The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1898-06-22
HAVOC is LET LOOSE
Once More on the Spanish Bat.
teries That Guard Santi.
ago de Cuba.
SIMPSONS VESSELS RAIN DEATH
And Destruction on the Forts, Which
Reply in Their Usual In
effective Style.

Dine Shot Explodes a Magazine on Shore
and Must Have Worked Appalling De-
vastation-Firing Continues for More
Than AN Hour and Leaves the Defenses
Apparently Total Wrecks - Vesuvius
Again Tries Her Guns-Attempts the
Destruction of Spanish Torpedo Boats.
Madrid, June II. - Captain Aunon,
minister of marine, has returned from
Cadiz and has started for Cartagena.
It is asserted that an "ironclad" which
has not yet figured in any published
nst forms part of Admiral Camaras
squadron.
Paris, June IA dispatch to The
Figaro from Madrid says: Captain
Aunon's visit to Cadiz was with view
to experimenting at sea with a new and
powerful explosive shell which liberates
! Aoisonous gas"
SPars, June 1.-THE European edition
Of the New York Herald says: The
Cadiz squadron sailed at sunrise on
Wednesday. but returned in the even
Ing"
Associated Press Dispatch Boat
off Santiago de Cuba, June 10, via
Kingston, Jamaica, June II. - Copy
right, 1898, by the Associated Press. i
Admiral Sampson issued orders last
night for another bombardment of the
Spanish batteries this morning. COT
fee was served to the men at $3.50 this
Will he NJ
dawn they were called quietly to quar-
tiers. The ships steamed to a 5000
yard range, when tn y closed up broad
side on until a distance Of three cable
lengths separated them. They were
strung out in the form Of a crescent,
the heavy fighting ships in the center,
the flagship on the right flank and the
Massachusetts on the left flank. The
line remained stationary throughout
the bombardment The Vixen and
Scorpion took up positions on opposite
TANKS, close inshore. for the purpose
of enfilading any infantry that might
fire upon the ships. When the ships
got into position ii was still too dark
for any firing.
New York Opens the Entertainments.
o. ii.
with broadside from her main battery
at the works on the east of the en-
trance to the harbor. All the ships
followed in red streaks OF flame. 1t was
a magnificent spectacle. Though the
gun captains had been cautioned not TO
waste ammunition, but to fire with de-
liberation, the fire was so rapid that
there was an almost continuous report.
A strong land breeze off the shore car
ried the smoke OF the shi9s seward,
while IL let down a thick curtain in
front Of the Spanish gunners. The
Dons responded spiritedly at first, but
their frenzied half-crazed, fire could
not match the cool nerve, trained eyes
and skilled gunnery of the American
sailors.
Fifteen Minutes Does for One Battery.
Our fire was much more effective
than in preceding bombardments. In
fifteen minutes one western battery was
completely wrecked. The Massachu-
sets tore gaping hole in the emplace-
ment with a 1,O00-pound projectile, and
the Texas dropped a shell into the pow
der magazine. The explosion wrought
terrible havoc The frame was lifted,
the sides were blown out and a shower
OF debris flew in every direction. The
loss OF life must have been great. The
batteries on the east of MORO were
harder 10 get at. but the New Orleans
crossed the bows OF the New York to
within 500 yards OF shore and played a
tattoo with her long S-inch rifles, hit
ting them repeatedly, striking a gun
sQuarely muZZle on, lifting ii off its
trunions and sending it sweeping somer-
saults high in the air.
EVERY SPANISH GUN WAS SILENCED.
Destruet ion and Death Among the Dcns