The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-07-05
Destroyed Every Ship and Took 1900 Prisoners,
Including the Admiral.
SPANIARDS MADE A DARING DASH,
AND SAILED INTO THE JAWS OF DEATH
American Loss Was But One Killed and Two Wounded
Spanards Lost 500 Killed and Wounded

| mercy of their captors, who not only
extended to them the gracious hand Of
American chivalry, but sent them a
| guard TO protect them from the muir
derous bands of Cuban soldiers, hiding
| in the bush on the hillside, eager to
/ rush down and attack the unarmed,
! defeated, but Valorous foe.
One after another of the Spanish
ships became the victims of the awful
rain of shells which the American bat
tleships, cruisers and gunboats poured
upon them. and two hours after the
first of the fleet had started out of San
! tiago harbor, three cruisers and two
| torpedo boat destroyers were lying on
the shore ten to fifteen miles west of
MORO castle, pounding to pieces, smoke
and flame pouring from every part of
them, and covering the entire coast
line with a mist which could be seen
for miles. Heavy explosions of am
muir ion occurred every few minutes.
! sending curls of dense white smoke a
hundred feet in the air, and causing a
shower of broken iron and steel to fall
in the water on every side.
The bluffs on the coast line echoed
with the roar OF every explosion, and
! the Spanish vessels sank deeper and
deeper into the sand, or else the rocks
ground their hullS to pieces as they
rolled or pitched forward or sideways
with every wave that washed upon
them from the open sea-
CERVERA'S SURRENDER
Admiral Cervera escaped to the shore
in boat sent by the Gloucester to the
assistance of the Infanta Maria Te-
resa, and as soon as he touched the
beach he surrendered himself and his
command to Lieutenant Morton, and
Gloucester, which was the only Ameri-
can vessel near him at the time, with
several of his officers. including 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 COM
mander, Lieutenant Commander Rich
ard Wainwright, who grasped the hand
of the gray-bearded admiral, and said
to him: Il congratulate you, sir, upon
having made as gallant a fight as was
ever witnessed on the sea"
Lieutenant Commander Wainwright
then placed his cabin at the disposal of
the Spanish officers.
PURSUIT OF THE COLON.
At that time the Spanish flagship
and four other Spanish vessels had
been aground and burning for two
feet which could not be seen at this
point was the Cristobol Colon. But
half a dozen curis of smoke far down
on the western horizon showed the fate
that was awaiting her.
The Cristobol Colon was the fastest
of the Spanish ships, and she Ioon OBJ
tanned a lead over the others after leav-
ing the h2rbor and escaped the effect
of the shots which destroyed the other
vessels. She steamed away at good
speed, with the Oregon, New York,
Brooklyn and several other ships in
pursuit, all Of them firing at her con-
stantly, and receiving fire themselves
from her after guns. There seemed
no possibility whatever for her escape,
and while her fate is not definitely
known at this hour, it can be readily
imagined from the words of Captain
Robley d. Evans, of the Iowa, who
turned from the westward with $50
prisoners of the NiZcaya, just as the
Associated Press dispatch boat Wanda
was leaving the flagship.
In answer to an inquiry, he shouted
through the megaphone: Il left the
Cristobol 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
Fourth of July celebration in San
tiago tomorrow"
Captain Evans, who had been in the
thick of the engagement up to the time
he took the Vizcaya officers and crew
from the shore, said that to the best
of his knowledge, not one American
ship had been struck.
The torpedo boat Ericsson, which
also returned from the westward at
about the same time, made a similar
report, saying it was believed no man
was injured on board the American
ships, though another report had it
that one man was killed on board the
Brooklyn, which could not be verified
as this dispatch was sent.
SPANISH LOSS HEAVY.
There is no means of telling now
what the Spanish loss was, but it is
believed to have been very heavy, as
the prisoners in custody report their
decks strewn with dead and wounded
in great numbers, and besides there is
a statement that many bodies could be
seen fastened to the pieces of wreck
age floating in the sea after the fight
was over A large number of the
Spanish wounded were removed to the
American ShiDs.
There can be no doubt that Admiral
Cervera's plan to escape from Santiago
harbor was entirely unexpected by Ad-
of this is the fact that when the Span
ish vessels were seen coming out of the
harbor, the flagship New York was
seven miles away, steaming TO the
eastward toward Juragua, the military
base, nine miles east of MORO.
The New York was out of the fight
altogether at every stage, but she i'm
mediately put about and followed the
others.
The New York Immediately put about
and followed the other vessels in the
race TO the westward and overlook
them in time TO join the chase for the
Cristobal Colon, after the other Span
ish vessels had been destroyed by the
Brooklyn, the Oregon, Iowa, Massa-
chusetts, Indiana, Texas, Gloucester
and other ships of the fleet.
Commodore Schley's flagship, the
Brooklyn, had her usual position at the
extreme western end of the line, ten
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