The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-05-13


Newton stood near Lieutenant Need at
the forward gun and watched it's work.
ing with unmoved interest. Chief En-
gineer Cuthin never missed a bell.
Another group Of sailors were making
ready to heave line to the Winslow,
and Ensign Bagley and his four men
stood on the port side of the latter YES
sci waiting to receive it. The Span
iards seemed to have found the exact
range There was momentary delay
in heaving the tow line and Ensign
Bagley suggested that the Hudson's
men hurry. "Heave her." he called;
'let her come; it's getting pretty warm
here
The line was thrown and grabbed by
the Winslows men. Grimy with sweat
and powder, they tugged at it and
drew nearer foot by foot to the Hud-
son. Almost at the instant another
four-inch shell shrieked through the
smoke and burst directly under them.
Five bodies went whirling through the
air. Two of the group We're dead when
they fell Ensign Bagley and Fireman
Daniels. The young ensign was liter
portion of the fireman's body was torn
away. The other three died within a
few minutes.
With the explosion the hawser part
ed. The fire, which never relaxed on
the part of the Americans, was of a
persistent character Meanwhile the
Wilmington from her outlying station
was busy with her bigger guns and
sent shell after shell from her four
inch guns crashing into the works on
shore and their execution must have
been deadly. Not fragment of shot
or shell from the enemy reached her.
The Hudson quickly threw another line
to the Winslow and the helpless tor
pedo boat was made fast and pulled
out of the Spaniards' exact range. The
tug then towed her to Piedras Cay, a
little island twelve miles distant, near
which the Machias lay. There she was
anchored for repairs, while the Hud-
son brought her CHASTITY cargo into
Key West with DR.. Richards of the
Machias attending to the wounded.
Not until this mournful journey was
begun was it learned that Lieutenant
| Bernadou was injured. He submitted
to treatment and is doing well. The
| dead on board were covered with flags.
| Ambulances We're called and the
wounded were carried to the army bar
| racks hospital. The dead We're taken
| to the local undertaker's shop, where
| they lay all day on slabs The public
| We're permitted to view the remains
and all day steady stream of people
| flowed through the shop. The Wins
| low has a six-inch hole in her starboard
beam, her starboard engine, forward
| boiler, forward ventilator and steering
| gear are destroyed and her port en-
| gines are slightly damaged, while her
| coming tower, to use the phraseology of
an officer looks like a pepper box
| The Hudson's men believe that they
fought against a battery of four-inch
| field guns and gunboats Of six, three
| and one-pounders. The Notifications,
| as we'll as the gunboats, were almost
| hidden from view by the sand heaps
| and warehouses. Four thousand regu-
lars, they say, are believed to be sta
! toned at Cardenas. After getting an
accurate range on the American boats
| from the hills the Spaniards descended
| the lower ground and poured in their
| fire almost before the Americans could
| get their location.
| Captain Newton of the Hudson init
| mates that his boat fired 1876 rounds
of ammunition in thirty minutes during
| the heat of the engagement 1t is mar
velous to him and his men that they
escaped as they did. They were within
one hundred yards of the Winslow
when the shell which killed the men on
board the torpedo boat exploded and
they expected to be blown to atoms
! Ensign Bagley became an ensign last
July. He was very popular here, and
his awful death has caused great grief
among all who knew him.. The Hud-
son reported that yesterday about the
same time the Cardenas engagement
occurred the Machias shot way the bat
teries and barracks on Diana Cay, nine
| miles from Cardenas.