The times., 1898-06-07
PROVISIONS At SANTIAGO
People i'm the Blockaded City
Have Food for a Year.
TIE FORTS HAVE OLD GUNS
There Are Said to BE Five Spanish
Warships I'm the Harbor i'm Addi-
tion to the Cruisers of Admiral
Cervera-The Gums of One Vessel
Have Been Mounted ON Shore.

New York, June 6-Meat in the shops at
Santiago de Cuba, Sl.5O pound; eggs.
$3.50 dozen; milk. 81 a quart; goats. $50
apiece. Those were the prices in the
blockaded city on May IS, when Louis
Duany left there, but ne says that starv-
ing the city would, nevertheless, be hard
task
Duany. who has just reached this city
Is native Cuban, twenty-five years old
After having been arrested on suspicion
of being connected with the insurgents,
and then released, he came to the United
States 10 avoid being impressed into the
Spanish army.
There are in the province of Santiago"
young Duany said yesterday, $4,000 Span
ish soldiers Eight thousand Of these sol
diers are in the field under General Pando.
The rest are in the city of Santiago and
the outlying towns, under the command
of General Linares and General Toral.
These men are first-eiass generals, and
their troops are well armed and drilled.
but the Americans with 10000 men and
the assistance Of the insurgents would
soon overcome them.
by the Americans remaining still they
could not accomplish anything. as they
could not starve the Spaniards there.
There are always plenty of vegetables and
other things they could eat. When / left
there were enough provisions to supply
the city for year The stores were well
supplied with canned goods and barrels of
goldfish and had plenty Of flour. although
milk, meat and eggs were high priced
THE city Is well protected by soldiers
and by forts on the entrance, which are
Ell Moro Castle and La Socapa, opposite;
one they were making. called Punta Cor
da, a mile from these two a big maga-
zine called FL Polvorin on a small island
aa %ha mid of he -H1 md rtsa-
fort. named Punta Blanca. half a mile
from the central part of the town.
THE guns in all these forts were old
fashioned and rusty ones, and the new
ones they were placing now on the forts
were those from the cruiser Relna Mer-
cedes, whose boiler was damaged and is
now anchored at the entrance on the side
OF Socapa Fort.
when I left on May IS. there were five
Spanish boats there-the cruiser Reina
Mercedes (disabled). II Conde BenaditO
and II Marques de Molin (these We're two
auxiliary cruisers). and TWO Of the small
est gunboats. II SandonaI and La Estrella-
The first three used to cruise from San
tIago to Cape Maysi, and the next two
from Santiago to Caimanera, the port OF
Guantanamo, seventy-five miles from
Santiago.
"The Reina Mercedes is /, $50 tons and
carried two 5-9-inch Krupp guns. four l.
inch Krupp. two 5-pound quick fire, FIVE
machine guns, and two torpedo tubes.
The other two auxiliary cruisers carried
3.3-inch Krupp guns. two 2-pound quick
fire guns, and three machine guns, while
the Two gunboats only carried quick FIRE
guns.
The soldiers could be landed ten miles
from Santiago on the Aguadore Bridge.
where the Juragua Iron Company used
to coal 1t is only one-hour's march. and
the landing would be protected by the
American feet