The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1898-09-15

and steam away for Manila bay. On
April 20 militia camps were formed in
nearly every State of the Union.
Matanzas was bOinbarded ON April p
by Admiral Sampson with the New York.
the Cincinnati and the Puritan. Great
damage was done the Notifications. Glen
fueSos was bombarded ON April y, and
on that day, also, Admiral Cervern be-
gan the series of maneuvers ending In the
Santiago bottle. by leaving Spanish shores
with his fleet, en- route 30 the Cape Verde
Islands.
The Cabanas batteries were sllenced by
bombardment from the New York on
April 80, the day which brought word
from Rio Janeiro telling of the safe and
wonderful voyage Of the battleship Ore
gon on its way from San Francisco to
join SIMPSONS fleet.
Dewey's Great Victory.
On Sunday, May 1, the first great sea
battle of the war was fought Commo-
dore George Dewey made himself Rear
Admiral Dewey and won undying glory
for the American navy by leading his fleet
into the mined harbor of Manila and, IN
der the guns of the fort on CorregidOr
Island and the heavy Notifications defend
Ing the arsenal and navy yard, destroying
the entire Asiatic feet of Spain. The
Olympia was his flagship, and his remain
ing vessels were the Baltimore, the Bos-
ton and the Raleigh, protected cruisers
the Concord and Petrol, gunboats: and
the McCulloch, dispatch boat With this
force, equal but not superior in armament
to the Spanish fleet, fur inferior when the
land batteries are counted, he sunk. burn
ed or blew up eight Spanish cruisers, six
gunboats and three transports.
The sea victory was followed by an at
tack on the land Notifications, which
were RACED. The arsenal at Cavite was
also captured, and before noon his guns
commanded the city of Manila. In the
engagement not one American life was
lost, while in killed and drowned the Span
ish loss has been placed between 500 and
800.
In the first week In May the definite d.
vision of the ships of the American navy
In Atlantic and Cuban waters into squad
rons and fleets was made. The flying
squadron, Commodore Schley in com
mand, was formed at Hampton Roads,
the vessels being the Brooklyn, flag
ship; the Massachusetts, the Texas, the
Columbia and the Minneapolis. Admiral
Sampson in the blockade line at Havana
had with him besides his flagship, the
New York, the battleships Iowa and In
diana, the cruisers Cincinnati and Mar
blehead, and dozen torpedo craft and
gunboats. Matanzas was bombarded for
second time May Z.
The first American casualties OF the war
were on the torpedo boat Winslow, off
Cardenas harbor. The killed were En-
sign Worth Bagley and five seamen. The
Winslow attacked three Spanish gun
boats and the shore fortiications, and in
disregard of peril the boat was run too
far inshore. 1t was crippled by the fire
and the men were killed before other
boats could come TO its assistance. The
Spanish gunboats were disabled by the
re-enforcements and the batteries ST
fenced.
Admiral Sampson appeared before San
Juan, Porto Rico, on May 10, and bonn
barded the forts for three hours. Moro
was partially reduced. Sampson was In
search of Cerveras feet, known by this
time to have left the Cape Verde Islands
and to be well on the way to Cuban wat
ers for its famous game of hide-and-seek,
and he made no pronounced effort to re,