The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-07-13

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ART IN THE FIGHT
The Brooklyn md Her Command PLAYED
the Leading Part in the Fight
at Santiago.

Correspondence of the Associated Press.)
JURAGUA, Cuba. July 4.-The following
is partial description of the battle between
the American and the Spanish warships In
these waters, and was written by the only
non-combatant who witnessed the entire
fire almost at the elbow of Commodore
Schley on the United States armored cruiser
Brooklyn:
Sunday, July 3, the fifth Sunday for the
American sQuadrons before Santiago and
the ninth weekly anniversary of the day
Of the Dewey victory at Cavte, and the
fifth Of the discovery by Commodore Schley
Of the whereabouts of Admiral Cervera' s
squadron, brought no particularly different
situation from that marking the preceding
Sundays.
The big battleships had drifted to the east
considerably and the Massachusetts, ,Othe
New Orleans and the Newark were not in
sight, the New York having taken Admiral
Sampson down to Altares, eight miles east
from the blockade. The absolutely avail
able ships in the squadron, therefore, were
only the Oregon, Texas and Brooklyn, al
though later both Capt. Evans and Capt.
Taylor fought their ships.
The Brooklyn and the Vixen were the
only ships to the west Of the entrance, the
other ships having drifted well to the east
On the bridge Navigator Hodgson, of the
Brooklyn, said sharply to the lookout,
Isn't that smoke moving?" and the look
out, after a moments inspection with the
long glass, dropped it excitedly and fairly
yelled: There's big ship coming out of
the harbor, SIR
Hodgson who is a particularly cool man.
looked once himself and then, grasping the
megaphone, shouted:
after bridge. there; tell the commodore
the enemys fleet is coming OUT
COmmOdOre SChleV WAS sitting under the
awning on the quarter deck. Going to the
bridge he said: "Raise the signal to the
fleet" and, turning to Capt. Cook, who
stood nee-. he said: "Ciear ship for ac-
place on little platform Of wood running
the outside Of the coming tower, which
had been built for him.
The men, with yell, went to their guns,
and the rapid preliminary orders were CIV
en-. Schley, glasses in hand, watched the
first ship and saw her start for the west
Still he gave no signal to fire or move. The
Oregon, with her 13-inch shells, and the
Indiana and Texas followed suit. But the
range was a long one. And the Brooklyn
waited. But down below the coal was be-
ing forced into the furnace, every boiler
being worked and every gun made
ready to fire. Schley wanted to know which
way they were all going. or whether they
would scatter. In the meantime the Ore
gon began to turn to the west and the
Texas had moved in closer and was damag-
ing the leading ship. the Infanta Maria
Teresa. They are all coming west, SIR
shouted Lieut.. Sears, and just then the
western batteries opened up.
Full speed, open fire." shouted the COM
modore. Fire deliberately and don't waste
a shot, he added; and the orderles carried
the word to the turrets. In an instant the
Brooklyn's terrific eight and tive-nch bat
terls on her port side opened and the cruis-
hea 6p6 of hn first
escaping ship, firing at and receiving the
fire from two of them
Then Commodore Schley saw that the first
ship was coming out from the shore, head
ed directly for the Brooklyn with the evil
dent intention of ramming her. A clever
manoeuvre was here accomplished. Hard
a-port with your helm," shouted Schley,
and the cruiser began to go around, the
smoke coming from her tunnels in huge
volumes. Quickly she turned and quickly
her big steel ram was pointing at the first
ship. The Infanta Maria Teresa had to
work inshore to avoid being rammed. The
shells Of the Texas and Oregon, with the
terrible storms of shell from the Brooklyn,
had done their work, and the smoke be.