People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1894 — Sent to the Bottom. [ARTICLE]

Sent to the Bottom.

Rio Janeibo. Brazil, via Galveston, Tex., April 19.—Official dispatches received here from Desterro, where the rebels set up their provisional government, assert that Admiral Mello’s former flagship, the Aquidaban, has been sunk by the dynamite cruiser Nictheroy. President Peixoto’s fleet made an attack upon Desterro, and the insurgent forces there, aided by their land batteries and guns of the Aquidaban, made a stout resistance at first, but after the Nictheroy had sent the Aquidaban to the boltom'they gave up the fight and surrendered to the gov« eminent forces.