Captain Todd, from his post of duty in the conning-tower of the _Wilmington_, saw a Spanish shell, aimed for the torpedo-boat, do its deadly work. The shell struck the water, took an up-shoot, and exploded on the deck of the _Winslow_. There is little room for men anywhere on a torpedo boat, and if a shot strikes at all it is almost sure to hit a group. Such was the case in the _Winslow_. The exploding shell cost the lives of Ensign Bagley and four seamen; it also crippled the craft by wrecking her steam-steering gear. Later her captain and one of his crew were wounded by separate shots. [Illustration: THE TRAGEDY OF THE WINSLOW.] Ensign Bagley was killed outright, two of the group of five died on the deck of the disabled torpedo-boat, and the other two died while being removed to the _Wilmington_. The signal, “Many wounded,” went up from the staff of the _Winslow_, and Passed Assistant Surgeon Cook of the _Wilmington_ boarded the torpedo-boat. The _Hudson_ tied up to the _Winslow_ and towed her out of danger, escaping unscathed. The wounded men were tenderly cared for on the cruiser, and that night the revenue cutter steamed out of Cardenas Bay, bearing the dead and wounded to Key West. William O’Hearn, of Brooklyn, N. Y., one of the _Winslow’s_ crew, thus tells his story of the battle to a newspaper correspondent: “From the very beginning,” he said, “I think every man on the boat believed that we could not escape being sunk, and that is what would have happened had it not been for the bravery of the boys on the _Hudson_, who worked for over an hour under the most terrific fire to get us out of range.” “Were you ordered to go in there?” he was asked. “Yes; just before we were fired upon the order was given from the _Wilmington_.” “Was it a signal order?” “No; we were near enough to the _Wilmington_ so that they shouted it to us from the deck, through the megaphone.” “Do you remember the words of the commander who gave them?” “I don’t know who shouted the order; but the words as I remember them were, ‘Mr. Bagley, go in and see what gunboats there are.’ We started at once towards the Cardenas dock, and the firing began soon after. “The first thing I saw,” continued O’Hearn, “was a shot fired from a window or door in the second story of the storehouse just back of the dock where the Spanish gunboats were lying. A shell then went hissing over our heads. Then the firing began from the gunboat at the wharf, and from the shore. The effect of shell and heavy shot the first time a man is under fire is something terrible. “First you hear that awful buzzing or whizzing, and then something seems to strike you in the face and head. I noticed that at first the boys threw their hands to their heads every time a shell went over; but they soon came so fast and so close that it was a roaring, shrieking, crashing hell.