The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-06-27
BATTLE OF
SANTIAGO
Nay Be Fought Within the
Present Week.
THE SPEEDY LANDING OF TROOPS,
Under Adverse Circumstances, Con-
sirered Most Extraordinary.
THE BATTLE OF LA QUASINA,


Ubsr. poo.evs,t,s DOUGH piders Rr.ved q
, Oeaoiy opan''n rn'-o'A'e'h VI ou'
Men Were Killed and Sixty Wounded Sr
Miss;no-Lieutenant Colonel Roosevelt
oo'1eu N'ie anu HuSneu in'' 'ne n''A
OF the Fight-The Dead Heroes Buried
Where They Fell Fighting For the Stars
80. e.~;
''
Juragua. Cuba. via Kingston, ia
ma,ca lime 27-Troops Of the limited
States and Spain are almost face to
face and less than four miles apart.
The picket lines at certain points are
within hailing distance of the enemy.
II seems certain that the battle of San.
tiago must come within a week.
The troops we're all ashore here and
NJ Baiuuiri with the execution of a
few scattered companies that have
xone forward The supplies are suf-
fcient to enable the army to sustain
a weeks campaign at both landing
points,
The landing of troops. horses and
supp,ies has been extraordinary. With
only one steam barge, and compelled
to depend on treacherous and small
boats General Shafter has landed over
10000 men. hundreds of horses and
mules and thousands of dollars worth
of supnlies on the exposed beaches.
and ONLY two men have lost their lives.
No more than so animals have been
drowned, and scarcely package of
supDlies has been lost
The initial fight of Colonel Woods
rouph riders and tho trooners Of the
First and Tenth regular cavalry will
he known in history as the battle Of
Ia ouasina That If did not end in
the comnletc slaughter of the Amerj-
cans was NOT due to anv miscalcula-
tion IN the nlon of the Snaniards for
ss nerfect an ambuscade az was ever
formed in the brain of an Apacbe
Indian wac nrenared and J,ieotenant
coIone, poosavelt and his man wa,kaa
..uoro,v into ~ Nor an bour ond a
half tbsv hold tbe,r eround u,dor n
Dorfoct storn, of hn,lets from tho
front and sido. and tben Colonel
wood .t tho r;gbt and Tieutenant
colone, poocovo,t ot tho 1eft lod a
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