The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-07-11
The American Flag Floated Over the White
House and Navy Department
Yesterday.
CERVERA TO GO TO ANNAPOLIS
The Names of the Officers Wounded in the Fight at San
tiago--Thos who can Stand transportation Will
be Brought North--Life Saving
Station Reports.

Captain j. IL. Bret, gun-shot, right
elbow.
Lieut.. III. l.. Kinnison, gun-shot. left
breast and elbow.
Lieut.. Ii. G. Lyon, gun-shot, right
hip.
Captain A. c. Ducat, gun-shot, both
thighs.
Lieut.. w. III. Simmons, gun-shot, right
arm.
Lieut.. r. Il. Spencer, gun-shot, right
leg and left hand.
Captain Lassiter, gun-shot, right side.
The following are sick: General ).
i. NJ. Young, Captain A. B. Heyl. Cap
tain S. +. Allen, Lieut.. G. NJ. Saltzman,
Lieut. G. III. Patten, Lieut.. Il. w.
Lewis, Captain Robert Sewell, Lieut..
w. Il. T. French. Major j. y Coe,
Chaplain Dwight Gallinger. Lieut.. w. G.
Rivers, Lieut.. C. B. Humphreys, Lieut..
e. Perkins.
All sick from the effect of heat. but
are doing well. The massage was
signed by Ogden Rafferty,, Major and
Surgeon L. S. V.
The ST Louis arrived at Portsmouth,
n H., with 800 Spanish enlisted sailors
and forty officers captured from Ger
vera's squadron. Her coming was her
aided by the United States coast signal
service The fidelity with which the
course of the big ship was traced and
reported to the Navy Department at
short intervals from the moment that
she was first sighted off the coast, af-
fords striking illustration of the per-
fection which this branch of the naval
service has attained under the energetic
direction of Captain Bartlett. Every
life-saying station and every light house
on the coast which sighted the ship
flashed its report by telephone and tele-
graph straight into the headquarters of
the service in the Navy Department,
where skilled operators are on duty
every minute of the day and night. The
incident is gratifying as showing the re-
mote danger of any hostile ship APP
preaching the United States ports with
out the knowledge of the Navy Depart
ment.
Admiral Cervera himself was among
the unwilling passengers ON the st.
Louis He will not remain at Ports
mouth. however. As soon as the en-
listed men are landed on Seavy's Island
in the quarters prepared for them, he.
with the officers of his squadron. save
the surgeons. who will be left with the
men. will be sent to Annapolis to be
confined within the limits of the Naval
Academy reservation. Captain Cooper.
the superintendent. has prepared very
comfortable quarters for the prisoners
in the cadet buildings. and will come to
Washington to consult Secretary Long
as to the exact measure of indulgence
to be shown his charges. The bringing
of Admiral Cervera to the United States
does not signify that the proposition to
parole him has been finally dismissed. IT
has been simply postponed for time,
though it may be surmised that the Adj
miral will be much more comfortable
here until the feeling of unnatural re-
sentiment displayed against him in Spain
has subsidized.
The ordnance officers of the army are
indignant at the statements that have
appeared in the press, some of them at
tributable to high army officers, ques-
tionng the merits of the Springfield
Rifle, with which large proportion of
the United States army is armed. These
statements. they say, are calculated to
do infinite harm among the volunteer
forces. though the regulars know and
like the old Springfield too well to Gls-
trust it now. The principal argument
made against its employment by the
critics is that its short range enables
the Spanish, armed with Mausers, to
pick off our men long before they get
within range of the Springhelds. This
is said to be based upon error. The
Springfield has IA range Of thirty yfouI
hundred yards, which is only Il few
hundred yards short of the Mauser. and
the formers big five hundred grain bul-
let is said to have greater killing power
at the long ranges. The opinion of some
good practical soldiers as to the re-
spective merits of the Springfield and
the modern small bore is shown by the
fact that such able soldiers as Colonel
Ray and Colonel Schuyler. of New York.
who are organizing independent regi-
ments. have specially requested the War
Department to supply them the former.
A good deal has been said also as to
the great superiority of smokelcss pow
der used in the small bore over the
black powder of the Springfield, but one
# the best ordnance officers in the
War Deparement has declared that
there are merits in both powders.