Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-07-19
MORRO CASTLE.

waves, and around the base ana IN tne
superstructure there are several more
made by our fleets projectiles 1t would
appear, however, that only one bastlon
had been knocked to pieces, while the
queer little sentry boxes, dating back to
the sixteenth century, escaped almost
intact.
MORO Castle is the only imposing for
tificaton in the harbor, and 1t is only
so in appearance, since not gun IS
| mounted within or on the crumpled
| walls. In fact, all the batteries, masked
and open, lessened in their terror IN
spring qualities as the inspection grew
| closer. Growing the hill on the west
side of the entrance are the famous
inch rapid fire guns from the Spanish
| cruiser Reina Mercedes. Those were
| ugly looking and dangerous, while pe-
| low on brick fortiticatlonS on the west
| ern shore of the entrance, are some re-
yolving guns. They are the ones whlch
| poured alch bitter fire into the Merrl-
| mac. Directly east of MORO Castle' on
the crest of the plateaulike elm, are SIX
hig guns one or two of which had been
dismounted.
Tie Wreck of the Mercedes.
Commodore Schley has over and over
again expressed the belief that our
fleet could probably have entered the
harbcr without the loss of single snip.
The mines might have stopped lhsress
Inv sinking the leading ship But TINS -
n chance of war and not so grave do
MANY taken during the civil STRIFE h"i
&C serious as would have been the sIt-
,.tion had there been good batteries
nrona,lv manned, in the harbor.
Con,uodore Schley's party hrst steam
al oround tie wreck Of the Relna Mer-
oodos which lies with her bow pointed
toward the city She had list TO star
hoard and rested on reef near 'he
faot of Moro cliff. The cruiser was
sunl, to the upper deck, on Whlch one
g i,,oh sun rera ned. one torpedo TUBE
,,,os loaded. and the auxiliary battery
,oo,,,ed in place Evidently the ere"
t,o peina Mercedes left her IN
,,, mis- is less to be wondered az
,,.,,an n is noted that there were great
,l. IN ter sides, showing where TWO
% ea poa two "a inch shells had struck her
.h,1,t fon Yards ahead of the Relhh
, 11No and almost in line with her
Niel 49, wreck of the Merrimac, lying
:, fullv six fathoms of water anu on
ia wv l'1oa of the channel. Had not
,,e ,ant swung the doomed snip
'iie Va iostead OF athwart the chan
~, the latter would have been we"
he' III, Wban Assistant Naval Con-
,.,at,r Hobson took the coillei ii'"
The harbor he was hun''nS ~ ~ q
- snot and only missed IL ny
few hundred yarus. +ro west
At the firing stations Oh ''.s
side. which Commodore .t,, mot
ed in person, the American po ,,os
cnanish artillery captain. "no ,o
courteous. but gloomy. coli'l,.' I'd
Sohlev was his own ln'erpis.e ,an
SUI ,z tho officer with the rev me"
undnr his command, TO 20 Wy :" .si
citv and surrender as qu''Nls a." u.,s
HE When the Spah''" -. tho q
asked to point out the lou.v -, so;d
inch battery on the west mn, +ho
nv" ,,.os none and explained that t'e
wav to get there was over Sep, rnad
way ,iGicnlt ground. 1t was learned
later that this was not tiue' "n ,nx-
.,,rnoised that the Spanlaro go
ions to prevent the Amerie az, han,har I'd
+he damage done by the poi''o''N
ment. c,.,
Commodore Schley then saiu can-
to.,, ,,inod to have a glimpse at San,
t,aso city. and the launch was ''e"Ne'
,,a west side of the channel ~.
,,o,,lv and sticking to the sh,''o "
ra,or lest some contact l'''he otc
tho commodore REMARKED
our quiet pleasure party ,a' M where
broad. lakelike spot in 'he IA 900 weeks
~ ~ 80 s,,,anish fleet destroyed TWO w.,
ago today used TO ne W no brilliantly
nanteS suoy y which marked the s anal
lows Iu ahout two miles, the city ,s %,
distan1 ' shone out, the cathedral peins
wei s s:s few "9 rs- 9:
a' wnsrl .,oA At s ,ns' Of
destruction wrought by the W.