v rn V t M i X If f H I I m fi f in w vw 3f friSR HI I 7 t 1 4 I Fit V NO OFFICIAL COMMUNICATION RECEIVED FROM COMMODORE t Ml DEWEY UP TO 1 A M Washington May 3 1 a inpecial Up io the close of office jurs the only imformation received at the department of the brilliant ifory of Admiral Dewey was through the medium of the press dispatch- es 1W3 nor jqiown wnen auvices wm come as it is tnougnr tne Span iards destroyed the electrical aparatus of the cable before surrendering In this event it will be necessary to send a report to Hong Kong which will delayHtie report Great anxiety is felt as to fatalities to Americans It is feared that the Spanish managed to inflict severe damages andthat Deweylost a considerable portion of his men If this be true he will be embarrassed in holding Manila There is talk of sending troops from San F ranciqco to assist in this work unless he can use the insurgents to garrison the city but it is more likely that the department willawaitthe official report The United States will retain at least one good port as a coaling station and basis of supplier Much uneasiness is felt at for eign headquarters The bombardment of the city will probably cause complications as 24hours warning may not have been given There is no talk yet of foreign intervention The reported loss of 550 Spaniards was not othcial The loss ot lite is not known Sagasta Tells the Queen f New York May rSpecial At the headquarters of the Cable com pany it is repoVtecLthat the cable iias been cut between Phillipine Official dispatches fr6m Madrid say that Cagasta has gone to the palace to announce to the Queen that the fortress of Cavite has been raized to the ground and the unfortified portions of Manila burned The Americans threw petrolemn bombs into the town and buildings not demolished weic set on fire and soon swept away The surrender of the city alone stopped the awful carnage Admirals Dewey lias taken possession and the formation of a national ministry is already being seriously discussed Deweytjwill follow up his gi eat victory with the complete subjection of the islands He has demanded the surrender of all Spanish vessels in the archipeligo under penalty of bombardment of the ports Details of the Fight Washington D C May 2 The first details of thebattle of Manila came by fray ofLondpn in two ilis dispatclieR Tlie -first cablp dispatch an- nouncedithat the United States fleet entered Manila harbor at daybreak Sunday morning stationing itself opposite the city A fort opened fire on the American ships whereupon they shifted their position to one near Cavite in Manila Bay en gaging in a fierce light against both me iois Atfu tne opanisn ueer The engagement here lasted two and resulted in the Ltiou of the Spanishfleet This dispatch 4idds that the Americjrn ships withdrew to their magazine vessel in the centre of the roadstead for the purpose of coaling One American vessel the name of which is not mentioned is said to have been disabled Commodore Dewey requested the British Consul E H toconvey a message to the Skanish Governor General demand ing the surrender of all the torpe does and guns at Mlfcntta and the possession of the cable officers say ing that unless these terms were complied with he would proceed to bombard the city The first of the cable messagesends with the state- hnent that the Spanish officials were conferring with the British Consul HI 1m r if It 4- a HOPKINSVILLE EX TUESDAY MOMJM MAY 8 1898 PEIOE 2 GENTS MAINE IS AVENGED GREAT FEAR i C IS FELT t Cost of the Phillipine Victory Not Yet Known at Washington AKMORED CRUISER GARLOS V Tbt OarlOa Yli fluanw ilael Mriuortd ocMiMrainl is ona of the befit itttiw Simiiiah mry nr JbiUiwpy oqudA of two 1 1 iwoh HSw riuI flvo 6 nipkl fl gun TlMfHiw Owow DKrf0ctHaii wiihiH 810 twuntls coh i the MpM re buui we at to fllUae twrtf to iwond jAote h niluut il lipi wiwiii lfiimiWliiiL i n mmwmmmm m wn ill I I rtt w4 a 1 sf and the telegraph companys agent and that pending a decision being arrived at the cables Were not per mitted to handle messages The second cable dispatch re ceived at the Colonial Office an eounced that the Spanish Governor General had refused to surrender The message ended with the statement that the British Gover nor of the Straits Settlements ex pected that the bombardment of Manila would be begun on Monday morning when the Spaniards would cut the cable Admiral Dwey it was later I learned thereupon gave notice that he would bombard the town the fol lowing morninin unless it was sur rendered This threat was put into execu tion this morning and the haughty Dons were speedily brought to terms The bombardment beiran by our time about 1 oclock but this was very early in the morning by eastern time After a bombard ment of two hours the white Hag was raised and a vessel was sent to Admiral Deweys ship to ar range the details of the surrender The damage done was terrific The property loss is estimated at 56000000 and there is no correct estimate set as to the actual loss of life Commodore Dewey in this light had the advantage of not being handicapped daily by instructions from the department He sailed from Hongkong under orders that gave him absolute discretion and when he left that city he was out of the reach of Washington On his own intelligence the results would depend and he conducted the at tack as seemed to him best That he has used his naval education to good advantage is appearant He has met the enemy and they are his The Administration is highly grat fied at the result and pleased to know that he came out of it with out the loss of one of his ships al though it was to be expected that he would lose some men and prob ably have many wounded There is talk to night of reviving the lank of Vice Admiral and giving it to Commodore Dewey He is the hero of the hour DEWEY AND HIS CAPTAINS The Hen Who Won the Victory at Manila Are Old Fighters Commodore George Dewey is an old warrior of g navy who got his christening of fire aboard the old steam sloop Mississippi under Farragut in the early days of the civil war CommodoreDewy is now about 60 years dlclt He be longs in Vermont and he was ap pointed to the naval academy from that state in September 1854 Four years later when he graduated he was sent aboard the stdain frigate Wabash for a cruise inJuie Medi terranean Dewey got lTis com- mission as lieutenant on April 19 1861-eight-days after Fort Sump ter was fired upon and he was im mediately assigned to join the Mis sissippi and do duty with the West Gulf squadron He as on the Mis sissippi when she took part with Farraguts other vessels in forcing an entrance to the Mississippi river and again when the fleet ran the gauntlet of fire from the forts below New Orleans in April 1862 and forced the surrender of that city DDewev was attached to the steam gunboatJAgawam of the North At lantic squadron and he took part m the two attacks made on Fort Fisher in December 1864 and January 1865 In March 1865 he yuL ins commission as lieutenant commander and as such served on the famous old Kearsarge and on i 3HE COMMODOUK DEWKT the Colorado the flagship of the European squadron until 1868 whenMieMvas sent for service to the naal academy His first com mand was 1870 when he had the Narragansett doing special duty He became a commander in April 1872 and still on the Narragansett making surveys of the Pacific until 187o when he was made a light house inspector and later secretary of the lighthouse board He com manded the Juniata in the Asiatic station in 1882 83 and in Septem ber 1884 was made a captain- and put in charge of the Dolphin oneof the lour vessels which formed the original White Squadron The follow ing year he was sent to com mand the flagship Pensacola on the European squadron and he stayed there until 1888 when he became the chief of the bureau of equipment and recruiting with the rank of commodore This place he held until 1893 when he was made a member of the lighthouse board He got his commission as commo dore on February 28 1896 and at about the same time was made president ofjthe board of inspection and survey This place he held until he waS put in command of the Asiatic station in January of this year V Capt Charles V Gridley was born in Indiana and appointed from Michigan graduating in 1863 FIRST CLASS BATTLESHIP PELAYO Tho Polnyo is the only first olnsa buttlouhip ownod by tho Spaniards She Is modern in every rospoot Her displacement is 0000 tons and sMuirrlon a particularly heavy battory Sho Is howovor mora than 1000 tons smaller than tho Indiana and Iowa of onr navy and experts deolnro that sho would not be m match for either of them in a sen fight Soaie of the Spanish Ships Coming This Way Jt - rr j ARRANGEMENTS FOR CUBAS INVASION Five Thousand Regulars Will Sail from Tarn- pa ToNight BATTERIES SERVED WITH AMMUNITION AND SOLDIERS HAVE I FULL CARTRIDGE BELTS r New York May 2 A special to the World from Tampa Fla says A rumor is in circulation here to the effect that 5000 troops and as many Cubans as the Cuban Junta can gather here will leave Tuesday night for Matanzas for the first in vasion of Cuba The World correspondents infor mation says that an army officer told him that he had seen an order from the Secretary of War ordering the tfoops to move Tuesday night Matanzas being their objective point Transports are expected Tuesday It is known that of the thirty days rations given out a few days is being- used and the and being assigned to the steam sloop Oneida where he served for two years He commanded the Marion and is now commanding the Olympia He was made a cap tain in March 1897 Capt Nehemiah CM Dyer was born in Provincelown Mass in 18 39 In April 1862 he was appoint ed an acting mate in the navy He was made a lieutenant in the regu lar army in 1868 and a few months afterward several vessels in the last twenty years and now has charge of the Baltimore Capt Joseph B Coghlan was born in Kentucky and appointed from Illinoes He graduated in 1863 He was executive officer of the Pawnee in 1867 aiid on the steamer frigate Guerriere in 1868 He com mauds the Raleigh4 Commander Benjamin P Lam berton the second ranking officer of his class in the navy and at present commanding the Boston was born in1 Pennsylvania and graduated from the naval academy in 1995 Commander Asa Walker of the Concord has been in the naval ser vice since November 21 1862 Commander Oscar W Frenchott of the Monocacy was born in Tex as Heiias been fifteen years at sea and sixteen years on shore or special duty Commander Edward P Wood of the Petrel is from Ohio He took charge of the Petrel December 16 1806 and on July 12 1897 was raised to the grade of Commander regimental officers have received word to have their commands ready to move at a moments notice It is known that the batteries have been served out with 300 rounds each and all soldiers have full cartridge belts Gen A W Greely Chief Signal Officer is expected here to day An attempt was made last night to blow up the powder magazine of Kilight Wall This magazine contains a large store of powder gun shells and dynamite It is be lieved to have been work of agents of the Spanish government now at work in this city He has been eighteen years at sea and fifteen years on other duty Capt Daniel B Hodgson com manding the McCulloch is a native of New York In his thirty six years service Capt Hodgson has spent twenty four years and four teen months on Atlantic coast sta tions seven and a half years on the lakes and two and a half years on the Pacific War Is Expensive Washington May 2 Special Both houses to day passed the emergency bill appropriating 36 000000 j Base Ball Reports Special Baltimore 6 New York 4 Wash ington 0 Boston7 Chicago 13 Louisville 7 Brooklyn 10 Phila delphia 9 Pittsburg 3 Cincinnati 7 St Louis and Cleveland game stop ped by rain in third inning stand ing 1 to 1 For the first time since 1861 the members of the Marine band at Washington are doing regular duty as enlisted men at the marine bar racks They have to do all the chores that usually fall to the lot of the ordinary marine It i held by the Secretary of the Interior that ander section 4716 of the revised statutes service in the confederate army voluntarily done is a bar to a pension under the act of June 27 1890 ARMORED CRUISER CARDENAL CISNEROS Tho Cardenal Olsuoros is an armorort orulsor of tho typo of tho ViKMya Sho would bo n dangerous antagonist for ivy ship hut could probably b dl posed of by olthor tho New York or Brooklyn of our navy Tho faot that afc Was six years In bolng built will possibly add to hor ofllolenoy oyer veweU tier oIum - I k i J - - J L 1111 I JUT 1 rfJ n -- ll jl111 JT1 r