. The chicago Record's war stories : by staff correspondents in the field ; copiously illustrated. inutes later. Spanish sailors from all theships attempted to swim ashore, and somoof them reached the land. The majority ofthe officers, including the Spanish AdmiralCervera, were taken prisoners, together witb1,200 sailors. Six hundred of the enemy werekilled. When the fight began the New York wasbound eastward. She put about when tenmiles away and returned to the scene, al-though not in time to participate in thebattle. Admiral Sampson reached the Brook-lyn just as Commodore Schley signaled tha
. The chicago Record's war stories : by staff correspondents in the field ; copiously illustrated. inutes later. Spanish sailors from all theships attempted to swim ashore, and somoof them reached the land. The majority ofthe officers, including the Spanish AdmiralCervera, were taken prisoners, together witb1,200 sailors. Six hundred of the enemy werekilled. When the fight began the New York wasbound eastward. She put about when tenmiles away and returned to the scene, al-though not in time to participate in thebattle. Admiral Sampson reached the Brook-lyn just as Commodore Schley signaled thatthe victory had been won. and soon aftersent a dispatch boat to Guantanamo to filethe first official bulletin of the event. Earlyin the afternoon the ammunition ship Reso-lute signaled that another Spanish battleshiphad appeared, information which causedsome alarm. The fighting ships were away tothe west or in the harbor of the fleet of transports off Siboney wasunprotected. Many of them put to sea andsteered a course to the south under full 90 THE CHICAGO RECORDS WAR STORIES. SPANISH MAN-OF-WAR CRISTOBAL COLON. steam, but the excitement was allayed whenit was found that the supposed enemy wasnone other than the Austrian battleshipMaria Teresa cruising in these waters with-out hostile intent. It was the fortune of war that the Herculesshould be the only newspaper dispatch boaton the fighting line to witness the engage-ment from beginning to end, and then start with the story to a cable station before otherdispatch boats were apprised of the writing this account I fully appreciate thefact that any other correspondent in thesewaters would have taken the same chances,but it so happens that no other correspondentdid, because the Hercules was alone on thescene when the fight began and during itscontinuance. AFTER DEWEYS VICTORY. BY JOHN T. McCUTCHEON. Admiral Dewey is receiving hundreds ofletters, bales of newspaper clippings, invita-tions to Dewey days,
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