The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1898-07-02

Spaniards Thought They Were to Come
I'm Contac with the st. Louis, and
People Gathered In the Harbor Ex-
pecting to Witness a Capture.
New York, July 2.-The auxiliary
cruiser st. Paul arrived in port last
night and anchored off Tompkinsville.
She left Mole st. Nicholas early last
Tuesday and has come here for coal,
ammunition and stores, also to have
some slight repairs made to her star
board engine. Captain Sigsbee and the
officers were absolutely inaccessible to
press representatives, who went off to
the ship when she mad anchored, even
permission to board the vessel being re-
fused. Considerable information was
obtained, nevertheless, from a copy of
the st. Paul's war budget, the journal
of the ship, which was obtained.
The st. Paul's great exploit on her
last trip was the disabling of the
Spanish torpedo boat destroyer Terror
off the harbor of San Juan Porto Rico,
and being regarded so by the crew, the
account of IL occupies the first place
on the first page. When the cruiser
Isabel II came out of the harbor of
San Juan at about noon OF June %,
covering the Terror, which was with
her, from sight, the Spaniards thought
1t was the st. Louis, which had been
there a short time before n known
to have a small armament, and not the
st. Paul, which was going to be met.
In The expectation of seeing a fine prize
brought into port, the Spaniards gath
cred in great crowds along the harbor
wall to see II.
The engagement lasted a little over
half an hour, during which the st.
Pau fired 100 shots, three Of them hit
ting the Terror, smashing one of her
engines, killing the chief engineer and
another man, taking off the legs of a
third n Wounding five others. So
badly was the Terror injured that small
vessels were dashed to her sides to pre-
vent her from sinking while a tugboat
towed her in.
The Budget says: 1--WE came off the
port ON the 22d. The weather was fair,
the trade wind blowing fresh from the
eastward and raising somewhat of a
sea. At about 12:40 the third class
cruiser Isabel II came out, and steam
ing under the MORO until she was
abreast of the batteries, commenced
edging out towards US, firing at each
a long range that her shots were in
effective. AS her purpose evidently
was to put us within fire of the bat
t%eries, we took but little notice of her,
lying still and occasionally sending in
our largest shell at her to try the
range. Soon afterwards she dropped to
the westward, and the torpedo boat de-
stroyer Terror, or it may have been her
sister ship, the Furor, was sighted
Ctna t1ninu olpnu Chnra ,,n1n- tIa hat
teries. Captain Sigsbee watched her
for a while and worked along with her,
in order to separate her from the
cruiser and keep her in the trough Of
the sea if she came for us. She then
headed for us, firing straight as far as
direction went, but her shots fell short.
when within range of our guns the
signal commence firing was made,
and for several minutes we let fly our
s%tarboard battery at her from $500
to 5000 yards, the shells striking all
around her. This stopped her, and she
turned her %broadside to us and her fire
soon ceased. She then headed in shore,
to the southwark and westward, going
slow, and it was evident to all on
board that she was crippled, drifting
well leeward of the main harbor en-
trance. On the MORO she flashed some
signals TO the shore and afterwards a
tug came out and towed her into the
harbor.
IAN this time the cruiser was firing
at us n some of her shots fell pretty
close. The cruiser followed the Terror
back towards the port, and soon after
wards was Joined by a gunboat, and
then steamed under the batteries to
the eastward. When the st. Paul,
making an inshore turn, seemed to
be going for them they returned to the
harbor, and we saw no more of them"
Though action with the Terror is
mentioned, 1t was one of the last events
of the cruise. on last Sunday she was
relieved by the Yosemite, which took
her place in the blockade at San Juan,
while she proceeded to Mole st. Nicho-
las, where she got her orders to pro-
coed to New York. The health of the
crew on the st. Paul, which numbers
400 men, exclusive of officers, is ex-
c%ellent, not a case of serious illness
being reported. The men say that the
weather has been hot in West indian
waters, but they found New York was
contributing quite as great an amount
today.
Scald head is an eczema of the scalp-veIy
severe sometimes, but it can be cured.
Doan's Ointment, quick and permanent in its