The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1898-07-28

sells were nearing her 10 capture and save hci
crew, signal was made 10 cease firing. The
oregon having proved vastly faster than the
other battlesidps, she and the Brooklyn, 20.
gether with the Texas and anothar vessel
which proved to be your flagship, continued
westward In pursuit Of The Colon.
Fifth-1his pursuit continued with increas-
ing speed In the Brooklyn, Oregon and other
ships, and soon the Brooklyn and the Oregon
were within long range OF the Colon, when the
Oregon opened fire with her l3inch guns,
landing shell close to the Cristobal Colon. A
moment afterward the Brooklyn opened FIRE
with her S-inch guns, landing a shell just
ahead Of her. Several other shells were fred
at the Colon, now in range Of the Brooltlyn's
and Oregon's guns. Her commander, seeing
all chances OF escape cut of and destruction
awaiting his ship, fired lee gun and struck
her flag at rs p m. and ran ashore at point
some 80 miles west Of Santiago harbor. Your
flagship was coming up rapidly mt the time, az
was also the Texas and Vixen. A little later,
after your arrival, the Cristobal Colon, which
had struck TO the Brooklyn and the Oregon,
was turned over 10 you as one Of the trophies
OF this great victory Of the squadron under
your command
Commodore Schley then tells Of his
being sent to meet another Spanish bat
tleship reported, which turned out to be
an Austrian vessel. He further said:
Seventh--I would mention for your consid.
Grafton that the Brooklyn occupied the most
westward blockading position with the vixeB
and being more directly in the route taken by
the Spanish squadron was exposed for some
minutes, possibly ten, to the gun fire of the
three Spanish ships and the west battery at
range of l,50J yards from the ships and about
1900 yards from the batteries, but the vessels
Of the entire squadron, closing in rapidly, soon
diverted this fire and did magnificent work at
close range. l have never before witnessed
such deadly and fatally accurate shooting as
was done by the ships Of your command as
they closed in on the Spanish squadron.
Praised the Work of Various Officers.
He praised the work of Captains
Phillip, Evans, Clark and Cook, Lieu.
tenant Sharp, Lieutenant Sears, En-
sign Edward McCauley, Jr., Lieutenant
b. w. Wells, Jr., Lieutenant Com
@. Hodgson, L. ID. Griffin, w. X. Rush,
Edward Simpson, ]. G. Doyle, Ensign
Charles Webster and some of the Junior
divisional officers
Commodore Schley also spoke of
Boatswain William l.. Hill, Carpenter
G.. II. Warford and Gunner L. L. Ap-
plegate in his report. He further said
in part:
Fourteenth-The result Of the engagement
was the destruction of the Spanish squadron
and the capture of the admiral and some 1896
to |, 800 prisoners with the loss Of several hun.
dred killed, estimated by Admiral Cervera at
900 men.
Fifteenth-The casualties on board this ship
were: G. II. Ellis, chief yeoman, killed; J.
Burns, fireman hrst-class, severely wounded.
The marks and scars show that the ship was
struck about % times and she bears in all Al
scars as the result Of her participation in the
great victory of your force on July 8. 1898.
Sixteenth-I congratulate you most sin.
cerely upon this great victory to the squadron
under your command. and l am glad that
had an opportunity to contribute in the least
to a victory that seems big enough for all of
Us.