The times., 1898-06-05

ed with characteristic Spanish treach-
cry. The Spaniards leaped upon them
with knives and dubbed muskets and
fought like mad. The privilege of
quarter was suspended for the time be
ing, and the Spaniards were suppress
ed effectually. Very few of the Eng
lish We're killed or wounded, the only
notable casualty occurring TO Brig.
Gen. Carleton, who had been promoted
during the siege. He received a slight
wound in the arm.
The Earl of Albemarle became con-
vinced that MORO Castle was not TO be
reduced by bombardment, and order
ed his engineer force TO dig mines un-
der the Spanish fortifications. This
was slow and tedious work, and the
inactivity of the rest of the army dur
ing the meantime was disheartening.
The food supply was beginning TO run
low. and the Cuban climate was begin
ming TO tell seriously on the rank and
file On July q the officer who wrote
the black letter journal made this en-
try:
The great heat and the reduced sup
ply of water told severely on the men,
OF whom. 5000 were reported unfit for
duty. ana more officers in comparison.
The fleet, / am told, had over 5000
Neither. of us had any fresh provis-
ions with which to nourish the recov-
ing men, so that their weakness ex-
ceeded their first disorder"
On July So the mines were reported
completed. They were fired at 2
o'clock in the afternoon, and greatly to
the glory Of Col. Mackeller, the chief of
engineers. the air was filed with for
tifications and Spaniards, to para
phrase the description by a New York
bluejacket of the recent attack on Ma
| tanzas. The enemy seemed stunned by
| the surprise and quite incapable of re-
| alizing that Ii was necessary at once
| to throw troops into the breach thus
| formed. The commander-in-ch.ef of
| the English forces ordered a general
charge. The English went forward
| steadily and coolly and found practi-
cally no force opposing them The
| English officers attributed this to the
| quiet steadiness with which their men
| marched at the Notifications In their
opinion, nothing could have disconcert-
! ed the Spaniards so much as the Eng
| lish assumption that there was nothing
| inside the fort to be afraid Of The
| Spaniards fell back like sheep, all but
| a few of the highborn officers.
| The Marquis de Gonzales, who was
| commander of one of the Spanish war
ships in the harbor and second in
| command of the fort. fell in the breach
| where he was brayely but hopelessly
trying to get his soldiers to join him
| Don Louis Velasquez. who was also
| captain of man-of-war, threw up a
| temporary breastwork about the flag
| staff and drove a hundred of his cow
| ardly soldiers into ii. But as the Eng
| lish advanced upon them he had diff
| Guilty in keeping his men from running
| away. AS the last soldier left him he
| was shot through the breast. The fight
| lasted only half an hour, and when the
| English flag was hoisted over the fort
only ten or eleven Englishmen had
| been killed and very few had been
wounded. The Spanish loss was 400
| Most of these We're killed during the
| panic which followed the entrance OF
| the English soldiers into the fort. I'M
| mediately after the surrender of Morro
! VeIasquez, just breathing his last, re-
| quested that he be sent across the
| mouth of the harbor, so that he might
die in Havana. His prayer was grant
ed.
The conquest of MORO Castle. which
had been thought impregnable, was
not the end of Havana. On the follow
ing day the Spaniards in the city turn
ed all their guns against the captured
fort and succeeded in battering it into
| a shapeless pile of stones, mortar and
| damaged brass cannon. There was
| saarce moving, says the English Off
csr. for the guns and carriages that
were scattered about From August
to August 10 the English occupiedtheil
time in mounting forty heavy guns or
Cabanas. with twelve mortars, six
howitzers and lot of small cannon