. The chicago Record's war stories : by staff correspondents in the field ; copiously illustrated. aleigh and Boston. Their firing is inces-sant. The Spaniards are answering vigor-ously, and the dull, muffled thunder of thecannon comes with the regularity of drum beats. It is easy to trace the effects of theshells, for whenever they strike columns ofdirt and water ascend in tremendous upheav-als. The naval station is now full of burningvessels. The Spanish flag still flies from thefort, but the Spanish firing at. this hour, noon,has nearly ceased. The Reina Cristina is nowred with flames and h
. The chicago Record's war stories : by staff correspondents in the field ; copiously illustrated. aleigh and Boston. Their firing is inces-sant. The Spaniards are answering vigor-ously, and the dull, muffled thunder of thecannon comes with the regularity of drum beats. It is easy to trace the effects of theshells, for whenever they strike columns ofdirt and water ascend in tremendous upheav-als. The naval station is now full of burningvessels. The Spanish flag still flies from thefort, but the Spanish firing at. this hour, noon,has nearly ceased. The Reina Cristina is nowred with flames and heavy clouds of smokeroll up from her. A minute ago there was anexplosion on her that must have been causedby the fire reaching one of her ammunitionmagazines. She is now almost a completewreck. At 12:35 the Americans have ceased firing,and for fifteen minutes there has been only adesultory and scattering sound of guns. It isbelieved the battle is over, although a Span-ish flag still flies above a small Boston puts a shell over toward the per- THE CHICAGO RECORDS WAR STORIES W. flt&Tcflt4» MM*-- INSURGENTS CARRYING PLUNDER FROM CAVITE. sistent and aggravating bunting. The Balti-more, which has done such valiant work dur-ing this last action,has spread forth an Amer-ican No. 1 ensign, which is the largest in theservice. During the battle a Spanish mer-chantman lies over against the shore. She isthe Isle de Mindona. I saw her at Singaporethree weeks ago on her way to Manila withstores and supplies. She has no guns mountedand she lies helpless and apparently deserted,near the beach. Finally fire is opened on herand two shells are sent straight through dozens of men appear in differ-ent parts of the ship, flocking to small boatsand making all haste to reach the shore. TheConcord now steams over and the ship is seton fire. Orders are now sent out to enter the smallbay back of the arsenal and Cavite and finishthe work. The little Petrel, whose gallan
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