Salt Lake Tribune | 1900-03-03 | Page 4 | Local News

A recently published volume Issued by l the Bureau of Naval Intelligence gives an account of the sea might off Santiago July = IRKS from the pen o Capt Victor M Con cas commander of the Maria Teresa and Or ras < chief of stafT Some of his slalom en ts are terrible Hl says C per cent of the shells from the American ships took effect The most terrible mortality In every case was in the I upper works o the Spanish ships He says a hoot swain of the Maria Teresa hud lif teen wounds and ho adds lhal none of tile men aboard ship escaped with less than two wounds while some were blown into 1 unrecognizable fragments One shell I killed the captain and then the-n succeeding officers on hoard the Oqucndo The total mortality of the fleet averaged 22 per cent oC the men engaged The inference seems to bo that the machinery of war Is I beIng perfected with a rapidity which wil 1 soon make war I impossible because of i its awful destrucllvencss i