| Show ENEMY FOULED BY SIS ff SP ADS EXPECTED TO CA TUBE A PRIZE St Paul Gave the Destroyer a Hot Reception and Sent It Limping Back to Port New York July 2The St Piul arrived rived in port tonight and anchored off I I Tompkinsville She left Mole St Nicholas I Nich-olas early last Tuesday and has come i here for coal ammunition < stores also to have some slight repairs to her I starboard engine fi Captain Sigsbee and the officers were absolutely inaccessible to press representatives sentatives Considerable information was obtained nevertheless from a wa copy ot obtaned Pauls war budget the oracle of the ship which was obtained The St Pauls great exploit on her last I trip was the disabling of the Spanish torpedo boat Terror on the harbor of I and being regarded San Juan Porto Rico bclnS r garded so by the crew the account of It occupies the first place on the first frst r Isabella II page When the cruser lar I pae came out of the harbor at San Juan at about noon June 22 covering the Terror the Spaniards thought it was the St Louis which had been there a short time before and was known to have a small armament and not the St smal Paul which was going to be met In the expectation va of seeing a fine prize brought expectaton port the Spaniards gathered gath-ered in great numbers along the harbor wall to see I The engagement lasted a little over half an hour during which ltte the St Paul fired about 19 shots three of thpm hitting the Terror smashing one of her engines killing the dhWf engineer en-gineer arid another man taking bff the legs of a third and wounding five others other So badly was theTerror injured that small vessels were lashed to her sides to prevent her from sinking while a tug boat towed her In The budget says At about 1240 the thirdclass cruiser Isabella came out and steaming under the Morro until un-til abreast of the batteries commenced edging out towards us firing at such along a-long range that her shots were Ineffective rnre fective As her purpose evidently was fectve to put us within fire of the batteries we took but little notice of her lying still and occasionally sending In our largest I est shell at her to try the range Soon afterwards she dropped to the westward west-ward and the torpedo boat destroyer Terror or I way have been her sister ship the Furor was sighted steaming alnns shore under the batteries I Captain Sigsbee watched her for awhile a-while and worked along with her in I order to separate her from the cruiser I and keep her in the trough fet sea I if she came for us She then headed for us firing straight as far as direction I direc-tion went but her shots fell short When within range of our guns the I I signal commence firing was made I i and for several minutes we let fly our starboard battery at her from 5500 to strbord bater 6000 yards the shells striking all I around her This stopped her and she turned her broadside to us and her fire soon ceased She then headed inshore I In-shore to the southward and westward I I going slowly and it was evident that I she was hit drifting well leeward of the miln harbor entrance Oft Morro I she flashed some signals to the shore and afterward a tug came out and towed her into the harbor I All this time the cruiser was firing and some of her shots fell pretty close The cruiser followed the Terror back to pert and soon after was joined by a pun boat and the two steamed under I the batteries to the eastward But when the St Paul making an inshore turn seemed to be going for them they returned to the harbor and we saw no more of them |
