The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-04-29
IS A VALUABLE PRIZE
WITH HER CARGO SHE IS VAL
UED Ar 100000.
MADE DESPERATE EFFORT TO ESCAPE
4 Shot Through her Pilot HOuse.-AII !he
Prizes: Still at Key West---fre
Likely to Remain There
Indefinitely.

Key West, Fla, April 2S.-Aside from
the news of the Matanzas bombardment,
which set the town wild with joy, the
event of to-day, practically marking the
end of the first week of the war, was
the arrival of the big prize, the steamer
Guido. She was captured by the moni-
tor Terror and the gunboat Machias, ten
miles off Cardenas, at 4 o'clock yester-
day morning. but not until after Il stern
chase. Five shots were fired, four by
the monitor, and one by the gunboat,
though the shot from the Machias dld
not take effect. Two of the Terror $
shots went through the pilot house, and
one struck Il long boat and the upper
works.
Manuel Rivas, Il sailor, was in the pilot
house of the Guido. and the flying
splinters penetrated his breast, iniiictlng
wounds which may cause his death. lie
wns brought ashore and taken TO the
hospital this afternoon. Captain kich-
iondo received flesh wound in the
wrist from Il splinter when the shot
went through the pilot house.
The Guido was bound from Corunna
to Havana, with cargo of priyisions
and money thought TO lac for the Spanish
troops. The Terror first sighted her and
tr.gan the pursuit by sending blank
shot aCroSs her bows. The Spaniards
promptly put ont al her lights aud start
ed in desperate attempt to run away.
The monitor then brought her six
FOUNDERS into play, and sent three more
shots directly at her, all finding the
mark She also trained her big twelve
inch guns on the Guido, prepared TO
sink her il the Spaniards did not heaYc
to.
Meanwhile the Machias had come up
and sent Il shot from a four inch riiie ut
the fugitive. Captain Kichiondo, seeing
that he had two such powerful enemies
TO combat. surrendered. Lieutenant ~.
+. OuaItrough, Ensign j. +. Hubbard.
and two marines were put aboard as Il
prize crew and brought the steamer into
Key West As soon as Captain hlcD-
iondo and his crew learned of the con
ditiops existing in Cuba. they asked 10
be landed there.
The Guido is steel, screw steamer.
of 3. 1913 tons gross and 2,S12 net. she
was built by Harland and Wolff of bel
fast and is registered by Lloyds as Al.
She is owned by La Flecha,' is 360
feet long. II feet wide and has depth
of 2G feet. Her port OF registry Is Bill
boa. The vessel and cargo are said to be
valued at 100000. She carried crew
of thirty-siX men.
All of the prizes still lie in the harbor
and. according to instructions received
by United States District Attorney
Stripping today from the Department Of
Justice, will remain there indefinitely
These instructions were to the effect thar
the crew and passengers Of the Panama
which carried four 14-pMPtnd guns and
which was captured bygthe Mangrove.
should be held as prisoners of war. The
crews of the other prizes are also to be
detained aboard until further orders and
will be allowed no communication with
the shore.
II is conceded that whatever the re-
suit of the Presidents proclamation may
be. it will not affect the Panama, which
was an auxiliary cruiser.
Ii was reported today that n box.
thought to be from one of the magazines
OF the Maine had been found off South
east Point. twenty-siX miles from here
but nothing is known of the circum-
stances ~ the naval station.
The Indiana arrived this afternoon
from the Tortugas where she has been
coaling.