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Identifier: chicagorecordswa00chic (find matches)
Title: The chicago Record's war stories : by staff correspondents in the field ; copiously illustrated
Year: 1898 (1890s)
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Subjects: Spanish-American War, 1898
Publisher: Chicago : Reprinted from the Chicago Record
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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ear ship for action, and the buglers sangthe thrilling call which sends brave men toquarters where is gained ever-living fame orheroic death, and the fight was on. Into the open sea, their big guns playingunder the turtle-backed turrets, rushed theMarie Theresa, Colon, Vizcaya and Oquendo.Coming to meet them, slowly at first, butwith bones in their teeth, and they gained speed and fairly leaped to accept the chal-lenge, were the Brooklyn, Oregon. Iowa.Texas and Indiana. The converted yachtVixen was ready for any emergency, and theGloucester cleared for the fight which willgive her and her commander worthy mentionin American history when the story of thedays doings shall have become a part of thenational record. Four great battleships began to rain aterrible tonnage of twelve and thirteen inchshells, the eight-inch ammunition of theBrooklyn shrieked and wailed and howledas it flew on its awful course of destruction,the starboard side of Commodore Schleys THE CHICAGO RECORDS WAR STORIES
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SPANISH WARSHIP INFANTA MARIA TERESA. flagship was a continuous line of flame assecondary batteries and rapid-fire guns spittheir murderous contents with such terriblerapidity that the heavy smoke from thefrightful broadsides seemed to be burned upin the dreadful volume of fire as though itwas the purpose to consume the smoke inorder that its density might not interferewith precision of aim. As the great ships of the contestants racedaway to the west, pounding at each otheras ships have never pounded before, thesea churned into immense geysers as theprojectiles plunged into the water, the skydarkened by smoke, the atmosphere heavywith saltpeter, out from the harbor steamedthe torpedo boats Pluton and Furor. TheGloucester alone was on guard. Her gunsseemingly too heavy for her, the chanceswere favorable to the escape of tbe long,low black craft as they sped toward the yachtwhose unprotected sides and decks appearedto make her easy prey. It was 10:02 by the clock in the pilot houseof th

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