The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 8, 1898, Page 2

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, MAY 8, 1898 and General Lezox. These ships and the flag- ship remained under way during most of the action. With the United States flag flying at all their mastheads; our ships moved to attack in line ahead, with a speed of eight knots, first passing in front of Manila, where the action was begun by three batteries mounting guns pow- erful enough to send shells over us at a distance of five miles. The Concord’s guns bcomed out a reply to these batteries with two shots. No more were fired, because Commo- | dore Dewey could not en- with these batteries without sending death and destruction into the crowded city. ‘ ogaoe CAPTAIN D. B. HODGSON, Commander of the United States Dispatch Boat McCulloch. | ally, when shells would burst nately fell within less than 100 feet away. One fragment cut the rigging exactly over the heads of Lamberton, Reese and myself. Another struck the bridge gratings in line with if. A] third passed just under Com- modore Dewey and gouged a hole in the deck. Incidents like these were plentiful. Our men naturally chafed at being exposed withoutreturn- | ing the fire from all our guns, but laughed at the danger and chatted good humoredly. I Afew nervous fellows could not help dodging, mechanic- | right over them, or close aboard, or would strike water and pass overhead, with the peculiar spluttering roar made was also caused by a shell which burst in the port hammock netting. Both these fires were quickly put out. Another shell passed through the Boston’s foremast just in front of Cap- tain Wildes, on the bridge. After having made four runs along the Spanish line, and finding the cart incorrect, Lieutenant Calkins, the Olympia’s navigator, told the commo- dore he believed he could take the ship nearer the enemy with the lead going to watch the depth of the water. The flagship then started over the course for the fifth time, running with- in 2000 yards of the Spanish vessels. At this range even the six-pounders were effective, and the storm of shells poured upon the unfortunate Spanish began to show marked results. Three of the enemy’s vessels were seen burning and their fire slackened. On finishing this run Commodore Dewey decided to give the men break- fast, as they had been at the guns two hours with only one cup of coffee to sustain them. The action ceased temporarily at 7:35 o’clock, the other ships passing the flagship and cheering lustily. Our ships remained beyond range of the enemy’s guns until 10:50 o’clock, when the signal for close action again went up. The Baltimore had the place of honor | in the lead, with the flagship following and the other ships as before. The Baltimore began firing at the Spanish As we neared Cavite two very powerful sub- | marine mines were ex-| 5 ploded ahead of the| t flagship, This WaS at‘ f Copyright, 1898, h,\r"”J:rnos Gordon Ben- * ‘ siX minutes past 5 e; .R(STTE}';DAM, May 7.—The #*| ’ . %2 erlands Gover: has * | o’clock: " The Spaniards |+ sceet e N ciane % > b = pae s e had evidently misjudged | % peier tor Spats. * | our ;position. . Immensefse o L oo o volumes of water were thrown high in the air EAXEX X XXX XXX XX XXX 'DEWEY’'S STANCH DISPATCH BOAT * NETHERLANDS OUR FRIEND. The men stripped off by these destroyers, but‘a“ their clothing except no harm was done to their trousers. our ships. with torpedoes. knowing how on without lieved iards had only two in place. | Only a few minutes later a| shore battery at Cavite Point | As the Olympia drew near- Commodore Dewey ler to the Spanish fleet all was had fought with Farra-|as silent on board as if the gut at New Orleans and | ship had been empty, except Mobile Bay, where he | for the whirr of the blowers| had his Ffirst experience and throb of engines. Not denly a shell burst directly | many | OVer us. From the beatswain’s | more mines there might mate of the after five-inch| be ahead, he still kept €un came the hoarse cry, faltering. “Remember the Maine,” and| No other mines were the chorus arose from the;‘ exploded, and it is be- | throats of 500 men at the| that the Span-|8uns “Remember defiance and Manila, but soon the guns got | venge. I's utterances seemed un- premeditated, but the thought was evidently in every man’s mind, and now that the mo- ment had come te make ade- bet ter range and shells began | > strike near us or to burst close aboard, from both the <hore batteries and the Span- | ish vessels. Sud- | This watchword was these | caught up in the turrets and | firerooms, wherever a seaman or fireman stood at his post. the sent over the flagship a shot| Maine!” had rung out that nearly hit a battery in|fOr re- Sam’s revenue cutters. intended for kiss guns; The dispatch-boat McCulloch of Admiral Dewey of the capture of the Spanish fleet and the fall of average speed of sixteen knots, steaming into the teeth of, a violent mous The McCulloch was built at Cramps shipyard and launched in August last, and was on her maiden voyage to this port when assigned upon her arrival at Hongkong to Commodore Dewey’s fleet for service. vice on the Pacific Coast, and eventually to relieve the revenue cutter Bear in the Arctic. Her armament consists of four 6-pounder Hotch- | The dispatch-boat is 1280 tons burden and 219 feet long. | treating. nd she has a crew of sixty-two nf¥gn. quadron, now famo anila to Hongkong, thus relieving the suspense of the of- ficials at Washington, is a vessel of the gunboat type, and one of the many able vessels in the fleet of Uncle Throughout the voyage, a distance of a trifle over six hundred miles, she kept up the Her officers are all from the revenue cutter service and are: Captain D. B. Hodgsdon, commanding; First Lieutenant D. P. Foley, executive officer; Second Lieutenant W. W. Jaynes, navigator; Third Lieutenant R. Ridgeley, Third Lieutenant W. E. Arlee, Mel; (dead), Chief Engineer F. Randall; Assistant Engineers Maccoun, William Meyers and H. Shoenborn. us in having carried the official news on for nearly one-half the voyage. She was | Third . Lieutenant John quate reply to the murder of the Maine’s crew every man shouted what was in his heart. 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Captain Gridley was in the conning tower, as it was thought unsafe to risk losing all the senior officers | by cne shell. “You may fire when ready, Gridley,” said the commo- dore, and at 41 minutes past 5 o’clock, at a distance of gooo yards, the starboard 8-inch gun in the forward turret roared forth its compliment to the Spanish fortifications. Presently similar guns from the Baltimore and the Boston sent 250-pound shells hurtling toward the Castilla and the Reina Cristina the accuracy cf the aim being marvelous. The Spaniards seemed en- couraged by this fire to fight faster, knowing exactly our distance, while we had to guess theirs. Their ship and shore guns were making things hot for us. The pierc- ing scream of shot was varied often by the bursting of time- fuse shells, fragments of which would lash the water like shrapnel, or cut our huil and rigging. One large shell that was coming straight at the Olym- pia’s forward bridge fortu- TP 0444040000000 0 4000000044000+ 4404000404+ 0000000000000040 by atumbling rifled projectile. Still the flagship steered for | the center of the Spanish line, and as our other ships were astern, the Olympia received most of the Spaniard’s atten- tion. Owing to our deep draught Commodore Dewey | felt constrained to change his course at a distance of 4000 yards and run parallel to the Spanish column. “Open with all the guns,” he said, and the | ship brought her port| broadside bearing. The roar of all the flagship’s five-inch rapid - firers was followed by the deep diapason of her turret eight-inchers. Soon our other vessels were equally hard at work, and we could see that our shells were making Cavite harbor hotter for the Spaniards than they had made the approach for us. Protected by their shore batter es, and made safe from close attack by shallow water, the Spaniards were in a strong position. They put up a gal- lant fight. The Spanish ships were sailing back and forth behind Castilla and their fire was hot. One shot struck the Baltimore and passed clean through her, fortunately hitting no one. Another ripped up her main deck, disabled the six-inch gun and ex- ploded a box of three-pounder ammu- nition, wounding eight men. The Olympia was struck abreast the gun in the wardroom by a shell which burst outside, doing little damage. The signal halyards were cut from Lieutenant Brumby's hand on the af- ter-bridge. 5 A shell entered the Boston's port quarter and burst in Ensign Dodridge’s ships and batteries at 11:16 o’clock, making a series of hits as if at target practice. The Spaniards replied very slowly, and the commodore signaled the Ra- leigh, Boston, Concord and Petrel to| go into the inner harbor and destroy all the enemy’s ships. By her light draught the little Petrel was enablea to move within 1000 yards. Here, firing swiftly but accurately, she commanded every-| thing still flying the Spanish flag. The other ships were also doing their | whole duty and sbon not one red and | yellow ensign remained aloft exc:pt on | a battery up the coast. The Spanish flagship and tha Castilla had long been burning fiercely and the last vessel to be abandoned was the Don Antonio de Ulloa, which lurched over and sank. Then the Spanish flag on the arsenal staff was shelled down and at 12:30 o'clock a white flag was hoisted there. A signal was made to the Petrel to destroy all the vessels in the inner har- bor, and Lieutenant Hughes, with an armed boat’'s crew, set fire to the Don | Juan de Austria, the Mcrquis Duero, | the Isla de Cuba and the Correo. The large transport Manila and many tugboats and small craft Zell into our hands. “Capture or dest-~v the Spanish squadron,” were Dewey’s orders. Never were instructions more effectually car- ried out. Within seven hours after ar- riving on the scene of action nothing remained to be done. The following wounded, all on the Baltimore: Lieutenant F. W. Kellogg. Ensign N. E. Irwin. Enlisted men: Barlow, Budinger, Covert, O’Keefe, Ricciardelli and Snel- grove. They were wounded during the first engagement. d‘wfl{ L dtoaCony. HERALD-CALL CABLE READ TO THE PRESIDENT | NEW YORK, May 7.—.. Washington special to .he Herald says: “This is| the most satisfactory and complete re- | port we have yet had from any source.” | This is the obs-rvation of President | McKinley to-night after carefully read- | ing with earnest attention every line | of the Herald’'s cable from its special | correspondent on board the flagship | Olympia, graphically and -.telligently describing the greatest n.val battle of modern history. a President McKinley was in the Cabi- net room conferring with Colonel Hast- ings of Pennsylvania and Colonel Her- rick of Ohio when the text of the Her- ald’s important cable was shown to him. It was read aloud Ly Secretary Porter. President McKinley and his visitors listened with almost breathless atten- tion to every word of the message, all those present manifesting the great pleasure and satisfaction they derived from the Herald’s news. President McKinley was aware that | servers as clearly disclosing the utter | | all the latest appliances of destructive | said and he had been anxiously awaiting his description of the battle for several days. He had expected from the first to receive the most full and authentic | information through the Herald, and the zemarks he -cde after hearing read the report to-night showed that he was not disappointed. The Herald’s dispatch wassent to him in installments and after reading the first portion he eagerly requested that the remainder be sent as quickly as possible. The President and his callers spent considerable time in discussing the great victory of Commodore Dewey, as described by the Herald’s special cor- respondent, and they were au warm in their praise of the naval commanders and men who participated in the great battle and of the Herald's correspond- ent, who had so graphically described the important event. DECLARED WITHOUT PARALLEL IN HISTORY WASHINGTON, May 7.—The re- markable disparity between the casual- ties on the American and Spanish ships, as shown by Dewey’s reports, was a source of special comment, and the military attaches of one of the embassies said such a disparity was without parallel in history. How the Spaniards could have lost 150 killed and 250 wounded, while the American loss was confined to a few men slightly injured, is regarded by the foreign ob- worthlessness of Spanish arms. The Embassador of one of the great pow- ers said it showed that the guns of the Spanish forts, as well as those on their ships, were worthless, otherwise they would have inflicted at least some mor- tality upon the American sailors. “It recalls Solferino,” said one. “At that time France and Austria were at war, but the range of the French guns was longer than that of the Austrians. That brought them together on unequal terms, and the simple difference in the length of the range of the French guns determined the outcome of that battle. So it was with Dewey. He not only | had the guns, but they had the mod- | ern strength and destructiveness, while the Spanish guns were antiquated and guns only in name. It serves to show that in the warfare of to-day a na- tion must have weapons of the most modern pattern, else it is at a terrible | disadvantage, and its men are practi- cally at the mercy of an enemy having warfare. It is the lesson of Solferino ;wer again and this time Spain learns Admiral Dewey cut the cable himself, | and though he offers no explanation for | doing so, it is believed his purpose was not only to prevent the Spanish Gov- ernor-General from communicating with his own Government, but also to prevent the foreign Consuls at Manila from interfering with his plans by cab- | ling protests to their governments. He made it impossible for them to sum- mon any war vessels to enforce the protests they were expected to make against the siege of Manila. PANAY TAKEN BY SPANIARDS. MADRID, May 7.—An official dis- patch received here by way of Labuan, an island and British colony six miles from the coast of Borneo, says the Spaniards have captured the island of Panay, cne of the Philippine group, which is said to have been the head- quarters of the insurrection against the Government of Spain. Panay, it is al- leged, was defended by 4000 insurgents, and it is said 172 of them were killed on the spot. while 500 others are re- ported to have been killed‘whfle re- The Sparnish official says that only | two Spanish officers and seventy-two | soldiers were wounded, while Panay is to have been practically de- | stroyed. | According to the Spanish official the Spanish military operations at Panay are looked upon as being ‘‘most import- ant for the pacification of the islands.” poamiin it | SPAIN'S RECOURSF | IS POINTED 0T/ | PARIS, May 7.—The Temps this aft- | erncon, commenting upon the situa-| tion in Spain, says: “When the mo- ment comes, and it cannot be far dis- tant, Spain must manfully make up ! her mind to inevitably sacrifice and seek directly through the United | States or by recourse to the good of- fices of the powers a solution of her troubles compatible with her hon r as well as conformable with the laws of | destiny.” Death of Engineer Randall. 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