The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-08-26

Arrival Of the Balance of the sixth Dis.
trfct Fleet Commanded by Lieutenant
Morton-Rellcs From the WlnsloN.

The Messenger received word yes
terday that the United States steam
ships Chickasaw, waban and Chey-
enne, balance OF the Sixth district
fleet of which our Nantucket is the
head. arrived at Port Royal. s. c. sun
day morning. Lieutenant George L.
Morton is commander OF this fleet.
The United States steamship Viking
and the torpedo boat winslow are also
at Port Royal.
Yesterday we received from Port
Royal. s. c.. several relics OF the
staunch torpedo BOAT Winslow, upon
which Ensign Worth Bagley was kill
ed. The relics consist OF three small
pieces Of the rubber passage way Of
the boat. One piece was X from
the starboard side. between the at.
smokestack and a one-pound gun,
where Ensign Bagley fell: another was
obtained from n spot where the shell
struck on the port side and rcbounded
with such fatal results; and the third
was cut from the port side directly
under the life line where the body was
found just after death.
About the visit of the Winslow one
az our naval reserves writes:
Just as the quarterma-ter on watch
left his perch on the bridge To report
10 the officer of the deck, Eight bells,
sir n the bugler sounded his re-
nowned mess call, 'Soupy. sogpy.
SOUP the gallant little torpedo boat
Winslow, with her many battle scars
of the present war, glided in and tied
up alongside OF the historic old Nam
tucket, where she now lies. Dur boys,
on learning ii mas the Winslow. felt at
once a grim satisfaction in knowing
that circumstances had put ii in the
way for them to stand on the deck
where North Cardinals noble hero. En-
sign Worth Bagley, fell at Cardenas
on May 18th.
The Winslow is a twin screw tor
pedo boat built in 1897 by the Column
bian Iron Works and Dry Dock Com
pany, of Baltimore, Nd, and has prob
ably seen more active service and
done more scouting than all the other
torpedo boats together. The seam in
her deck, on the port side, where the
shell first struck that killed Ensign
Bagley, has an ugly little dent. while
her aft stack has been peppered on
siderably by the destructive 45-Calibrc
MauSer bullets. Her aft turret bears
some severe marks Of the conflict,
prominent among which is the ugly
work of a 14-pound Hontoria gun. The
shell entered the coming tower IN the
ait portion ana tore It's way complete
ly through the thin three-quarter inch
steel. passed through the tower and
came out in the forward part Of the
coming tower slightly on the star
board side. The holes left by this shell
are large enough to place an ordinary
hand through. A shell also exploded
inside of the aft coming tower, max
ing it appear as though the intent was
to ~corrugate the whole affair. Another
ugly wound which the little craft
bears is on her ~starboard side. nearly
amidships, almost to the water line
where a shell struck, completely de-
molishing two of her cylinders in the
orwar engine room and making il
necessary to place a patch about IL
by 3 feet. Also up forward she bears
an ugly wound from a shell which
wounded Lieutenant John r. Berna-
dou, who then commanded her.
THE Winslow is now commanded
by Lieutenant Albert p. Niblack, for
merly of the Topeka, while Ensign
Blank is her other officer. She will coal
up here, thence to Norfolk and thence
to either Baltimore or New York. She
will probably create much interest
wherever she goes as her scars prove
conclusively that she has done Uncle
Sam good service during the present
unpleaSantneSS.'"