. The chicago Record's war stories : by staff correspondents in the field ; copiously illustrated. metime. She opened fire on the cruisers amid ashower of shells from the Spanish fleet andland batteries. The cruisers ran away fromher to the westward and she turned herguns on the two remaining torpedo Spanish cruisers were overtaken by ourships, consisting of the flagship Brooklyn,battleships Iowa, Texas, Oregon and Indi-ana, which engaged them in battle, whilethe Gloucester took on the torpedo got a position between the two and inthirty minutes had them destroyed, drivingon
. The chicago Record's war stories : by staff correspondents in the field ; copiously illustrated. metime. She opened fire on the cruisers amid ashower of shells from the Spanish fleet andland batteries. The cruisers ran away fromher to the westward and she turned herguns on the two remaining torpedo Spanish cruisers were overtaken by ourships, consisting of the flagship Brooklyn,battleships Iowa, Texas, Oregon and Indi-ana, which engaged them in battle, whilethe Gloucester took on the torpedo got a position between the two and inthirty minutes had them destroyed, drivingone ashore and the other surrendering, thisblowing up about 10:30 a. m. The Spaniard?were steaming to the westward at full speed,firing all the time, with our ships in fullpursuit, they firing broadsides at short retreating enemy was cut off by theIowa, hemmed in on all sides by our shipsand destroyed by heavy firing. Endeavor-ing to escape and keep from sinking, theSpaniards ran their ships ashore, boilers andmagazines exploding from the fierce fire 248 THE CHICAGO RECORDS WAR STORIES. SHIPS COMPANY, THE CHICAGO RECORDS DISPATCH BOAT HERCULES. which was raging in the after quarters. At11:30 a. m. the Vizcaya exploded. At 12 Oquendo did the same. At 12:30 theCristobal Colon was out of it, and thus endeda glorious victory for Commodore New York did not take part in the fightuntil after the Spaniards had only fired two shells during the time, andthey were at the torpedo boats which theGloucester had conquered. We lay close inand saw the whole fight, being the onlynewspaper boat on the firing line. We werethreatened by shells from the battery west ofSantiago and had several narrow escapes. At12:45 p. m. we were signaled by the ammuni-tion boat Resolute, saying we should followher, as there was a Spanish ship after thetransports. We did so and came up with theIndiana, which proceeded to investigate, andfound that it was an Austrian battleshi
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