Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-10-27

One of the officers Of the battesbin
Iowa tells Of thrilling scene which o..
Cured on it's deck soon after Cervera and
his officers came aboard after the destruc
ton Of their squadron. Captain Euate
had offered his sword to Captain Evans
and the latter had returned it, saying that
he could not accept it from SO brave
man. The party was invited down to
the shippers cabin to 'take something"
As Eulate entered the companionway he
stoned and turned, Fitted his cap and in
most dramatic way extended his arms
and exclaimed: "Adois, Vizcaya." A,
that instant, as if in response to his fare.
well, there was a tremendous eruption
from the burning cruiser and Immediately
after deafening explosion. One of the
magazines had blown up. Eulate buried
his face in his hands and sobbed. 1t was
some moments before he recovered from
his agitation.
After our regiment had marched seven
miles toward Santiago, writes a soldier
we were ordered to 60 into camp on the
crest Of the high hill which overlooks the
valley in front Of San Juan. We had
scarcely pitched our little shelter tents
when fierce rainstorm came up. ltpour-
ed down in torrents. l naturally supposed
the soldiers would be disguised that this
should happen just after their long, tire
some march, but when the storm was at
| it's highest I heard shouts Of JOY outside,
| and [ ventured to look from under the
sheltering canvas to see what the cOmmo-
| ton was about, and there stood about half
| Of the regiment, stark naked, taking what
| they called a bath, and the harder it rain
ed the more pleased they seemed. Maj
Smith looked out and could not resist the
| temptation, and in few minutes he, too,
| was enjoying a nice, cool bath.
A correspondent who journeyed to San
tiago on the transports with the regulars
and the volunteers who set sail from
Tampa describes the way in which the
men whiled away the time. At night the
chief occupation was singing. He says
| that ST you want several hundred or 900
men to sing one sing, that song must be
either hymn, Sunday school song or
The Suwanee River Almost
every man in the fleet could sing the first
verse Of America Nearly all could sing
the first verse and chorus of 'Suwanee
River But when the leading singer
started up Rock Of Ages Hold the Fort,
Just as Am Without One Plea or 'Je-
sus Loves Even Me- nearly every man on
the ship would lift up his voice and sing
the song with vigor, fervor and delight"
|
The Wasp, which goes to the naval re-
serves at Chicago, was the first vessel to
enter the harbor Of Ponce, and Midship-
man Curtin, the grandnephew of ex-Goy.
| Curtin of Pennsylvania, went ashore and
| demanded the surrender Of the place in
most audacious manner. He acted as If
| he had a feet Of battleships instead of
| the little yacht behind him. The COM
mandant replied that he was only a sub
| ordinate officer and was not authorized to
surrender. The boss was up at the city,
| three miles away. "Get him on the tele-
phone" reared the midshipmite, 'and tell
him that if he does not surrender in half
an hour I'll lombard the town." 1t was
lucky for the Wasp, and particularly for
young Curtin, that the rest of the fleet
arrived very soon.
A soldier at Montauk Point gravely re-
lated the following incident as an illustra-
ton of the terrific heat during the summer
at Tampa. He said that the company that
| he belonged to was on the firing range
going through their regular target prac-
tice, and although every one took the
greatest possible care with his aiming
| and the company he belonged to was the
| best shooting company of the regiment
every shot missed the target. The captain
could not make it out, so he ordered the
bugler to sound cease firing" and was
walking UP to the targets to see what was
| wrong, when, about half way up the range
he saw great stream Of molten lead. The
sun was SO hot that it had melted the bull
| lets before they could reach the target.