The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-05-22
WITNESSED SIMPSONS WORK.
DARING ACTION or AMERICAN
NARSHIPs At SAN JUAN.

Monitor Terror Also " ifhi "A Easy
Range of Shore-spnnish Forts
BADLY Used Up-City Would Have
Surrendered ia Two Hourve-Sur-
prfse al samson stopping Bonn
burdment-Othcr incidents.
New York May 21.-Capt Lloyd of the
steamer Arcadia which has just arrived
here from san Juan. Porto Rico. Gays that
h and the ships steward were the only
ones who went ashore during the steamers
three hours stay at the bombarded port.
From swhat ] learned twenty were kid
ed by American guns said Capt. Lloyd
COT these, part were moved down AZ me
guns ana The others were ian out by
bursting shells in the defenses. No one
was hurt in the town. About sixty were
injured, al, in the forts.
THE agent OF the line, a natura-zed
American cillzen' TOOK me AROUND uiF
town A shell from the American iieet
had struck the fourth story OF the Hotel
IngIe,erra' Knocked off the whole roof
and drove the guests, men ana women III
to the streets IN ther night c!othes at o'I1
a. m.
Flying over the forts good many
shells mad fallen INTO the nat iahds' slrIA-
ing houses some OF which are no" Pfoped
up to Keep them from 'uholEhs' sa"
storehouse that had been riddled by an
American SHELL which had punctured 'he
roof bored its way through Inc lumber
stored in the building penetrated mo 'iie
Office and emerging through rear aoor
had knocked a hole in the hui OF Il span
ish merchant steamer, the ManueIa'
"A Spanish custom house Inspector told
me that his father a soldier had been
killed while asleep in his bed by one o.
the first shots Below the Notifications
lie many shells, some of them still uneX-
pioded The Spaniards are picking them
~, and ,raas,,rf,,er then, for rnennonrors
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BEE 'h4 presents 'iie i"'iNess Se''''
tell their friends.
of q man can speak only so much Eng
t.isb &c voc, or mo, lis lifa is now, I'm ner,l
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hsh consulate to4d me mat theie Is ihuch
discussion among the consular officials at
San Juan.as 10 whether the bombardment
Ill sta,a ,,,o tast Of International Law
wa
as no hotI2e was gwen
Among the passengers on the Arcadia
were A. Y. Drake for three years secre-
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agent at Mayaguez' "lii'aih Oai'''eii' an
Englishman, and Nicolai Megwinon,
native of Russia, and an American citi-
Mr. Drake was the last ha'iVe porn
American to leave the city. He SAID; Ihe
agent from whom l learned of the bonn
tar7,,a,t ,,uad outside the citv
out "aAeneu ny INC Hea'S az
nonading, he got up ana watch
ed the engagement from a safe dis
+orca ono ,essel which be said he he
49, r,os tbs To,,-, left the 7eet ana ac-
,,or,,,la,,io1 b,, a sr,,,11 boat steamed foir-
Il, ,,pdor Nrorro,e e7lns She stationed tho
small boat ana Going SLOWLY around if
Ie, av her shells at everv revolution she
v,as actua1Y co c1ose mat the euns ON the
For,i6catiors co,,1d not he tra7ned ON the
r,-arsl,i, ia ,,ollo,,s, 81 ,,,rsl,etrv ,,,aro
sbnyrored mon ber
.tcoo,, ~ taot ,,,,s ap,,e1onad in such q
toal( - 100 tba+ Nror,o,e ems ,,nst
80 l,so,, ,fsol,,t(l,, heInlese Irnder cover
80 r. sr,ol,a tbe darine- vessel 3oined me
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s'A, 1t as sdlu' "eIe 'iie liieH az ,lie u'is
SeFeial sHelS s'i uCh ~ 'o"H, Nut =
nave not De@n aDie 10 lealn ,nd' auy -
sons were kAleu py Vilelh' Anolnei ShSIl
went through d large warehouse Oh d u"Ch'
scattering uthper pile anu looSHls III 'ile
sue Plates OF the spanish man stedIher
Manueia. II nearly sunk her'
1t seemed strange TO me that the Amer
lean Meet ana not continue the oonpard-