The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-06-24
X H II /
NARCINC ON.
Skaters Army Closing
in Rapidly on DOOM
ed Santiago.
LAVTOH's ROUGH RIDERS LEAD
Linares and Twelve Hundred
Troops Run Away From
Juragua.
UR TROOPS OCCUPY THE TOWN
Cuban Troops Doing Splendid
Service on the Skirm-
ish Line.
BAD BLOOD IN THE CORTES.
WoIfish Debate Among spain's
sStatesmen" Over Cuba
and the Philippines.
CAMARA SAILING EAST.
The Elusive Cadiz Squadron Last
Sighted Near the Algerine
Coast.
Wolfish Debate Among Spain's
..statesmen" Over Cuba
and the Philippines.
cAMARA SAILING EAST.
The Elusive Cadiz Squadron Last
Sighted Near the Algerine
Coast.

TBys Cable, Copyright, 1898, by The Associated
Press.
ON BOARD THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
DESPATCH BOAT DAUNTLESS. OFF
JURAGUA, PROVINCE OF SANTIAGO
DE CUBA, Thursday night, June 23 1885,
via Port Antonio, Jamaica, Friday, June
"a GOO A. M.)-The advance of the Ameri-
can Army has reached the edge of the
tableland in which the harbor of Santiago
de Cuba lies. Here, seven miles from Nor
no Castle. as the crow flies, the main
body of the troops has united and the
Spaniards are in full retreat towards
Santiago de Cuba They may attempt a
surprise; but, a decisive engagement is
not expected for several days.
General Lawton's Brigade, which sted
last night at Bomajayaho, four miles
west of Baiduiri. resumed its march at
daylight Before noon, his Brigade, con-
sisting of the Twenty-second Infantry,
the Second Massachusetts Volunteers,
with Companies of the Eighth Cavalry,
half of the Fourth Cavalr 1nd several
Companies of the Twenty lth Colored
Cavalry occupied Juragua, FIVE miles be-
yond, and the American flag was hoisted
there.
The Spaniards retired before the ad-
vance. which was covered by the Cuban
skirmishers, burning the blockhouses as
they went.
Colonel Wagner, with a small reconna-
isance party of about forty men, brushed
against the flank of a retreating Spanish
column. two hundred strong, at Firmezas.
A dozen shots were fired by the Span
iards, as Colonel Wagner fell back. Be-
fore General Lawton could bring up the
Twenty-second, the van regiment, the
Spaniards had decamped westward.
Juragua was abandoned by General
Linares and twelve hundred Spanish
troops with such haste that they had no
time to burn the town, though an inef-
fectual effort was made to destroy the To-
comotives of the railroad and the roll
ing-stock-
General Linares retreated to Savilla,
six miles west of Juragua by road, and
nine niles from Santiago de Cuba.
detachment of g170 Cubans, under
Colonel Aguirra, collided with the Spanish
rear guard. The Cubans lost two men
killed and had seven wounded The Span
ish loss is not known. One Spaniard was
macheted.
General Chaffee, with the Ninth Cav
airy, the remainder of the Eighth and the
Fourth. Seventh, Twelfth and Seven
teenth infantry reached Juragua at dark.
General Bates with the reserve of the
Twentieth Infantry and Colonel Woods
Rough Riders dismounted, with dyna-
mite gun. hurried forward from Baiquiri
at three O'Clock, proceeding by forced
marches.
When the couriers brought the news
that Juaragua had been occupied, the
troopships which had not disembarked
their troops steamed to Juragua with the
view Of landing them there But the
heavy sea beating on the beach made ii
Impossible TO get boats through the surf
Dispatches Of General Lineras, which
have been captured, indicate that the
spaniards were ordered to retreat to-