The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1898-05-12

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Ulloa, 1sls de Cuba, Isls de Luson and
Mindsnso we're in line Of battle outside
OF Csvite at that time, With their four
gunboats and the torpedo boats inside the
harbor.
The American ships passed backward
and forward six times across the front Of
the Spaniards, pouring in upon the lat
ter q perfect hail of shot and shell. Ev-
cry American shot seemed to tell, while
almost every Spanish shot missed the
mark.
After having thus scattered demorsliz-
alton among the Spanish feet and bat
teries, the American feet retired for
breakfast, and incidentally . council OF
war WAS held on board the Olympia.
BY this time the Spanish ships we're In
q desperate condition. The flagship Re-
ina Cristina was riddled with shot and
shell, one Of her steam pipes had burst.
and she was believed to be on FIRE. The
Castillo was certainly on FIRE, and soon
after the fire became worse and worse un-
til they were burned to the waters edge.
The Don Ulloa made most magnificent
display of bravery. When her COM
mander found that she WAS so torn by
American shells that he could not keep
her afoat, he nailed her colors to her
mast, and she sank with all hands fight
ing to the last. She was comp letev rid
died, and her upper deck had been swept
clear by the awful fire of the American
guns, but the Spaniards, though their
vessel was sinking beneath them, con-
tinued working the guns on her lower
deck until she sank beneath the waters.
During the engagement Spanish tor
pedo boat crept along the shore and
around the ofiing in an attempt to attack
the American storeships, but she was
promptly discovered. She was driven
ashore and was actually blown to pieces.
The Mindsnao had meanwhile been run
ashore to save her from sinking, and the
Spanish small craft had sought shelter
from the steel storm behind the break
water.
The battle, which was started about 5
a. IN. and adjourned at 30 a. m, was
resumed about noon, when Commodore
Dewey started to put in the finishing
touches to his furious work. There W as
not much fight left in the Spauiards by
that time. At 2p. IN. the Petrol and
Concord bad shot the Cavite batteries
into silence, leaving them heaps of ruins
and floating the white flag. The Spanish
gunboats were the scuttled, then arsenal
was on fire, and the explosion OF Span
ish magazine caused further mortality
to the Spanish defenders on shore.
On the water the burning, sunken or
destroyed Spanish vessels could be seen,
while only the cruiser Baltimore had suf-
fered in any way from the fire of the
enemy. A shot which struck her ex-
ploded some ammunition near one of her
guns and slightly injured half dozen OF
her crew. Shots passed dangerously
close to Commodore Dewey, but little or
no damage was done on board the flag
ship. On the other hand, about 100 men
are said to have been killed on board the
Spanish flagship, which was totally de-
stroyed. Admiral MonteJo, the Spanish
admiral, transferred his flag to the Isls
de Cuba when the ship caught fire, but
the latter was also destroyed in short
time. The Reins Cristina lost her cap
tain, lieutenant, her chaplain and a
mldshipman by one shot which struck
her bridge. About 100 men were killed
and 60 wounded on board the Castillo.
Indeed, some estimates place the number
of Spanish wounded during the engage
ment at over $1,000 men.
The Olympia was struck five times
about her upper works, and whsleboai
on the Raleigh was smashed.
Although the Krupp guns on the es'
planade of Manila were fred continu
ously during the engagement, Commo
dore Dewey did not reply to them, and
the battery afterward hoisted a white
! flag in token of surrender. The terms Of
cspitulation were still unsettled when the
McCulloch lett Manila, but it WAS said
Commodore Dewey feared rioting on the
part OF the insurgents il he attemptes
a bonn bardment of the remaining fortifi
cations at Manila. The forts at the en-.
trance of the bay were dismantled Wed
nesday after they had cspitulated. 1t is
said the commodore ordered the cable to
be cut because the Spaniards refused to
permit him to use it pending the com.