The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1898-06-17
Report Of Thirteen-Inch Guns Mere
Rifle Crack Compared to the
Ye,uyiuS Bursting Shells.
THE MARINES GET
MUCH NEEDED HELP.
Fifteen Hundred Insurgents Join Gen
Huntlngton's Men. aud Are Now
Holding the Spanish Until the
Arrival Of Gen. Shaitcr.

Copyrighted, l,os by ,br Associated Pres,
OF Santiago de Cuba June IL, by the
Associated Pres. Dispatch Boat Dandy,
via Kingston, June 10 The United
States cruiser New Orleans having been
ordered by Rear Admiral Sampson 10
destroy the emplascmcnts half mile
east Of III MORO, ON which a large mum.
hcr Of Spaniards had been working took
upa position 40 s o'clock this morn.
ing about 500 yards from shore aud 1000
yards from III MORO She opened up
on the emplacements with her rapidhre
guns Red clouds Of sand rose on the
hilltCs where the emplaccmonts We're
building. Following the nth shot the
Moro batteries replied with one shell
that fell near the stern ot the flagship
New York After 20 minutes gun prac.
tice Admiral Sampson signalled the
New Orleans 10 cease firing Then she
retired The MORO batteric, sent 10
shells after her, but without damage
Admiral Sampson hoistcd the signal,
firing well done, the first compliment
Of the kind from the admiral.
The dynamite cruiser Vesuyius joined
yesterday and was put 10 work immodi.
atcly Ensign Patrick went on board
the Vesuyius with Lieutenant Com.
mander Pillsbury 20 explain the location
Of the batteries. A few minutes from
midnight the Ncsuyius was about halt
mile from the beach west OF III Moro.
The Oregon's searchlight played on the
battery while the black nose OF the cruis.
or pointed at the batteries Commander
Pillsbury gave the word to fir and
Lieutenant Quimby opened the air vent
There was slight Kissing, sort Of
coughing noise, hut no fame, no report,
no warning TO the Spaniards who wer,
hiding Ia TIN darkness Thirty second.
later q dull thud broke the silence Of IN,
tropical night Two hundred pounds Of
gun cotton had exploded on the hillsid,
below the battery
Tho ships on the blockade lines TIVE
miles away shook with the explosion
The firing OF i9.inch she'll Is mer,
rife crack compared 10 the deep anC
mighty roar. Clouds Of earth thrown
up from the hills seemed 20 stand gu
against the black sky
Another package Of gun cotton wa
dropped on the other side Of the batter,
and may possibly have struck the tor
pcdo boats anchored below.
Before the echoes Of the second SCUM,
died away the Vemyius sent q thir,
charge hishnglout IL fell right on IN
brow of the hill where the batter
seemed 10 lie. lntoUhe air few tons d
earth and the smoke covered the lanl
: for half mile.
! The Nesuyius retired at i6.kno
, speed. Two haehcs from the hill an
two Spanish shells flew beyond III
, cruiser The test was regarded as high
ly satisfactory, and there is\ intense IN
tcrcst over thisf fret trial In war OF
, dynamite cruiser
The United States marines and CT
bans yesterday attacked thc SPANS
camp situated five miles from m
American cntpnchments They con
plctcly routed a force Of 100 Spaniard
breaking mp their camp and destroyin
the well which supplied them wit
= water
p one American was slightly woundc,
two Cubans were killed aud fuJ
wounded The Spanish loss Is bclicy,
= To bc 30 men killed Fiftan bod,
4 have already been discovered.