The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1898-07-01
Copyright, 1893, "y tho Associated
Press.)

Copyright, 1893, hy tho Associated
Press)
At the Front, on the Rio Guiana,
Monday, June 27-(Noon. )-Per
the Associated Press Dispatch Boat
Wanda via Port Antonio, Jamaica,
juno 28.-Tuesday (Forenoon)-Via
Kingston, Jamacia-12:35 p. m.
The American front has boen ad
vanced beyond tho first crossing of
thee Rio Guiana about a mile, and
tug lies three and half miles from
the. Spanish entertainments.
General Luwton's bri gade rests Oil
the road to Santiago do Cuba. The
Third brigade, under General Chaf-
foe, tho Seventeenth, Twelfth and
Seventh regimonth, holds the trench,
with his command lying across the
road and river.
The First brigade, tho Eighth,
Twenty second and Second Massa
chusetts, under General Evan Clark
lies on tho left flank, slightly in the
rear, and the Second brigade, the
First, Fourth and Twenty. fifth oc,
cupies the opposite position on the
right flank. Gen. Wheeler with tho
cavalry, is in tho rear between So
villa hills and the Rio Guiana.
A strong line Of outposts is main
tanned ahead.
General Chatfce's brigade, with
three thousand Cnbans under Gen
eral Aguirra and several hundred
under Col. Gonzales, was skirmish
ing towards tho city this morning.
The Cubans had several slight
slirmishes with the Spaniards sta
toned on tho hills on the American
right flank, and our auxiliarics oc.
cupied tho blockhouses in that
vicinity, which wore evacuated be-
fore daybroal by tho Spapiards.
Tho iattor rotreated towards Santi-
ago dc Cuba. No fatalities are re-
ported.
General Lawton, General Chat1ee
and General Wheeler have thorough
ly reconnoitered tho Spanish posi-
ton, and, with the aid Of Informal
ton furnished by the Cubans, have
very good maps of the roads and
defonses of the city.
Much information has also been
ATTAINED from Spanish pacilicos,
who have slipped out of the city and
given themselves up in the hope Of
getting food. They report great
starvation and distress in Sartiago.
They say the Spanish troops are on
short rations and that all the sup,
supplies are being beld for thoir
uso.
The sick in tho hospitals, the pa
cificos say, are suffering from lack
of food, and they also report that
seventy seven Spaniards wero killed
and that eighty nine were wounded
as tho result of the engagement on
Friday last with Col. Woods and
Young's commands.
The most startling information
obtained from tho paciicos is that
since the advance began almost
twenty thousand Spanish soldiers
havo arrived at Santiago de Cuba.
This statement is made on the au-
thority Of Genornl Lawton and he is
also of tho opinion that General
Pando may be able to effect june
ton with Genoral Linarcs at Santa
go dc Cuba.
There arc two forts Of considcra.
bio Importance within the Spanish
lines -Punta Blanco, at the southern
end of the bay, and Santa Ursula at
tho southeast corner. On the road to
Canoy, on tho north, is another fort.
There are about $50 men in each Of
these Notifications, and stretching
around the whole city arc nine
barbed wire fences, fifty yards
= apart, while just inside these arc
lines Of rifle pits.
Outside, to tho eastward, about
two miles beyond the American out,
D posts, is line of entrcnchments, OK
+ tondino from the northern eXtrem-