Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1898-07-08
I 70 OFFICERS AND 1900 MEN PRIS-
0NERS.
ADMIRAL cERvtRA WOUNDED AND A PRISONER.
American Loss One Man Killed.
Our Next Move.

9 Washington. July 4-Tle Secretary of
& ths Navy has received the following
"Playa via Hayti, 3:I5 u. M, July 4
& ''Siboney, July 3.TO Secretary of
Navy:
q "S;l5 u. m--The fleet under my CON-
mand offers the nation as a Fourth OF Ju-
ly present the destruction of the whole OF
Cervera's feet. 1t attempted to escape at
$3.50 am. and at 2 p. m, the last, the
Christobal Colon, had run ashore, sixty
miles west Of Santiago. and lee down her
colors.
& 1.-The lnfanta Maria Teresa. Oquendo
s and viscaya were forced ashore burned
- and blown up within twenty miles of
- santiago the Furor and Pluton were
destroyed within four miles of the port.
Loss, one killed. and two wounded
enemy's loss probably several hundred
from gun-fre. explosions and drowning.
About 300 prisoners. including Admiral
Cervers. .t
'rhe man killed was George Ii. ELLIS.
chief woman of the Braoklyn
.II6JIE5y ~ SAMPSON"
.AfCr THE DASH TO DESTRUCTION.
by the Associated Press Dispatch
a Boat, Wanda, ~ Port Antontio, Jamaica,
Monday, July 4.-Admiral Cervera's fleet
consisting of the armored cruisers Cristo-
bal Colon, Admirante Oquendo, Infanta
Maria TaraS. nd Vi,ca,o ooa 49, A.
pedO boat destrOyers, the Furor and the
~ PAton. which had been held in the har-
Dor of Santiago de Cuba for six weeks
past by the comb: ned squadrons of Rear
Admiral Sampson and Commodore
Schley, lies today at the bottom of the
Caribbean Sea. of the southern coast of
Cuba. f h,
The American Victory is complete, and
according to the best information obtain
~ able at this time the American vessels
were practically untouched and only one
man was killed, though the ships were
- subjected to the heavy fire of the Span
iards all the time the battle ragged.
GALLANT DASH.
Admiral Cervera made as gallant a
dash for liberty and for the preservation
u of his ships this morning as has has ever
occurred in the history of naval warefare.
: In the face of overwhelming odds, with
nothing before him but inevitable de-
structiOner surrender, IL he remained
any longer in the trap in which the Amer
lean feet held him, he made bold dash
from the harbor at the time the Aineri-
cans least expected him to do so, and
fighting every inch of his way, even
when has ship was ablaze and sinking
he tried to escape the doom which was
witten on the muzzle of every American
qua trained upon his vessels
The Americans saw him the minute he
left the harbor and commenced their
work Of destruction immed .ately For an
- hour or two they followed the flying
,Spaniards to the westward along the shore
.c line. sending shot after shot into their
7 steel side, and covering their decks with
j.. the blood of the killed and the wounded.
ifssf sAwFU UL RAIN OF SHELLS.
One after another the Spanishships be.
= come the victims of the awful rain of
shells which the American battIeships.
as0 cruisers and gun boats poured upon
them. and two hours after the first of the
ia iieet had started out Of Santiago .harbor,
s.Stheir cruisers and two torpeIo boat de-
stroyers were lying on the shore ten to
fifteen miles west of Moro Castle, pound
ing t. pieces, smoke and fame pouring
~ from every part of them and covering
nli the entire coast line with mist which
could be seen for miles. 4tsts..s
Heavy explosions Of ammunition oc-
curred every few minutes, sending curls
nae of dense white smoke a hundred feet in
the air. asd causing shower Of broken
iron and steel to fall in the water on ev
cry side. The bluffs OH the coast line
echoed With tie roar of every explosion