The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-05-09

BY this time the Spanish ships were in a
| desperate condition.
The flagship Reina Christina was riddled
with shot and shell and oneof her steam
pipes had burst. and she was believed to
be on fire. The Castillo was certainly on
fire. and, soon afterwards their condition
| became worse and worse. until they were
eventually burned TO the waters edge.
( The DonAntonio de Ulloa made a most
magnificinet show of desperate bravery.
When her commander found she was so
torn by the American shells that he could
not keep her afloat he nailed her colors
20 the mast and she sank, with all hands
| fighting to the last Her hull was COM
pletely riddled and her upper deck had
been swept clean by the awful fire of the
American guns. but the Spanlards though
their vessels were sinking beneath them.
continued working the guns on her lower
deck until she sank beneath he waters
During the engagement a Spanish tor
pedo boat crept along the shore and round
tie offing in an attempt to attack the
American shtoreships, but she was prompt
~ discovered. was driven ashore and was
actually blown to pieces
The Mindano had in the meanwhile been
run ashore to save her from sinking and
the Spanish small craft had sought shell
ter from the steel storm behind the break
water.
The battle, which was started al about
$50 a. m, and adjourned at $50 a. m,
was resumed about noon, when Commo-
dore Dewey started in to put the finishing
touches on his glorious work There was
not much fight left in the Spaniards at
that time and the Petrol and Concord had
shot the Cavite batteries into silence,
leaving them heaps of ruins and floating
the white flag.
The Spanish gunboats were then scut-
tied. the arsenal was on fire an dthe ex-
p!osion Of a Spanish magazine caused
further mortality among the defenders of
Spain On shore.
on the water, burning. sunken or de-
setrGyed Spanish vessels had been seen,
while only the cruiser Baltimore had suf-
fered in any way from the fire of the enc
my. Shot which struck her exploded
some ammunition near one of her guns
and slightly injured a half dozen of the
crew.
Several shots passed dangerously close
to Commodore Dewey but little or no
damage was done on board the flagship.
On theOther hand. about $50 men were
said 70 have been killed on board the
Spanish ship, which was totally destroyed.
Admiral Montejo. the Spanish comman-
de-, transferred his flag to the Isla de
Cuba. when his ship caught fire, but the
later was also destroyed in due course
OF time.
The Re:na Christian lost her captain.
lieutenant, her chaplain an da mid
shipman by one shot which struck her
bridge. About one hundred weere killed
and sixty wounded on board the Castillo.
Indeed, some estimates place the num-
Der of Spanish wounded during the engage
ment tower a thousand
The Olympia was truck five times about
her upqer works and a whale boat of the
Heeisn' was smashed.
Although the Krupp guns on the espla-
made OF Manila were fired continuously
during The engagement. Commodore Dew
ey did not reply to them and thebattery
afterwards hoisted white flag in token
of surrender
The terms Of the capitulation we're still
unsettled when the MCCULLOUGH left Ma
Mia ana It was said Commodore Dewey
feared rioting on the part of the insurgents
if he attempted a compartment of the
rmea mig Notifications at Manila.
The forts a theentrance of the bay were
dismanteled on Wednesday, after they
had capitulated.
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dered the cable to be cut because the Span
iardS refused to permit him to use it.
pending the complete surrender of the