The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1898-05-20

Later Dctails-Admiral Montejo wounded.
find that in my previous dispatches
l underestimate the losses of the Span
iards in Sundays battle.
The surgeon of the Castillo tells mo
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 Rcina Cristina,
Admiral Montejos flagship.
1t is impossible to open communica-
ton between the shore and the fleet;
therefore news about events ashore il
very scarce on board the American yes
sells.
The little that has leaked through in-
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 30 wounded on
the Don Juan de Austria.
-Four were killed and so wounded on
the Don Antonio de Ulloa
AS 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 recall the events Of last
Sundays battle the more miraculous il
seems that no American lost his life.
The she'll that entered the Bostonis
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 one of the six-pounder gun ports
when a she'll struck the ships side less
than yard away. The chaplain pulled
his head in just in time to escape hav-
ing it blown off, as the she'll instantly
burst
Three fragments of one shell struck
| the Olympia within radius of IS feet
| from Commodore Dewey.
The armor- piercing projectile that
| exploded the box of three FOUNDER am
muDition on board the Baltimore
passed between two groups of men so
close to each other that it is difficult to
see how all cscsped.
To add to the horror of the scene,
several lean. wolflilxe 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 como
| near our ships.
The French armored cruiser Bruix
entered the bay to-day. The British
cruiser 1mmortalite is understood to be
on her way to Manila.
Eighty Spanish bodies were found un.
buried Monday night, and we gave
them burial Tuesday morning. calling
in Roman Catholic priest to read the
burial service over their remains.
| The bodies presented horrible
sight. One had the head almost who'll.
| ~ 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, way not only mangled. but
burned, and all the bodies were fright
fully bloated.
| Probably there were nowhere 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 lest for
Manila, they are now recovering their
normal serenity with the certainty that
their husbands are safe There are
about dozen of these officers wives,
forming little navy colony here.
Il