Identifier: americanspanishw00norw (find matches)
Title: The American-Spanish war;
Year: 1899 (1890s)
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Subjects: Spanish-American War, 1898
Publisher: Norwich, Conn., C. C. Haskell & son
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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n under way from Siboney at thebeginning of the fight. At first she could make only eightknots, having only a fraction of her boiler power in use, but shegradually increased her speed and was coming up slowly astern.The torpedo-boat Ericsson had also gotten under way at thebeginning of the fight and ran up in time to overhaul easilyall the ships; she stopped to assist the loiva in picking upthe men of the Vizcaya after that ship had been beached. Theaction began at a range, forthe7>;ir(^i-, of about 4,500 yards. At9:45, the range given out on the Texas was 3,200 yards. Shortlyafterwards, a range of 2,600 yards was given out. This wasthe last range given. The perpendicular distance between the enemys columnand our own column was about 2,200 yards; this was becausewe were firing at the enemy forward of the beam. The Oregon passed the Texas, and running ahead, engagedthe two leading vessels of the enemy with the Brooklyn. TheTexas and Iowa devoted themselves to the last two vessels of
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THE STORY OF THE TEXAS. 151 the enemy. The destroyers received the concentrated fire ofthe secondary batteries of the Texas, Oregon, loiva, Lidianaand Gloucester. The fire directed on these two, the Pbitoii andFuror, was something terrible ; the water around them fairlyfoamed from the rain of rapid-fire shells that struck near them.A big shell—whether from one of the 12-inch guns of the lozvathat was fired at one of the boats or from the after 6-inch gunof the Texas, that was also fired at one of the boats, no oneknows—struck one of the destroyers, cutting her nearly intwo. The other boat was cut to pieces by shell. The Glouces-ter followed the destroyers closely, though she was exposedto the fire of the larger vessels of the enemy that were in therear. About 10:15, the two leading vessels of the enemy were aboutone and a half miles west of the mouth of Cabanas Bay. Un-til ten oclock the order of the enemys vessels was as follows:1st, Maria Teresa; 2nd, Vizcaya ; 3rd, Colon; 4th,

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