. The chicago Record's war stories : by staff correspondents in the field ; copiously illustrated. he would have sunkthe ship, and when the officer, tremblingand frightened, left the Olympia he real-ized what Aguinaldo has long since foundout—that it is not wise to fool with Ad-miral Dewey. It had been a matter of common gossipthat several of the insurgents had madethe boast that 200 men with machetes couldcapture the Olympia if taken adviiral probably didnt intend to sinkthe Filipinas, but it furnished an objectlesson which will be rated at least an in-teresting experience in the
. The chicago Record's war stories : by staff correspondents in the field ; copiously illustrated. he would have sunkthe ship, and when the officer, tremblingand frightened, left the Olympia he real-ized what Aguinaldo has long since foundout—that it is not wise to fool with Ad-miral Dewey. It had been a matter of common gossipthat several of the insurgents had madethe boast that 200 men with machetes couldcapture the Olympia if taken adviiral probably didnt intend to sinkthe Filipinas, but it furnished an objectlesson which will be rated at least an in-teresting experience in the future historicalreminiscences of one insurgent officer. At 8:30 oclock the following morning—Aug. 13—Admiral Dewey, Flag LieutenantBrumby, Ensign Scott, the aids and signalboys took their places on the after bridgeof the Olympia. Capt. Lamberton, Navi-gator Calkins, Lieut. Rees, Ensigns Butlerand Cavanagh took their places on the for-ward bridge. The awnings were again takendown and stored away. Chief EngineerEntwistle, who has predicted with prophetic THE CHICAGO RECORDS WAR STORIES m. //FCuTcHEorJ CAV/7F ,_ yJUKE/ WHERE THE SPANISH BURIED THEIR DEAD DURING THE SIEGE OF THE CHURCHOP THE MAGDALEN. CAVITE. certainty everything that has the fleet left Hongkong, stated thatthere would be about an hour and a halfof firing and the city would Merritt, on the Zafiro, with company F of the 2d Oregon volun-teers as his personal escort, got under waysoon after 8 oclock and was closely followedby the Kwonghoi, with nine companies ofthe 1st Oregon, under Col. Summers. At 9 oclock sharp the Olympias enginesbegan to throb, and as the flagship movedslowly forward the knotted balls of buntingthat clung close to the topmost mastheadand peak of all the ships were broken outand the national ensign burst forth in allthe radiance of new and virgin color. The Charleston, which had ben lying nearMalate for several days, steamed slowly overand joined th
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