The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-05-14

Later Detai1s-Admiral Montejo Wounded.
find that in my previous dispatcher
l underestimate the losses of the Span
iards in Sundays battle.
The surgeon of the Castillo tells me
that Admiral Montejo was wounded.
The captain, chaplain and 90 others
were killed and six were wounded on
the Castillo.
One hundred and fifty were killed
and 90 wounded on the Relna Cristina,
Admiral Montejo's flagship.
1t is impossible to open communica-
ton between the shore and the fleet;
therefore news about events ashore is
very scarce on board the American YES
sells.
The little that has leaked through in
dicates the probability that tine insur-
gents will soon attack the city. Span
ish residents of Manila are very bitter
against the governor general and are
threatening to depose him.
Five were killed and 90 wounded on
the Don Juan de Austria.
Four were killed and so wounded on
the Don Antonio de Ulloa.
AS l am leaving the harbor the stu
alton in the city of Manila is very crit
zeal. The British consul reports that
the city has been entirely cut off from
outside communication both by sea and
land, and has only enough provisions
left to last a few days.
The more l recall the events of last
Sundays battle the more miraculous it
seems that no American lost his life.
The shell that entered the Boston's
wardroom was going straight for Pay
master Martin when it exploded with
in five feet of him, yet he was not
touched.
Aboard the Olympia the surgeons
operating table was placed in the ward
room. Chaplain Frazier, who was as
sisting the surgeon, had his head out
of n of the siX-pounder gun ports
when a shell struck the ships side less
than a yard away. The chaplain pulled
his head in just in time to escape hav-
ing it blown off, as the shell instantly
burst.
Three fragments of one shell struck
the Olympia within a radius of Is feet
from Commodore Dewey.
The armor-piercing projectile that
exploded the box of three-pounder am
munition on board the Baltimore
passed between two groups of men so
close to each other that it is difficult to
see how all escsped.
To add to the horror of the scene,
several lean. woldike dogs had discov-
cred the bodies before we had.
The British gunboat Linnet entered
the bay Monday, but, some of her men
having the plague, she did not come
near u ships.
The French armored cruiser Bruix
entered the bay to-day. The British
cruiser Immortalite is understood to be
on her way to Manila.
Eighty Spanish bodies were found I'M
buried Monday night, and we gave
them burial Tuesday morning, calling
in a Roman Catholic priest to read the
burial service over their remains.
The bodies presented a horrible
sight. One had the head almost who'll
ly carried away. Another had been
struck in the stomach by a large pro-
~jectile, cutting everything away to the
backbone.
One very large man, apparently an
officer, was not only mangled, but
burned, and all the bodies were fright
fully bloated.
Probably there were nowhere a more
interested or more thoroughly happy
set of persons than the group of wives
of American naval officers who have
been living in Hong Kong in order to
be near their husbands.
Having heard but little except alarm
ing rumors since the squadron left for
Manila, they are now recovering their
normal serenity with the certainty hat
their husbands are safe. There are
about a dozen of these officers wives,
forming a little navy colony here.