The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-06-17
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 Forts. THE YESUVIUS HURLS BOMBS TREMENDOUS EFFECT OF ONE OF THEM APPARENT.
THE YESUVIUS HURLS BOMBS
TREMENDOUS EFFECT OF ONE OF
 THEM APPARENT,

Fl Moro, Where Hobson and His Conn
 rades Are Confined, the Only Fort
 spared-Others Badly Wrecked and
 One Completely Destroyed-NIany
 Believed to be Appalling-About5 5000
 Shots Fired-Crews Cheer Each Other
 Copyright, 1898, The Associated Press.)
 On board the Associated Press dis patch boat Dauntless, off Santiago de Cuba, Thursday, June 16, noon, via Kingston, Jamaica, June IS, g p. m.- Rear Admiral Sampsons fleet bom- barded the batteries at Santiago de Cuba for the third time at daylight this morning. Four warships pounded the batteries at the right and left of the entrance, only spar1ng Fl Moro, where Hobson and his companions are in prison. The western batteries against which the main assault was directed, were badly wrecked. One was utterly destroyed, in others many guns were dismounted. At first the Spaniards replied passronately and wildly. Then the guns were deserted Not 8 ship was struck, nor man in iured on the American side. It is be- 1ieved that the enemy's loss of life was heavy.
 As a preliminary to the hammering given the batteries this morning the dynamite cruiser Vesuvius last night at midnight was given another chance. Three two hundred and fifty pound charges of gun cotton were sent over the Notifications. The design was to drop them in the bay around the angle, back of the eminence on which Fl Moro it situated, where it is known the Spanish torpedo boat destroyers are lying. Two charges went through as no reports were heard-a peculiarity of the explosion of gun cotton. The third charge exploded with terrific vio- fence in Cayo Smith. From where the fleet lay the entrance of the harbor looked, in the black night, like door opening into furnace. A hole as big as church was blown out of the side of Cayo Smith.
 In the bombardment this morning the ships steamed at a five knot speed to a 5000 yards range, when they clos ed, broadside on. They were strung out in the form of a crescent, the heavy fighting ships in the center, the flagship rio Ho plY ha setts on the left flank. The Vixen and Scorpion took up positions on opposite Hanks, close in shore, for the purpose of enfilading any infantry that might fire upon the ship, When the ships got in position it was still too dark for any firing. The admiral signalled the ships not to fire until the muzzles of the enemy's guns could be seen
 Fifteen minutes later, at 5:25 a. m., the New York opened with broadside from her main battery at the works at the entrance to the harbor. The others followed suit. It was a magnificent spectacle from where the Dauntless lay. Though the gun captains had been cau- toned not to waste ammunition but to fire with deliberation, the firing was so rapid that there was an almost con- tinual report. The measured crash of the big thirteen-inch guns of the bat tleships sounded above the rattle of the guns of smaller calibre. A strong land breeze off the shore carried the smoke of the ships seaward, while it let down a thick curtain from the Spanish gun ners.
 The Dons responded spiritedly at first, but their frenzied, half-crazed fir ing could not match the cool nerve, trained eyes and skilled gunnery of the American sailors. In fifteen minutes one western battery was almost com pletely demolished. The loss of life must have been great.
 The batteries on the east of Mbrro were harder to get at, but the New Or leans crossed the bows of the New York to within five hundred yards of the shore and played a tattoo with her long eight-inch rifles, hitting them repeated ly, striking a gun squarely muzzle on, lifting it off it's trunnions and sending it sweeping high in the air. Several times Admiral Sampson signalled the ships temporarily to cease firing in or der to allow the smoke to clear from the batteries. When the order came at 6.SO to cease firing every gun of the Spauiards had been silenced for ten minutes but as the ships drew off some of the Spanish courage returned and a half dozen shots were fired spitefully