The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 5, 1898, Page 3

S THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, CHT GLOUCESTER SINKS TWO VESSELS 4 the .New York by James Gor- BOARD CALL - DTSSR BOAT )D, THE HERALD AT CH- GOLDEN with Admiral , off Port follow in to mu ed westward until the longer be hore vessels Commander Ricnard e 1 1 of the G lou- when she bor, was dies of emerged to the I destroyers and he | face of such tremendous odds w rbor | membered by 'One of Her " Officers | | ter wake of the Co- | along the attacking | to the guns of | econd in com- | | 1y rance of | ivid to allow him | that they w: 1 Lieutenant Wainwright { | upon them alone with his | Both destroyers and | opened on the plucky little yacht | spite m all she could do, the destroyers passed her and left her ern. | Lieutenant Wa got another | he destroyers in of m ond their cc e to the conclu- | sion that discretion was better part | i valor and turned back in the hepe | f themselves in the harbor. | however. encountered the battle wders quickly from reckoned without the Glouces- | She was waiting for them and re- | newed the zagement as soon as thcy; wit range of her small gnns.‘ | | hey replied as before, and the Glou- cester, as before, sustained their fire | without flinching. This duel between two of Spain’s most dreaded craft on one side and the converted American yacht on the other was the most thrilling feature of the en- | | tire engagement. The Gloucester was | apparer 1tly damaged by the shot poured i her by the destroyers, but with marvelous bravery she gave them shot or shot, doggedly determined to pre- vent their escape. The courage of her commander in the final rewarded. The terrible fire the destroyers slackened and a cheer went up from the Gloucester as it was seen ere on fire. Both turned their noses to the shore and crowded on o of | steam. i They had need of haste, for one of a de LIEUTENANT COMMANDER WAINWRIGHT OF THE GLOUCESTER. them blew up as her crew was plunging into the surf. The other was beached and her men scrambled ashore. Admiral Sampson with the flagship returned in time to send two shots at the déstroyers, but it was the Glouces- ter that cut off their retreat and de- feated them in fair fight. Both de- stroyers were burned on the beach. While the Gloucester was disposing of the Furor and Pluton, the Cristobal Colon, Almirante Oquendo, Infanta Maria Teresa and Vizcaya were making rate but hopeless struggle to the = i, ,,.,,, THE GUNBOAT GLOUCESTER, WHICH STOOD AGAINST THE FIRE OF NEARLY ALL OF CERVERA'S FLEET AND THE GUNS OF MORRO CASTLE AND SUNK THE FUROR AND PLUTON westwa d. Between the Vizcaya, Oquendo and Maria Teresa and the In- diana, Texas and Iowa the battle waged | furiously along the shore. | It was a running fight. Spaniards, spair, their gunnery w: of their shots went 1. The Ameri- cans, on the contrary, repeatedly hit the | inoving targets offered by the enemy. Though the | fired with the energy of de- | s poor and most | | Bursting shells set fire to the Spanish | cruisers and their commander ran them on the beach and ran up the white flag in token of surrender. | The Vizcaya touched shore about four miles from the Morro. I saw hundreds | on her forward deck, apparently afraid to leap overboard on account of the sharks. The vessel was on fire from her stem to amidships and the flames were leaping high over her deck. It seemed as though a terrific explosion would an- nounce at any moment that the fire had reached the magazine. I saw the Oquendo about a quarter of a mile west of the Vizcaya, on the | beach, wrapped in smoke and flames. I | could hear a series of dull, heavy ex plosions as the fire reached her ammu- nition, probably that intended for the secondary battery. | From this point I could also see| mighty columns of smoke rolling high above the crest of the coast range of | mountains, marking the spot where Ad- | miral Cervera’s flagship lay burning ten miles from Morro. She made the hard- est fight of any of the Spanish fleet and yielded last. Battered by the shot and shell of all the American vessels, Ad- miral Cervera was finally forced to show the white flag and run her ashore to save his crew, as she was then on fire | and sinking. He fought gallantly until | the last hope was gone. ; Admiral Sampson recognized the | | | | white flags on all the vessels as soon as they were displayed. When the Golden Rod left the har- | bor the batteries of Santiago were still firing and the shattered hulks of the Spanish fleet werg still burning on the | beach. } SPANISH DEAD LAY THREE DEEP Awful Copyrighted, 189, by the Assoolated Press. Y THE HILL NEAR EL -PASO, )RE. SANTIAGO DE CUBA, July - Port Antonio,” Jamaica, per the ociated .Press dispatch-boat Daunt- —Four batteries of artillery which placed in position this morning an the 'day by bombarding the San Juan- quarter of Santiago, and the Spanish position in front of our right. After a quarter of an hour’s shelling General Lawton’s troops, which had been reenforced, pressed forward upon the enemy’s left flank, pouring in an exc sly hot fire, which was con- tinued dur the greater part of .the afternoon. It is not intended to force the fight- ing before té-morrow, the present plan being to turn the Spanish left, taking the® whole line enfllade, and thus to obtain a speedy entrance into the up- per end of the city, fSlaugbter in the Trenches at San Juan. Admiral Sampson’s thundered at intervals all the fore- noon, and the American shells were distinctly seen to explode with tre- mendous force and loud detonations be- yond the San Juan barracks, over which numerous Red Cross flags were flying. The concentration of the American battery on what is now dubbed “Grimes’ Hill,” near our left, was the result of a blunder made last night in posting our guns so near the Spanish infantry intrenchments that they could not be properly supported. The jdea of a cross artillery fire was abandoned, but the position occupied by the bat- teries on our right was not relin- quished. The rifle firing at that point at one time was as heavy as anywhere along the line. The Spaniards kept up the volley, firing for fully an hour, but the deliberate spacing of our own shots showed that our men, as usual, were cool and effective in their work, Admiral Cervera’s fleet in the har- heavy guns bor succeeded in getting an approxi- mate range angle of our advance on the left and sent in many heavy shells, which exploded close to the intrench- ments. It was realized late yesterday that we might have hard fighting to- day in order to maintain this advanced position around the large blockhouse or so-called fgrt. Strong intrenchments were, therefre, thrown up there dur- ing the night. Thus far to-day the Spanish infantry have let those works severely alone. Near this position 200 Spanish soldiers and 62 officers were captured this morn- ing. Both these and the 2000 prisoners taken yesterday on the right marched to the rear during the forenoon. The expression on all their faces was ex- ceedingly sullen. There are many evidences of disloyal methods of warfare on the part of the Spaniards yesterday. One of their bat- teries, masked by a blockhouse over which the Red Cross flag was flying, on the road leading from General Shafter’s quarters, on the Rio Sevilla, to the front, has been for two days infested at various points by sharpshooters, who fired deliberately upon our wounded and upon our men who were enaged. It is supposed they had stolen through our lines to the right, taking refuge in the hospitals. In the trenches secured by us many shelis of explosive bullets have been found. The impression appears to be well founded that the Spanish losses, most- ly in dead, will probably amount to 3000 killed and wounded. The losses of the Spaniards are much heavier than ours. In some of the trenches the corpses lay in unbroken lines, and occa- sionally two or three deep. It was not General Shafter’s inten- tlon to attempt a general assault on the Spaniards to-day unless our bom- bardment and General Lawton’s oblique fire on our right developed an excep- tional opportunity. The mornine or- ders were to confine our principal oper- ations to the defense of the positions we have taken, and re-enforcements for the whole line were sent forth early in the forenoon. The Second Regular In- fantry was sent to the right and the Ninth Massachusetts and the Thirty- third and Thirty-fourth Michigan to the center—in all about 2000 fresh troops. The formation of the line to-day is as follows: General Lawton on the right, General Kent on the right center, General Wheeler on the left center and General Bates on the left. General Garcia's main insurgent force is thrown out to the right. General Lawton sent a message to General Shaf- ter later in the afternoon, saying he was in possession of several fine posi- tions for planting batteries to dominate both the city and the outer fortifications of the port. As the correspondent is about to leave r with this dispatch for the seacoast | heavy fighting has been resumed on our right. The sharp cracking of the | Spanish volleys alternate with the| steady, businesslike discharge of our infantry. | It is ungerstood that we have gained | there a substantial advantage, com- manding the Spanish flanks. | A German newspaper correspondent named Ring was arrested by order of | General Shafter last evening on the charge of being & spy in the pay of the | Spaniards. The safest estimate of the killed and | wounded In yesterday’s fighting places | it at nearly 1000. Fourteen men died in | the hospital last night and this morn- ing. TRAINS READY, BUT TROOPS WILL NOT MOVE NOw CHICKAMAUGA NATIONAL MIL- ITARY PARK, Ga., July 4—The rail- road companies this afternoon had all trains on the siding at Rossville and Ringgold to carry the six regiments of troops ordered to the front yesterday, and to-night the Southern .Railroad had sent a Pullman train to Rossville to get General Wilson, who was to be in command of the expedition, and his staff, who were to leave to-night for Charleston. At Rossville the trainmen received orders to return to the city, an order having been received from ‘Washington rescinding the order to move the troops. It is understood fl-om this that the department had made a | complete change of plans, and that no regiments are to be moved from this point for some time. A handsome sword was presented to General Grant by Mr. Cone of New York on behalf of the New York So- clety of the Sons of the Revolution. JULY 5, 1898. , Wwe guess notl We are not of the wait- ing ranks. Our watch- word is activity; our success due 1o energy and continual hard fight- ing—attacking the enemy by all the mod- ern rules of fair compe- tition. For the past week our establishment has been made a powerful stronghold. Each and every day saw our sol- diers reducing the huge piles of clothing, and when the shades of night erept on our store looked like a camp of disorder. The public be- sieged our headquarters in hordes, each desiring to become the possessor of one of our $7.68 sale suits, so that they could carry them away and wear them on their backs as a souvenir of the war—a memento sh in times such as these. For . a ifew weeks we felt the effects of wer. The public lacked con- fidence of the great success to be made by our country. Thispast week proved that confidence was uppermost in the minds of all; it proiv et hat money was cir- culating, for itsim- ply rolled into our cashier’s coffers. This great reduc- tion sale has\ been the means of re- ducing our tre- mendous stock. Our great re- ductions comprise suits in which are embodied quality that tells —price that sells. For the past week it has been simply play work to sell them. They are strictly asadvertised. The prices are pulled down on several ADVERTISEMENTS. mw mwmm Unseasonable Weather! Bad Crops All combine to stagnate commerce! That is if the merchant falls into the intrenchments of antiguity, expecting thereby that the clouds .of adversity will roll over and the sun of pros- perity emerge once more | owing what great bargains can be purchasea hundred All-wool Single and Double Breasted Sack Suits, made up in the latest New York {ashion—the richest, rarest and most artistically tailored garment inthe land; earlier in the season some of them sold as high as $18.00. During this sale they go *for $7.65. The finest dresser in the land cannot wear finer than the pick of these garments, forthey are -all trimmed with rich mohair serge or Farmer’s satin,and embody weaves of chev- iots,worsteds, cas- simeres, serges .and tweeds, and shades of browns, grays,slates, blues and blacks, plaids, .overplaids and pmhead checks. < i | | 0 } ) ) < ) ) ) ! ) ! ) %3 IN cunnlng specxmens repr ages from 8 to 8, and a splendid selection of Reefer Suits for boys 4 to 10; also several lines of Sailor Suits. For the larger boys—those between the ages of 9 and 18—we can please you with an assortment which -is simply grand. Notone of the suits is worth less than $8.00 and $8.80, and some of them are worth more, but during this sale they go at. the surprisingly low price of.... S. N. WOOD&CO 18 you one of perienced in all your dealings and shoppings for children’s or boy’s clothing, placing: on sale about forty different lines of Children’s ‘and Boys’ Suits, comprising about 2400 suits in all. Every single suit stylish and up-to-date and guar- anteed as to durability, reliability and workmanship. This ls What We OUR CHILDREN’S DEPARTMENT We give the most pleasing surprises ever ex- The assortment of lovely garments consists of esenting chick and style for the little tellows in $3.35 | | | | | g | : i | | Market Street. Qe T i