The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-07-16
FIRST PRIZE FOR SAVANNAH.
THE BRITISH STEAMSHIP ADULA
BROUGHT IN BY PRIZE CREW.

head the Prize Master-WilI BE Al
lowed to Come Up to the city After
FumigatiOn-Was Going to Guam
tanamo aud other Places for Refu-
gees--ITer Charterer }. II. Soils on
Board as a Prisoner of NNar-Tried
to Run the blockade at Gunnta-
namO Ray.
The British steamship Adula, Capt.
Walker, captured of Guantanamo bay.
Cuba on July o. was brought into sa-
vannah as a prize yesterday
This is tire first prize to come into sa-
vannah during the war between Spain and
the United States. though a good many
Spanish bottoms have been captured. The
majority of them have been taken into
Key West and one or two have gone. to
Charleston. 1t Is understood now that al
Of the prizes captured hereafter villa be
brought into Savannah, and if there Is
much more business in this line, the prize
commissioners Of this district will prob
ably make a good thing out of IT,
The Adula is a small screw steamer of
s72 tons burden. Her length is 2i25 feet
beam 291 feet and draught Il feet. She
belongs TO the Atlas line, all Of whose
steamers have names beginning with the
letter A, and was engaged in trade in the
West Indies
The Adula left Kingston, Jamaica, on
June %, and the next day was captured
by the cruiser Marblehead, ae she was
trying to run the blockade and get into
Guantanamo bay. A prize crew was put
on board of her and on July 10, In charge
A nd rayUnbcr of
from the Marblehead, she was sent to
Savannah. arriving here yesterday morn
ing.
Coming from the West Indies the Adula
was. of course taken to the quarantine
station where she is still detained AS
there was no sickness on board an effort
was made to see If the steamer could not
be brought up to the city without the
usual delay. The Adula left Kingston with
a clean bill Of health and did not land at
Cuba 1t was also shown that the officers
and men of the prize crew had not been
ashore in Cuba.
These facts were placed before the pub
lie health committee which held
.aaotin, Yesterday for the
purpose of considering the case.
After short consultation It was
decided 10 allow the steamer to come up
to the city after thorough fumlgatoh'
The work of fumigatng the Adula be
ean Yesterday afternoon and it is expect
ed il will be finished by o'clock to-day, II
the work is carried along with sufficient
rapkdity In that event the Adula VIII
come up 10 the city al once, though she
may be still further delayed, in the event
that the work of fumigating is carried on
slowly.
The Morning News had an interview
with Lieut. r. A. Anderson of the Mar
blehead, who is in charge Of the prize
crew, by telephone from the quarantine
station.
1--WE CAPTURED the Adula at the entrance
TO Guantanamo bay on June 20" he said.
1.-THE Marblehead was on guard there, and
when the Adula came up toward the en-
trance all we had to do was TO send out
couple of boats and take her in charge.
We did not find it necessary to lire shot.
"The Aaula left Kingston on June 2S,
having been chartered by J. r. Soils,
Spaniard. Soils was warned by the
American consul at Kingston that he had
better not attempt to run the blockade,
but did not heed the advice. The Adula
was chartered, / think, for the purpose of
taken refugees away from Guantanamo,
Santiago and Manzanillo, and she had no
cargo aboard
1--WE kept the steamer there until July
10 when a prize crew from the Marble
head was put on board and ordered TO
bring her 10 Savannah. ] have with me
in that crew one officer, Assistant Engin-
Ger Morton, four men from the deck force
and three from the engineer force.
1.-The Adula was seized for a violation
of the blockade regulations, and she Will
be turned over to the United States Court
in Savannah. l will remain here to give
testimony i'm the case, but will send my
men back by way of Key West just as
soon as the court has taken charge of the
steamer"
From Lieut.. Anderson, 1t was also
learned that Soils, the Spaniard who char
tered the steamer for the purpose of run
ming the blockade, was on board, having
come with her from Kingston. There APP
pears 20 be no doubt that the object was
TO bring refugees away from Cuban ports
Lieut.. Anderson, the prize master on
the Adula, is from Wilmington, ". c. He
has already figured prominently in the op-
erations on the Southern coast of Cuba
and 1t was he who had charge of the two
launches from the Marbehead when that
cruiser was engaged in cutting the cable
running out from Cienfuesos. Lieut.. An
derson and his men were at that time I'M
der a hot fire from the land batteries Of
the Spanish for about three hours. lie
had two men killed in the boat of which
he was in charge, and five men wounded,
but succeeded in the work he had under
taken.
Lieut.. Anderson said that the Marble
tlSdu uiu 4Ot participate III inc lSnL Win
Cerveras feet. The Marblehead was at
the time guarding the entrance TO Guam
tanamo, and the report was brought that
the Spanish feet had escaped. The Mar
blehead then proceeded toward Santiago
al fun speed but when she arrived there
found that three OF the cruisers and the
two torpedo boat destroyers had been des-
troyed, and later learned of the destruc-
ton Of the Cristobal Colon The Marble
head has done good work in the fight at
Guantanamo, in the bombardments of
Santiago, and in fact throughout the cam
paigu around Cuba.
Lieut.. Anderson and his crew will prob
ably bring the Adula up to the city this
afternoon, and viii, as stated. turn it over
TO the United States court Testimony IN
the case will be taken before the prize
commissioners appointed by Judge Emory
Speer. They are Messrs. Julian Schley,
Edgar Denmark, and Rear Admiral T e.