S THE TERRIBLE VESUVIUS DESTROYING SPANIARDS S New Engine of Naval Warfare Now In Action at Santiago I GREAT CHARGES OF GUN COTTON EXPLODED WITH A MIGHTY ROAR Twohundred Pound Packages Hurled at Midnight Without the Slightest Warning to the Spaniards Copyright 1SOS by the Associated Press Off Santiago de Cuba Tuesday June 14 8 p m by the Associated Press Dispatch Boat Dandy via Kingston Jamaica June 15The dynamite cruiser Vesuvius joined the fleet yesterday yes-terday and was put to work immediately immedi-ately Ensign Palmer of the New York went on the Vesuvius with Lieutenant Lieu-tenant Commander Pillsbury to explain ex-plain the location of the batteries A few minutes from midnight the Vesuvius Ve-suvius was within half a mile of the beach west of Morro The Oregons searchlight played on the battery while the black nose of the cruiser pointed at the westward batteries Lieutenant Commander Pillsbury gave the word to fire and Lieutenant Quimby opened the air vent There was a slight hissing a sort of coughing noise but no flame no report no warning tok the Spaniards who were hiding in the darkness Thirty seconds later a dull roar broke the silence of the night Two hundred pounds of gun cotton had exploded on the hillside below the battery The ships on the blockading lines two miles away shook with the explosion The firing of a 13inch shell is a mere rifle crack compared to the deep and mighty roar Clouds of earth thrown up from the hills seemed to stand out against the sky Another package of gun cotton was I dropped on the other side of the battery bat-tery and may possibly have struck the torpedo boats anchored below I Before reechoes of the second died I away the Vesuvius sent a third charge hissing out It fell right on the brow of the hill where the battery seemed to be Into the air flew tons of earth and the smoke covered the land for half a mile 1 he 1 esuvius retired at a Ifiknot rate Two flashes from the hill and two Spanish shells flew beyond the cruiser The test was regarded as highly satisfactory sat-isfactory and there is intense interest in the fleet over this first trial in war of a dynamite cruiser EMPLACEMENTS DESTROYED The United States cruiser New Orleans Or-leans having been ordered by Rear Admiral I Ad-miral Sampson to destroy the new emplacements of half a mile east of El Morro on which a number of Spanish Span-ish have been working took up a position posi-tion at 5 oclock this morning about 800 yards from shore and 2000 yards from the Morro batten She opened upon the emplacements with her rapidfire guns Red clouds of sand rose on the hilltop where the emplacements were building Following the 15th shot the Morro batteries replied re-plied with one shell that fell near the stern of the flagship New York After 20 minutes gun practice Admiral Sampson Samp-son signaled the New Orleans to cease firing Then as she retired the Morro batteries sent 10 shells after her but without damage Admiral Sampson hoisted the signal Firing well done the first compliment of the kind from I the admiral