Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-07-13
that can be- given out at this hour

ed news. ut can't be helped" was MS
reply as he hurried back into the cabi-
net room. The meeting broke up at
1:27. Both Secretaries Long and Alger
said There is not word that can be
given out. The general situation was
all that was discussed"
Unofficial reports about the city to-
| day caused more of hutter than any
that have been spread since Sunday be-
fore last when the government made
public the gloomy news that General
Shafter had wired the Secretary of War
that he could not take Santiago until
his army was largely reinforced. Among
| the many rumors are these: That Gen.
Miles teIegrsphed this morning that
the trenches had been washed out and
were full of water owing to the heavy
rains, and under the circumstances be
could not take Santiago at present;
that General Miles had also reported
General Torsl had ordered all the non
combatants to leave Santiago, and
claimed Toral's army would I'M
der this plan have enough food
to last probably sixty days; that
Toral surprised one of the TANKS
of the army, and that lively battle
! had taken place il which the United
States troops got the worst of the en-
gsgement; that President Mckinley
has instructed Admiral Sampson to
| force an entrance to the harbor and to
Immediately destroy the city of Santi-
go, no matter what the cost in men and
ammunition. None OF these reports
could be verified. Every member Of
the cabinet who expressed an opinion
and they were subjected to the closest
and most persistent questioning-seem-
ed to be at ease and would not admit
that anything startling had occurred.
| Captain Carr of the Rough Riders,
who was wounded in the first Santiago
fight, is here on furlough. He
saws the extent of sickness and
death and hardship among the Amer
lean troops in Cuba is not conceived
of here, as it is kept concealed by the
press censors. He also says that the
Cuban allies can fight provision wagons
as we'll as any men ne ever saw, but
that he can't say as much in respect of
their fights with the Spaniards.
1 Captain Carmichael of Virginia, re-
Gently appointed paymaster in the U.
IS. army, heard of his appointment
when engaged in surveys on the route
of the Ncaraguan canal, ninety miles
from the coast, but came down the
river in an open boat. He arrived here
last night, and as soon he can have his
uniform made will sail for Cuba: where
be has been assigned to duty.
Notwithstanding the reported reconcila-
ton of the Lamb and antiLamb factions of
the Virginia republicans, one of them told the
Gszette's correspondent this morning that
when Colonel Lamb was recently asked if he
would contribute to the election of a republi-
can candidate for Congress in the Alexandria
district at the fall election, he replied to the
effect that the attempt to elect q republican
in that district would be useless, and that be
had no money to be giving to the republican
committee to be fOoling away on any such
impractical object The national republican
committee has also refused to appropriate any
money for use in the coming Congressional
elections in Virginia dceming such an apprO-
pristion useless waste.
Upon the reception of dispatches from San
ltisgo By Secretaries Alger and Long to-day q
special meeting of the Cabinet was hurriedly
called, but for what purpose was not divlugei.
Bankers and brokers, however, who know
everything, say that yellow fever has broken
out among the American troops and has be-
come so fatal as to demand special attention
Yellow fever has broken out among the
troops in the vicinity of Santiago. Dispatches
conveying this information were received At
the War Department to-day ard were seat to
the White House and Secretary Alger. Ad
,utant General Corbin and Surgeon General
Sternberg had consultation with the Preai-
cent. Every prfcaution is being taken to
prevent the spread of the disease. Hospitals
and a special quarantine camp will be estab-
lished. Immune doctors and nurses have
heen ordered to Santiago: Information as to
the extent Of the fever is refused at the War
Department AS nesr as can be learned the
disease broke out in the neighborhood of ST.
honey.
A copy of tho Squadron Bulletin, which is
published every day on the flag ship New
! York, has been received here. aud gives an
account of the destruction of Cervera's squad
ron.
Tho ,nost radical extension of the weather
service yet made will be operated immediate
iy By this government by the establishment
Of a complete system Of weather stations on
| the Caribbean Sea for the benefit of all ne
lions whose Interests lie in that region.
Ststons for the re option of the sick troops
| will be established at Egmont Key in Tampa
bay, and Opechlcka. Fla and a ship for fever
patients will ply between Santiago and these
| stations. 1t has been decided that no more of
! the wounded and sick, other than by yellow
| fever, are to be brought north through Flor
ida. They will be carried by vessel up the
coast to Norfolk or other northern ports and
put in hospitals out of reach Of yellow fever
| It is said by the Washington authorities that
| tho hospital arrangements arc such that the
| fever cases can easily be isolated. Congress
man Hilborn of California, said on leaving
the War Department this morning that tie
report that yellow fever had gained a foot
hold in the American army in Cuba was true
4 dispatch from Admiral Dewey was re-
ceived al tho Navy Department soon after
one o'clock this afternoon. This message was
| in cipher and Lieut. Whittlessy, of the Nsvi.
--'ion Bureau, is now engaged in trinsat-
| ing it.
The President to-day appointed Martin }.
| Carter, of Pennsylvania, 10 be consul at 81
Johns, New Foundlard.
The Navy Department to-day received the
following dispatch from Admiral Dewey. 1t
| bears no date: Aug Asuinaldo informs me
his troops have taken ell OF Subig Bay except
Isa Grande which thy were prevented from
taking BY the German man-of-war l. enc. On
July 7 sent the Raleigh and Concord there.
They took the island and about 1900 men
with arms and ammunition. No resistance.
The Irene retired from the bay on tier ar.
rival. [ shsl send the Boston to Caps Ell
gano about July 1G to meet second army de-
tachment. 1t is not practicable 10 send TO
Guam No chartered vessels available"