Identifier: heroofmaniladewe00john (find matches)
Title: The hero of Manila; Dewey on the Mississippi and the Pacific
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Johnson, Rossiter, 1840-1931
Subjects: Dewey, George, 1837-1917 Manila Bay, Battle of, Philippines, 1898 United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Naval operations
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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e being treated there.Another exploded in the ammunition room astern, fill-ing the quarters with smoke and preventing the work-ing of the hand steering-gear. As it was impossibleto control the fire, I had to flood the magazine whenthe cartridges were beginning to explode. Amidshipsseveral shells of smaller caliber went through thesmokestack, and one of the large ones penetrated thefire room, putting out of action one master gunnerand twelve men serving the guns. Another rendereduseless the starboard bow gun. While the fire asternincreased, fire was started forward by another shellwhich went through the hull and exploded on thedeck. The broadside guns, being undamaged, con-tinued firing until only one gunner and one seamanremained unhurt for working them, as the gunscrews had been frequently called upon to substitutethose charged with steering, all of whom were outof action. The ship being out of control, ... I gavethe order to sink and abandon her before the maga-zines should explode.
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THE BATTLE OF MANILA. 127 All this was on the flagship, and the other Span-ish vessels had been used only a little less roughlywhen the American fleet drew off to rest the men andhave breakfast. How much the rest and refreshmentwere needed can be realized only by those who them-selves have been at work in the iron dens and caves while the battle was raging overhead. A stoker onthe Olympia, giving an account of his experiencesduring the fight, said: The battle hatches were allbattened down, and we were shut in this little hole,the ventilating pipes being the only things left open.The temperature was nearly up to two hundred de-grees, and it was so hot our hair was singed. Therewere several leaks in the steam pipes, and the hiss-ing steam made things worse. The clatter of the en-p-ines and the roar of the furnaces made such a dinit seemed ones head would burst. When a man couldstand it no longer he would put his head under theair pipe for a moment. We could tell when our gunsopened fire

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