| Show OAT Was Never Seen After the tho First Una nn Let et Oo Go GoThe The renewal of ot the lie controversy ions hns set Fet the time skippers who vimo were under tinder General Generl Shutters orders off ott IMer Santiago to reviewing the battle as ns they timey the Santago saw It II Capt Robertson now of ot the tIme Ward liner Havana was as chief of ot tile e United States transport l under the command of the time late Inte Capt John Mcintosh Time The ThE was wal to have supplied time the Iowa IOla with bread morning said the captain the time other day Time Tho he battleship was short of or hardtack and we woo iou bad on un board tons of or It left lef by h the lh regiment The Jackles were sero drilling on omo 01 both ends of ot time the Iowa lown as ns we drew up UI alongside and opened one of cit our ports o With Wih no smoke came two flushes flashes fasheR from th be bows of or n a Spanish ship like a aman aInan moan man striking with his right and amI follow following ing log with wih his hil left Ie Every Ever Jackie van vanished hed The loa Iowa never got that hard tack The dropped oft ott of a n couple of If lengths lying broadside to C the time battleship I asked Capt Calt what hat he lie going to do Ive been toil till 11 over oer the time world utti nj a 1 seen Ive most host replied the tue old man maIm mal but I never ner Faw saw a 11 bottle battle bate train from traina Croma a ft front sent seat before Was always In the scrap myself Going to see one ole now no Im Im pretty Jety old and It dont make much flit dif difference ference If IC I get through now Others who were young OI see It the lie natua way va a Through tho time battle the th captain sat with wih his lois spyglass In com coin commission commission mission 1 I was standing back to when the time Iowa lown let le go o her hoer first gun Jun JunI I thought somebody had hit lilt mu mc with witha a club In the time back The rolled O as If It In II a ft I hurricane the smoke smokestack smokestack loke stack rocked rockell time the masts masta reeled Acker Ackerman ckerman man milan quartermaster was seized with vertigo and Akers kera of ot the time London Times was knocked oft off or his lois feet Ceet Capt Cupl Mcintosh had hail a tremendous gray coot cat that would claw every one else but hut the time captain could lift li her by bythe b time the tall tail I wits looking Into the cap rooms amid across the bridge to ii catch a n signal sl ual from him My Iy eye CC fell Cel upon the time old cat rat asleep In lot u a I coil coll coi upon the tue captains counterpane The cat was wn soaped up Ili Into the air to the tIme height of It live le feet tee Then with her toil tall tal us mis lS big as my toy I turin arm her oyen like bike Iko yellow elow billiard balls buls n II streak of ot gray ray hushed flashed from room the time door The cat never touched the tho deck as ns tar far faras taras as al I could see Iee She Sho shot out coot like bike time the wind rind and before be Core I could coul m nm I breath from the time shock hock of oC the time gun I 7 saw the tip tilt of time the old aIe eats cats a tp tall tail tal going oln over oer overtime time the That afternoon Capt Me Ic Intosh Inquired U if I I had bind seen een the cat eat catI I I have haw I replied I saw 11 her Imer tail lull tul going over the time this morning Do you OU think she sh Jumped o board ho he asked She roust must have imae made the time land In iii Il Ilone one Jump JUIP I said and phel probably making time the second lap of o the Island St Louis Luis Post Dispatch |
