. The chicago Record's war stories : by staff correspondents in the field ; copiously illustrated. gleaming barrels, and with the snap ofthe lock it becomes evident that every manhas a Spaniard in his mental vision. In afew hours they will have enough of them inreality. The departure from Tampa had some pic-turesque aspects as seen from the Yucatan. The start was made on Sunday 12, but not more than a few hundredyards advance was made that day. At 5:30oclock the thirty-one transports, with theirfreight of 18,000 inen, one by one cast offthe great hawsers that moored them to thedoc
. The chicago Record's war stories : by staff correspondents in the field ; copiously illustrated. gleaming barrels, and with the snap ofthe lock it becomes evident that every manhas a Spaniard in his mental vision. In afew hours they will have enough of them inreality. The departure from Tampa had some pic-turesque aspects as seen from the Yucatan. The start was made on Sunday 12, but not more than a few hundredyards advance was made that day. At 5:30oclock the thirty-one transports, with theirfreight of 18,000 inen, one by one cast offthe great hawsers that moored them to thedocks and slowly moved out into the openwater. The regimental bands struck uptheir • liveliest airs and the men whoswarmed on the decks and clustered likebees on the ratlines cheered lustily. Th.^vwere off at last. Here was an end to theheart-sickening delays, and only a few hun-dred miles of water lay between them and aglorious fight. But after awhile the cheering stopped, forthe vessels, instead of forging ahead withblazing smokestacks, began to spread out 100 THE CHICAGO RECORDS WAR STORIES. TORPEDO BOATS FOOTE AND PORTER. through the gray haze and stop and turn andeven back. At noon they came to a deadstandstill and a strong-lunged man on thedeck of the foremost could still have suc-cessfully hailed the shore. An hours wait and the drab gunboats be-gan to bustle about, and a string of bright-hued signal flags fluttered up to the peak ofthe Seguranca, Gen. Shaffers flagship. An-swering pennons were displayed and the en-gines once more began to thump beneaththe vibrating planks and the water boiledinto white foam astern. Some of the menbegan to cheer; but one, with the wisdomborn of experience, exhorted then to savetheir breath. Lets see how far we are go-ing first, he said. It was not far. Ponderously and cau-tiously, to avoid the shoals and sand-banks, the transports by degrees formedthemselves into a long V-shaped line, thegunboat Helena at the head, and her smallersisters,
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