The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1899-03-20

Of him afterwards. but I believe that he
must have died In tho pool where ] left
him before tive sailors on shore could get
him in the cfalr and take him OBJ the
Gloucester If ne ald die in tho pool. wn.cf
cannot doubt. owing to his friehtfm
wounds. and the fact that he lay in che
burning sun so long without surgical ate
tention. it j suot likely hat he found amy
other tomb Tor Ii was no time nor occas-
ion to be over-particular about dead
man. as dead men were rather numerous
I'm that locality then and tba unfortunate
sailor whuse mangled body was leri lying
in his own blood on the sun-bnst,red
rocks OF Cuba. shared no worse fate than
score sof others whose bodies ] saw chat
day floating in the esa. either t1 become
food for sharks or TO ground to pieces
when the incoming tide should throw
them against the rock bound ss"ra
THE. CHAIR HIS TOMB
when the Gloucester sailors aualfic
turned to their own vessel they uudoubt-
edly left the Wando's caair ON the shore
and 1 believe there is not the slightest
doubt that that chair afterwards became
.he deah couch and thcn the tomb of
Admiral vnlamil lIe was doubtless Isiue
near us at the time ] was ou shore. but
none of the Americans found hIm which
was not remarkable as there were very
few Americans ON shore and Doe could
easily have been concealed behind tho
rocks along tho beach or in tle thick
brush back OF them II tbe Spanish
sailors who had been captured knew the
Admiraps hiding place they did NOT di-
vuge &C TO the Americans Do may Doe
that il was by the officers own orders
that his men had carried him Goo some
lonely spot in the thicket whore he pre-
ferred to have the spirit leave him while
he was stin free soldier o, Spain,
rather than die prisoner in the hands
of his country's enemies. Whether he
was placed I'm the chair iefr.. or after
ne was dead can be told only hy Che
Spanish sailors who placed him there and
they only also can ten whether tn"r lc't
him alone to die or waited h"sii MIN
until after the breath left oils body De-
seems hardly possible that General Wood
and the other American oftIcsi cam rc
mistaken i'm their Identification of tie
body. but II they arc there ,lu h. but
one theory In regard to SO ami thlt is that
the body was that OF the sailor whom
| left lying iu The pool and for waom the
chair was sent ashore. Ic may have
been placed IN the chair Boy tho American
sailors and died there before Dee could be
| taken to the Gloucester Blu. this theory
regard as extremely doubtful and at
any rate It's truth or folsi,y can lo d,m-
the sailors who remained on shore after
] left
NOT CAPTAIN OF PLUTON.
But when the report of tine finding Of
the body was nrts received here from
Santiago, and 81 was said TO be that of
tho Plutou's captain, ] felt confident that
that could not be correct. For l had the
strongest reasons for believing the con
trary, reasons which wero founded ON the
| fact that less than an hour after the oc-
currences related in the foregoing, / was
introduced by Lieutenant Commander
Wainwright, the commander OF the Glou-
cester. to a Spanish officer, entirely un-
injured, who represented himself as tho
Captain of the Pluton. lie was after
wards taken to the United States witt
the other Spanish prisoners, and, ns fal
as l know, was returned TO Spain wheI
the war was over.
when / got back TO the Wanda aftcl
having left the chair on shore With th'
Gloucester sailors 1 was very mucn sur
prsed to find that during my absence
three officers and six sailors BELONGING
to the Plutnn had taken refuge aboar,
the Wanda. They had easily escaped
from the small guard Of American sailors
on shore and had put out TO tHe Wanda
i'm one of the Pluton's boats which had
| noated ashore. Their reason Tor goiug
to the Wanda was that the yacht mad
British registry and flow the British flag
but her flag was the only thing British
about her. a fact which the Spaniard'
dld not know. She had big hearted
Yankee skipper in Captain Miller, an'
when the boat load of half drowned an,
half starved Spaniards came alongside, Do
forgot an about the color OF the Wanda
flag and the possibility OF any annoying
complications that these Spaniards nigh
cause u.s. He could have directed them g
go TO the Gloucester which was then no
more than "a mile away tsanllng by tn
p exploding wrecks Of the Maria Tercs
r ard Oauendo receiving more prisoner
= than she could take care of whine th
= Brooklyn. Oregon. Texas ana New Yor
were ch0HlnE Nlf a AlIsINNfhA hr'ih.l "a VIZ
q the coast nfty miles to the westward
] But Captain Miller ala not repulse IN
. appealing spaniards. His instinct Of hu
I manity was too strong, and he told tneI
e TO come aboard Not only THAT, but b
b gave them dry clothing and food an
d drink. SO when / came over the side ID
" the Wanda 1 found our Jackics pourin
70 Jamaica rum down Tho throats Of the So
.- Spanish sailors on the forecasle and
r the cabin were the three oucers, tellir
.e their troubles 20 Captain Miller whi
Ie the steward was dealing out 20 the
D. llbauons Of Scotch whisky and SOFA.
- COULD NOT KEEP THEM
" "This was an right from humaaitari'
h. standpoint, but 7 found myeslf confront
IN with the absolute necessity Of getu
re those spanIards off the Wanda at ono
es our yacht was ready TO put out imme'
50 ateIy for Port Antonio, the nearest neuu
ks port at which we could reach cal
he station and send the news of the destrt
n tlon OF Ccrvera's fleet We had then be
n running back and forth between Port A
.cr tonic aud the Cuban coast for six wee
RS past and several times had the Brit
nd quarantine regulations al Port Antol
ed IMPRESSED upon us very fOrcibly / knc
er, 10 n certainty. THAT II 1 went into r
ld. Antonio bay with those spaniarda aboa
Jm who had been living in the pestileni
i'm climate Of Santiago for "a month or Z
six mast. the quarantine officials would
Ugh permit as 10 enter but would anchor
ak about four miles 90 leeward OF the 90
get and not permit us 10 have any commt
"a" c,+t,, with fho shore thus shutting