The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-06-27
HORRORS OF THE BATTLE.
Some of the Grewsome Results of
Dewey's Deadly Fire.

Washington, d. c., June 27.-Assistant
Engineer Henry Schoenborn, of the rev.
enue cutter Mccullough, in a letter to
his mother, who lives in this city, gives
some new details of the horrors of the
battle of Manila. In his letter he says:
Since we have been here I have been
on shore at Cavite several times to see the
results of the battle, and 1 do not think
L will go again, it is terrible. I Wis
tied one of the Spanish men-of-war, which
had been partially sunk by the shells
from our ships, and you could see the
Spanish men lying around on decks and
over their guns all shot to pieces, some
with no legs and others with their heads
gone. 1t certainly terrible. That
same afternoon our vessels sent men to
gather up all of the dead bodies and bury
them on shore. The Spanish when they
surrendered, did not stop to bury their
dead or take care of the wounded, but
fed to Manila. 1 also visited the arsenal
and navy yard at CaVite,and it was at the
latter place that realized what damage
gone through whole rows of brick build
gone through buildings and then exploded.
and there was nothing left of the build-
ings. I also visited the Spanish admiral
house, and, strange to say, one of the
shells of our vessels had gone into the
We're only a few things left whole"
George Alvin Lord. the paymaster- on
the revenue cutter Mccullough arrived in
Washington to-day. and he too furnishes
some new and interesting information. In
we had been told before the fleet
reached Manila that the Spanish guns
out of their mountings at first discharge.
This old battery at the, mouth of the
iards Their shore batteries at Cavite and
Corregidor contained some of the finest
Of larger cafibeT than any guns in our
fleet The idea that our fleet was opposed
only by antiquated, decrePit old artillery
is nonsense, as we learned when our men
were sent ashore at Cavite after the fight
to blow up the batteries and destroy the
guns. The shot that struck the Baltimore
showed what kind of guns the Spaniards
our ships worthy of mention. 1t was a
At armour-piercing shot, and struck and
ing slightly 1t Upward scattering spiinters
from three or four feet of deck next the
or six of Ensign TWINS gun crew. It
went though the engine room hatch, and
one of the 6-inch guns struck the circular
shield OF heavy steel in front of it. Fol-
shield, the shot came back across the
deck toward the side from which it
of the big ventilators and fell upon the
deck. One of the gums crew, leaning
less on the deck, and was carried below,
but shortly surprised the surgeons by get
ing his duty to the end of the fight.
1T was a grand sight all the night after
lit up the sky with their flames with oc-
casionalIy an explosion, as the magazines
ignited. 1 a sample of the horrors of
war on Mondy afternoon, when in a row.
boat we went around the charred skeleton
of the Reina Cristina. Rounding the
stern something unusual showed on the
projecting sponsor of a forward gun,
which on nearer inspection proved to be
corpse of a Spaniard, nude, save for a
belt about his waist. both. legs shot off
at the knees and other horrible wounds.
Owing to the body being on the sponsor
outside the hull it had not been burned
and was one of the most grewsonde sights
1 ever saw, and 1 could not but be thank
full that there were no such sights seen
on our ship, but which had been averted
only by the hand of divine Providence
which watched over US that Sunday morn
ing