Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-05-20
UNDER SPANISH FIRE.
A Seaman's Story Of the Engagement at Car
denas Cuba.
WHERE ENSIGN BAGltY WAS KILLED.


For an hour before the passenger
..ao,,ar 1xev Wet left her dock for
,,..arir, tho uniform of
Tainpa- man Nedii"e -.
naval seaman sat weary asalns' :"
,r,.oo, bo,o Of cordage looking out pas.
a. ,or,,or and IN, distant keys toward
me haroor anu 'i'' ,,,,,ta., o.ttoor, Of
the CUR. lie was IMAM >
tho torpedo boat Winslows crew
which passed throusn u.'
storm of shot ana shei tnn' p'"'
,y,o her from the Spanish boats In the
-, :, cardapas He was going home
gay y. ,-.,, Co.. roc, ueslde him in
on furlough iot rest -,
n bright tin cage was the "WinsIoW
,,,a, - which made himself famous
a., ,at,ie bv shrinking
on 'he "as u M, M da,nor during the
whole engaSeIneht' a.. .,,,,h ,,,,pstion
BY degrees and after mueh qu.st,SS ~
oHearn told the whole story Vi ,Sc
engagement is the most correct IN ue-
tail OF any given yet. at,
From the very Deglhlli.s, ~ he'
II think every Iish W W heirr
lieved that he could not SseIpr l,tn'
sunk and that is what wculu nay map
pened mad IL MOI pgun , ~ ,,.ho ,anrked
of the boys OF the huusoi.' WY" ost ter-
for over an houi uiu raps,o
rifle flre 10 get US oI' 60 tn there. Z"
were ypu
ne was i ash oforn we were fired upon
res, JUS IS s'i,,e, from the Whining
the oruer "HS e'
tom; T.. ,,, orasr2"
Wns =. S,a,c near enough to tine
~, We W. NAT thew shouted It to
s..ts No derk through the mega
-
..no ,ou remember the words of the
,o,,,n,and and who gave Them
81 don't know who shouted the order
bif the words as / remember them.
we're: MIR Bagley go In there ana ses
,hat runhnats those are We started
" onoe TO make the Cardenas dock
and The firing began soon anterward.
"yyhnt was the first you saw OF the
arIng?'
"The first I saw was shot hre1
from a window or door OF the seS1 ,ha
story of the storehuse just back OF the
dock where the Spanish gunboats Weie
lying.
saw the flash and the smoke ullu
the same instant shell went hlsS, ,
over our heads. Then the ilrlnB
gan from the gunboats ana rom tna
shore. l don't think any man -"
forget the sound and the erect OF shuh
and heavy shot the first time ne ~ IN
der fire 1t is something terriple
When a shell passes close by you you
feel IL. something like the erect OF
lightning when it strikes near by.
You feel as though 1t mad t,lken you
head OFF. First you hear that a",u'
buzzing or whizzing--it Is hard to ue-
scribe, and then something seems 10
strike you in the face and head.
noticed that day when the shells hrst
began to fly about the boat that the
boys threw their hanus 10 ther he ~,
every time shell went over. But
they soon came so fast ana so ciose
that 1t was a roaring, shflekihs'urusn-
Ing hell. I can describe IL no othsi
way.
"I am the water tender" he said
"and my place was below, but every
body went on deck when the nat'ie ~
gan. John varvares. the oiler; John
Donief and John Meek. the hremen,
were both on watch with me and had
they remained below they would prob
ably not have been killed, After the
Nrinp hogan | went below again to at
tand 10 the boilers, and a few minutes
later solid shot came crashing
through the side of the boat and into
Ne heller where II exploded and de-
etroved seventy of the boiler tubes
a, at a stunned me. When he
~ ~, ,7',,.st In the boiler II threw both
~ ,,,,.,oca doors omen and the fuse
T., the sbeI, struck my feet. Pieces
~, I'll oarno out of the door and
VI W, ,ouiny them home with me as
an. 800 - ,ha yar II was n terri
souNeit.s u rano,t o1tnppther. and the
pc eIhf4i a..u ,os ANA yvith dust and
pollcr ~. snvernl seconds | was
stehiH; .a ~ nv enrs rang 81
partlay ,, ,,a,hing vent upon
coulu hc"i ~, , C,ntoin pernn.
the deck 10 rapoi' "
don. Go bt,,,o >"
what diu you sas S,i'it,,,a i,r,n.
u saw nun near Wy ,,,,,,I ai,,,t hi.
ng about WIN wv ',i az ,,otse
leg. He was shoutiis; uhu a.. ,,,'n,,s
of all the guns WAS i'Ne
thunder. , ..,,. ,.,,.,, 81
captain shou'su' No., -,
boiler IL disabled a shel' i''' eO"'
through her. ,, ood
get out the nose ne suil, w
turned to the gun again. Went -
into the boiler room anu III ~
minutes l went up on the ueVN go,
and the fighting had grown hotter .inl
ever. Several OF the men "yit M, a'ul
and looked AROUND Lyli's ui w " ~
on the after deck on the staIpour :,
quarter near the after coming uWer
j saw nVe OF our iorce hau WIZ. .i "On
after the shell had struck them. II
other places lay men grooming U, uraS
ging themselves about covered WIZ
blood. The deck had blood on II m
was strewn with tragmehts ana splllt
ers. ] went over where the nNe ne
were lying in heap anu saw tnat tnS
were not all dead. John Meek Soui
speak and move one OF ms hands sish'