Rocky Ford enterprise., 1898-07-07
SANTIAGO WILL FALL
SKATER CAN TAKE
sampson Can Help In tho Harbor-Foreign
Consuis Want to Get Out-Many of Our
Omcers Wounded.

Consuls Want to Get Out-Many Of Our
Omoers Wounded.
New York, July "A cable to the
Herald, dated General Skaters head
quarters before Santiago, Sunday, by
the Herald's dispatch boat Golden Rod
to Port Antonio, thence to Kingston,
Jamaica. Monday:
With the destruction of Admiral Ger
vera's fleet the work of taking Santi-
ago becomes much less difficult. AS
long as General Shafter had no siege
guns and could not be assisted by u
friendly fleet in the harbor. the cap
ture of the city promised to be n hard
task, and 1t would be practically i'm
possible to hold the city II captured. 1t
is now estimated that between 1000
and 1900 Americans nre dead, wound
ed or missing after the two days fight
ing about Santiago. 1 am told by one
of the surgeons who assisted In the
hospital work thnt probably 250 to 300
Americans were killed. No official list
or official estimate of the dead and
wounded can be obtained yet.
Unofficial estimates place our loss as
high MS 1000, md to date 450 men suf-
ferIng from wounds that are not serl-
GUS have been brought to the h6-pital.
Our surgeons have not enough sup
plies, bandages or nurses. The medi-
cal stan Is too small.
All the ranking officers of the cav
airy division were disabled. Both
Wheeler and Young nre i'll us are SUM
ner, Wood and Lieutenant Carroll.
When Carroll was wounded Lieutenant
Colonel Hamilton took his command.
Hamilton was killed soon afterward.
and Major Vessels, who then took
command, was wounded.
Colonel Wood seemed to escape by
succession of miracles. Lieutenant
Colonel Roosevelt was not hurt. al
though he was everywhere In the thick
of the fight. The cavalry division lost
thirty officers killed and wounded, md
Mt one time n captain was in command
of the regiment. Nearly half of the en-
listed men in the cavalry were wounds
cd. The artillery forces were nearly
as bad of.
The Michigan troops nt Aguadores
encountered the enemy In trenches and
on n fiat car, which was armored and
armed with machine guns. This
checked the expected advance toward
Moro which Rear Admiral Sampson
Ind hoped they would occupy after he
had shelled the batteries. There Is said
to be no doub, that General Skaters
next move will be to push troops for
ward along the railroad track to attack
with the fleet the outer batteries at the
mouth Of the harbor. As soon rs these
defenses have been silenced and put In
the possession OF our forces Rear Ad-
miral Sampson will be able to free the
harbor OF mines and send his ships In
to the inner harbor This done, the
Gnu N rs1 will has <nunpal1ad n strrnu.
der the city mt once.
A dispatch sent to Washington on the
evening of the 3rd by Shnfter says:
Tonight my lines completely sur
rounded the town from the bay on the
north Of the city to point on San
Juan river on the south. The enemy
holds from West Bend San Juan river
to Its mouth up the railroad to the
city.
1.-THE British, Portuguese, Chinese and
Norwegian consuls have come to my
line with Colonel Dorst. They ask II
non-combatants can occupy the town
Of Cancy and railroad points. and ask
until 10 O'Clock of 9th instant before
the city is fired on. They claim that
there are between 1900 and 10000
people-many of them old. who will
leave. They nsk II can supply them
with food, which cannot do for want
Of transportation to Caney. which is
fifteen miles from my landing"
Monday morning he telegraphed:
"killed n Spanish general in affair
at Cnney and large number of off,
GERS and men, who nre still unburicd.
General Linares' arm was broken. My
demand for surrender of Santiago still
being considered by the Spanish nu-
thoritles. Pando has arrived near
break in railroad with his advance.
think he will be stopped"
Also the following from Assistant
Adjutnnt General Wagner at same
plnce and time:
"Pando six miles north with 5000.
Garcia opposes with 5000 Lawton
tion."
General Skaters ultimatum re-
ferred to called for the surrender cf
the city ut noon OH the 9th.
The present need of reinforcing
General Shafter is no longer felt now
that the Spanish fleet Is out Of the
way. A large number of men, how
ever, are already on the way, and
others will follow.
The changed naval situation will
bring no abatement In tho activity of
the authorities here in carrying the
war directly home to Spain.
There is renewed determination to
get Commodore Watson's Eastern
squadron away Mt the earliest mo-
ment. for the double purpose of strlk-
Ing blow nt the coast towns of
Spain and of pursuing Admiral ca
mnra's fleet. which has halted Mt the
entrance of the Suez canal. Secre-
tary Long made the official statement
to-day that the fleet would sail Mt the
| earliest possible moment. and nj
though he did not go into details as to
Its purpose. II Is well understood that