The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-07-02
IHE ST. PAUL ARRIVES,
Came to New York For Coal, Am
saaasA munition and Stores. ~....
STORY OF THE TERR0R's DEFEAT.
Spaniards Thought They We're to Como
In Contact With the st. Louis, and
People Gathered In the Harbor l,x-
pecting to Witness q Capture.

Spaniards Thought They We're to Com
In Contact with the st, Louis. ant
peon,a cotborai, I, +ha r1or,,o, ,,x
poo'A"s y" "''"ess d" e"pt"re'
New York. July e.-The auxiliar,
cruiser st, Paul arrived in mort lasl
night and anchored off Tompkinsyille
She left Mole St. Nicholas early laa,
Tuesday and has come here for coal
ammunition and stores. also To nave
some slight renairs made to ber star,
board engine. cantain S,pshee and ths
officers were absolutely inaccessibIe Ia
press representatives. who went M m
the ship when she had anchored. even
permission to board the vessel being re-
fused, Considerable Information was
obtained, neyertheless from: a copv nj
the st, Paurs war budset the journal
of the ship. which was obtajned.
The st, Paul's great exploit on her
last trim was the d,so hing ~ tho
Spanish torpedo boat destroyer Terror
off the harbor of San Juan Porto Rico.
and being regarded 80 by the crew. the
account of II occupies the f,rst nlace
on the first mage When the cruiser
. Isabel TT came out ~ The ba rhor NJ
San Juan at about 4,oon ~ .Iura %
covering the .Terror,. which was with
her from sight the ,euaniards thought
It was the ST Jouis which had been
there a short time before and known
to have a small armament and not the
st, Paul, which was going to he met
In the expectation of seeing a fine prize
brought into port. the snaniards gath
cred 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 1870 shots three Of them hit
ting the Terror, smashing one of her
engines, killing the chief eng,neer and
another man, taking off the legs of a
third and wounding five others so
badly was the Terror injured that small
vessels were lashed to her sides to nre-
vent her from sinking whi,a a tueboat
towed her in.
The Budget saws: eve came off the
port on the 22d, The weather was fair
the trade wind blowing fresh from me
eastward and raising somewhat of a
sea, AT about 12.4O tho third cl,ss
cruiser Isabel II came out. and steam-
ing under the MORO untIl she war
abreast OF the batterjes commenced
edging out towardsc-us. firinr at each
q lone range that. bcr shots wera IN.
effective. AS, her purpose evidently
was to nut rs wi,hin. fire of the hat.
teries, we took but little notice of ber
living still and occasionally sanainr in
INV largest sbeu ot b,r 70 tr,, ~.
range. Soon ofterwards sbo dronnod Ia
the westward and the tornkdo h,at da-
stroyer Terror, or IT NAV Vi heen her
sister shin. the .Furor,-was s;phtsd
steaming alonp shore under the hat
terles. Captain sissbee watched her
for while and worked along with bar
in order to se,arate her from tho
cruiser and keen her in tho troueb ~
the sea If she cane for ne She tber
headed for us. frir~ STRAIGHT nc foro
direction went brt hey shots fe,, ,bo,t
when within range of our Guns tho
signal Commence firing" was r,a1a
and for several minutcs wo 10. nv our
starboard battenv at her fror, r soo
to 5000 Yards tho shells stritipg oil
around her. This stonned her and sbo
turned her broadsida to II. and har ara
soon ceasss.. Sbe t,,ens h., Az, ~, en,,r,
10 the so,,ihward and vastwars go;rc
slow. and 1t was evident to nj, an
board that she was crippled driftinr
we'll leewrrd of the main barhor ON,
rance, OF the Morro s.a dashad SOMA
SIGNALS to tha shore .n1 of,ar,.ra,