Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-10-23
STARBOARD ANTI LARBOARD.

For some time back Gibraltar has been
considerably puzzled for an explanation OF
the discovery made there of over two hun
dred cannon lying at the bottom of the sea
Divers who had been engaged on govern
ment submarine investigation. related how
they had found the cannon lying as though
carefully arranged in parallel lines. Histo'
ry explains the matter. We refer to an
engagement and to disaster unequaled In
the annals of maritime history, which oc-
Cured on the 18th of July, 1901.
The combined French and Spanish fleets
approached Gibraltar to attack the English
fleet concentrated there. During the battle,
the Superb, an English frigate, was ordered
to pass between two three-decked Spanlards
in the rear guard At eleven o'clock at
night the Superb executed this daring ma
neuver, raking the two ships with her
starboard and larboard broadsides, then,
quickly setting her sails, vanished into the
darkness with all lights out, making for the
Saint antoine, which was engaged in close
conflict with the Cesar.
At this juncture it was thatthe most disas-
trous catastrophe in the annals of marine
warfare transpred. Thetwo Spanish three
deckers, not observing the Englishman dis
appear, owing to the smoke and darkness,
mlistook each other for the enemy and
thereupon commenced terrific cannonad-
ing, together with furious fighting. They
sought by every means to grapple and board
one another, while a tempestuous gale fan
ned fire which had broken out in the
Real Carlos, till at last, stern to stern, their
rigging became entangled and the two
great Ships remained locked together and
immovable. The conf1agration swept the
two ships. Friends and foes alike wit
messed the disaster, to whom they could not
IL x1,ho Tho 1,i0fi M
might be, but flying from the danger in all
directions. Twenty minutes later the two
huge ships blew up simultaneously. The
explosion was such that Cadiz believed an
earthquake had come upon them. Over p
900 men manned these two grand ships, 300
only of whom escaped death by taking to
the boats. Unfortunately for these, they
made for the Saint Antoine which, entirely
dismasted, was fighting hOpelessly against
two of the enemy's ships, and, ready to
sink, had Just lowered her colors. The oc-
cupants of the boats were made prisoners.
1t is the heavy armament of Icedl- Carlos
and the San Hern'eaeglide,. sunk after the
explosion, which have now been discovered
under water, in parallel order, near Gibral-
tar. The very nature Of the other portions
of the blown-up ships, they being nearly all
composed of wood, easily accounts for their
total disappearance in the lapse of time.
How SUCCESS IS WON-George Stephen
son, unable to read the alphabet till he was
eighteen, working in the coal.pits for six,
pence a day, and mending the boots and
patching the clothes of his fellow-workmen
in the evenings to earn few extra pennies
that he might attend a night school, is a
good illustration of what a poor and igno-
rant boy may become. Never idle, never
above doing the commonest work, never an
ale-drinker, as was the custom among min
ers, he showed the fine qualities OF his ma
ture by giving the first money which he ev-