The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-05-27

the middle OF the CHINA Sea. when suddenly
heave and She was on the rocks Of a point that
ran far out from the shore. but that no one had
sincs ahead fuli speed but they COULDN'T push
her across the reef. Then, the other direction
was tried, but they. couldn't pull her back,
They tried one ahead and one astern. but they
couldn't twist her free. Then they began firing
rockets to attract the Marietta. Footing was
rather unstable on the paragun about thls tine.
that came In lifted the gnnboat and smashed
her down on the rocks WITH What seemed TO
Va landlubbers 10 be- fearful violence.
Althouse had jumped out at the first touch
and was doing everything that could I've done.
The men who had been asleep on The deck
and were getting into their work with n Will
II was an old experience for some Of them.
s sSr rhf raassu" once nSs P In hiS Ss rsTAI CIR %t " sRs
came bowling in beside the Oregon and piled
up on a reef, that was IN swinging distance
Of the battlrship as she lay. at anchor They
say Capt. wilde got M anchor on the instant
without waiting TO find out how the gunboat
Jared and steamed 5000 miles to sea In a
straight line without stopping for breath.
The Marietta was so far away that her reply
10 the Paragua's rockets could not be seen,
the ArdoIs lights, but the gunhoat was pound.
ing about SO that II was impossible TO read the
signals, The l-ponnder gun was fred a few
with the steam whistle. using the regular code
in combinations OF long and short toots. sound
ipss taken all a6on, the Eun6ost showed tina,
Wv, WIS '"F' W "N"''F - "'N'' 49, y
kedge was taken out astern, and the boats
were cleared away from the weather side and
got around under the lee of the vessel EN-
animation showed that no leak had developed
and the ship was standing the pounding without
apparent damage. There was no excitement
or confusion on board and the men ioked with
one another a. they worked. She had struck
n few minutes after high slack, and the reced-
ing tide left her more and more helpless Be
sides, the heavy surf had thrown her consid-
erably further in toward the beach. The star
board iore-riggine parted. bur preventers Were,
worked on quickly and they held. In spite OF
all the pounding there was more water on deck
than below, for the big combers broke over
her with a loud smash very frequently,
Carlos. the Captains cabin boy. came down
in the cabin to see how things We're going and
found them going in many objections. \
bottle Of fine old navy sherry" had been stand,
ing on the sideboard, but the pitching about OF
The ship had thrown II TO the floor and II had
been smashed into hide piece with loss Of the
nothing about the preditament. Of The ship.
but the loss OF The liquor moved iini 10 pro
found grief Que ASTHMA Que ASTHMA he
exclaimed As he gathered up the fragments;
Finally a whaleboat came over from ne
Marietta with Ensign Graeme To. see what
was the situation and what could be done
II was a PLAIN case of wait for the morning
tide The Sunboat was "a no immediate peril,
If In fact there was any danger of serious dam
age. So the whalohoat went, back and took
the three landluhberS oul of the way. We got
10 the Marietta Just In tine TO see the lights
% IA steamer coming up When she saw the
Marietta she turned around and began 10 run
away as fast a she could. The warship had
been trying 20 hail her before. but now she fred
a gun An untntelliglble howl went M on
the stranger. Another gun was fred aud from
far across the water cane a faint hail. ',Bolinaos
tres dias de Manila" Then came a chorus OF
American voices shoHuns all together; -Rs,
board" The Marietta had drawn. closer in
by now, for the attempt al flight had, ended
very suddenly with the ilrSt gun and CAPT;
the Bolinao II she tried TO move An right,
roared the, leather lunged American; we'll
T VA Mari hpd ' bsard Odd tb ThG ibd s9s .a Ga'' that ,TG the
first shot had gone through the open cargo ports
and the second had whistled through the rig
ging, They wouldn't believe it when told
Gen. Bates ordered the Bolinao to stand by
until. morning to be Of what assistance she
When the tide was right. about Q o'clock, the
Bolinao went close 70 the parasua and passed
two line; 70 her Then The Marietta passed
asix-inch Ma Mia hawser and a steel hawser to
the Bolinao and they both heayed. Before
the Marietta had eyertcd her fun power the
lines between the Bolinao and Paragma parted.
The Venus anne along back from Manb,lao
and got out two lines. hut ny the time she had
made one fast To the paragpa the tide had gone
Then Gen. Bates transferred to the Venus with
his staff and We all came on down 10 San Miguel
Bay. for he was ANXIOUS 70 get w 70 Nusya
next morning the Marietta lot the Bolinao go
and went In close To IN. Paragua, with an anchor
out to prevent going on the rocks herself, Then
the Pnrasua heaved on the line to her hedge
and with a seven-inch and an eight-inch new
Manila hawser to the Marietta they went at It.
skipper Of the Venus had said Me would II he
ever got n chance 70 put the. power of his ship
G in,o 's S,n linz Tigue Pm Rhv r ya.,e1asv 'a af,srn sisam 1nSS
anchored near the Athenlan, They got n most
hearty welcome. The Paragla had suffered
| almost no damage, and the examination 81 her
three months without going 10 Cavite for re-
pairs. There. werc several rather good-s'7ed
-. T.. 81. hall l"N So lEAAla Low. III
see just what the rounding had done The re-
snlt shows one of he adyantases Of soft iron for
she would have been hurt badly,
While all this running around about Nueva
Caceres and Daet had been going on there had
been the liveliest kind Of work inthe bay. Tho
task of unloading the two big transports
bav was 80 rough that the smaller steamers.
Mon'ares md Castallano. which alone were able
10 90 MP tn. river, could not lie alongside the
big transports, so they all moved clear across
10 the extreme southeast corner Of the hav.
where there was protection from the monsoon
and the water was always comparatively
DAYS this could be managed by means Of, the
lEsa g towing IN i : n" and ana, was s 9oa ,n az 9. a m M
on the. Athenian, There were nearly 900 Of
these al told, with wagons and rack OUTFITS and
| mud as the mon had gone through. After con-
siderable search a sandy beach was found near
the northwest corner Of the bay BEYOND II
the road To rIbmanan was something fearful
70 contemplate. But that was the onlvplaCe
that would serve and 50 II was used.
4 huge catamaran was constructed out of
the two lorchas brought w from Guhat About
fifty horses. mules md ponies were transferred
from the Athcnian 70 tho Castellano. which
went in IA close 10 the sand beach as possible
and anchored. Then a long line was led ashore
through the surf and made fast Four or
five animals were driven and hauled onto the
and II was sent through tho surf
on the line When II struck the beach the
animals were pushed on and made TO wade
or swim the rest of the wav. Some NJ the
horses we're made 10 swim all the wav in from
the Castnllano and one Of them took a notion
IN 90 70 sea on his own hook II took all the
spare small boats and n native canoe Impressed
into the service two hours TO get that, horse
10 change his mind. but II was done finally and
he was got on land safe. While This was going
on the Montanes would load N ono NJ the ships
with rations and other supplies and 60 NJ the
river 10 town, There all the stuff was piled
M Unfortunately ms quickly az possible
and the ship came back for another load BY
the fastest kind Of work one load was delv-
cred az Nripva Caceres every other dav. When
all the animals had been unloaded on the beach
il was found that the Castellano could also
go IN the river. But there was only one pilot
and the channel was So narrow ard tortious
that II was unsafe 70 try n without p pilot
They made the pilot do double duty after a
while and 40 got along considerably faster,
He would take M one ship and bring down
another on the same tide By the time We got
back from the Daet trip all the stores had been
unloaded from tho big transports. The Tar
tar had gone back to Manila and there was