The age-herald., 1898-07-13
SPANISH WRECK
 CHARNAL HOUSES Hundreds of Half Naked Bodies Lie About Their Decks. THE SHIPS ll TO PIECES |55 The Rain o.S : j About the Cruisers
 Neg e.xs $ 7 'n0IIsh'd Th'n' THE WsCAfA AND THE BROOKLYN Were About Evenly Matched and Fought
 to a Finish. FATE sTEERED CAPT. EULATES SHIP She Ran Ashore in Little Bay, and the Inhuman Cubans Shot the Sailors
 While They Were Swimming
 Towards Dry Land.
Were About Evenly Matched and Fought
 to a Finish.


Correspondence of the Associated Press.
 Santiago de Cuba, July G. via Charleston. ;. C., July l2.-The four ships and two tor- pedo boats of Spain are totally destroyed. The converted yacht Vixen took the Asso- ciated Press correspondent from the Brook lyn close into where the wrecks of Ger vera's fleet are beached and an excellent view of their damage was had. The only one not burned or blown up is the Colon, but she has rolled over almost bottom-up and the heavy surf is beating her to pieces On the Vizcaya all the guns were loaded so that when the fire got to them they would explode. The Colon is scuttled.
 The line of wrecks extend from four miles west of Santiago where torpedo boat lies to point sixty miles from Santiago to the west. where the Cristobal Colon was beached. One of the torpedo boats was blown up and shot to pieces and went down in deep water within a mile of Morro Sev- eral of her crew of fifty men escaped. The other torpedo boat was riddled with shells from the Gloucester and ran ashore at Ca- banas, two miles from Santiago harbor. She was absolutely cut in two by the rain of steel, and when she beached broke in half, her stern washing upon the reef and her bow piled upon the sandy shore. A few of her crew dropped overheard, but were killed by the surf on the reefs, and it is not believed any one escaped In two great gruesome piles lies a remnant of the terrible wage of war. Six miles west of MorIo lies the wreck of the Maria Teresa, the flagship of Cervera, and the one that received the bulk of the first fire of the American fleet.
 Fast on the Reef
 She is hard and fast on the reef. Sev- eral places where shells struck can be seen, one having raked the gun deck fore and aft killing forty men and dismantling many guns. Her magazines exploded and she is completely gutted, even her protective deck being blown out. Her guns probably are ruined by the heat.
 mile to tho west of the Marie Teresa the smoke still curling up above her, lies her sister ship, the Amirante Oquendo, her nose upon the reefs and her stern settled on tn bottom in deep water. She is equally us much of a wreck the Teresa Her military mast was shot away, her forward turret shield smashed and there are four S-inch shell holes in her port side. She is torn to pieces inside. Some of her guns look as if they might be saved, but the in- tense heat may have affected them. Over hundred half-naked bodies lie about her decks and both she and the Teresa are charnal houses.
 The vizcaya had longer. run out than her two sister ships and the general wish expressed when the war opened that the Brooklyn and the ViZcaya could fight 1t out was granted. They fought at a range of from 2OO0 to 100 yards and the Brooklyn literally riddled the Spaniard with S-inch shells. She was on fire, her decks were ripped open and her superstructure blown entirely away when she ran for shore.
 Fate steered the Vessel
 It would seem as if fate had steered this ship, for with only half her crew alive and her captain badly wounded she turned into q little bay where portion of the Cuban army lay. As she grounded the men in the ship who were alive dropped overheard and began to swim for shore. The Cubans opened fire upon them, and but for the timely interference of the Iowa and the tor pedo boat Ericsson all would have been The flag was hauled down as she went ashore. As she lies she is proba- bly, a total wreck, for she burned fiercely and all of her magazines exploded. Her nose is high on the reef. The officers saved say that she is a total wreck.
 Forty miles west of the wreck of the Vizcaya, which is seventeen miles from Santiago, lies the Cristobal Colon, which was the pride of the Spanish navy and which was believed to have been q match for anything in the American navy. AS she beached and hauled down her flag she ran with her bows toward the shore She lay in this position when she surrendered to Commodore Schley, but an hour later when the New York arrived, Admiral Sa npson ordered the Oregon to pull hsr off SD shs would not break to pieces. When she slid off she began to sink and the New York pushed her the beach, stern first.
 Struck by tho Oregon
 It was found that she had been struck astern by one of the Oregon's 13-inch shells
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