The New York herald - 1898-06-24 (4118552) — page 1
THE NEW YORK HERALD.
WHOLE NO: 22.586.
EUROPEAN EDITION-PARIS FRIDAY, JUNE 24, 1898. SIX PAGES.
- PARIS, 15c.; LONDON, 2d.; DEPARTMENTS, 20c
LANDING
PROGRESSING
FAVORABLY.
Official Despatches Received from both Admiral Sampson and
General Shafter,
LITTLE OR NO RESISTANCE.
First Newspaper Account Published Received from the Herald's"
New Despatch Boat.
WARSHIPS RAKE THE SHORE.
Spanish Batteries Fire on the Texas, but Are Speedily Silenced by Her.
CO-OPERATION OF THE CUBANS.
NEW YORK, Thursday.—The following despatches, received late last evening, were transmitted over the Government cable via Guantanamo, dated off Baiquiri, June 22, and addressed to the Secretaries of the Navy and War respectively : —
LANDED IN FORCE.
"General Shatter is our man of action. He beg-an disembarking his men from the transports at Baiquiri and Juragna at noon yesterday, and in an incredibly short time nearly all those who are to be used at Santiago were on shore. Baiquiri, one of the places chosen for landing, is situated about fifteen miles east of Santiago Bay.
"While the troops were going ashore, Admiral Sampson's squadron threw shells into several placas in the neighborhood where the Spaniards were reported to have been massed to attempt to prevent a landing. A large body of Cubans worked valiantly in the rear of the Spaniards.
"When the first bodies of troops reachecl land they began to shoot and quickly drove t2e enemy into the hands of the insurgents. ■
"General Shafter's plan of campaign in volved : first, an attack on General Masterola, to the west of Santiago, by the Cubans under General Vobi : second, the shelling of the Mazamorra Blockhouse ft warship ; third, the shelling of the hills overlooking every cove where a landing might be effected east of the harbor; fourth; the despatch of a group of vessels, consisting of coal transports, to the west, to lead the Spaniards into believing that the landing would not take place there, as soon as Mazamorra was taken. •
"At daybreak the enemy saw the counterfeit transports sailing to the west, but they did not see the transports coming from the east. The latter gathered off Cacanso. "ith them was one battleship, one cruiser. the gunboat Helena, the St. Louis, the Suwanee, and several auxiliary yachts, to cover the landing.
SPANIARDS FIRE THE TOWN.
. - ires began to blaze in the town, snowing that the Spaniards were destroying it. It was a beautiful day and the sea was slaooth. Boats were towed beside those ^ the transports whose troops were to go ?rst. The decks of the transports, which lad now been forty hours off Santiago, were crowded with soldiers who were im-
patient to land, while Spanish riflemen dotted the hills.
> iT^e ;,!:rateS'c. game opened at eight % nnA a. morning. General Vobi, with 2 000 Cubans, attacked the Spanish at Mazzamorra, and the battleship Texas at the same time Van close in shore and openea fire on the blockhouse in the back I part of Cabanas Bay. The Estrella bat-' , tery opened on the Texas, and the Spanish shots came near, for the range was short, bat the Texas silenced this battery in forty Wnmites. A Spanish field battery ran '..Aown to the beach anct opened on the Texas, but was driven off by her rapid fire. Again it opened and again it was driven off.
"The landing of the army is progressing favorably and there is very little, if any,
.«(In the meantime, the Spanish and Cubans were hotly engaged, and the noise of fierce rifle firing was heard. Admiral Cervera's ships in the harbor opened on the Cubans on the plateau. At the little bay of Julici, a yacht, believed to be the Scorpion, began firing on the hills, and as another diversion, the slopes of the harbor of Juragua were shelled by the Helena, Newport, Bancroft and Vixen. Shrapnel burst oil over the hill sides and the Spanish riflemen tied.
"Still another diversion was created when the battleship left the convoy and returned to the fleet, Admiral Sampson leaving Commodore Schley in command, and ordering him to smash Admiral Cervera if he came out of the harbor, steamed down to Bacanoa to superintend the naval part of the disembarkation. The gunboats continued to rake the shore and the battleship Iowa took a hand and engaged the water batteries beneath Morro Castle, silencing them. The gunboats continued raking -Juragua with shells. The Texas still kept firing, as also did the Scorpion. The ships stretched for twenty miles J Ii line.of battle. The New York opened oil Bacanoa, clearing the beach,-Da.iW Telegraph. '
BRIGADIER GENERAL WILLIAM R. SHAFTFJ .
resistance. The New Orleans, Detroit, Castine, Wasp and Suwanee shelled the vicinity before the landing was made. We made a demonstration at Cabanas to engage the attention of the enemy. The Texas engaged the west battery for some time She had one man killed. Ten submarine mines have been recovered from thE channel of Guantanamo.
(Signed) "SAMPSON."
"The landing at Baiquiri this afternoon was successful. There was very little, ii any, resistance.
(Signed) "SHAFTER."
The President, who had retired to rest, was called up and the good news was communicated to him.
In the meantime the HERALD'S new de spatch boat, the Mindora, had arrived at Port Antonio and put on the wire the only newspaper report which reached here ir time for publication this morning. This despatch reads : —
FIRST ENGAGEMENT.
The American Forces Execute a Turning Movement and Drive Back the Spanish Left Wing.
MADRID, Thursday.—The Ministers of War and Marine have published all the
despatches received, giving details of the .ighting yesterday, 'x-.ey are dated Sanõiago, seven o'clock in the morning. Genjral Manterola telegraphs : "The Americans disembarked at Punta Berracos, fortyjne kilometres east of Santiago. At the ;ame time the enemy's squadron oom,)arded Forts Morro and Socapa at the entrance to the bay. This bombardment continued till eleven o'clock in the foreaoon. Other American troops landed at iiboney, Baiquiri and other deserted parts )f the coast, situated nine kilometres from --he nearest village.
"The extreme left wing of the Spanish forces was near Baiquiri. The American forces then proceeded to execute a turning movement, putting the Spanish left wing in a very dangerous situation. It fiÍlally, however, succeeded in retiring into the mountains in good order.
"The rest of the Spanish forces energetically defended their positions, and drove back the enemy after an engagement in which a number wero killed and wounded
"The objective of the American army was evidently the Minier Railway which runs to Santiago, but according to my information the rails had been torn up and the bridges destroyed.
"If the Americans succeed in continuing the forward movement, they will only be able to make use of the roads for transporting their artillery. These operations will, however, be very difficult, especially as the rainy season has begun.
"The American right wing is encamped near Baiquiri, close to the sea, so as to be supported -by the guns of the fleet.
"It is thought that the engagement will be resumed this morning."—Matin.
GENERAL CASTILLO'S CAMP.
Statements Made by Spanish Prisoners—Santiago Short of Food.
HERALD DESPATCH BOAT, OFF GUANTANAMO (VIA ST. NICHOLAS), Tuesd&Y¡'7Yesterday' I visited; the- Cuban camp oh the coast' twenty miles west of Guantanamo. General de Castillo is in command, with 500 insurgents, and holds a landing place, where there are a breakwater and the remains of an old pier. It is a place where the troops could be put -ashore easily, but it is too far from Santiago.
The general replied by a note in which he called Lieutena.nt Batista a coward, and said that he and his family could starve. He chided the lieutenant for surrendering when he had seventeen men, and said he should have cut his way through the American lines.
Lieutenant Batista tore the Spanish rosette from his hat and threw it into the sea. He wrote to the general denying that he is ..1, coward, and declaring that the Americans won because they shot better than -the Spaniards, and had the support of artillery and machine guns. Not all the men of his command were captured, he says, and he declares that he did not expect such injustice from his own people.
The insurgents assert that Lieutenant Batista is a Cuban, and that if they had caught him they would have cut his throat.
Notices have been posted in the woods by the Cuban scouts saying that any Spanish soldiers who surrender will be well treated.
The camp of the American marines is now well entrenched and able to resist any attack. The health of the troops and of the men in the fleet is excellent. It is reported that there are many sick and wounded in the Spanish forces.—Daily Telegraph.
Genera! Castillo tells me that 18,000 American troops can capture the city of Santiago in ten days if they approach from both sides;
Two Spanish soldiers who were captured between Santiago and Guantanamo have reported to General Castillo that food is scarce in the city, and that the supply of flour has been exhausted, bread being made from rice and corn meal.
EFFECTS OF DYNAMITE SHELLS.
The prisoners state that the shells from the Vesuvius caused an absolute panic in Santiago, where the people say that the Americans throw earthquakes into the har-
bor at night. None of these missiles struck the city. One hit the battery on Cayo Smith, entirely demolishing it, blowing the guns over the front of the works and killing the whole garrison. The shock was felt in Santiago itself.
I have secured confirmation of the statement that a disaster had happened to the Spanish cruiser Reina. Mercooes. Her commander, and eleven men were killed, and twenty-eight were wounded.
The Spanish Lieutenant Batista, who was captured last week, wrote to the general commanding * at Caimamera, begging that his exchange might be speedily made, and asking that his wife and family should be fed and cared for during his absence.
WAS CALLED A COWARD.
Promotion for Lieutenant Hobson.
WASHINGTON, uoscay.- lias oeen decided to transfer Lieutenant Hobson, of the Merrimac, from the Naval Construction Corps to the line of the Navy, and to promote him to the grade of lieutenantcommander. He was to have been consulted before action was taken, but Spain's refusal to exchange him has induced the President to proceed with the promotion of this gallant officer.—Daily Telegraph.
THE SANTIAGO ARMY.
Detailed List of Troops Serving Under General Shafter.
HERALD BUREAU, WASHINGTON, D.C., Monday, June 13.—The Santiago army consists of 773 officers and 14,564 enlisted men. The United States regular troops make up the greater part of the force, there being but three volunteer organizations on the ships. These are the Seventyfirst New York Infantry Volunteers, the Second Massachusetts Infantry Volunteers and two dismounted squadrons of four troops each from the First United States Volunteer Cavalry, the . regiment which Colonel Wood commands, and of which Mr. Theodore Roosevelt is lieutenant-colonel.
Hospital detachments are included in the foregoing figures.
The staff corps numbers fifteen officers.
: It was difficult to prevail upon ...the mounted riflemen to leave their mounts behind, but this was a matter of necessity, it is said, owing to the lack of accommodations for the horses on shipboard. The best' that the Department could do at this time in the way of supplying a cavalry contingent for the expedition was to include among the troops one squadron of the Second United States Cavalry mounted, with nine officers and 280 enlisted men.
LIST OF THE TROOPS.
Tho full list of the troops that make up this expedition, as reported to the War Department by General Shafter, is as follows : —■
Infantry regiments: Sixth, Sixteenth, Seventy-first New York Volunteers, Tenth, Twenty-first, Second, Thirteenth, Ninth, Twenty-fourth , Eighth, Twenty-second, Second Massachusetts Volunteers, First, Twenty-fifth, Twelfth Seventh, Seventeenth, Third, Twentiet h. Total infantry, 561 officers and 10,709 enlisted men.
Cavalry: Two dismounted squadrons of four troops each from the Third, Sixth, Ninth, First, and Tenth Cavalry, and two dismounted squadrons of four troops each from the First United States Volunteer Cavalry. Total dismounted cavalry, 159 officers, 2,875 enlisted men; mounted cavalry, one squadron of the Second, 9 officers and 280 enlisted men.
Artillery: Light batteries E and K, First Artillery ; A and F, Second Artillery ; 14 officers and 323 enlisted men. Batteries G and H, Fourth Artillery, siege, 4 officers and 132 enlisted men.
Engineers : Companies C and E, 9 officers and 200 enlisted men.
Signal corps : One detachment, 2 officers and 45 enlisted men.
EMBARKING AT TAMPA.
Graphic Description of the Scenes on the Wharfs When the Troops
Go on Board Ship.
[From the NEW YORE. HERALD.]
Mr. Richard Harding Davis, writing from Tampa, Fla., under date of Sunday, June 12, says : The censor says we may tell what we saw Wednesday. We must not tell what happened before that day or after that day. We may only raise the curtain for twenty-four hours and drop it again quickly. Nor must we say why it happened or what it meant.
It is as though you came into the theatre late and left again in ten minutes and saw a well set scene and some good actors and a stage crowded with supers, but were told nothing of the plot or the climax, or whether it all came out well in the end. It is like cutting a strip of photographs out of a cinematograph and showing them without beginning or end, leaving your audience to guess the country, tho place and the people, and what they were doing.
If I can only have twenty-four hours I will begin when they did. at midnight on Tuesday.
SCENE IN A RAILROAD OFFICE.
The scene is set like the third act of "Secret Service." There are two officers in a railroad office on the end of a long pier. It runs down into a bay and is blocked with long lines of cars. Some of the cars are marked "Powder," others are filled with food for powder, others with food for the men that powder feeds 011.
Paralleled with the long pier are great passenger steamers, looming up blacker than the night. And beyond them, in the moonlight, are many more, with lights showing the sentries on their decks.
Two officers in the railroad office have not slept in three days. They sit at desks and make out orders for cars, orders to move horses, orders for rations, orders to
ADMIRAL CAMARA
OFF SANTA POLA.
Gone with His Squadron to the Bay There for Some Target Practice.
THIRD SQUADRON NOT READY.
Absurd to Claim that a Month Will
Suffice—Hitch in the Lepanto's Completion.
[SPECIAL TO THE HERALD.]
CADIZ, Wednesday, via Gibraltar, Thursd:\y.- The auxi 'ilry cruiser Ciudad de Cadiz has returne 1 here.
The gunboa.t Aquila his passed Ceuta, proceeding to Algeciras.
Admiral Camara has gone with his squadron to the Bay of S-int-i Pola for the alleged purpose of target practice.
The Pielago has left for Cartagena with provisions.
In addition to tha vessels already mentioned the ihird squadron will comprise the Alfonso XIII., Vitoria and Princf sa de .Asiurias. It is claimed here that it will be ready in a month, but this is absurd, for even the Lepanto, which is the most advanced, will not be completed then, for private information reaches me that there has been a hitch. It is now found news sary to remove her foremast to give her greater stability.
The bearer of the above mBssige says that an Englishman, suspected of being a HERALD correspondent, has been arrested at Sm Fernando.
SPANISH RESERVE
FLEET REPORTED.
Seen by a Steamer Off the Coast of Algeria—Was Proceeding Eastward.
[SPECIAL TO THE HERALD.]
ALGIERS, Thursday.—The steamer Hampton reports that she passed the Spanish fleet yesterday bound east, proceeding at half speed, and showing no colors. The cruisers were towing the torpedo boats.
The fleet consists of five or six cruisers arid about twelve transports full of troops.
SPAIN'S INVENTION.
Much Interest Displayed in the Newly Invented Explosive.
MADRID, Tuesday.--A great deal of hope is founded -in the Spanish mind upon the newly invented explosive called "daza," which has been furnished to the Pelayo and Carlos V.
Never since the trials of the submarine boat Peral has so much interest been displayed in any invention. This "daza," it is claimed, is far more powerful than any explosive ever invented, and about it the Government observes the utmost secrecy. Not a syllable on the subject can be drawn either from the War or Marine Department.
The voyage of the Minister of Marine and the Marques de Comillas, president of thû Board of Management of the Trasatlantica Company, had two purposes. The first was to inspect the final preparations of the fleet; the second, and this is not generally known, was to witness experiments with "daza/' projectiles.
As to the results of those trials, they were evidently satisfactory enough for orders to be given that the new explosive should be supplied to the two best ships in the fleet.
Such was the interest felt in the trials that the Queen personally telegraphed to Cadiz to ascertain the result.
: All the information 1 can get owing to the extraordinary secrecy observed, is that the "daza" projectile is fired from a specially made gun, or, perhaps, more correctly speaking, from a tube, the motive force being compressed air.
Experts appear to doubt the value of the new invention, saying that the trials have demonstrated a lack of precision in firing, and that it would only be useful in bombardments.
AMMUNITION FOR SPAIN.
Little Doubt That the Steamer Zrinyi Sailed with Explosives from Trieste.
To e-TIlE EDITOR OF THE HERALD : —
I have been investigating the mystery surrounding the loading and departure of the steamer Zrinyi, which is believed to have left this port laden with ammunition for Spain.
'I went to the spot where the cargo was shipped and saw,lying in the roadstead, the Hungarian steamer Zrinyi, commanded by Captain Merlato, of 941 net registered tons, black painted, spar decked, schooner rigged, length 240ft., built at Newcastle for the Royal Hungarian Sea Navigation Company at Fiume. This company lias a large subvention from the Hungarian Government.
- I saw it being loaded with cases of about one metre in height and about the same breadth. These cases were marked "vor.sichtig" (with çare). They were taken but of the railway wagons by a crane, most probably in order that they might not be damaged by handling. After that they were transported with the utmost caution to a lighter, and thence to the steamer Zrinyi afcresaid. Arriving alongside, they were hoisted up by a floating crane belonging to tho Government.
I tried to discover more, but a gentleman ordered me to approach no nearer, alleging the ground belonged to the railway and was not public.
: I find that these cases arrived here on June 16 by a train composed of thirtyfour wagons. The declaration was made, "parts of machinery." They were addressed to the Adria Steamship Company. About fifteen cases weighed from 5 to 6 tons ; the rest were of less weight. The cases were lined with tin plate. Although the dockers were told, in order that they should not claim extra pay, that the contents were machinery, there is a strong suspicion that the boxes contained ammunition. This suspicion seems confirmed by the fact that engineers superintended the
shipment. The cargo weighed 370,410 kilos.
The cases came from Pilsen, in Bohemia, probably from the manufactory of the firm of E. Skoda, where are made shells, quickfiring guns and explosives. The grenades, it turns out, are renowned. It appears reasonable to suppose that only with explosives would such precautions foe takon.- When I aa-w the steamer Zrinyi, she was lying deep at her marks. ' She sailed early on Sunday morning last. She is slow, and cannot pass Gibraltar in less than nine days, so the American Government has plenty of time to watch her. Her other cargo consists of wooden planks shipped at Fiume for Rouen, The cases of ammunition are shipped in such a way that they can be discharged at anotner port before Rouen. The official clearance of the Zrinyi was for Rouen, but as good3 from Pilsen bound for Rouen never go via Trieste, as tne natural way is oy the Elbe via Hamburg, or by direct train to Rouen , it is evident that these explosives are going to Spain. I think they will go toO Cadiz, if not to Cape Verde.
I hear that another cargo is to follow. It is certain that tne harbor and Custom House authorities have shut their ears and eyes in this matter.. "F." Trieste, June 21, 1898.
NO LONGER SPANISH.
President McKinley Not Disturbed by Reports About Germany and the Philippines.
WASHINGTON, Wednesday.—I am assured on the highest authority that the statement emanating from Madrid alleging that Germany has offered to pay five hundred million marks for twenty years' protectorate over the Philippines does nob disturb the American Government.
It is not regarded as probable that Germany proposes to overthrow the European "status quo," which would be the result of such action. An Anglo-American alliance would instantly be forced by circumstances, while Russia would undoubtedly regard the cession of the Philippines to Germany with grave suspicion.
Meantime, the President distinctly holds the opinion that the Philippines are no longer Spanish territory. He anxiously and momentarily awaits the report that the American flag floats over Manila:
As soon as the troops enter the city any negotiation by a foreign Power with Spain for the transfer of the islands would be regarded as an act hostile to the United States.—Daily Chronicle.
Admirals Dewey and von Diedrichs.
According to reports in the "Frankfurter Zeitung," the relations between Rear-Admiral Dewey and Admiral von Diedrichs are not all they ought to be. When the German admiral offered to take wounded Spaniards on board his ships, his offer was declined and he was informed that, as before, they would be sent on board the English vessels in the bay.
DUAL CONTROL IMPOSSIBLE.
The "Cologne Gazette" Says That a Mixed Government in Manila Would Not Last One Day.
[From the Cologne Gazette.]
In spite of the critical situation of the Spanish in the Philippines and the arrival of General Shafter's troops off Santiago, the next few days arc unlikely to bring any decisive change. At Manila, Admiral Dewey dare not support the rebels in their advance until he receives a large body of troops, and in Cuba everything depends on the landing of reinforcements.
Nevertheless, the Americans already regard Cuba and even Porto Rico (where they have only up till now made one absolutely unsuccessful attack on San Juan) as their certain prey. On the other hand, in the Philippines, where the chances of Spanish success are very small, the Americans do not seem at all certain of being able to assert the supremacy of the United States.
In the meantime, the most wonderful proposals are put forward for the settlement of the situation in Manila.
The NEW YORK HERALD proposes, till peace is concluded, the establishment of a mixed Hispano-American government, which shall be carried out and supported by an equal number of Spanish and American officials, troops and ships of war (!) That such a situation of two nations still at war with one another would from the first day prove a failure does not seem to occur to the American newspaper.
THE RUSSIAN PRESS.
Spain Urged to Make Peace—The British Proposals in China.
Commenting on the British proposals for reorganizing the Chinese army and navy under English control, the "Novoe Vremya" says that the realization of this plan would mean the increase of the British fleet at China's expense. "Besides Russia,'' it says, "the other great Powers of Europe have no small reason for supporting the Chinese Government, so that it should not fall a victim to the plans of England, which are deadly to the whole of the Far East. Nor is Japan the least interested in China's remaining an independent State, not subject to any European Power."
The "Novosti" continues a vigorous campaign in favor of an early termination of the Spanish-American war, which it describes as "senseless and stupid." This leading St. Petersburg organ disavows all insinuations that may be made as to its attitude, by declaring its aversion to the talk of European interference or an alleged demonstration by French and Russian warships against the United States, and it furthermore declares that far from attacking the Anglo-American alliance, should it exist, "we find such an alliance quite possible, probable and natural, if only on account of the community of origin, language, character and economical interests of both great nations."
The "Novosti" is aghast at the boast of Spanish papers that Spain is able to continue the war for two years., "Two years of war! Why, that is sheer madness!" it remarks. "Have the Spaniards thought what the end of these two years would be? Russia, after a victorious war with Turkey was unable to recover from its disastrous economical consequences for twenty whole years." -
THE KING'S COMMUNION.
MADRID, Wednesday. — King Alfonso XIII. made his first communion this morning in the private chapel of the palace. The members of the Cabinet were present at the ceremony.
The Bishop of Sion delivered an address, in the course of which he recalled to the young King the memory of bis father and exhorted him to remember the misfortuces of his country and pray God to protect Spain.—Temps.
CORNELL WINS
THE BOAT RACE.
Tale Defeated by a Length and a
Half—Harvard Six Lengths Behind.
SLOW, UNINTERESTING RICE.
Sympathy Expressed for Mr. Lehmann
—The Freshmen's . Contest Won ' by Yale.
NEW YORK, Thursday.—The University Boat Race, in which Yale, Harvard and Cornell competed at New London to-day, was caller promptly on timo at 12.30.
Lehmann, who sails for home on Saturday. It is stated that he will not coach Harvard again, as he has found it extremely difficult to revolutionize their rowing methods. He has succeeded admirably, however, in introducing a fairer and more
CAPTAIN J. F. PERKINP, HARVARD.
generous spirit into inter-collegiate sport and in teaching American crews that it is not necessary to belittle each other simply because they are rivals. He takes his defeat philosophically, and makes his bow with the respect and esteem of the entire rowing community.
The Yale, Harvard and Cc)rii--Il freshmen's race was rowed this afternon 011 the last two miles of the university course. The crews fmished in the order naimd.—Daily Telegraph.
It was an ideal day, but the ten thousand people left over from yesterday saw
CAPTAIN F. D. CO'SON, CORNELL.
a slow and uninteresting race. Cornell, as the betting indicated, finished first in 23min. 48sec., Yale was a length and a half behind and Harvard six lengths.
All the crews rowed about the same stroke, 32 to 34 to the minute. The Harvard boat was rigged with thole pins, after the English fashion.
Both Harvard and Yale are much chagrined at being beaten again by Cornell,
C iT TAIN WHITNEY, YALE.
which is considered an outsider, and are anxious to return to their annual dual race. The fact is that they cannot do so as long as Cornell wins.
Much sympathy was expressed ior Mr.
CYCLONE AT PORT ARTHUR.
ST. PETERSBURG, Thursday. — Advices from Port Arthur state that a cyclone visited that place a few days ago.
A Chinese torpedo-boat destroyer which was in the inner harbor was thrown up on the beach. One hundred and thirty Chinese perished.
The Russian cruiser Vladimir Monomakh put to sea as also did the battleship Sisoy Veliky. The latter sustained some injuries which J ortunately were slight.—Temps.
JOURNALISTIC DUEL.
Another press duel was fought yesterday in the suburbs of Paris. The principals were M. Adolphe Possien, of the " Jour," and M. Louis Marsolleau, of the " Petite Rfpnblique," The encounter came off on the same spot as --the Castellan-Turot duel and, according to the " Figarp," the representative of the "Petite Repub]ique" was slightly touched in three places in the firs bout." ..
HURRICANE IN SPAIN.
MADRID, Thursday.—A terrible hurricane has swept over the town of Segovia and the environs
The railway service ia interrupted. There has, however, been no accident. Active efforts are being made to clear the line.
The foreign mail has nor arrived at Madrid.—Temps.