Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1894-10-09
A GREAT NAVAL BATTLE

The great sea fight between the
Japanese flagship Matsushima
and the Chinese cruiser Yang
Yei, July 18th, will go down in
history as one of the greatest on
record.
The ships were Unanswered
with extraordinary skill. They
We're equipped with every modern
improvement, the best armament
and guns that money could pur-
purchase in the best markets of
the world. The Chinese cruiser
drew the japanese flag ship away
from the fleet and then spinning
on her keel, struck the first blow
with a thirty-eight ton gun that
sent a ten and a half inch shell
into the flagship.
From that until the close of the
action, the two ships were envel-
oped in smoke, and it was give
and take with forty ton guns hurl-
ing iron at each other at short
range. The Chinese commander
was evidently the man for the
place. He handled his ship so
skillfully that the heaviest guns
of the enemy could not get the
range. Finally the japanese
sent in a shot from a forty-nine
ton gun, the first good right
handler, so to speak, that she had
been able to land. 1t gouged the
Chinese cruiser from stem to
stern, and left a wreck of the
upper deck, piling the dead and
wounded in heaps. and covering
them with wreckage. The scene
was so terrible that the Chinese
Cunners who had stood at their
posts without a tremor, now left
the gun-deck, just as they were
training the forward gun on the
coming tower of the enemy. 1t
was the critical moment Of the
battle. ST Yang, the commander
ordered the gunners to their post
and they refused. He shot six
dead in their tracks and the rest
went back to work An instant
later they discharged the gun
which gave the foe its death
wound. 1t wrecked the connin z
tower, killed the Admiral and
most of the officers, and placed
the Japanese ship at the mercy OF
its adversary. At this juncture
the Chinese Dragon flag was run
up as a token of surrender, and
just as the Chinese cruiser was
to take possession OF the con
quered flagship the smoke lifted
and revealed six war ships bear
ing down. The Chinese cruiser
wheeled, and crowding on every
pound of steam started on a rur
for it's life. 1t was like a fox
trailed by pack of hounds a
full bay. She had two hundred
and fifty dead and wounded OF
her decks and with this ghastly
burden the crippled cruiser witt
all its crew in the coal hole start
ed for home. The safety valves
We're screwed down, streams o
water were kept playing on the
red hot smoke stacks while mer
stood over the coal beavers be
laboring their naked bodies viii
rubber packing. and plyinS then
with gin. Under this treatnen
the Chinese cruiser made twent,
knots an hour under the concen
tratcd fire of six battle ship
erowding its wake with batterie
in full play every part OF the dis
lance, beating all her Compel tor
at the finish. and making port.
1t was worth a life time to ever
survivor of such a memorabl
battle to have witnessed such
day OF tremendous fighting bc
tween two Titians OF the sea
Toe Yung Yei was 1850 tons di:
placement, and cost a million i
England. Her length was q
feet and her twin screws develop
ed 2600 horse power. Her riv5
was 1920 tons displacement
Length 29s feet, and her twi
screws $500 horse power.
Thus it turned out that th
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