Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-06-04
WARSH|PS 60 SOUTH
BIG UNITED STATES DREAD
NouGHTs RUSHING TO
CUBAN WATERS.
MARINES ARE LEFT BEHIND
More BattleshIps to FoIlow-Five
Thousand Troops Are Ready to 5e
Moved to lsland-Army Transport
in Commission.

New York, May 2S-Ffve dread
noughts of the United States navy,
prepared for the greatest naval dem
onstration since the Spanish-American
war, are rushing to Cuba under full
steam.
Three other battleships and a
cruiser are being loaded with ma
rines and munitions of war at Hamp-
ton roads with feverish haste, while
still another battleship is hurrying
across the gulf of Mexico to join the
feet at Key West. At the Norfolk
navy yard are assembled hundreds Of
marines waiting for transports, sew
eral of which are being made ready
for a quick embarkation.
To add to the excitement In naval
circles, well founded rumor gained
circulation that the United States is
rushing the nucleus Of her sea fight
ing power to southern waters not
only to suppress the revolution in
Cuba, but also to put final quietus
on the situation in Mexico.
Rear Admiral Osterhaus, command
ing the Atlantic feet, arrived off
Tompkinsville Oh board his flagship,
the armored cruiser Washington, but
before anchor could be dropped he
received orders by wireless from the
navy department at Washington to
proceed at once to Cuba without wait
ing for complement of marines and
supplies, which was the vessels mis-
sion to this port.
An hour later the battleships
Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri and
Ohio steamed up the narrows at full
speed, rushed marines and munitions
on board and turned south again a
few hours later.
The battleships Georgia, New Jer-
sey and Rhode Island and the cruiser
Montgomery took supplies and ma
ripes on board at Hampton Roads.
The Georgia was reported by wireless
as proceeding to Guantanamo. The
battleship Nebraska reported that she
was making fast time across the Gulf
of Mexico. The supply ship Culgoa is
at Hampton Roads taking on sup
plies from the south
The 5000 troops which have been
ordered to hold themselves In readi-
ness to embark at once can be moved
as soon as the transports are ready
The orders to place the army trans
ports at Newport News in commits
sion, naval men said, indicated that
something more than a naval dem
onstration to overawe the rebellious
negroes in Cuba was contemplated In
Washington.
The battleships which paused here
a few hours before proceeding south
were at Provincetown when they re-
ceived orders to take marines and
war supplies aboard and rendezvous
at Key West.
The sudden arrival and flight of the
Washington caused a sensation here
The roar of her chains through the
hawse pipes had hardly drifted
ashore against the wind when her
prov began to turn seward. mo-
ment later she was blowing down the
channel.
The Delaware and the Minnesota
were the next to arrive. The Della
ware kept on up the harbor, but the
Minnesota anchored in the channel
with steam up. At Tompkinsville
the naval tug Pawnee and two others
were waiting loaded down with ma.
rines. AS they put off toward the
Minnesota, the Mississippi, the Mis-
souri, and the Ohio were seen steam
ing in. They dropped anchor hun.
dred yards apart in the channel. in
single column. The Pawnee ran along
side the Minnesota and transshipped
her marines.
The men carried their full field
eqn!pm emf. The tug made several
trips back to Tompkinsville until the
entire detachment of marines had
been placed aboard the battleships.
AS soon as the last marine was
aboard IA red flag was hoisted on each
battleshlp. a signal that explosives
were being taken aboard Lighters
drew alongside the vessels and began
to send small arm cartridges and am
munition for the big guns aboard
This work was completed in an in
eredibly brief time. In few min
utes after the last lighter drew away
the warships were standing out to
sea, watched by thousands along the
Staten Island and South Brooklyn
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