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and steam away for Manila bay. On
April 26 militia camps were formed In
nearly every State of the Union.
Natanzas was bombarded on April II
by Admiral Sampson with the New York,
the Cincinnati and the Puritan. Great
damage was done the Notifications. Cien-
fuegos was bombarded on April 2S, and
on that day, also, Admiral Ceryera be-
gan the series of maneuyers ending In the
Santiago bottle, by leaving Spanish shores
with his fleet, en- route to the Cape Verde
Islands.
The Cabanas batteries were silenced by
a bombardment from the New York on
April 80, the day which brought word
from Rio Janero telling Of the safe and
wonderful voyage of the battleship Ore
gon on its way from San Francisco to
join SIMPSONS fleet.
Dewey's Great Victory.
On Sunday, May l, the first great sea
battle of the war was fought. Commo-
dore George Dewey made himself Rear
Admiral Dewey and won undying glory
for the American navy by leading his fleet
into the mined harbor of Manila and, I'M
der the guns of the fort on Corregidor
Island and the heavy Notifications defend
ing the arsenal and navy yard, destroying
the entire Asatic fleet Of Spain. The
Olympia was his flagship, and his remain
ing vessels were the Baltimore, the Bos-
ton and the Raleigh, protected cruisers
the Concord and Petrol, gunboats; and
tbe AIeCulloch, dispatch boat. With this
force, equal but not superior in armament
to the Spanish fleet, far inferior when the
land batteries are counted, he sunk, burn
ed or blew up eight Spanish cruisers, six
gunboats and three transports.
The sea victory was followed by an at
taek on the land Notifications, which
were razed. The arsenal at Cavite was
also captured, and before noon his guns
commanded the city of Manila. In the
enga cement not one American life was
lost. while in killed and drowned the Span
ish loss has been placed between SEQ and
900.
In the first week in May the definite di-
vision of the ships of the American navy
in Atlantic and Cuban waters into squad
rons and fleets was made. The flying
squadron, Commodore Schley in com
mand, was formed at Hampton Roads
the vessels being the Brooklyn, flag
ship: the Massachusetts, the Texas, the
Columbia and the Minneapolis. Admira
Sampson in the blockade line at Havana
had with him besides his flagship, th'
New York, the battleships Iowa and In
diana, the cruisers Cincinnati and Mar
blehead, and dozen torpedo craft ant
gunhoats Matanzas WAS bombarded fo
a second time May I.
The first American casualties of the wa
were on the torpedo boat Winslow, of
| Cardenas harbor. The killed were En-
sign Worth Bagley and five seamen. Th
Winslow attacked three Spanish gun
boats and the shore Notifications, and il
disregard of peril the boat was run to-
far inskore. 1t was crippled by the fir
and the men were killed before othe
boats could come to its assistance. Tn
Spanish gunboats were disabled by tn
re-enforcements and the batteries 81
| fenced.
Admiral Sampson appeared before Sa
Juan, Porto Rico, on May u. and BON
barded the forts for three hours. Morr
was partially reduced. Sampson was i
search of Cervera's fleet, known by thi
time to have left the Cape Verde Island
and to be well on the way TO Cuban wal
ers for its famous game Of hide-and-seel
and he made no pronounced effort to II