The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-06-28
INVESTING SANTIAGO.
Advance Force OF Americans Pour
Niles from the City.
CuBANS UNDER GENERAL GONZALES
General Wheeler with Cavalry and
Rough Riders in Vicinity.
ENEMY is WELL INTRENCHED.
A Mounted Modern Gun 10 One of
the Trenches.
THE ASSAULT WILL BE NO PICNIC
Every Hill ana Mountain North nnd
East Of Santiago Occupied by
Spanish BlocLhouscs.
General Wheeler with Cavalry and
Rough Riders in Vicinity.
ENEMY is WELL INTRENCHED.
A Mounted Modern Gun 10 One of
the Trenches.
THE ASSAULT WILL BE NO PICNIC
Copyrighted, 1898. by Associated Press,

Copyrighted, 1898. by Associated Pross.)
On the Rio Guayama, Sunday, June 49,
noon. via Kingston. Jamaica, June "a, 0
a. m.-The advance force OF the American
army rests on this stream, with the city OF
Santiago de Cuba four and half miles
westward. In plain sight.
Last night the outposts. consisting Of
two companies of the Seventh infantry,
under Major Coolidge. occupied positions
at right angles to the road, guarding the
crossing a mile and half Beyond Sabinella
where three regiments OF General LAwton's
division encamped. the First, Fourth and
Seventeenth.
The Eighth, Second and Twenty second
Massachusetts. with the Rough Riders,
Tenth cavalry and portions of several other
regiments are strung out behind, towards
Juragua.
About 5000 Cubans under General Con
gales were camped around General Law
toms headquarters. but less than fifty OF
them did scout duty last night.
General Wheeler to-day. with the First,
Second and Tenth cavalry and the Rough
Riders, with dynamite guns, moved up to
where General Lawton's outposts were last
night. and four batteries Of the Third ar
tillery and four Calling guns with special
detail under Lieutenant Parker, were
brought up and planted on the brow OF the
hill overlooking the basin In which San
tlago lies.
Not shot was fired from the American
side last night, though the front Of the
Americans was not $500 yards from the In
trenchments where the Spaniards propose
Cuba.
Three cannon shots were heard during
the night They seemed to come from
distant batteries. or perhaps from seaward
The top of every hill and mountain north
and cast of Santiago is occupied by block
houses, from whence the Spaniards can
view the movements of the American army
as 1t advances beyond Sabanilla, while to
the eastward of tho city, gashing every
)knoll and bit of high ground are Spanish
Entertainments
The correspondent OF the Associated
Press from an elevation to the right of
the American line today counted thirty
four OF these intrenchments. completely
fencing every approach 10 the city.
hN AltHtutS uhNt prem aug as the con-
formation Of the ground admitted The
ends of the trenches overlap where breaks
on the line occur, thus securing compara-
lively safe retreat from rifle hre In case
parts of the trenches were captured. One
of these trenches has q mounted modern
gun. They can be plainly seen with the
naked eye.
Spies report that inside the mtrenoh-
ments are four parallel lines of rifle pits.
shoulder uaCfa nd in or
marked ranges and several rows OF barbed
wire fences
No officer who has surveyed the field
over which the advance must he made un-
derestimates the task ahead OF the Amcri-
cans. but their boys still express the most
contamptuous opinion OF their adversaries
Their opinion is that moro artillery will
be necessary before II will be safe TO make
an assault on the Spanish works, as the
fire OF rifle pits must necessarily be SUI
fcient to demoralze any force no matte,
how brilliant Its courage