The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-07-10

crews of the Infanta Maria Teresa and
the Alrnirante Oquendo. and by midnight
the Harvard had go prisoners aboard. a
great number of them wounded.
For courage and dash there is no par
allel in history to this action Of the Span
ish admiral. He came, as he knew. to
absolute destruction. There was one sin
gle hope-that the Cristobal Colon would
steam faster than the Brooklyn The
spectacle OF two torpedo boat destroy
ers. paper shells at best. deliberately
steaming out in broad daylight in the
face OF the fire of a battleship can be
described in but one way: Ii was Spanish
and it was ordered by Blanco, The same
must be said of the entire movement.
II took Admiral Cervera aboard the
Iowa from the Gloucester. which had
rescued him from the dead and received
him with a full admlraPs guard. The
crew OF the Iowa were crowded close 10
the turrets. half naked and black with
powder. as Cervera stepped over the side
bare-headed Over his undershirt he
wore thin suit of flannel borrowed from
Lieutenant Commander Wainwright. OF
erously Cervera is every inch an ad-
miral, even If he did not have any hat.
He submitted to the fortunes of war with
a grace that proclaimed him a thorough
bred"
Captain Evans is immensely proud OF
his ship and her men. The Iowa fired
thirty-one 12-inch. forty-eight eight-inch,
210 4-inch. LOGO 6-pound and 120 1pounG
shots. The officers of the Vizcaya say
they could not hold their crews at the
guns on account of the rapid fire poured
upon them.
One of the Pinch shells from the Iowa
exploded a torpedo in the Vizcaya's bow,
blowing up twelve men on the deck above
them and dropping the dead and mangled
into the fire which at once started below.
The torpedo boat Ericsson was sent by
the flagship to the help of the Iowa in
the rescue of the Vizcaya crew. Her
men saw a terrible sight. The flames leap
ing out from the huge shot holes in he
Vizcaya licked up the deck, Sizing the
fetish of the wounded who were lying
where they fell Between the frequent
explosions there came awful cries and
groans from the men pinned in below.
This carnage was chiefly due to the rap
idity of the American fire. Corporal
Smith of the Iowa fired 135 aimed shots
in fifty minutes from a 4-inch gun.
From two 6-pounders 40 shots We're
fired in fifty minutes. Up in the ops the
marines banged away with 1-pounders.
One gunner of a secondary battery under
12-inch gun was blinded by smoke and
saltpeter from the turret and his crew
were driven off, but sticking a wet hand
kerchief over his face. with holes cut for
his eyes, he stuck to his gun. Finally as
the 6-pounders were so close to the S-inch
turret as to make it impossible to stay
there with safety, the men were ordered
away before the gun was fired, but they
refused to leave, and as the S-inch gun
was fired the conclusion blew two men
of the smaller guns crew ten feet from
their gun and upon the deck as deaf as
posts. Back they went again, however,
and were again blown away, and finally
had to be dragged away from their sta
tons.
The Indiana was hit only twice. The
Oregon was hit three times, twice by
fragments of shells. The Iowa was
truck nine times