The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-07-23

to her. heading right for her when she
seemed to be getting away, and punish
ed her dreadfuiiy with her L, and +
inch guns. Just here the flagship caught
up With US, having fired onlyYa couple
OF Bhots al the ghost Of the two destroy
ers as she passed.
The Ylzeaya ran on shore and hauled
down her colors, beaten to her knees at
last.
But the Colon had fed like rabbit
TO the westward. and was away ahead
Of all OF uA except the Brooklyn and
Oregon, who were now after her with
all the speed they could raise, firing as
they went. The Brooklyn was nearly
abreast OF her, and steered course to
head her of, IN a long sweeping blight,
In which she was.
Continuing his letter on July 5, Lett
tenant Dawson writes:
The boat left In such frantic hurry
this morning that l had to break on
abruptly In the middle Of the battle, or
rather, OF my description Of It; for the
battle Itself was nearly over when the
New York came up with US.
II was Just II 80 o'clock when the Viz
caYa hauled down her colors after go-
ing ashore, a burning wreck. The New
| York OVerhauled US, and seeing the
Colon 80 far ahead Of US (she was al
most hull DOWN and that we couldn't
hope to catch up with her, she ordered
Us back to guard the entrance to the
hnrbor; for the blockade had to be kept
up. although the enemy's SQUADRON was
now gone. So we put about with bad
grace, and started back towards San
tiago, some ten or twelve miles to the
eastward. The Iowa remaining awhile
with the ViEcaya, and the Brooklyn,
Oregon, Texas and New York were in
full cry after the Colon. which was the
fastest and llteliest Of the four Spanish
cruisers
Tarnsd cut to bs an Austrian.
on the way .'home" We were met by
the auxiliary cruiser Resolute from
Guantanamo. who signAlled excItedly
that an enemV's ship was coming from
there towards santiago-a battleshIp,
she said. We were greatly surprised.
for no such vessel was known 10 be
anywhere near here; but as newspa-
per tug hailed US soon after and re-
peated the story, with some variations,
and little later we got It again from
the auxiliary Harvard, we had to be-
IIeve that perhaps the Pelayo had
crossed the Atlantic and had turned up
here "by appointment" to mako a juno
ton with Cervera'S squadron. And sure
enough as we passed Santiago steaminG
east. we sighted a large man-of-war
near Dalquiri, apparently heading for
US. She had a white hull and answered
to the description given US; moreover,
we soon made out her colors, which
were Cat that distanee1 as Spanish as
Ce,.verais own. So we went joyfully to
general quarters again. this time hop
ing for a square, stand-up and knock
down 1ght-a plain duel, with no third
PARTED She had a lot OF international
signals flying, but these We supposed
were for the Spanish signal stations on
shore, SO we kept steadily towards her.
with every gun loaded, and trained
SQUARE on the stranger. Judge, then,
OF our disappointment when, on getting
within palmer signal distance, we made
out her ensign TO be the Austro-Hun-
garian and not the Spanish. red, white,
red, instead OF red, yellow and red.
When first seen the white had looked
1iike yellow, us is so often the case-in
font the fvn are MISUNDERSTANDING De=
v toSs ' a certsin distance / then read
her signals and found her to be the
Austrian Maria TaeFesa .an ~. i-tG Sed
h nan n,,.to TieH her SnsnIsb sister We
were san suspicious, however, for the
oueen regent OF Spain is an Austrian
princess, and the two nations are sup
posed to be pretty much as one in this
war under the surface; so we kept the
guns trained while we answered her
signals. She sent a boat over to US with
an oficer. who said his captain wanted
10 communicate with our commander
in-chIef,
What ArtonlshetI Him.
49,, .,,r,r,o,od bv bIs M
ne huu OeeA SU'''.N
tion's counsel he said'to look attef' theIr
interests in Santiago. which might fall
~ any ynoment He learned OF the bat
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Tie LOT the HrSt "'le' ut'N ~
greatly astonished to hear that we hAd
suffered no loss or damage.
IT,.u - ,,o,. hocl, - bIs chin after
"N' i.e - -.'.+'., "A,
the usual paiaVeF' ana sue ste't'rleu "'L
to the westward in search OF the nag
.bI, An hands then. at 3 o'clock, got
--s'.,,.- A. -, to- ,be 6rst time
sothe'nlHs " ~
hungry, thirsty and tired, as you may
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