Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-07-24

board side without exploding, but
cleaned out everything in the room.
A five-inch hit just above the ar
NOR belt and six-inch struck
her on the bow. None of the in
juries was sufficient to put her out
of action nor as serious as those
received by the Brooklyn, at one
time her sole antagonist. The as
sertion that the Brooklyn was
overhauling her and that the Ore
CONS terrific thirteen-ineh guns
were shooting nearer/and nearer
and that escape Was impossible,
seems to be the correct solution
of her surrender.
The Nizcaya, armored cruiser, is
~of the same class as the battleships
Texas and Maine. She carries two
Ills inch guns and ten 5.5 inch
guns, with projections 10 and II
inches thick, double and treble that
of the Brooklyn. This ship was
the special prey of the Brooklyn
end thhe alhiffiffaanht e b}t ahheeInddoo a fhf
Teresa, added little at long range.
The Vizcaya, exclusive of one
Founders and rapid fire hits which
swept her deck, was hit with large
proJectiles fourteen times and by
s1X-pounders eleven times. The
eight-inch guns of the BROOKLYN
and Oregon and the six-inch guns
on the Oregon and five-inch on the
Brooklyn, tore her structure above
the armor belt almost into shreds.
while the six-pounders and one
Founders made it too warm for
men to stand at the guns. The
Texas got in a few siX-inch shots
and the Iowa landed a couple of
four-inch shells. No thirteen or
twelve-inch shells struck her.
The Infanta Maria Teresa, the
flagship, of the same build as the
Vlzcaya, was badly punished and
was the only one of the four ships
hit by twelve or thirteen inch pro-
Jectiles. She has two of that size
clean through her, and the position
of one would tend to demonstrate
that it was fired by the Texas. An
eight-inch shell, undoubtedly from
the Brooklyn, because she was the
only ship in line with the Maria
Teresa's head as she turned west.
entered just forward of the beam
on the port side and, exploding
inside, cleaned out the deck with
four gun crews. This was the
shot that Cervera said came from
the Brooklyn asd set fire to the
ship. The Teresas great difficulty
and one that compelled her hur-
ried surrender, was that all her
fire mains were cut and she was
unable to distinguish the fires that
were driving her men from the
guns.
The Almirante Oquendo, armor-
ed cruiser, same class as Vizcaya
and Teresa, went through the most
terrible ordeal of any of the ships
except the torpedo boats. Her up
per works were one Sagged mass of
cut up steel and her decks were
covered with dead and dying. She
was hit on the port side four times
by eight-inch shells, three times by
four-inch shells, probably from
the Iowa, two times by six-inch,
and forty-two times by six
Founders. The innumerable num-
Der Of one-pounders that struck
her show that she met the fire of
the entire fleet as she turned last
out of the harbor. The torpedo
boats followed her, and the sec
ondary battery shots intended for
them hit her. When she returned
to the shore it was in a dilapi-
dated condition.
one OF the findings of the board
OF survey was that an eight-inch.
shell had struck the forward tur-
ret Just where the gun opening
was, and that every man in the
turret was killed, the officers
standing in the firing hood being
still In that position. Another fact