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again repulsed at the last lombard


ment Of Santiago de Cuba"
Continuing, the reports assert that
the damage done to the batteries and to
the town is "unimportant," or 'is al
ready repaired adding. the Spanish
guns did not cease to fire an instant
during the fight, and all the batteries
are in condition to reply to the enemy's
fire. During second attack Colonel
Ordonez was on board the Reina Mer-
cedes, and personally assisted in work
onel Ordonez and General Linares as
the heroes of the day.
According to official Spanish dis
patches received here. the exact loss
of the Spaniards at Santiago de Cuba
on Monday is as follows: Land forces,
one soldier killed and five officers
wounded, including Colonel Ordonez,
slightly wounded. Sea forces the sec
ond officer of the Reina Mercedes, five
sailors and twenty-four marines killed
and an officer and eleven sailors
wounded.
The official dispatches also say that
many of the wounded, including Colo
mel Ardonez, are able to attend to.their
duties.
1t is announced here that the Spanish
steamer Vendito has run the blockade
of Manzanillo and arrived at Juracoa.
REINA MERCEDES SUNK.
MADRID, June SO a. ma semi
official note was published here to-day
purporting to give an account of the
bombardment of Santiago de Cuba by
the American fleet on Monday last:
THE American navy under Admiral
Sampson has fiercely attacked Santiago
de Cuba, and a bloody encounter en-
sued. The Americans made three at
tacks on the Spanish marine and land
batteries, which replied. AS a conse-
quence the Americans We're repulsed
with heavy losses, estimated at 1,o00
men. The American projectiles, how
ever, sank the Spanish cruiser Reina
Mercedes
The Reina Mercedes was a steel
cruiser built at Carthagena in 1887. She
was over 5000 tons displacement, 2lS
feet 10 inches long, feet l inch
broad and drew 16 feet 5 inches of
water. She had 300 horsepower when
completed, was driven by one propeller,
and carried a crew of about $40 men.
Her engines recently had been useless,
the Alfonso XIII. and the Reina Chris
tina, the Reina Mercedes of late years
has been used as a transport. The
three vessels We're almost alike. The
armament of the sunken cruiser con-
sisted of six GO Hontoria breech-load-
ing guns, two 81 inch Hontoria breech-
loading guns, three 6-pounder quick
fire guns, six S-pounder quick fire
zlz: A,Ir,
tubes. She was bark rugged, and had
one smokestack. Her coal capacity was
about 500 to 600 tons. The Reina Mer-
cedes was supposed to have speed of
about eighteen knots. She had no pro-
tective deck.
CASUALTIES ON THE SHIPS.
LONDON, June 9-The Madrid cor
respondent of the Standard says: 1T
is reported that during the engagement
at Santiago two shells struck the Viz
caya and one the destroyer Furor.
Press dispatches say that the Reina
Mercedes suffered most from the shell
fire which wounded her commander
mortally, Captain Acosta. The total
number of casualties on the ship was
thirty mine, five seamen and twenty-one
marines killed and a Lieutenant and
eleven men wounded. Most of the Hon
toria and Krupp guns had before the
action been placed in the Socapa bat
terry
Admiral Cervera's squadron, with
steam up was lying behind the first
line of defenses in the channel leading
from the bay, ready to cooperate, but
the land defenses sufficed to keep the
fleet from attempting to force
the entrance.
The loyalist volunteers" according
to the press dispatches, took part in
the gallant defense of Moro fort, losing
two officers and several men. They
also assisted the troops to oppose an
American landing, attempted at two
places"
AND FUROR DAMAGED.
NEW YORK, June S.-A special from
Jamaica, reports that the
Spanish cruiser Vizcaya and the tor
pedo-boat Furor We're badly damaged
during the bombardment of Santiago's
defenses on Monday. a shell from the
Brooklyn is said to have burst under
the Vizcaya's port quarter, dismounting
a gun, injuring the cruisers rudder and
several of her sailors.
HAVANA, June Z delayed in trans
mission). - Copyright, 1898, by the
Press. s.)-Details from Span
ish sources at Santiago de Cuba were
received here to-day of the Spanish
losses during the bombardment of the
forts there by the American fleet on
The marine chief" killed on
board the Reina Mercedes was former
Captain Emilio Acosta Eyormanu. En-
sign Alexandra Milias, also on the
Mercedes, was killed. Colonel Ordonez,
of the artillery, and inventor of the
cannon bearing his name, was slightly
wounded Some other officers were
slightly wounded by projectiles, shells
and fragments scattered by the explo-
sion of shells on land.
The insurgents to-day derailed oas-
senger train near Pinar. oyerthrowing
one car.
IN THE PHILIPPINES.