Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1898-09-16

md steam away for Manila bay. On
April 28 militia camps were formed IN
nearly every State of the Union.
Matanzas was bombarded ON April q
by Admiral Sampson with the New York,
the Cincinnati and the Puritan. Great
damage was done the Notifications. Glen
fuegos was bombarded ON April %, and
on that day, also, Admiral Cervera be-
gan the series of maneuvers ending IN the
Santiago bottle, by leaving Spanish shores
with his feet, en- route TO the Cape Verde
Islands.
The Cabanas batteries were silenced by
bombardment from the New York on
April &c. the day which brought word
from Rio Janeiro telling Of the safe and
wonderful voyage of the battleship Ore
gon on its way from San Francisco to
join Sampson's fleet
Dewey's Great Victory.
On Sunday, May 1, the first great sea
battle of the war was fought Commo-
dore George Dewey made himself Rear
Admiral Dewey and won undying glory
for the American navy by leading his fleet
into the mined harboF of Manila and, un-
der the guns OF the fort on Corregidor
Island and the heavy fortifcations defend
Ing the arsenal and navy yard, destroying
the entire Asiatic fleet Of Spain. The
Olympia was his flagship, and his remain
ing vessels were the Baltimore, the Bos-
ton and the Raleigh, protected cruisers
the Concord and Petrol, gunboats; and
the McCulloch, dispatch boat. With this
force, equal but not superior in armament
70 A No ~
land batteries are counted, he sunk, burn
ed or blew up eight Spanish cruisers, six
gunboats and three transports.
The sea victory was followed by an at
tack on the land fortifcations, which
were raZed. The arsenal at Cavite was
also captured, and before noon his guns
commanded the city of Manila. In the
engagement not one American life was
lost while in killed and drowned the Span.
ish loss has been placed between 500 and
900.
In the first week In May the definite di-
vision of the ships of the American navy
In Atlantic and Cuban waters into SQUAD.
rons and fleets was made. The fyinc
squadron, Commodore Schley in com.
mnnd, was formed at Hampton Roads
the vessels being the Brooklyn, flag
ship; the Massachusetts, the Texas, the
Columbia and the Minneapolis. Admira.
Sampson In the blockade line at Havana
had with him besides his flagship, the
New York, the battleships Iowa and In
diana, the cruisers Cincinnati and Mar
blehead, and dozen torpedo craft ant
gunboats, Matanzas was bombarded fol
second time May Z.
The first American casualties Of the wa,
were on the torpedo boat Winslow, of
Cardenas harbor. The killed were En-
sign Worth Bagley and five seamen. Tn,
Winslow attacked three Spanish gun
boats and the shore fortifcations, and il
disregard Of peril the boat was run tot
far inshore. 1t was crippled by the fir,
and the men were killed before otheI
boats could come to Its assistance. Tn,
Spanish gunboats were disabled by tn,
re-enforcements and the batteries 81
lenced.
Admiral Sampson appeared before 'Sa1
Juan, Porto Rico, on May IL, and BON
borded the forts for three hours. Morr,
was partially reduced. Sampson was II
search of Cervera's feet, known by thi.
time to have left the Cape Verde Island.
and to be we'll on the way to Cuban wat
ers for Its famous game Of hide-and-eeek
and he made no pronounced effort to re