro Captain Tucker said he had
not bothered his head about it and had
heard no utterances about it. His Gu
ban passengers, many of them children
in arms, were being taken out of Ha-
vana on general principles" He had
heard that more mines were to be laid
in the harbor. Captain Tucker declar-
ed that he had not read any of the Ha-
vana papers.
After a careful inspection Lieutenant
Marble left the Lucelne. Three cheers
were given as he went over the side
1t is the opinion of the correspondent
that very little reliance can be placed
on Captain fuckers story. About two
ich 1rxy oy,
the beach about fifteen miles from Ell
Moro this afternoon. The flagship
was lying at no great distance from the
shore, and there within easy range, but
no shots were fired. 1t is believed that
the Spanish cavalry is establishing a
patrol to prevent repetition of such
incidents as the Porter landing last
night The Ell MORO batteries were be-
lieved to be firing at something about 5
o'clock p. M, but it was impossible to
ascertain definitely whether this was so
or not
Lieutenant Juan Del Pinor of the
Spanish infantry and his orderly were
brought on board the flagship this
| morning from the gunboat Wilmington,
to whom they had been turned over by
the cruiser Cincinnati. The cruiser
captured teh Spaniards while they
were in small schooner bound for
Matanzas. Lieutenant Pinor was on a
furlough, and on his way to see his
wife and child, the child being born a
week ago, and whom he had never
seen. Under these circumstances Ad-
miral Sampson and Captain Chadwick
decided to let him proceed.