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At a signal the battleship Iowa fired the first shot, which took effect. Then the battleship Indiana opened fire; in a few minutes Morro fort was reduced to a heap of ruins. The fort made little effort to respond and was silenced almost immediately. The Spanish steam Rita was captured by the United States auxiliary cruiser Yale, which took her crew on board. Thousands of the population and the foreign consuls have sought refuge in the interior of the island. Key West, May 12.?When the United States gunboat Hudson came up to the government dock at 8 o'clock this morning, the bodies of five dead men were lying on her after deck. They were the remains of Ensign W. Bagley and four membeis of the crew of the torpedo boat Winalmr. who were killed in au engage men in Cardenas harbor yesterday afternoon. The bodies were covered by the stars and stripes. In the cabin of the Hudson was Capt. Jno. B. Bernadou, of the Win slow, who is slightly injured in the left leg, aDd several others of the Winslow's orew, who are slightly wounded. The dead are: Ensign Worth Bagley, John Yarvels, oiler: Josiah Tunnett, cabin cook; J. V. Meek?, fireman: and J. Daniel, fireman. The engagement took place inside the harbor of Cardenas. The gunboat Wilmington, the torpedo boat Winslow and the gunboat Hudson were the only vessels engaged. They entered the harbor for the purpose of attacking some Spanish gunboats which were kuown to be there. These latter, however, were not discovered by the Americon force until the Spaniards opened fire. The lsnd batteries of Cardenas supported the fire of the Spanish gunboats. The engagement commenced at 2:05 p m , and lasted for about an hour. R. F. Cos, gunner's mate: D. Mc; Leon, quartermaster: J. H. Patter J son, fireman: F. Gray and Lieut. J. B. Bernadou. All are slightly wounded except Patterson, whose condition is serious. The battle while it la-ted was terrific, The Wilmington and the Hudson were ahead and opened fire on the Spanish boats, which were lying at the docks, they being at a range of 3,50d yards. A few minutes later the Win slow came up and also opened fire. In au iustant the entire attention of the Spanish gun boats and land batteries was directed upon her. From all sides shot and shell seemed to pour in upon the little torpedo boat. The Wilmington and the Hudsor still kept up their fire bat they could not turn aside the terrible storm oi fire and death pouring in upon the torpedo boat. The crew of the Winslow, however never faltered for a second. At 2:3' p. m , a solid shot crashed into tb< hull of the Winslow and knocked ou her boiler. In an instant she begai I t) roll and drift helplessly. Thei ! there was a moment of awful sus ! pense. A fierce cheer of triumpl | went up from the Spaniards oil tbi gunboats and in the batteries, ac( again a storm of fire was opened uj on the helpless boat. The Hudson, which was Ivin; near by, started to the assistance o TXT. ZE3T. Soliots a Share of ICHTS! t I' I iilleil and One Boat I Damaged. I j SW mi WRECKING IFICATIOXS! , r II , j1 : the Window. She ran alongside and ; | the torpedo boat tried to throw a ( line to the imperilled crew. j ( Up to this time, with the exception j ' ! of the one shot, which disabled the I hnilpr of the Winslow. the firinc of ! | the Spanish gunboats had been wild, I , | but as the Winslow lay rolling in the I ( j water, the range grew closer and j j j shells begau to explode all about ? i her. It was difficult for the Hudson j j to get near enough to throw a line ( | to the Winslow *s crew so terrible . : was the fire all about her. < Finally, after trying for about 20 ! minutes, the Hudson approached ( near enough to throw a line. ] ! Ensign Bagley and six men were ] 1 standing in a group on the deck of ( | the Winslow. "Heave hei! Heave i I hei!" shouted Bagley as he looked i toward the commander of the Hud- ( sou and called for a line. i "Don't miss it," shouted an cfflcer t from the Hudson, and with a smile f | Bagley called back: ? I lior T:' j frtfjirrr j hot here for comfort." i f The line was thrown and at the same instant a shell burst in the I very midst of the group of men on t board the Winslow. t Bagl^y was instantly killed and a z few others dropped about him. Half j a dozen more fell groaniDg on the ? ! blood-strained deck. One of the i ! dead men pitched over the side of c | the boat; but his feet caught iu the ? j iron rail and he was hauled back. < j Bagley lay stretched on the deck, t i with his face completely torn away 1 | and the upper part of his body 1 ! shattered. It was a terrible moment, i : The torpedo boat, disabled and help- i I less, rolled and swayed under the 1 ; fa y of the fire from the Spanish 1 : gunboats. "When the shell burst in i I the groupe on board the Winslow < i another wild shout of triumph went ! up from the Spanish boats and bat\ tcries and agaiu a heavy fire was j ' opened on the torpedo boat. Finally | j . I the Hudson succeeded in getting a j i line on board the Winslow and was | towing her out of the deadly range, j when the line parted, and again both boats were at he mercy of the Spanish fire. At 3:50 p. m. the Hudson ! managed to get another line on the i deck of the Winslow, but there were j ODly three men left theie at that j 1 time to make it fast. The line was ! ** ' 1 finally secured and the Winslow was ! 1 towed up to Pedres Island, where j ( she was anchored, with her dead and 1 ^ . wounded on her decks. Then some j ' ! men from the Hudson went onboaid 1 , | the Winslow and took the most se- 1 , : riously wounded oft'. T ree who ( , ' were taken on board the gunboat 1 Maebias died there shortly afterward. > At 9:15 p. m., yesterday, the Hud- ! I j son. with the dead bodies and some i ! i | i ,!(f the wcuuded staited for Key j Wts\ arriving here at 8 o'clock this j [ maruiog. (' unmander Bernadou of j 1 ^ | the Wiuslow was wounded in the j i > left leg, but not seriously. Lieut, i : ! ^ J j Bernadou, with the surgeon bending ; | over him, told the story of the battle j j | to the representative of the Associ- ! t ated Press as calmly as if talking of j , the weatbu*. He began: "We went ! ? under full speed to attack the Span- i hh beats in the harbor and you know - the result. We went 'under orders ' i , i from the commander of the WilmiDg- | 3 I [. ' ton. Our boat is badly damaged, j , but she will be brought here for re- j 1 | O 5 pairs, and I think she will be ready i | for seivice again in two weeks." | Continuing, the lieutenant said: i "The Winslow was the worst injured I and had five of her meu kilied and I ) don't know how many injured We were ordered to attack the Spanish t gunboats at Cardenas. We steamed f ! in under a full head and were fired . iL/ronsrc^TOis: Vom* A "Pnfrnii JL \ / 1 I JL T (II IIV \ 1. JL V A \/A J upon as soon as \vc were in range. The Spanish boats were tied up at the docks aod bad a fair range on us. Tbe batteries on shore also opened on us and I think we received most of the tire. I do not know whether any one was hurt on the Wilmington ocmn tbe Hudson, but I think not. "I have no fault to find with the Winslow's erew. They acted nobly all the way through. The men who were killed all fell at the same time. We were standing in a group and the aim of the Spanish was perfect. A shell burst in our very faces." The dead and wounded brought here by the Hudson were taken in small boats to the government dock This was the first news of the en gagement to leach Key West. Xo time was lost in mini-taring to the wounded. A quick call was sent to the marine hosji aland an ambulance came clatteiing down to the dock. The dead were taken *to an undertaker's shop and the wounded were conveyed to the hospital. In tbe meantime the news had spread and crowds gathered about the dock, but there was no sort of a demonstration. Ike success of the American ships in every action thus far has been so j overwhelming that it is hard to re- i alize that death has at last come to some of our men. Ensign Bagley was about 20 years old and while the fleet was stationed aero he was one of the most popular j nen in the service. The news of his ! leath came a3 a terrible shock to all j Evho knew him. It has always been a foregone con dusion that the torpedo boat men j .vould be among the first to fall, as iheir work is most dangerous, but, in >pite of this, when the fleet was stationed here and changes and assignments were frequently made, all ,he young men of the service were ' ?ager for torpedo boat duty. The Hudson shows the effect of he fight. Her smokestack is purcured with bullet holes and her cabin tnd decks are smashed and splintered. The "NVinslow's dead were taken to in undertaking establishment in a ougk wagon still covered by the dars and stripes. The rude conveymce was followed by an immense :rowd and all day long the doors of he shop were surrounded by a arge gathering. Naval officers, ma ines and sailors came there to look ipon the faces of their dead comades. Some of the bodies showed 'eaful wounds. Ensign Bagley was iterally torn to pieces. His body -vill be embalmed and shipped home, j Dliver Ververes had his throat cut i )peu by a sharp piece of the shell, | which apparently severed his wind- j npe as if slashed with aiizor. Eire- : nan Daniels had his left shoulder i ipped up and the right side of his j dead torn open. The body of Tun aell, the colored cook, shows no ; vounds. Eireman TTeeks was hurt i n the groin. No orders for the dis- j position af the bodies have yet been ssued. They lie near their coffins | 3ow and will be taken charge of by j ffie naval authorities this afternoon. It is now krown that the American ! aoats made furious havoc with Car- ! 3enas harbor and town. The Cap- ! tain of the Hudson said: 'T know we ) destroyed a large part of their town | near the wharves, burned one of their junboats and I think destroyed two Dther torpedo destroyers. We were in a vertex of shot, shell and smoke ind could not tell accurately, but we saw one of their boats on fire and sinking soon after the action began. o o riian q lornro Knilninnr noar flio wfi avf I think the barracks, took fire, and many other buildings were soon burning. The Spanish had masked batteries on all sides of us, hidden in bushes and behind houses. They sat a trap for us. As soon as we got within range of their batteries they would move them. I think their guns were field pieces. Our large boats could not get into the harbor to help us on account of the shallow water." Bucklen's Arnica Salve. The Best Salve in the world for j Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt j Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped j Hands, Chilblains, Corns, and Skin j Eruptions, and positively cures Piles j or 110 pay required. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction or money refunded. Price 25 cents per box. For sale at J. E. Kauffman's. 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West, the j head of the Julius Lewis Hardware Company, proposed the erection of a monument to the gallant ensign, the P L i - ^ ^ III'SC LLiaiiyi 1UI UUUUJ ncaiuiu, ou<u started the subscription with a gift of a S100. It will bo a popular sub- 1 scription fund, and citizens of this and other States will be asked to contribute. Subscriptions are already I coming in. It will be known as the ! ' Worth Bagley Monument Fund." A committee will be announced later, aud subscriptions will be acknowl edged through the press. _ i One Minute is not long, yet relief j is obtained in half that time by the I use of One Minute Cough Cure. It ; prevents consumption and quickly i cures colds, croup, bronchitis, pneumonia, lagrippe and all throat and | lung troubles. J. E. Kaufmann. The thrifty housewife never at tains perfection, for she is always ; mending. A sure cure for pain in a hollow tooth is a mixture of powdered alum and common salt, applied with a lock of cottoa. A sensation of coldness follows the application, after : which the pain gradually subsides. J L&BE, Polite Attention. The Philippine Islands. Area, Population, Extent of Hesources, Trade. Etc., Described. Washington.?The understanding atthe state department is that Consul ! Oscar P. Williams, our representative j at Manila until the recent war began, i is now aboard the tligsbip OLmpia ! in Manila harbor, having accompanied Commodore Dewey from Hong Kong, so tint advices may come from him to the state department us well as from Commodore Dewey to the navy depaitment. A mail icport from Cmsul "^Villiams reached the sta.c department recently from Manila. Ir gives a full description ot the Philippine islands, their resources, growth of American trade, etc, and will bo incorporate J in the next volume issued by the department. Mr. Williams' report says: "Local and European authorities i estimated the area of the Philippine j islands at 150,000 square miles and their population at 15,0,>0,000. The island of Luzon, on which the city of XTuriilo tit iimI/h! w lijrnrpr thnn New York and Massachusetts, and has a population of 5,000,000 and the islaml of Mindanoa is nearly, if not quite, as large. There are scores of other islands. An idea of the extent of the population of the Philippines may be formed when it is stated that the six New England states and New York, New Jersey, Mirjlund and Delaware have ten per cent, less area and population. Wr. Williams states that 22 consulates, representing the leading commercial countries of the wot Id, are established at Manila. He adds the surprising statement "'the volume of the export trade, comiog under ) official supervision, equals that of my j 21 consular colleagues " combined, j He then shows in detail how tLe ! trade of the Philippfnes with the j Muited States exceeds that of all other countries combined aud is growing at a remaikable rate. As indicating the extent of this trade, he says: ''Today I have authenticated invoices for export to the United States amounting to >108,066." He says the exports to this country j average >'1,000,000 a month. . In a previous report, Mr. Williams I stated that Manila had just passed ! through a most devasting fire, the j total loss being >2,600,000. He said j the city would have been totally de- | stroyed bad it not bceu for the j splendid service cf an American fire ! engine brought from Seneca Falls, N. Y. In another report Mr. Williams gives the railroad and ocean steam- I ship facilities of the Philippines, j The main railroad from Manila is | first class, having steel rails, stone j culverts and English engines, which : make 46 milt s an Lour. There are \ four steamship lines to Hong KoDg : and a monthly line from Manila to ! Liverpool. "Roc-iilcc ilirppf vr>iv>rfs frnm the United States consul, the state | department also has a gazette pub- ! lishtd at Hong Kong which gives full account of the conditions iu the j Philippines. It shows that by the ' last census the population of Manilia j was 1G ),000 natives, 61,000 Chinese, I 4 100 Spaniards and 2o0 Europeans j other than Spaniards The town is I made up of low buildings, as tLe j people arc in constant dread of earth- | quakes. One of tho;c convulsions i killed 300 people, and the last one, iu ISHo, wrecked most of the town. The city pre per is within walls, j where the government buildings are i located. The residence and business ; portions are in the subuibs. There j me six daily papers, three banks, a < i i r _ _ .1 ' mint, a cuamocr 01 commerce, auu , complete electric light and telephone ' plants The Mtxican dollar is in i general use. ! C:mmodoro Dc-wey. Sketch of the Man Who Whipped the Spauiaids at Manila. Commodore George P.-wr-y, of the Asiatic squadron, who won a victory in the first light of the AmericanSpanish was. is a fighter of the eld school. Me has been in many battles and has always come out with glory and honnor. His first detail after joining the navy was the old frigate Walmsh, of COLUMBIA, S. CM October 13?tf. th Mo.i ifcrrortron c/ 11 o /I rrvn in I AUVV?IIV.11UU\.UU t < I UUVii wu? 11J 1 . ; 1S5S-G0, and it was this connection ' which made him the officer to command the Asiatic squadron at this ; critical time. Commodore Dewey was born in Vermont on December 20, 1830. He was appointed from Vermont to the naval academy in 1850, graduating four years later. Immediately upon graduation he was assigned to the Wabash, and eight days after Fort Monroe was tired upon he was transferred to the Mississippi; under Admiral Farragut, then doing duty in the Gulf squadron. Dewey was with Farragut when one of the hottest naval battles of the Civil war accurred, aud forced an entrance into the mouth of the Mississinni river, runniner the erauntlet of land batteries into New Oileans and compelling the surrender of that city in April, 18(>2. Commodore Dewey's second smell of powder and smoke was the last fight in which the Mississippi engaged, in March, 1SG3, when the fleet tried to run the Confederate batteries at Port Huron. Several of the sbip9 reached the narrow part of the channel, where they met the land batteries almost muzzle to muzzle, being forced to beat a hasty retreat. The day was a foggy one, and amid the denseness of the fog aDd smoke of battle the Mississippi lost her bearings and grounded on shore. 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He went, however, at the urgent entreaty of friends who assured him that he could not understand Wagner without 6eeiug him. Tolstoi was of a different opinion, and that opinion, apparently, he retained. He tells us in the new section of bia essay on art how he went rather late, how he found the great Moscow theater crowded with grand dukes and persous of distinction, and of the extreme difficulty with which his friends kept him from escaping at the end of the first act. ; .i.?. ; u "u iuuiu imagine iuiu iu euv;u qui* rouudings the simple living ascetic would bo ill at case, whatever the opera oil the stage. Tolstoi's precouceived antipatby to Wagner, his distrus. of his method, his disbelief in the possibility of the music poem, and his conviction that the whole of the "Ring" was one stupendous counterfeit are expressed in lively terms enough. The thing that impresses him most about Miinr?indeed he cannot shake it off?is that he was dressed in "tricotights." "He opened his mouth in a strauge way. lie sang something incomprehensible. The music of various instruments accompanied the strango sounds which he emitted." The rest he gathers from the libretto?which shows that he saw an exceptionally bad Mime. The scene between Siegfried and Mime bored him to death. When Wotau appeared, he notes that he stood in a stupid pose, with a spear?which was very likely true?and that he was dressed up in a wig and tights at the same time. "The riddles have no meaning except to tell the audience what the Niblelungs are, what the giants are, what the gods are and what has happened before. " And this is how Tolstoi was impressed by the foregoing scene and the song of the sword: "riiegfried seizes one of the pieces of what is meant to represent the broken sword, saws it up, puts it on what is meant to represent the forge, melts it, and then forges it and sings: 'Heabo, beaho, hobo! Hoho, hoho, hobo, hobo! Hoheo, habo, baheo, lioho.'" Surely if ever there was a song that would carry away an opera house not of abnormals, or decadents, or hypnotized cultured people, but of Coveut Garden porters, or even Tolstoi's own simple natured peasants, it is that song. But not a bit of it. He sees no humor in one of the greatest of comedies, aud at any rate iu the caricature he has given to the world the whole business suggested to his mind nothing but a gnome in one sort of tight?, a god in another and a youth with a horn shouting "Hoheo!" The best that Tolstoi will admit as to Wagner's musical capacity is that be was not destitute of talent. Somehow the old Titan's rage seems to have blinded and deafened him. By ouo of I those ironies so common where great i men are .corking by different roads toI ward the same end Tolstoi does not see j that Wagner's art was as religious in itc beut as his owu: tnat two masters, neither knowing whore the other was going, have uncou.scion.sly beeu working toward the same goal.?London Chronicle. Yao* and Manyatij is. Both are interesting types of African primitive races. The Yaos, mostly men of .splendid physique, are u stroug and warlike race, in past times a standing terror to their weaker neighbors. Their original home was in the mountains east of Lake Nyassa, whence, in 1861, they poured dewu like locusts and "ate up" the country now known as the Shiro highlands. They now dwell peaceably side by side with the Manganjos, though looking down on the latter in something of the spirit with which Rob Roy regarded the Glasgow burgesses. "We do not know Maugauja," said a boy at the Blantyre mission to me one day when I had been questioning him about some words in that language. "We are Yaos!" A good many years ago the first manager of the African Lakes company was giving a magic lantern address to a mixed audience of both races, and took occasion, while explaining a picture of angels, to dilate cn the prospect of | heaven. The Yao part of the audience j listened to the description, and theD inquired whether there would be any I Manuanios there ton. "Certainly," was I the reply, "if they lovo God aud chey I his laws." "Then," said these aristocrats with one voice, "we do not wish ! to go there."?Good Words. A Man "Whs Is Tired s . j All the time, mviog to impoverished blood, should take Hood's Sarsaparilla to purify and enrich his blood and give bitn vitality and vigor. This condition of weakness and lack of energy is a natural consequence of the coming of warmer weather, which finds the system debilitated I 1\1a/n/1 imnnro i auu iuc uiuuu nu^uii.. j A good spring medicine is a necesI sity with almost everyone. Hood's Sarsaparilla is what the millions take in the spring. Its great power to purify and enrich the blood and build up health is one of the facts of common experience. 29 j But one thunderstorm has been ! witnessed in Arizona during 14years.