Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 92, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1898 — CHEERED “OLD GLORY.” [ARTICLE]

CHEERED “OLD GLORY.”

Captured Spaniards, ■■ They Sall for Home, bo Honor to the Stars and Stripes. New York, July 25.—Prisoners of war cheering the flag of their captors was the unusual sight witnessed at the Union dock in Brooklyn Sunday. The sight was a l .! the more significant as the cheers came from Spanish throats. The 251 prisoners captured on the four prize steamers now in port were about to sail for home under the British flag. They were on board the Hesperia, of the Anchor line, and just as she backed out of the dock one of the patrol gunboats came by. With one accord the prisoners raised three mighty cheers, which startled the people on the Brooklyn shore and could be heard on Governor's Island. It was the best they could do in thanking Uncle Sam for the kindness lavished on them while they were prisoners.