The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-07-13
AT SKATERS MERCY.
Spaniards Considering Another De-
mand For Their Surrender.

Copyright, 1898. by the Associated Press.)
Siboney, July ia concerted move
ment has been made by the United
States army and navy on Santiago dur
ing the past "a hours which the Ameri-
can officers here believe will result n n
the almost immediate fall of the city.
The fleet lying off Aguadores, three
miles east of MORO Castle, began the
bombardment of Santiago on Sunday
afternoon and continued it this morn
ing. Notwithstanding the fact that our
ships had to fire at an extreme eleva-
ton, and although the range was near
ly five miles, the aim was so accurate
that many of the shells fell in the city
and set fire to it in four places. One
shell struck st. MichaeIs church. in
which a quantity of powder and am
munition was stored, and blew it to
pieces.
During the bombardment from the
sea the army extended its line and
drew in closer to the city, so that at
noon today every road and trail lead
ing out of the city was guarded, and
the escape of the Spanish soldiers
can get out of the city is to ferry
across the bay to the western side of
the harbor, and even then they could
not get into the interior without en-
countering American troops.
During the time the warships were
bombarding aSntiago this morning the
bombarding Santiago this morning the
the city shelled the Spanish entrench-
mentS and received but a feeble re-
Spouse. The American sharpshooters
also sent in a deadly fire, and the Span
iards fell hack to. their last entrench-
ments. Offering. but little resistance.
The Americans Suffered no loss.
At noon today General Shafter COM
municated by signal with Rear Admiral
Sampson, requesting the latter to cease
firing. Then the general sent General
Wheeler into the Spanish lines, under
q flag of truce, with a message to Cen
eral Toral, the Spanish commander, re-
citing the fact that the American ships
had given complete demonstration that
they could throw shells into the city
and destroy it, ard that the American
troops had the city completely sur
rounded and that the 1.SG0 Spanish
and Cuban citizens were starving to
death at Ell Caney, and pointing out
that our army had no means of feed
ing them.
General Shafter then demanded the
unconditional surrender of the city,
and coupled this demand with the
statement that unless General Tcral
accepted, the assault upon the city,
both by land ard sea forces, would be
renewed at once. Several hours elapsed
before any reply was received from
General Toral, and then he sent a mes
sage to General Shafter to the effect
that the matter was of such great i'm
portarce that he had been obliged to
refer it to the Madrid government and
that he would send his final answer as
soon as he could receive instructions
from Madrid. 1t was then late in the
afternoon and General Shafter gave
orders to all the troops to get as much
rest as possible. and be prepared to
resume the attack any moment. No
word has been received from General
Toral up TO o'clock
During the time the negotiations
were pending General Miles arrived off
Aguadores on board the Yale from
Charleston. Admiral Sampson went on
board the Yale and held a conference
with General Miles. Then the latter
went to Siboney, landing for a short
while and held a telephone communi-
cation with General Shafter, seven
miles away.
General Miles will go to the front to-
Tuesday, morning. Immedi-
ately after his arrival at Siboney Gen
eral Miles and his personal staff landed
in the cutter Of the Yale.
General Miles declined to receive
newspaper men on board the steamer