In the mean time both the _Teresa_ and _Oquendo_ had received so frightful a fire from the _Indiana_, _Iowa_, and _Texas_, that within six miles of Santiago Harbor the former, enveloped in flames, and no longer capable of defending herself, was also headed for the beach, where the gallant little _Gloucester_ soon afterwards came to her assistance and rescued hundreds of her perishing crew, including brave old Admiral Cervera. A few minutes later the _Almirante Oquendo_, with colors lowered and flames pouring from her open ports, also turned slowly inshore, and was beached within half a mile of the Spanish flag-ship. It was only forty minutes since the fight began; but in that short space four of the Spanish squadron had been destroyed, without loss of life to the Americans, and but slight damage to their ships. With the burning _Teresa_ and _Oquendo_ stayed the battle-ship _Indiana_, her men working in eager emulation with those of the _Gloucester_ to save the lives of their recent enemies. The next victim to succumb beneath the terrible American fire was the superb _Vizcaya_, which, pounded to death by the _Brooklyn_, _Oregon_, and _Texas_, was run on the beach at Aserraderos, seventeen miles west of Santiago Bay, a few minutes after eleven o'clock. Like her unfortunate consorts, she also was a mass of flame, and had no sooner struck than scores of her people leaped overboard to escape being roasted alive. Among these swimmers a body of Cuban troops poured a cowardly fire from the beach; but Captain Evans of the _Iowa_ quickly put a stop to that, and stood by the blazing wreck so long as there was a Spaniard left to be rescued from flame or flood. Of all Cervera's powerful squadron only a single ship was now left, the swift _Cristobal Colon_, which, by keeping behind the others, had as yet come to little harm. When the _Vizcaya_ was run ashore, the _Colon_ was more than four miles ahead of her leading pursuer, the _Brooklyn_. Close on the heels of the latter came the wonderful battle-ship _Oregon_, which had unexpectedly developed such extraordinary speed that, although starting next to the last of the American ships, she now very nearly led the chase. Next behind her came the _Texas_, while the superb _New York_, though still far in the rear, was overhauling all three, and had the race been long enough would eventually have exchanged broadsides with the _Colon_.