Connecticut western news., 1898-07-07

made a bold dash from the harbor at the time the Americans least expected him to do so, and, fighting every inch of his way even when his ship was ablaze and sinking, he tried to escape the doom which was written on the muzzle of every American gun trained upon his vessels.
 The Americans saw him the moment he left the harbor and commenced their work of destruction immediately. For an hour or two they followed the flying Spaniards to the westward along the shore line. sending shot after shot into their black hulls, tearing great holes in their steel sides and covering their decks with the blood of the killed and wounded.
 There can be no doubt that Admiral Cervera's plan to escape from Santiago harbor was entirely unexpected by Ad- miral Sampson and the best evidence oI this is the fact that when the Spanish
 vessels were seen coming out of the harbor the flagship New York was sew
 en miles away, steaming to the east ward toward Juragua, the military base nine miles east of Morro.
 The New York was out of the fight altogether at every stage, but she inn
 medately put about and followed the other vessels in the race to the west ward and overlook them in time to join in the chase for the Cristobal Colon aft CT the other Spanish vessels had been destroyed by the Brooklyn, the Oregon
 Iowa, Massachusetts, Indiana, Texas
 Gloucester and other ships of the fleet.
 sohIey's Effective Work.
 Commodore Schley's flagship, the
 Brooklyn, had her usual position at the .F4 miles from the New York and Texas II
 is a peculiar fact that he should have
 been in proper position to direct the
 movement of his flying squadron against the Spanish fleet which he ha6 bottled up in Santiago harbor six weeks before.
 There seemed to be but one chance in
 a hundred that Admiral Cervera would
 be able successfully to make his escape, but he took that chance, and while great piles of naval architecture now ground to pieces on the rocks a few miles from where he started tell the
 mournful story of his failure, there are none who applaud his conduct more than the American officers and seamen | who sent his ships to destruction. Admiral Cervera escaped to the shore in a boat sent by the Gloucester to the assistance of the Infanta Maria Teresa,  and as soon as he touched the beach he surrendered himself and his command | to Lieutenant Merton and asked to be I taken on board the Gloucester, which ! was the only American vessel near him ' at the time with several of his officers, | including the captain of the flagship. Port Antonio, Jamaica, July 6.-The l dispatch boat Cynthia II brings the fol- lowing additional details of the de- | struction of Cervera's fleet:
 Il It was after chase of 50 miles to the westward in the great battle on Sunday ! that the Brooklyn. closely followed by \ the Oregon, overhauled the Cristobal l Colon. She rla ashore and hauled down I her flag. Captain Cook of the Brook 4 lyn went on board of her, and the com ! mander of tlIe Spanish armored cruiser I came forward to surrender and was 1 taken on board the New York, which \ came up an hoI r after the Brooklyn \ and Oregon had completed the capture I The Colon was not seriously damaged \ though she was struck several times by I shots from the Brooklyn and Oregon jl Afterward, however, the ship listed or ' her beam ends on the rocks, and ii