Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-05-12

current. The bow chaser was the gun
that proved of most service at this
moment, as the broadsiders could not
yet come into play. The bow gun,
however, did it's work well and the
second shot passed through the vessel,
piercing her side just above the water
line. 1t smashed the boiler, came out
on the other side, and exploded in the
town, half a mile away. Great volumes
of steam rose from the disabled ship,
and spars and wreckage were hurled
up in the, air. Her officers left in the
small boats to pull for the shore, and
the crew jumped overheard just as the
steamer sank from sight. At least 40
of these men lost their lives. BY this
time the Wyoming was well past the
town itself and had her work cut out
, to make way against the very power
full tide. The bark was still firing as
fast as she could serve the guns, and
the guns i'm the batteries were finding
their target. McDougal decided to
settle the bark first and then give all
his attention to the shore guns. The
bark was soon disabled and worthless.
On her way back the Wyoming drop
ped most of her shots right in the bat
teries, one Of which was completely
destroyed.
Half an hour after noon the firing
ceased, the Wyoming having fired
from so to 60 shots in all. The enemy
must have fired 130 or more shots in
the same time. The Wyoming lost five
men killed and seven wounded; she
was hulled ten times and her smoke
stack had six holes in it, her masts
were injured, and her rigging pretty
vessels sunk and had one disabled.
One battery was destroyed and many
men were killed or wounded; the
number of their casualties was never
ascertained, as in Yokohama we were
dependent on Yeddo for information,
and the reports from there were er-
ratio.
There is no doubt that McDougal
was entitled to all the glory and hon.
or he ever got for the part he played
in the opening up of Dai Nippon. Per-
haps, had the United States not been
busy attending to other matters near
er home at the time, McDougal would
have had his services more fully rec
ognized. &.
During the engagement the Wyo-
ming was under fire from three ships,
and at one time or another from eight
batteries and either one or two gun
redoubts. Before she got through she
sank two of the ships, made a lame
duck of the third, she went around and
worked off again without aid, she dis
abled at least one of the batteries and
silenced several of the others. She
carried only six guns herself, but had
opposed to her no less than 92 guns,
some of which were heavy ordnance.
When shall her glory fade?
Think, think of the wild fight she
waged!
For this little episode" the United
States collected $4,000, part of which
went to the owners of the steamship
Pembroke.
On entering the harbor of Yokohama
the following day the Wyoming was
greeted with cheers from the Conquer
or and other British war vessels. as
we'll as those of other nations then at
anchor, and Admiral Kuper made haste
to congratulate Commander McDou-
GAL Very shortly afterward, having
made good her damages, the Wyo-
ming, in compliance with orders she
had received prior to coming to
Japan at the urgent request Of the
United States minister, left the east
for hOmN waters. She had the hearty
good wishes of all who remained be-
hind, and dozens of people lined the
Bund to see her steam out. The wri-
ter, too, felt that he had lost friend
as she turned the point and sank from
sight, but there have always been
lingering memory and pleasant recol-
lections in his heart, for as kind and
good -natured a friend as ever he had
in his life in the person of David Nc
Dougal-New York Evening Star.