The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-07-12
THE wINsLoW AZ MOBILE.
How the Torpedo Boat Looks After
Her Hard UaaEe,


Her Hard Uaage.
From the Mobile (Ala) Register. July 3.
The United States torpedo boat Wtnslow
which took part in the battle Of Cardenas
and upon whose deck the first blood In the
present war with Spain was spilled ar
rived in this city yesterday morning from
Tampa, after very rough experience
The trim little vessel is locked at the
Louisville and Nashville fruit wharf. and
yesterday attracted a large crowd of sight
seers, who gazed reverenGy at the little
'nagger of the navy"
The boat is in command of Lieut.. Rerna-
dou, who has already been. promoted for
the gallant part he took in the fight at
Cardenas, and on her "trip over to this
port from Tampa her machinery broke
down three separate times
The uninitiated taking a curs0rv look
over the little vessel would not think that
she had been in such a hot fire for there
are very few signs apparent of the eff
cheney of the fire of the Spanish batteries
However. the Winslow was struck bv
Spanish shot twenty-five times in the en-
gagement. On the port side there are a
number OF patches which cover holes made
by Spanish shot in the hun of the vessel
ON the starboard side there is a large
patch which marks the place where a
shell from a 6-inch gun went into the YES
sells forward boiler and exploded. dfsab
ling the vessel. There is a hole on the
port side of the forward coming tower,
ana there are a number Of indentations in
the steam pipes and on the vessels sides
The after coming tower has a large hole
through the upper half of it, and this Is
the largest hole to be setl.
On the deck a.Lcs1t csiesti .tr.l Of tia4 dis
lance between the after coming tower and
the second smokestack there Is pointed out
an indentation where the shell which kill
ed Ensign Bagley and four others struck
and exploded. Ensign Worth Bagley was
an command of the squad of men who
were working the rapid-flre gun on the
starboard side of the boat and a little for
ward of the second directly in line with
the spot where the shell struck. The
shell slid across the deck after striking.
and exploded just as it reached the edge
of the deck. An the men were terribly
mutilated and torn by the explosion. and
with nearly all of them death was in
Simultaneous.
In the midst of the firing Lieut. Berna-
dou was wounded on the inside of the LETT
leg, being struck, as ne supposed, by a
piece OF shell, which penetrated and lodged
near the groin, where it now IS At KEY
west he took advantage of the x-ray ap-
paratus maintained there by the govern
mehC ana lrled 10 nave the piece of shell
located, but the effort was not success
ful. for the reason. he now thinks. that Il
is not a piece of shell, but some sub
stance which will MOI show by the appll-
cation of the x-rays.
The wound has not been of Gny serious
trouble with him, though he occasionally
uses cane to help him in walking. He
said that he is very glad to get back to
the United States, as II is hot down there
'JUa bas- the
He finds that the torpedo boats are bet
ter sea boats than was at first thought
and that they are not nearly so uncom-
Portable for those on board as the news.
papers try to make appear. There has
been so far an this war no test of The
functions of the boat, but there is no
reason to believe that the boats will not
do all that is expected Of them if brought
into service under the conditions for which
they are designed.