Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1898-07-27

and are the highest 1880 feet in Gu
ha. We hurried forward, and soon
she had hauled her flag down and was
ashore. ''The Brooklyn had sent
boat and Cook who had gone in it
came alongside on his return and
stated he had received their surren-
der, stating he twas not empowered
to make any condition, as to personal
effects, etc, as to which they seemed
anxious.
DISCLOSING OF THE PRISONER.
Il then went on board and arranged
things, the admiral allowing them,
of course to take with them all their
personal belongings: so while we were
dividing them up among the ships
(525 men) along came the Resolute
having been chased by a Spanish
armored ship so we put all the pris-
oners on her. This was long job.
1.-THE thing was to save theCristobal
Colon, as she is one Of the finest mod
ern ships Of her class. We hurried
prize crew aboard from the Oregon,
closed all water tight doors, as she
was evidently leaking somewhere, but
| for all we could do she settled down
on the beach, after Haunting on the
rising tide. 1t was a great pity. but
the rascally engineers force had open
| ed all the valves connecting with the
sea and we could not get at them.
1--WE finally, after eight hours of hard
work, left her in charge of the Texas
and Oregon, and are now steaming
back to our post off Santiago. The
failure to save the Colon is too bad.
1t is possible to do so of course, with
the assistance of a wrecking company
but she was practseally in an undam
aged condition. She had one man
killed and twenty five wounded
81 am only too thankful we did not
get ashore this morning Poor Hig
ginson. who is down at Guantanamo
will be full of grief, as also Watson
in the Newark.
COMMANDMENT OF LITTLE AVAIL.
81 had forgotten to mention that
day before yesterday we bombarded
the forts very heavily knocking off
good deal of the poor old MORO and
bringing down the flagstaff which was
SO proudly Haunted in our eyes for
more than month.
eve did this at the request of the ar
my, as a demonstration while they
attacked. They did not however,
make the attack as it turned out.
F" These bombarbments are very I'M
satisfactory: one reads lurid accounts
of them in the papers, but nothing
really is gained, unless we strike the
guns themselves, and this we have
| not done.
Gas we steamed by to-day in close
range our friends of the western bat
| terry who paid great deal Of atten
tion to us yesterday, banged away at
us in fine style, and anumber Of shells
burst around us. Finally, when had
them entirely off my mind and was
paying attention only to the torpedo
boat destroyers, came tremendous
screech and everybody on the forecas-
tie lodged 1t was their last; it fell
about 200 yards to our right. We did
not reply as we came along. |
thought it was a waste Of material
and thought they might have their
amusement so long as they did no
damage.
BACK AT SANTIAGO.
sTThere-the engines stop and we
are back at Santsago; it is 4:30 and !
shall turn in again for a final napjI
The captain of the Colon Is occupying
my room: very nice fellow about So,
indeed, as are most Spanish naval
officers, who. as Cuban officer said
to me, are the flower Of the Spanish
blood
I'VE also have general and his
aid-de-camp, whom we took on the
Colon, nice old boy and very chirpy.
The captain Of course takes the loss
of his ship to heart very much, but
the general and his aid seem as cheer
full as possible. / suppose they think
it's none of their funeral.
stored the general in Staunton's
room Staunton is goinf to Santiago
| in torpedo boat to send the news.
1--WE have got off our Spanish
friends and are now loafing. 1t is a
great relief to feel that there is moth
| ing to look after tonight.
seThis goes in the ST. Louis, SO
hope you will have it before many
days and | hope to it won't be long be-
fore [ get to see you. l think this
terrific defeat must go far toward
ending things.