Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1898-08-18

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Of the Secretary. AS further step II
this directi on, the President TO-DAY
directed that the Twenty third Kansa,
regiment, colored, be dispatched to San
tiago to form part Of the army of oc-
cupation of Cuba.
The Kansans had rendered their SER
vice for this purpose, and urged accept.
xnce, which President Mckinley and
Secretary Alger finally agreed to, today,
after conference with Representative
Curtis, of Kansas. 1t was decided also
to send the Twentieth Kansas to Ma.
'nila, should additional troops be asked
for by General Merritt. The TWEEN
tieth is now at San Francisco.
pnar1su 4 Acconsr
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LONDON, Aug. I8.-The Manila cor.
respondent of the Times telegraphs
under date of August 13. 5p. M:
The troops left the camp at $3.50 in a
heavy thunderstorm. They carried 400
rounds of ammunition per man and
two days cooked rations.
Shertly after 8:45 the fleet got away
with flags mastheaded. Perfect quiet
prevailed in the lines on both sides as
the great ships cleared for action and
silently advanced, some times hidden
by rain squalls.
At 9:35 a sudden cloud of smoke,
green and white against the stormy
sky, completely hid the Olympia and a
shell screamed across two miles of tur-
bulent water and burst near the Span
ish fort at Malate, San Antonio de
Abad. The shells rendered the forts
untenable, while the four guns of the
Utah battery made excellent practice
of the earthw0rks and swamp to the
east of the fort. !
Less than half an hour after the
bombardment began, General Greene
decided that it was possible to advance,
although the signals to cease firing
were disregardsd by tho fleet, being
probably invisible on account of the
rain. Thereupon six companies of the
Colorado regiment leaped ovsr their
breastworks, dashed into the swamp
and began volley firing from the partial
shelter of low hedges within three
hundred yards of the Spanish lines. A
few moments later, the remaining six
companies moved along the sea shore,
some we'll covered BY a sand ridge
formed By an inset under the eutworks
of the forts and at IL o'clock occupied
this formidable stronghold without
loss Lieut.. Colonel Mccoy hauled
down the Spanish flag and raised the
Stars and Stripes amid wild cheers
along the line.
Meanwhile. the feet. observing the
movement of the troops along the
beach. withheld it's FIRE. The bomtard-
ment had lasted exactly an hour and
half. An hour later General Greene and
his staff proceeded along the beach,
still under a hot infantry fire from the
right where the Eightcenth regulars
and the Third regular artillery were
engaging the enemy and directed q
movement for an advance into Malate.
There was considerable street fighting
in the suburbs of Malate and Ermita.
bat the battalion Of Californians
pushed into the Luneta. a popular
promenade. within two hundred Yards
Of the moat of the Ecitidel. Then. the
white flag was hoisted at the southwest
cerner Of the walled town. General
Greene with few members Of his staff
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