The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1898-05-01

ports; and at last the remaining great
gun was silent, its tackle literally choked
with dead.
with coats and waistcoats off the
surgeons had been laboring in the ward
room upon the wounded, who. shrieking
in their agony, had been tumbled down
the companonway like so much butchered
beef; for there was no time to use
stretchers or to carry stricken cOmrade
TO a Doctors care. While they were
saving, amputating and bandaging,
shell tore into the ward-room burst. and
fragments wounded the assistant sur
geons. the chief of the medical staff hav
ing been killed earlier in the conflict.
Those unfortunates who were stretched
upon the table awaiting their turn under
the knife and those who lay upon the
floor. suffered no more pain-they were
killed they lay grooming. This shell
tore away ward-room and stern cabin,
and hardly trace was left of the bulk
head. After that what little surgery was
done was performed in the coal bunkers.
''Hudded in a pasSageway near the
engine room we're a score or more of nom
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES pantrymen and
stokers. Suddenly they heard
crash, followed by the rending of the
deck and the little ironclad swayed as
ii she had struck a reef. Some one
passed the word that the maintopmast
had been shot away. AS it came down it
brought living men to be dashed to death.
also corpses that had been hanging over
the sides of the military top.
There was a cry of fire.! and all hands
rushed to stations-perhaps two men to d
boats crew one to a pump gang.
% the fire.! shouted Lieutenant
Garezon. 'Repel boarders!
.sThey were metamorphosed by this or
der from ffre-fghters into warriors again,
and formed a line of bleeding men, then
clothing in rags. and ranged in COM
pany front stokerS elboWing marines,
pantrymen leveling rifles i'll union with
midshipmen awaited the coming of
fleet of the enemys boats, which, crowd
ed with marines, were forcing their way
through the water toward the wounded.
STAGGERING Huascar that lay like log.
motionlesS.
But fire ragged between decks, and
flames flared up the after-companionway
! and when the boats had crowded around
/ like threshers attacking whale that had
been compelled to yield to the force of
I numbers and the Chileans swarmed the
| ironclad's deck.
..'rhe victors had barely got control of
! the flames when word was brought to
/ the officer commanding the boarding par
/ ty that the prize was sinking He ex-
| amined her sides. and as there was no
! great injury below the water-line, he
! summoned Chief Engineer Mcmahon ana
! accused him of scuttling the ship. The
/ latter laughed detantly. The officer
cooked a revolver, placed it at his heau,
and threatened to shoot if the man did
| not ten what he had done. Only then
| did he admit having opened the sea-
valves, and The Chileans, rushing be-
low, were only able to close them just
| as the blood-stained water tapped the
slippery deck.
There is no authentic record of the
number slain but the accounts in Callao
were that of 201 men on the Huascar.
nearly 100 were killed, and of the re,
mainder only half escaped without in
Jury The Peruvian dead were thrown
into the sea as the Blanco' Encalada
took the battered. blood-stained Huas-
! car in tow.
''To this day. ut every general muster