. The chicago Record's war stories : by staff correspondents in the field ; copiously illustrated. bravely from her main peak and she is stillbelching forth flashes of flame and billows two little torpedo boats start out in a desperate effort to torpedo the come on rapidly, exposed to the fire ofthe American ships, and stop and wait forthe advancing Olympia. Officers on the flag-ship afterward say that at this time the ex-citement on board is the greatest during anypart of the engagement. The Olympia keepssteaming on until within 800 yards of thetorpedo boats, and as t
. The chicago Record's war stories : by staff correspondents in the field ; copiously illustrated. bravely from her main peak and she is stillbelching forth flashes of flame and billows two little torpedo boats start out in a desperate effort to torpedo the come on rapidly, exposed to the fire ofthe American ships, and stop and wait forthe advancing Olympia. Officers on the flag-ship afterward say that at this time the ex-citement on board is the greatest during anypart of the engagement. The Olympia keepssteaming on until within 800 yards of thetorpedo boats, and as the latter show nosigns of retreating the flagship stops andsignals the fleet to concentrate their fire onthose little terrors. The hail of shell is fear-ful. Finally they turn and retreat. At thismoment a large shell strikes one of them andit is seen to dive headlong into the sea, en-tirely disappearing from view. The othersucceeds in regaining cover, but is reachedsoon after. A little while later, when the Americanfleet is at the farthest point in its circle THE CHICAGO RECORDS WAR STORIES 88. *SS&- CUTTING THE ILOILO C^BLE—MANILA BAT. of evolution, a gunboat slips out from theSpanish stronghold and starts for the Mc-Culloch, hoping evidently by this bold moveto destroy the transports. As soon as thismove is seen by Admiral Dewey the fire isimmediately directed on the gunboat, and itreturned to a safer place. During the battle there are times whenthe American vessels pass between the Span-ish forces and the McCulloch. This vesselprotecting the transports lies about twomiles from the fort and the Spanish these times the McCulloch is in directrange of the enemys fire. Shots screamthrough the rigging and fall into the waterall around her. One shot strikes about fortyfeet in front of her bow. During all this fearful cannonading Ad-miral Dewey with Flag Capt. Lambertsonstands on the bridge on the pilot house, abso-lutely exposed, while the Olympia goesthrough the storm o
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