The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-09

last, ana incidentally a council OF wal
was held on board the Olympia
By this time the Spanish ships were
in a desperate condition. The flagship
Reina Christina was riddled with shot
and shell, one of her steam pipes had
bursted and she was believed TO be on
fire. The Castillo was certainaly on
fire, and soon after the fire became
worse and worse, until eventually they
were burned to the waters edge.
SPANISH BRAVERY.
The Don Ulloa made most magnif-
cent display of bravery. When her
commander found she was so torn by
American shells that he could not keep
her afloat, he nailed her colors to the
mast and she sank with all hands fight
ing to the last. She was completely
riddled, and her upper deck had been
swept clear by the awful fire of the
American guns, but the Spaniards.
though their vessel was sinking beneath
them, continued working the guns on
her lower deck until she sank beneath
the waters
During the engagement a Spanish
torpedo boat crept along the shore, and
round the offing in an attempt TO at
tack the American store ships, but she
was promptly discovered and was
driven ashore and was actually blown
to pieces.
The Mindinao had in the meanwhile
been run ashore to save her from sink
ing, and the Spanish small craft had
sought shelter from the steel storm be-
hind the breakwater.
FINISHING TOUCHES.
The battle, which was started at
about $3.50 a. m. and adjourned at $50
a. M, was resumed about noon, when
Commodore Dewey started in to put the
finishing touches on his furious work.
There was not much fight left in the
Spaniards by that time. At 2 p. m. the
Petrol and Concord had shot the Ca
vite battery nito silence, leaving it
heap of ruins and floating the white
flag
The Spanish gunboats We're then
scuttled, the arsenal was on fire, and
the explosion of a Spanish magazine
caused further mortality to the de-
tenders of Spain on shore.
On the water, the burning, Sunken
or destroyed Spanish vessels could be
seen, while only the cruiser Baltimore
had suffered in any way from the fire
of the enemy. A shot which struck her
exploded some ammunition near one
of her guns and slightly injured half
dozen Of the crew.
Shots passed dangerously close to
Commodore Dewey, but little or no
damage was done on board the flag
ship. On the other hand, about $50 men
are said to have been killed on board
the Spanish flagship, which was total
ly destroyed. Admiral Montejo, the
Spanish commander, transferred his
flag to the Isle de Cuba when his ship
caught fire, but the latter was also de-
stroyed in due course of time.
A THOUSAND WOUNDED.
The Reina Christina lost her captain,
q lieutenant, her chaplain and a mid
shipman by one shot, which struck her
bridge. About 100 men were killed and
so wounded on board the Castillo. In
deed, some estimates place the number
of Spanish wounded during the engage
ment at over a thousand men.
The Olympia was struck five times
about her upper works, and a whale
boat of the Raleigh was smashed.
Although the Krupp guns on the ICs-
planade of Manila were fired contin-
modore Dewey did not reply to them,
and the battery afterwards hoisted a
white flag, in token of surrender The
terms of the capitulation were still I'M
settled when the McCulloch left Ma
Mia, but it was said Commodore Dewey
feared rioting upon the part of the in
SurgentS if he attempted a lombard
ment of the remaining Notifications at
Manila The forts at the entrance Of
the bay were dismantled on Wednes-
day. after they had capitulated.
1t is said the Commodore ordered the
cable to be cut because the Spaniards
refused to permit him to use 1t pending
the complete surrender of the city.