The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1898-05-22

NEW YORK, May 21.-Captain Lloyd
of the steamer Arkadia, that has JUST
arrived here from San Juan, Porto
Rico. says that he and the ships stew
ard were the only ones who Went
ashore during the steamers three
hours stay at the bombarded port.
From what 1 learned, twenty men
were killed by American guns" SAID
Captain Lloyd. 'Of these six We're
1nown down at the guns, and the others
were laid out by bursting shells in the
defenses. No one was hurt in the
town. About sixty were injured, all In
the forts.
THE agent of the line, naturalized
American citizen, took me around the
town A shell from the American fleet
had struck the fourth story of the Ho-
tel Ingleterra, knocked off the whole
roof, and drove the guests. men ana
women, int the streets in their night
clothes al 5:l5 q IN.
Flying over the forts good many
shells had fallen into the flat lands
striking houses, some of which are now
propped up to keep them from tumb-
ling. | saw a storehOuse that had been
riddled by an American shell, Whlch
had punctured the roof, bored its way
through the lumber stored in the build
ing. penetrating the office and emery
ing through a rear door, had Knocked d
hole in the hull of a Spanish merchant
steamer, the Manuella.
"A Spanish Custom House inspector
told me that his father, a soldier had
been killed while asleep in his bed by
one of the first shots. Below the fortl-
fications lie many shells, some of them
still unexploded.
THE Spaniards are picking them up
and treasuring them for mementoes.
See the presents the Yankees sent US,
they tell their friends.
IF a man can speak only so much
English as yes or no his life is now
in peril at San Juan. Secretary Bett
of the English Consulate told me that
there is much discussion among the
Consular officers at San Juan as to
whether the bombardment will stand
the test of international law, as no no
tice was given"
Among the passengers of the ArkadIa
were A. V. Drake, for three years sec
rotary to NJ Vadrene, United States
Consular agent at Mayagues, and
Nicolai Megwinoff, a native of Russia
and an American citizen. Mr.. Drake
was the last native-bOrn American to
leave the island Of Porto Rico.
Mr.. Drake said: THE agent from
whom 1 learned of the bombardment
lived outside the city, but, awakened
by the heavy cannonading, he got up
and watched the engagement from
safe distance. One vessel, which he
said he believed was the Iowa, left the
fleet and, accompanied by a small boat,
steamed fairly under Morro's guns. She
stationed the small boat and, moving
slowly around it, let fly her shells at
every revolution.
She was actually so close that the
guns on the Notifications could not be
trained on the warship, and volleys OF
musketry were showered upon her.
Soon the fleet was enveloped in such a
band of smoke that Morro's guns must
have been absolutely helpless. Under
cover of the smoke the daring vessel
joined the fleet again.
Another daring warShip was believed
TO be the monitor Terror. She, too, came
within easy range of the shore guns,
and every shot from her seemed to
have taken effect. Once when the seas
We're breaking over her deck, the gun
ners on MORO, unused to her type,
cried in glee, See, we have sunk her
According to Spanish reports. there
were eleven vessels in the bombarding
fleet, and the most serious damage was
the dismounting of one gun and the