Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1898-07-09

forward or sideways, with every wave
that washed on them from the open sea
How Cervera Was Taken.
Admiral Ceryera escaped to the shore
in boat sent by the Gloucester to the
assistance of the lnfanta Maria Teresa
and as soon as he touched the beach he
surrendered himself and bis command tc
Lieutenant Morton, and asked to be TAX
en- aboard the Gloucester, which was the
only American vessel near him at the
time, with several of his officers, includ-
ing the captain of the flagship.
The Spanish admiral, who was wounded
in the arm, was taken to the Gloucester
and was received at her gangway by her
commander, Lieutenant Commander
Richard Wainwright, who grasped the
hand of the gray-bearded admiral and
said to him: Il congratulate you, sir, up
on having made as gallant fight as was
ever witnessed on the sea-"
! Lieutenant Commander Wainwright
then placed his cabin at the disposal OF
the Spanish officers.
At that time the Spanish flagship and
four other Spanish vessels had been
aground and burning for two hours, and
the only one of the escaping fleet which
could not be seen at this point was the
| Cristobal Colon. But half a dozen curls
of smoke far down on the western hor-
lion showed the fate that was awaiting
! it. The Cristobal Colon was the fastest
of the Spanish ships, and she soon OBJ
tanned lead over the others after leav-
ing the harbor, and escaped the effect
of the shots which destroyed the other
vessels. She steamed away at great
speed, with the Oregon, Newark, Brook
Ign and several other ships in pursuit,
all of them firing at her conS,antly and
receiving fire themselves from her after
guns.
Fighting Bob Evans.
There seemed no possibility whatever
of her escape, and her fate can be readily
imagined from the words of Captain
Robley D. Evans of the Iowa, who re-
turned from the westward with $50 pris-
oners from the Vizcaya just as the AS
sociated Press dispatch boat Wanda was
leaving the flagship. In answer to an in
quiry he shouted through the mega
phone:
Il left the Cristobal Colon far to the
westward an hour ago, and the Oregon
was giving her hell. She has undoubtedly
gone down with the others, and we will
have a Fourth of July celebration in San
tiago tomorrow"
The New York was out of the fight al
together at every stage, but she imme
diately put about and followed the other
vessels in the race to the westward, and
overlook them in time to join in the
chase for the Cristobal Colon, after the
other Spanish vessels had been destroyed
by the Brooklyn, the Oregon, Iowa, Mas
sachusetts, Indiana, Texas, Gloucester
and other ships of the fleet.
SchIey Was Fortunate.
Commodore Schley's flagship, the Brook
Ign, had her usual position at the eX-
IRENE western end of the line, 10 miles from
the New York and Texas. 1t is a pecu-
liar fact that he should have been in
proper position to direct the movements
of his flying squadron against the Spanish
fleet which he had bottled up in Santiago
harbor six weeks before.
AS matter of fact the entire American
fleet was much farther off shore than
usual when the Spaniards made their APP
pearance this morning. With the eXcep-
ton of the bombardment yesterday
morning, which resulted i'll knocking
down the flag on MORO castle and the
supposed silencing of the batteries, which
opened fire again this morning as usual,
the navy had done little recently to at
tract interest here, and the officers and
crews themselves were watching the de-
velopment of the operations being con-
Quoted by the army which had succeed
ed in reaching the very gates OF Santiago
after an enormous loss in killed and
wounded in the fighting of the past two
days. 1t was not believed that Cervera
would attempt to escape from his peril
Gus position at this late day but it was
supposed that he would keep his ships in
the harbor to shell the advancing Ameri
can army, and if Santiago fell he would
blow up or sink them rather than permit
them to be captured by the American
squadron lying outside.
The Spanish admiral's real plans. how
ever, were plainly not anticipated. He ac-
cepted the one chance open to him-that
of running the gauntlet of the powerful
menof-war lying in front of the harbor,
and saving his ships for future service
by dashing out of the trap in which he
found himself, and going to some other
field of operations
There seemed to be but one chance in