The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-05-09

American feet retired for breakfast,
and incidentally a council OF war was
held on board the Olympia. BY this
time the Spanish ships were in a des-
perate condition. h flagship Reina
Christina was riddled with shot and
shell, one of her steampipes a burst.
and she was believed to be on fire. The
Castillo was certainly on hre, and soon
after the fire became worse n worse
until eventually she was burned to the
waters edge. The Don uhoa MADE a
most magnificent display of bravery
When her commander found she was
so torn by American shells that he
could not keep her afioat, he nailed
her colors 10 her mast. and she sank
with all hands fighting to the last. she
was completely riddled, and her upper
deck had been swept clear by the awful
fire of the American guns but the Span
iards. though their vessel was sinking
beneath them, continued working the
guns on her lower deck until she sank
beneath the waters. During the n
gagement a Spanish torpedo boat crept
along the shore and round the offing in
an attempt tn attack the American
store ships, but she was promptly dis
covered. She was driven ashore. and
was actually blown to pieces.
The Mindanao has in the meanwhile
been run ashore to save her from sink
ing. and the Spanish small craft a
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hind the breakwater.
The battle, which was started at
about $50 a. m. and adjourned at $50
a. m. was resumed about noon, wnen
Commodore Dewey started In to put
the finishing touches on his furious
work. There was not much fight LETT
i'm the S%paniards by that time. At 2
%. m. the Petrol and Concord shot the
Cavite battery into silence. leaving them
heaps of ruins and floating the white
flag. The Spanish gunboats were ther
scuttled. the arsenal was on fire, and
the explosion of a Spanish magazine
caused further mortality to the de-
tenders of the Spanish shore.
ON the waters the burning, sunken
or destroyed Spanish vessels could be
seen, while only the cruiser Baltimore
suffered i'm any way from the hre on
the enemy. a shot which struck her
exploded some near one OF
her guns and slightly injured hall a
dozen Of the crew. Shots passed dam
~gerously close to Commodore Dewey,
but little or no damage was done on
hoard the flagship. on the other hand.
about $50 men are said to have been
killed on board the Spanish flagship.
which was totally destroyed. Admiral
Montejo, the Spanish commander.
transferred his flag to the Isla de Cuba
when his ship caught fire, but the lat
ter was also destroyed in due course
of time.
The Reina Christina lost her captain,
a lieutenant, her chaplain and "a MD
shipman by one shot, which struck her
bridge. About 100 men were killed and
so wounded On board the Castillo. In
deed. some estimates place the num-
Der of Spanish wounded during the en-
gagement at over 1000 men. The Olym-
MIA was struck five times about her
upper works and a whaleboat on the
Raleigh was smashed.
Although the Krupp guns on the es-
planada of Manila were fired continu-
ously during the engagement, Comma
dore Dewey did not reply to them, and
the battery afterward hoisted a white
flag i'm token of surrender.
The terms of capitulation were still
unsettled when the McCulloch left Ma
Mia. but IL was said Commodore Dewey
feared rioting upon the part or the IN
s%urgents IL ne attempted a bombard'
ment of the remaining forts at Manila
The forts at the entrance OF the pay
were dlsmantled on Wednesday aftel
they had ca~pitulated.
IL is said the commodore ordered TN
cable to be cut the Spaniard'
refused to permit him to use IL pendinl
the complete surrender of the city.
IL is understood the Spanish shlp'
did not get under steam until aftel
the alarm was given. IL is salu ais'
hat the Spanish INFORMED
the governor general that IL was al
visable To surrender i'm the interests o
humanity, as IL was impossible To re
sist successfully. but that he and MI
men were willing enough Ia fight ant
die. Even when the Spanish flagship
was shot half away, her commander
though wounded, refused to leave tn
bridge till the ship was burning an'
sinking. her stern shattered by "A com
mon shell and her steam pipe burst
As yet there is no further details q
the lighting. After 1t was over Com
modore Dewey sent an ultimatum L
the CITY battery ordering ii To ceas
firing or he would lombard. The Pet
rel chased a gunboat up the rive
Pasig and the Spanis captain cam
i'm a boat to negotiate conditions q
surrender. The American captain re
piled: Unconditional surrender q
fight" To this the Spanish answered
w are willing to fight. Please alloy
us to send for ammunition because GU
store Is exhausted
on a proposal to the existing au
thorities to continue temporarily un
der the American flag pending the ter
mination of the war. the Spanish dc
layed their decision and kept wiring |
Madrid. The Americans requested IN
privilege of using the wire. and whe
this was refused they cut the cable.
The E~smeyalda. from Hong kon,
arrived i'm the middle of the battle
During the adjournment for breal
fast. an American cruiser was d'
tached To met her, as IL was believe
she might be a Spaniard.
When II was found that the new al
rival was a British vessel. she wa
warned To keep away. The Esmerald
therefore. moved up the bay 10 or
miles.
There are still two or three SPANS
sunboats about the Philippines, bl
no resistance from them is probabl
one recently captured an America
bark.
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