The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-03-17
got into my boat and returned to the

cot into my boat and returned to the
Wanda.
MUST HAVE DIED THERE.
II do not know what became OF the
wounded Spanish sailor. ! never hearu
of him afterwards; but I believe that
he must have died in the pool whore
left him before the sailors ON shore could
get him i'm the chair and take him 10
the Gloucester. II he did die In the pool
which cannot doubt owing 90 his right
ful wounds. and the fact that he lay IN
the burning sun so long without surgical
attention. il IS not likely that he found
any other tomb, for IL was no time nor
occasion 10 be over-parucular ABOUT
dead man. as dead men We're rather nu-
merous i'm that locality then, and the
unfortunate sailor whose mangled body
was left lying I'm his own blood on inc
sun-biistered rocks OF cuba, shared no
worse fate than scores Of others whose
bodies saw that day floating In the sea-
either IN become food for sharks or 10
grind TO pieces when tho incoming ude
should throw them against the rock
bound shore.
'sWhen the Gloucester sailors many re-
turned 10 their own vcsse. they undouo'-
edlv left the Wandas chair on the snore'
and / believe there IS not the sIsh'eSt
doubt that their chair afterwards became
the death couch and then the tomD OF
Admiral Vulamu lie was doubtless lying
near us az the time 1 was on shore' Dut
r,ne of the Americans found him, Whlch
80 nor remarkable. as there were very
few Americans on shore, and ne eoulu
e.,silv have been concealed behind me
- along the beach or I'm the thick
brush back OF them. II the Spanish san
ors who had been captured knew me "a
rnirars hiding place, they did not dlNulso
IL TO the Americans.
ONLY STANDARDS KNOW.
"Ts may be that it was by the oflcer
-.... or,iors that hls men had carried him
-. -. lonely spot in the thicket, where
,. nraforred TO have the spirit leave MN
,.biie he was still a free soldier or spain
rather than die "A prisoner IN the h"4'uS
Of his country's enemies. Whelher ~
was placed in the chair before OF 49,
he was dead can be told ohly ny NC
Spanish sailors who placed MIN tne'e, ~ az.
they only also can tell whether my -,
him alone to die or waited oee'Ie '''"
49,, aftor the breath left his body
ar seems hardly possible that peher"l
- .,,,,I the other American officers can
~ ,,tsta<en in their ideuuncatloh OF
Tho bodv but n they are there '.'n DC
h,, one theory I'm regard to H. ana 'Hdt ~
~. tho bodv was that OF salloI i i'i'
80, I'm the pool and for whom the eha'
80 SOM ashore. Tie may nav" '',"
-.,aood in the chair by the American s"l'
ars and died there before he cou,u D9
OiS t,, Gloucester: but this theory
- as extremely doubtful anu az
80 ifs truth or falsity can ne ue
,,,onstroted by the Gloucester oil'er ~
30 saiiors who remained on shore a''7' !
left. ..,,.,. CAPTAIN
.p,,. ,,bon the report OF the nnalhs ."
-, was first received here iroi.
- ~ and # was said TO be tnat OF
~ pluton's captain felt cohho.n1 ~. -
a. could not be correct, TOT i"N
stroneest reasons for believing - ~,
.rorv- reasons which were lou''" 80,
The fact that less than an n"ui 80,
occurrences related IN the io' .7l,,,,,,-
was introduced by Lieutenant IN coan.
,,,a,,,,,,i,ht 81 the Gloucester 70 a 9P'l'-
,eh officer entirely uninJureu W. ,,o
resented himself as the canaan -, no
puton. He was Afterwards c,,a,isb
I-.t.,5 states with the other Sp"''.'"
ui'l1sN a,d as far "a I know. was re-
as 80 snain when the war was oN'r.
~. cot hack TO the Wanda' a'te
10, tho chair on shore WIN 'N"
D.,',,,r-tor sailors. / was very WuV" '"l
- 80 find that during my apsen ,.''
49, oeicors and six sailors ne'onsl.S
r. pluton had taken refuge apodi i
~ ,,.,,as They had easily eS'aP'"
10 49,, s,,au guard Of American SAM,
llo'' - and had put out to tne 'nIS s
% 80 the Puton's boats whio" """
.~bnro
"o aTSeir reason for going to me W 'u,n.'
-. ,bo Yacht had British res's.'s
"a aew the British nag, out
anu .s, o,lv thing British about her-a
va rt,h tho Spanlards did not Know
lao' - blg-hearted Yankee skipper
S"o &c Miller and when the poat
IL b,if-drowned and hali-statNeu
lo au came alongside he forgot an
-to,,t the color Of the wanda mas an"
,be possibility OF any annoyins .o''p'
cotions that these Spaniards might 0Nuao
nc He could have directed them 70 'lo
cloucaster. which was then hot n'or7
than "a mile away. standing by 'he TX,
piodlng wrecks on the Maria Teresa ana
Oouenda. receiving more prisoners tnah
she could take care OF, while tne brook
lvn. Oregon. Texas and New iorN W.
chasing the Cristobal Colon along the
ooast dftv miles 10 the westward.
IN GOOD HANDS.
"But Captain Miller did not repulse
the appealing Spanlards. His instinct o,
humanity was too strong and ne tolo
,ben 10 come aboard. Not only that.
but no gave them dry clothing ana 1000
and drink SO, when | came over the
side of the Wanda I found our JacNes
pouring jamaica rum down the throatS
OF the six Spanish sailors on the iore-
castle and I'm the cabin were the three
officers telling their troubles 10 Captain
miller while tho steward was dealing
ont 10 them libations OF Scotch whisky
and soda. This was all right from a
humanitarian standpoint. hut ! round
myself confronted with the absolute ne
cessty OF getting these span'ards on
the Wanda al once. Our yacht was
ready 10 nut out Immediately for Port An.