The Alaska citizen., 1911-04-24
TEXAS IS SUNK BY
 NEW EXPLOSIVES
6ATTlESHlP GOES DOWN AFTER BEING HIT BY 50 PROJECTiLeS
 OF NEW TAPESTRIES GUNS

OF NEW HAMPsHlRE's GUNS
 FORT MONROE. Va, March 21- tOn board the United States tor pedo boat Stringham. Lower Chesa- peake Bay, March 21)-A terrific detOnation, a grinding and tearing of steel and the old battleship Tex as. a hero of Santiago bay, listed to port and sank in 2 feet of water.
 The once gallant fighting ship of he old North Atlantic squadron onight rests on shoal off Tan eier island with gaping holes in her port side from bow to stern, a wreck of her former self.
 The old vessel ien after a rain f eight and twclye-inch projectiles from the guns of 2 younger sister, hc battl,ship New Hampshire. The tcXas went down after a spectacular display of craftsmanship by the men and guns of the new navy.
 The end came only after more han 6o O. the big projcctiles of the New Hampshire's guns had found a .b4EliIG III Ter OUNCES or llON tu .heir way through her hull
 More than two-thirds of the shots fired al the Texas were deflected ay the heavy armor without injury 10 either.
 1T was the high explosive pro. Iectilp the projectile loaded with explosive D." the invention of Colonel Beverly Dunn, of the ord nance corps of he army. which i'd he most damage, One of these -I.il. p.uAed great hole ill the =htp'- port bow and exploded. The living pieces Of steel from the pro tac,ile played havoc with the inter ior of rhe ship,
 What lhc actual damage to the vessel was could not he learned to- night. as only few officers of the nary. including Secretary Meyer, ku,&. and 'he refuse to tell.
 Alter more than 6o shots had been fired the Texas was seen 10 be atire in some of the cabins. The fire Was soon eX:inguished by streams os water from naval tugs at hand.
 The broadsides from the New Hampshire were fired from ranges If from 5000 10 12,o00 yards, and consisted of salvos of four eight inch guns and four twelve-inch guns.
 On both sides of the smokestack were stretched large sheets of can vas, which served to bring the out lines of the ship more prominently auder the eyes of the gunners on the New Hampshire After the first three shots from the New Hampshire the canvas was in rags. which naval officers say is only further proof of what they could do in time of war,
 The way the gunners shot away the canvas caused smiles to spread over 10000 faces that lined the decks of fourteen other American warships gathered to witness the unusual event.
 The Texas was stripped of every hing of value on her decks, except her two 12-inch guns amidships. The canvas was supposed to represent a real ship, with all of her equip ment in place on deck.
 inc HiSl SHtll that Sli uIh NhS Texas apparently knocked the old ship 20 feet nearer shore, and at a distance of five miles the water around, as seen through powerful glasses, was white with foam, show ing the terrific speed at which the old ship must have been sent reel ing when the big shell from the New Hampshire crashed into hel port bow. But the old ship righted herself and was apparently nc worse off than before the death dealing missiles struck her sides with such telling force.
 The Texas had always been known in the navy as the "Hoodoo' ship owing to the number of accidents that happened to her or in which she was concerned. During the bat tie off Santiago, during the Spanish American war, she was hit more than any other American ship Since changing her name to the San Marcos she has been stationed at Norfolk as a coast defense ship being obsolete so far as ship o1 he line is concerned.