The age-herald., 1898-07-02
THE ENGAGEMENT WITH THE TERROR Account of the Fight Between the St. Paul and the
 Destroyer.

New York, July 1.-The St. Paul arrived in port tonight and anchored off Tompkins- vile. She left Mole. St. Nicholas early last Tuesday and has come here for coal, am- munition and stores.
 Captain Sigsbee and the officers were ab- solutely inaccessible to press reporters Considerable information was obtained, nevertheless, from a copy of the St. Pau1s war budget which was obtained. The st. Paul's great exploit on her last trip was the disabling of the Spanish torpedo boat Ter TOT off the harbor of San Juan, Porto Rico. When the cruiser Isabella II. came out from the harbor of San Juan about noon on June 22. covering the Terror, which was with her, from sight, the Spaniards thought it was the St. Louis, which had been there a short time before and was known to have a small armament and not the St. Paul which it was going to meet. The Span fards gathered in great crowds along the harbor wall to see it. The engagement lasted a little over half an hour, during which the St. Paul fired about 190 shots, three of them hitting the Terror. smashing one of her engines, killing the chief en- gneer and anothr man, taking off the legs of third and wounding five others,
 So badly was the Terror injured that small vessels were lashed to her sides to prevent her from sinking while a tug boat lowed her back into the harbor.
 The following is a copy of the St. Pauls log:
 We came off the port on June 22. About 2:30 tie third class cruiser Isabel II came out and steaming under the Morro until she was abreast of the batteries, commenced edging out towards us, firing at such long that her shells ineffective. AS her purpose was to put us within fire of the batteries we took but little notice of her, lying still and occasionally sending in our largest shell at her to try the range. Soon afterwards she dropped to the vest ward and the torpedo boat destroyer Ter ror or may have been her sister ship, the Furor, was sighted steaming alongshore under the batteries.
 "Captain Sigsbee watched her for awhile and worked along with her in order to separate her from the cruiser and keep her in the trough of the sea if she came for us. Sh then headed for us, firing straight as far as direction went, but her shots fell short. When within range of our guns the signal, "commence firing" was made and for several minutes we let fly our starboard battery at from 5500 to 6,00O yards the shells striking all around. This stopped her and she turend her broadsides to us and her fire soon ceased. She then headed in shore going slow and it was evil dent to all on board that she was crippled, drifting well leeward to the harbor en- trance. Off the Morro she flashed some signals to the shore and afterwards a tug came out and lowed her into the harbor.
 "All this time the cruiser was firing at us and some of her shots fell pretty close. The cruiser helped the Furor back toward the port and son etafrwards was joined by a gunboat and the two steamed under the battery. But when the s. Paul, mak- ing an in-shore turn, seemed to be going for them they returned to the harbor and we saw no more of them"