The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-05-20
FAN CARDENAS..
,,tiop bv ons Of the Men
Engaged in 1t.
{lD HAVE NET THEIR Death
4 Been For the Men on the
Hudson.
DO AN HOUR IN A HE'LL
n Their Fellows From the
Spanish Guns
IuFR BURST BY A SHELL.
r.ok. Badly Wounded, Was
~ Roasted over the Boil
a.forc He Was Rescued.
I. Their Fellows Prom the
Spanish Guns
|1ltR BURST BY A SHELL.
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0hfe1 1910 pN Ehes'SNtf%eNA . >eS't
staff Correspondent of the AS
p,ess Key West, May 19.--For an
IRE the passenger steamer Key
her dock for Tampa, a man wear
Uniform of a naval seaman sat
against a great bale of cordage
M past the harbor and the dis
towards the gulf. He was VIM.
N Brooklyn, one of the survivors
|rpedo boat Winslows crew, which
though the terrible storm of shot
that poured in from the Spanish
in the bay of Cardenas. He WIS
me on furlough for rest. Beside
bright tin cage was the Winslow' S
rbich made himself famous in the
(he battle by shrieking and chat
Ike demon during the whole en-
II
krees and after much questioning,
told the whole story of the bat.
no doubt his account of the en-
Il Is the most correct in detail of
given.
! the very beginning" he said, Il
Fay man on the boat believed We
bt escape being sunk, and that is
build have happened had it not been
rayery of the boys on the Hudson,
liked for over an hour under the
Frific FIRE to get us out of range. ="
) you ordered to so in there?" ne
ID.
Just before we were fired upon,
b was given from the Wilmington. =
II a signal order?'
We were near enough to the Will
50 that they shouted it 10 us
deck through the megaphonc.
you remember the words of the
hder who gave them?"
PIT know who shouted the order
words. as remember them. were
sley, go in there and see what gun
bose are
started at once toward the Cardenaf
"a the firing begun soon after"
was the first you saw of the fir.
llfst thing | saw was a shot fired
WINDOW or door in the second story
Msnouse Just back of the docL
ae spanish gunboats were lying.
nssn and the smoke and the same
snsil went whizzing over oul
uen the firing began from the gun,
~ from the shore. don't thinl
edn forget the sound and the eff
'ue'i and heavy shot the first time
Auer llre. 1t is something terrible
smell passes close by you, you fee
Jug IKE the effect of lightning whel
nearoy. You feel as though |
fen your head off. First you hea
'u ouzzing or whizzing--it is har,
oe-and then something seems T.
Peu IN the face and head. I notice
"hen the shells first began to fl
: mat the boys threw their hand
neads every time a she'll went oven
~ soon came so fast and so clos
was roaring. shrieking, chashinl
can describe it no other way"
'e was your positions"
tue water tender" he said. an
~ below, but everybody went o,
S'a The battle began. John Var
,us oiler John Dcnief and Johl
fireman, were both on watch wit
mad they remained below the,
|p'0oaoly not have been killed.
Tue firing began l went beloy
s0end to the boilers, and a few
's'ef solid shot came 'crashir
.ne side of the beat and into tn
'nere 1t exploded and dsstroye
tue boiler tubes. At first
NE When the shell burst in tn
e~ Doth the furnace doors ope
.Se from the shell struck m
- pieces of the shell also cam
'0or' and am taking them HON
= souvenirs of the war. It was
aasa and report altogether, an
'oom was filled with dust an
Vt several seconds | was PARTIAL
'aa my cars rang so | could hea
went upon the deck to repo,
n bernardou."
aia you say to him?"
aim near the forecastle gun linn
With towel bound about his lie,
vas shouting and the noise of a
was like continuous thunde
shouted. the forward boiler
= shell has gone through her.
- - me hose. he said. and turne
ssain. I went back to tn
ana IN a few minutes ! went u
Aa' and the fighting had grow
ever Several Of the men we,
: locked around. Things wei