Barbour County index., 1898-07-13
UTTERLY YDESTROYED.
Admiral Cervera's Fleet Shares the
Fate of Admiral Montijos.
The MANILA VICTORY DUPLICATED
The Spanish Admiral and Thirteen
Hundred Officers and Wen Prison.
ers-All His ships Destroyed-
A Glorious Victory.


ers-An HIS ships Destroyed-
Glorious Victory.
Playa (ria HaytD. To the Secre-
tary of the Navy: 5:15 p. M, Sibo.
ney, July 3.-The fleet under my COM
mand offers the nation as Fourth
OF July present the destruction of the
whole of Cervera's fleet. Not one es-
capped.
1t attempted to escape at $50 a.
m. Sunday, am at 2 p. m. the last,
the Cristobal Colon. had run ashore
six miles west of Santiago and had
let down her colors. The Infanta Ma
ria Teresa. OquendO and Vizcaya
were forced ashore, burned and
blown up within twenty miles of San
tiago; the Furor and Pluton were de-
stroyed within four miles of the port.
Our loss one killed and two wound
ed. Enemy's loss probably several
hundred by gun fire. eXplo ions and
drowning. About 1900 prisoners, in
Guiding Admiral Cervera. The man
killed was George ii. Ellis, chief yeo-
man of the Brooklyn. SAMPSON.
Washington, d. c., July 4.-The
navy department tonight posted the
translation of a cipher cablegram re-
ceived from Commodore Watson. It
contains the additional informa tion
that $50 Spaniards were killed or
drowned, 100 wounded and 1900 cap
tured. Commodore Watson's dispat Itch
follows:
playa del Este. July 3.-To tht
secretary of the navy, Washington
D. C.
"At $3.50 a. m. to-day the Spanish
squadron, seven in all, including one
gunboat. came out of Santiago in col.
umn, and was totally destroyed with.
in an hour, excepting the Cristobei
Colon, which was chased forty-five
miles to westward by the comma nd r
in chief, the Brooklyn, Oregon and
Texas, surrenderng to the Brooklyn,
but was beached no prevent sinking.
"None of our officers or men were
injured except on board the Brook
lyn. Chief Yeoman Ellis was killed
and one man wounded. Adr'iral Ger.
vera, all commanding officers except
ing of Oquendo. about seventy other
officers and 1000 men are prisoners.
About $50 killed or drowned and 100
wounded, latter being cared for on
Solace and Olivette. Have just ar
rived off Santiago in Marblehead to
take charge. While commander in
chief is looking out for Cristobel CO.
Ion. WATSON"
Ten miles east of the entrance OF
the harbor of Santiago de Cuba, Sum
day, July 8, p. IN. (via Kingston. Ja-
maica, July 4)-Admiral Cervera's e
feet. consisting of the armored cruis-
ers Cristobel Colon, Almirante Oquen-
do, Infanta Maria Teresa, and Viz
caya, and two torpedo boat destroy
ers, the Furor and the Pluton, which
had been held in the harbor of San
tiago de Cuba for six weeks past by
the combined squadrOns of Admiral
Sampson and Commodore Schley, lies
to-day at the bottom of the Ca Caribbean
Sea off the southern coast of Cuba.
The Spanish admiral is n prisoner OF
war on tine auxiliary gunboat Glou-
cester Gormcrly J. Pierpont Nor
gan's yacht Corsair). and 1000 to
$500 other Spanish officers and sail
ors, all who escared the frightful car
mage caused by the shells from the
American warships, are also held as
prisoners of war by the United States
navy.
The American victory is complete,
and, according to the best informa-
tion Obtainable at this time, the
American vessels were practically un-
touched and only one man was killed
though the ships were subjected to
the heavy fire of the Spaniards all
the time the battle lasted.
It was about 9 o'clock this morning
when the flagship lnfanta Maria Te-
resa passed under the wall of Morro
castle and steamed out to sea. She
was followed by the Oristobal Colon,
Vizcaya and Oquendo. and, last. by
the torpedo boat destroyers Furor
and Pluton. The lookout on the
American vessels which were lying
five or ten miles off the entrance to
the harbor, sighted them Immediate
ly. Most of the American cruisers
were at the usual Sunday morning
quarters, without thought of any
thing as surprising as the Spanish
fleet getting past the sunken collier
Merrimac, which they had been de-
luded into believing effectively block
ed the exit.
There was great excitement at once,
| and very rapid action along the
American lines. The signal for full
speed ahead was running from bridge
to engine room OF every ship and the
entire fleet commenced to move in
shore toward the Spanish, and the
great twelve and thirtcen-inch guns
of the battleships and the smaller
batteries on the other vessels fired
shot after shot at long range
AS the ships ran in toward the
shore, it soon became evident that the
Spaniartls had not come out to make
an aggressive fight, for they turned
to the eastward as soon as they
cleared the harbor and started on
their race for safety, at the same
time sending answering shots at the
American ships as fast as the men
could load and fire the guns. The
Brooklyn, Massachusetts,, Texas, Ore
gon and Iowa were nearer the Span
iards than any others OF the Amer
lean vessels, but still most of them
were too far away TO get an effective
range. They crowded on all steam,
however. in preparation for the chase,
never stopping their fire for one mo-
n,ent.
The Gloucester, fast little yacht
nhat cannot boast of any heavier bat