America's war for humanity related in story and picture, embracing a complete history of Cuba's struggle for liberty, and the glorious heroism of America's soldiers and sailors (1898) (14774945461)

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Title: America's war for humanity related in story and picture, embracing a complete history of Cuba's struggle for liberty, and the glorious heroism of America's soldiers and sailors
Year: 1898 (1890s)
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Subjects: Spanish-American War, 1898
Publisher: New York, St. Louis, N.D. Thompson Publishing Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation



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een killed. After thefiring began I went below again to attend to the boilers, and a few minuteslater a shell came crashing through the side of the boat and into the boiler,where it exploded and destroyed seventy of the boiler tubes. At first itstunned me. When the shell burst in the boiler, it threw both the furnacedoors open, and the fuse from the shell struck my feet. Two pieces of theshell also came out of the door, and I am taking them home with me assouvenirs of the war. It was a terrible crash and report altogether, and theboiler room was filled with dust and steam. For several seconds I was partiallystunned, and my ears rang so I could hear nothing. I went upon the deck toreport to Captain (Lieutenant) Bernadou.• What did you say to him?I saw him near the forecastle gun, limping about with a towel boundabout his left leg. He was shouting, and the noise of all the guns was likecontinuous thunder. Captain, I shouted, the forward boiler is disabled!A shell has ^cme through her.
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360 AMERICAS WAR FOR HUMANITY. Get out the hose, he said, and turned to the gun again. I went back into the boiler room, and in a few minutes I went up onthe deck again, and the fighting had grown hotter than ever. Several of themen were missing, and I looked around. Lying all in a heap on the after-deck in the starboard quarter, near the after-conning tower, I saw five of ourmen, where they had wilted down after the shell had struck them. In otherplaces were men lying groaning, or dragging themselves about, wounded andcovered with blood. The deck had blood on it, and was strewn withfragments and splinters. I went over where the five men were lying in aheap, and saw that they were not all dead. John Meek could speak andmove one of his hands slightly. I went up to him and put my face downclose to his. Can I do anything for you, John? I said; and he replied, No, Jack;Im dying; good-bye; and he asked me to grasp his hand. Go help there,he whispered, gazing with fixed eyes where Captain B