Arizona republican., 1898-08-22
THE WAR WITH SPAIN.
iO-Year-OId Phoenixs Boy Kept
 Track of Events.

Here is a story of the war with Spain told by Max Bunsick, a 10year- sId boy of this city:
 ''In 1895 the war in Cuba broke out and Spain sent many soldiers to Cuba to Quell the insurrection. These sol aiers could not do it, so they treated the Cuban women and children and men who were not fighting, very bad ly They killed them, starved them md put them in prison. The Amer jeans in the United States sympathized with the Cubans in their fight for lib- erty. The Cubans' junta in New York city fitted out and sent expeditions with arms and food for the Cubans. The southern part of Florida is nearer s0 Cuba than any other part of our country, so that was the favorite place for expeditions to be sent. The eXpe
 aittons had to be sent secretly, for our government would not let them be sent The sending of these eXpedi
 tious led the Spaniards to have an Intense hatred for the Americans. In Ehe month of February one of our fine Satsleships the Maine, was sent to Havana on a friendly mission. This made the Spaniards angrier than ever and on the night of February IA the Maine was blown up. A board of in 4uiry was made up, who were to find put how the Maine was blown up.
 Tn Ehe month of April President Mckinley thought it time to inter Sess, for the people were all clamorins Tor war. He demanded the evacuation eF Cuba in three days Spain an- swered that she did not intend to svacudte Cuba at all. War was then declared against Spain. An Ameri- eaR fleet commanded by Admiral Sam pson was sent to blockade Cuba. Before war was declared their was a Eear commanded by Commodore Dewey off the coast of China This fleet pro eeeded to Manila and sunk all the Spanish ships there. This was one of tfie acyst glorious naval victories ever heard off. Not an American ship was damaged or an American hurt. We took some prisoners. Many Spanish ships were captured by us as prizes, also many Spanish prisoners. Our country sent a great many soldiers to Cuba. They landed near Santiago de Cuba. The commanding general was General Shafter and he and his men forced their way to Santiago de Cuba Ssr lighting the Spaniards. There was E S8a.lisse fleet commanded by Admiral CeFvera, whom our navy was looking for. but could not be located, also tfey did not know if they all were in shs nIace where they located them. It was reported that this feet was in Santiago harbor. which was found to be true Acting Admiral Sampson had sgme warships watch the entrance of the bay so that Admiral Cervera's fleet could not get out without being seen The bay of Santiago is very aarrow, so that if a boat was sunk at Ehe entrance it would block the bay and nc boat could get out. This is what Sampson decided to do, so the Kterri1nac was selected and Lieutenant Eohson was put in command with or darS to sink her at the entrance of the bay He and some volunteers went and did their perilous work. They were in range of the Spanish forts along the bay and were in a very dangerous position for there were :, great many torpedoes on the Merri- mac, and if any of the shells from the fort hit the torpedoes they would ex- piode and Hobson and his men might ne blown up. Lieutenant Hobson is a regular hero and ought to be called sg. His deed was one of the principal heroic deeds of this war; So the en- trance of the channel was blocked. Cervera got in the bottle and we corked it up. On July 3 Cervera made dash out of Santiago harbor and in so doing had every one of his vessels sunk. This was complete victory for us. In all the naval and Land battles the men Remembered the Maine" The city of Santiago sur rendered to Shafter After this Spain