Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1898 — PRIZE OF WAR LOST. [ARTICLE]

PRIZE OF WAR LOST.

Wrecked Maria Teresa Is Beyond All Hopes of Rescue. It will be impossible to save the Maria Teresa, which lies stranded on a coral reef off Cat Island. This unfortunate news was communicated to the Navy Department in a lengthy cablegram from Captain McCalla, dated Nassau, N. P. Captain McCalla says the warship is stranded in from sixteen to twenty-one feet of water, with her head to the northward. She rests on a rocky reef covered with coral sand, interspersed with boulders. The reef extends outside of the wreck both to northward and southward, and it would be impossible, he Says, for anything but a light draft boat .to approach her. Captain McCalla sums up his report by saying that the ship is telescoped and that as the rivets are sheared by the constant working of the ship the telescopic process must continue. In addition to turret guus there are four 6-inch guns on the Teresa taken from one of the wrecked ships and remounted in Guantanamo.