The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-07-23
Scenes and Incidents at Manila and
Cavite.
DEWEY'S TERRIBLE WORK
SPANISH WRECKS TELL A PITT
Full TALE.
An Object Lesson On the Horrors of
War-Spanish Hulks Were Not
Fit For Service-Spanish Army
Composed of Unframed Men and
Boys-Natives Use Knives.


Manila. May 29-CCorespondence of the
Associated Press 1.-The British gunbOat
Swift arrived with mails, which it was
Hongkong with mails, which it was
thought the American naval commander.
Rear Admiral Dewey, might not see his
way to pass for fear of a technical breach
of the blockade, but he made no Objec-
ton. So all the mails went ashore and a
blessing they were 20 the poor bockaded
Manila residents. There are business
firms with immense interests at stake, all
depending on mail advices, now that the
telegraph cables are cut. For few days
the Ililio cable was used, messages being
forwarded thence by boat to La Buan but
that did not last long, for the Americans
found out that the SpaniardS were COM
municating with their home government
on war matters and so they stopped ii.
The last message said that squadron
of four armored cruisers, accompan MED by
coal ships and conveying torpedo boats
ana troopShlps with l2O0 SoldlerS on
board had left Spain for the Philippines.
Admiral Dewey has been most courteous
and ObligIng. He readily gave permission
to visit the arsenal at Cavite, where, how
ever, there is nothing TO be seen OF in
terest. CaVite IS on low, sandy spot
about eight miles from Manila, as the
crow flies but nearly 80 miles by road, as
there is 4 broad bay intervening, and
the shores are swampy for some distance
lnlanQ- The CaNlte peninsula points IN
the direction of Manila, and is Joined TO
- the mainland by low narrow iStnmuS,
where. in last years rebellion, two bodies
OF Spanish troops met and mistook each
other for rebels, and practically ami
hilated each other, over thousand of the
soldiers losing their lives through the
blunder. AT the end of the peninsula are
two points-a large ono outside named
Sangiey. smaller one, Cavite proper.
on the inner side. jutting out between the
unDer and lower lhaVitp haN
on Sangley point is the slip-way for re-
pairing ships and a small battery of two
krupp - centimetre guns. At Cavite
arsenal several of the oldest type of Arm
strong muZZle loading SiX-inch guns are
mounted, apparently for ornament, with
symmetrical mounds of round shot along
side. IN the arsenal inclosure are build
ings of the usual sort. machine sheds. am
muntion. stores, etc. The engine shop is
kept in good order by the Americans. 1t
Is small but useful. Tho machinery
mostly bears the names of English max
ers and has been maintained in a satiSfac-
tory state of repair. All the rest-maga-
zines officers quarters, hospital and bar
racks-had been looted first by the Span
iards, then by the rebels Here and there
the buildings show a great shot hole,
but there was little Smelling of the place.
SPANISH WRECKS.
The Spanish ships in the bay, how,
tell pitiful and terrible tale. The L~Ur
shows the least. for she is now almost
entirely submerged. She was a wooden
cruiser, and all her woodwork burned to
the waters edge. leaving only the metal
skeleton the ribs and frames tunnels
Venulators. ash hoiSts and gun Shields
battered, perforated in n thousand spots
and hammered and twisted ont of position
and almost out of recognition She Is a
wonderful. terrible testimony to the de-
structiYeness of modern weapons. well !
handled 1t Is the most shocking object |
lesson that the friends of peace could |
possibly adduce-to picture n number Of |
men and the boys cooped up for two hours |
"A a. ~ n
with large ard small pIojectiles. managing |
mutilatlns and numbering merciesSi5.
The Castillo was so old that when she |
had pe-iorce 10 venture out of AIaniia bay.
TO so only 80 miles TO Subig. the work !
ing OF the propeller shaft in the tubes |
started the timber and she leaked too |
fast for the pumps to keep her afioat-
She had to be beached gently at Subig I'M
til the leaky tunnel and timbers could be
patched up with cement. When her guns
We're fired she again started to fill with |
water. 1t was an enormity. crime ever
to put such a vessel in the fighting. To
make men night in such coffin ship was
simply diabOIical.
The Reina Christina is less submerged.
less burned. but SHOWS more ba.terinE !
of her bridge. only the starboard supports
and a foot or TWO of the bridge itself re-
snain the rest evidently being blown
struck the funnel near. the base. and
apparently exploded inside causing
dreadful havoc in the engine room.
MANILA is DOOMED
1t is thought that unless peace is signed
without further delay. Manila is doomed
City, for the insurgents are closing in rap
idly and the city could no more survive
a big battle than a house of cards could
Withstand a typhoon. Here is a rich sea-
port, a metropolis almost as large as
the majority of the buildings
are Of a highly inflamma bic type. fires are
frequent in ordinary times, and a little
shelling would burn the whole city to the
ground. Here is a population of a quar-
ter of a million full-blooded Malays ordi-
narily indolent but intensely eXcitable on
occasions, such as the Storming of the
city by their kinsmen under the insurgent
flag.
Neither the place nor the people can go
through a week of what Paris had to en-
dure Tor six weeks. Yet the SpaniardS | (
are as desperately unyielding as the |
French were in 1870 as confident in their
Valor. as ignorant of the ire
sistible forces they defy.
Every day and all day there is an eX-
odus from the city, stimulated every few 2
days by some new scare. Large. clumsy
river boats, towed by steam launches or
poled by natives start up the river. con-
'eylng iainlles ana goods. and come down :
again Tor more. Every road leading out =
Of the city is thronged day after day with !
similar traffic. until the roads are, one by Z
1ne, declared unsafe beyond stated points ! 4
~ account of the insurgents. &
The first news of Aguinaldo's advance Z
1n the city increased the refugee move :
Il ,i put now ne - reported Nitnln nlne {
niles Of me cry limits and complete panic
prevails. Soldiers are being hurried to the d
'front.' and are coming back horribly slash !
I'd with the foreSterS knives of the ma
ives All day long the wounded are filing n
through the streets, pitiful procession =
Ifter the bravery and trumpeting that !
leralded their departure. The careless
wager and the naughty strut which
the Spanish soldiery in the f
streets Of Manila have given place to a s
weary shuttle and a Sullen trudge. {
BOYS IN THE RANKS.
1t is pitiful to see so many school-boys ?
taking part in the war. and 4
most OF the men here have never been
ut of their native villages until now The
Oyish appearance is not lesSened by the
inform, which looks almost a burlesque
light straw hat, high in the crown and -
tide in the brim, like that OF typical stage y
rigands. blut stripped COTTON ctosnes a
lack leather belt and foOtgear of many
orEs. Many of the poor fellows have no
hoes at all, and they get their feet 4 O
lacerated in the country II ! ?
ospital cases are feet fostering from 0.
horns.
The Spanish army suggests comic opera d.
here are buriy Faistaff officers swarming b
bout the cafes and beer saloons. Spanish el
Ulcers might at any rate devote two or n
lree hours per day TO the question | n
neither there is anything in the world -
orse than an officer asleep on a beer | ~
hop lounge in the forenoon when the en- II
my IS at the gates of the city. a.
The rank and file can only be pitied. | a.
here are whole regiments of stripiings. cl
st out from Spain. pictureSquely attired, n,
.ady and willing to do anything and who -
sver count the odds OF finch from death ~
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