The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-06-06


ugsh@riors flashes. ard for aEost twenty
minutes fassse# Of IRE scanned 70 leap
across tire haftror entrance. Tas flagship
Mss 800 far ss&y - hear ehs reports.
ard ~asn the firing erased Il Was Judged
that Ioanon had biswn Up ;ss 3erTsrnac.
Fer a. lo1r The anxious xagessrS waited
for daysszst Rear Admiral ssfng>onl afla
cap. Chadwick ware Ga Tia bridge O.
TIE Esw York thrggxa9gt.
Ale o'csoek tGln streams q sasoke weTe
ss~aaz sssfst tie Assfe~n aacra quite esoas
% slzz Spanish batteries asd stroag ssaases
saaae o., ms .a8ach 81 TIE ssw York r.
tasnAg 70 tAs nass2ap.
Szsze.y had TIC suaalI craft eeen sighted
aesars p,ay q smoke sszeed from bat
teryses tEs western asTn % sas hsrb<5r AID
> ss.@< plunged FAR ever tsss laeaeA- Thea
fer Gfteen usnuses sae bag gons or shore
kept ~ a. irregular fre 81 ere uttle
iassneh.
Ata Z u ~ the laeaeb came alongside
tha fsxaaip bat SIZE ald n9s have CO board
arg OF the crew hF she IsFrsuaae.
Cadet P0gee4! geE~srtsf. that be had been
uaabie 70 Sc any s.gns q the Merrlmas's
crev. IL developed tlsal. slta great orav-
cry, ans cssw had gene rsgat ga&.@r the
ha,lssies asd only EeS arnni wEasn all hope
OF saklng or board the crew Of the MGR
rlfase had 10 De abandoned.
cadst Powell aiso reported that he had
oae..f.y seea tins Ae7rinae's mast sticking
up past whare Hebaon hoped 10 sink her.
morth of the Essre5a battery and well past
tie guns Of Moro castle.
Has az the heEosss wao had penne6 the
ssssa.aEds ID Theirs VAS pot sound nor a
s.zn-
Rear Admiral Sampson sid:
Fam pretty aura the attempt was quite
suecessf0i. ! hope AL those brave fellows
are xot captured"
Cadet Powell believes the torpedoes
psspssssssy axesi aA9ais the MeEElmsc we're
exploded as Planned. as Lieut. Hobson vas
well ue the har5or bef,1re the Spaaiaris
opened Ere on tie MeFr!mac, What actual
iy Happened on the Martimao can best 10
judged from AHA, Lieut.. fIoason sad Just
befaTe leaving tie nassf,fs lie said:
II shall 60 right into the barboF untl
aboat 80 yafyls past kEga Estgeila battery
which il behiad Moro castle. l do not
thiak they can sink Us. before ! reach
somewhere near that point TIE M~sT.,Fac
bahzseven thousand buoy anCy ard / shall
keep her full speed ahead She can make
abaEff ten knots
Aaan the nsFFow est part az the channel
q reschesl / SHALL pax hef neim Hard aF0gt.
stop tbs spglnSz, drop the anchors. open
3 r-Fe
does and leave tbs. Merfiuiao 4 wreck iy-
Ing @AthHart the channel which = not 49,
hgaad "a the MeFflulac Is lang There ara
ten s.ght-inca innroSisef tQrpesIaes below
this wafer iire Oh tho MefT!mac'a port side
Trey are rlaegsa an her egao against the
Ia klesssis. and Vital spots. connected with
each Other ty wire under the sh.p Keel
kan torpedo contains esghts-tws pounds
Of xlGnpowder Eseh sus Isd1 IS also con-
neotd with tao bridge ard t,,ey should
d. HistT work ia q minute aad Il VIII bs-
ssui-N work essen Il done ia ; minute aAf
a quarter
''on deek there viii h. faur men aui
faYseig Ia the engine reon there will ba
Two other men. Fhla Is 4ha total crew.
and Mi aF Bs Viii ~ in ouw underciothlag.
With reviewers and ammunition tn water
tight packing stsappe1 around our waists
Forward 'here wili ba a man on deck.
and around hls waist viii les a lire tha
other sud ~ the Inc being made fast 10
The bridge on which I viii stand ~
that maHs side will b. al axe. Whom
| stop she engine I wiiI Jerk the cord
and will thus ssye fhe signal 20 cut the
flashing watch VIII cat tha forward anchor
Ha vii then jump overheard ard swim To
TIE f0ur Dared dlngy. which ws shalt tow
astsyn Tnn a,Day Is fall of life. buoys and
Is uDslnkable IN u ate rifles II IS TO
n~ held hy two ropes one made fast at