The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-07-07
PANIC PREVAILS.
sSantiago's Non-Combatants
Wild to Leave the City.
FEARFUL OF COMMANDMENT.
no Accurate Information as TO the
Strength of the Spanish
Defenders.

Sailing of the Spanish Squadron Taken
~Nith Gloomy Forebodings by the Sol
oilers - Archbishop Addresses General
AiDarcs Advising n Surrender-Nayal
Mrn Believe Cervera Could Have Es-
scaPed Had He Taken IA Different Course.
Kingston, Jamaica, July Thou
sands OF people met the launches of
the English and Austrian warships at
the waterside at Santiago. and when
the foreign residents learned that pas
Esengers would be taken off, the English
and Austrian consulates were besieged
by hundreds emploring a chance to
leave. One Spanish merchant, in a
pitlable state of alarm offered the
British consul. Mr.. Ramsden, $4,000 in
gold to designate him as a British
Cuban. worthy TO be taken away. Those
drought to Jamaica came in the clothes
7they stood in, some even with absolute
1y no kind of baggage, having thought
only of escaping with their lives.
Non-Combatants Panic-Stricken.
The non-combatants in the city were
IN a state of desperate panic. Miss
-ANslAiSlEIlb the DIlliSI COISul > uduSn-
ter. says the American shells flew
saTound their house on Saturday and
Sunday morning. Mr.. Ramsden could
moi leave Santiago and his wife would
mot The report was that the city would
he bOmbarded Tuesday, beginning at 10
O'Clock in the morning or at noon The
reports varied. No one seems to know
accurately the strength of the Spanish
in he oil ~ nd b,,t
s3OO0 appears a probable estimate of
chose fit for duty. Streams Of wound
ed have been flowing in day and night
from the firing lines. Every fifth house
an Santiago is an improvised hospital
Dismayed at Sailing of the Fleet.
The sailing Of Admiral Cervera's fleet
had a bad effect on the soldiers They
were dismayed when they saw the war
ships no longer in the harbor and felt
themselves abandoned TO fate. They
interpreted it to mean that Admiral
CeIvera and General Linares consid-
cred the city could not be held. The
destruction of the fleet was not known
when the Alert and Pallas left. but was
rumored through the city. 1t is UNI
RieTstood here that an officer of the Viz
raya in civilian dress, who had been on
,Ano1e uuly, came on the Alert, which
as still at Port Royal The captain of
the Almirante Oquendo is supposed to
DaVe arrived on the Alert in disguise
Archbishop Pleads for Peace.
The archbishop Of Santiago, having
addressed a communication to General
E.inares and the authorities advising a
surrender of the city, and not having
Ureceived a favorable response, cabled to
Madrid on Monday morning before ca
Die communication was interrupted. In
ms cablegram he said that the Span
'ards, having bravely fought and lost
,snould now. in the interests Of human
lty cease to prolong the war
Brigadier General Vara del Rey. sec
oHG IN command to General Linares.
having been killed on Sunday, and Cen
'e13l Linares having been wounded, Cen
-eral Toral is in chief command i'm San
riaso. Senior Seary. the Mexican con-
ssui al Santiago, with seventy-six other
persons, has landed from the Austrian
Warship. 1t Is now learned that the
Austrian man-Of-war carried seventy
seven refugees, instead Of thirty-eight
AS originally reported. When the war
ships left Santiago il was reported that
500 Spanish troops had arrived from
Che westward and also that the colonel
IN command was seriously wounded.