Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-06-30
SPANIARDS IN RETREAT.
Those at q eauey Fall Back on sanii-
ago.
PLACE IS PRACTICALLY EVACUATED.


Gen. G.awton's Headquarters, Five
Miles East u Santiago de Cuba,
wednesday June ~ o nm. via Kings
ton. Jamaica. Thursduy. June So
copyrighted. 1905. D. the Associated
Prcasj -Amcr.can troops spent ycster-
day ln feeling Cor the enemy otherwise
engaging In rccounoiaauucea
Gen. shaftor ln person. with a small
escort. went almost 20 Cancy tor NJ
Gaucy). "a small town i've miles north
east OF Santiago. with which city Il b.
connected by railroad.
Lieut.. standing and a detail of Gu
bans and American aharpahoOtera oc-
Cupicd u small Hill northeast uf The
American lines ana looking Directly
down on both Cancy and Santiago.
Canoy now Econs to hold about 3Ql
spanish troops. the number reported Is
the cuban scouts, In spite Of the belief
OF the Americans here that the 1900
SpanlardH driven forward ~ our adj
vance ON Bliquiri and 1uaIaFua had
all retreated ON Caney and not on SAN
tiago. The small number OF troops now
IN --~ey Indicates that the sptraTds
have practically evacuated The place.
and this ~ believed 10 be the ease.
AaN'NAH sNANANNNn MMN AANN NNNNNNN|A'N AMN
INK his observation, though DE passed
through the camp which twenty
hour previously had been occupied by
a strong spanish outpost.
Corporal iucht. uf company u.
seventh q. q Infantry. who with seven
men was sent out on the outpost duty
two miles from Santiago yesterday
morning ana was forgotten until this
afternoon, was found by Gen. Shaftuf
NmHA fTNHs
aidcred the whole AFFAIR a good Joke.
They had repeatedly seen the Span
lnrda, WHO did not uffnr 10 modest them,
and the Americans spent The day aH u
enjoying "a picnic In the woods. The
corporal said that n be- hnd had with
him a SUFFICIENT force. he could have
brought In forty prisoners.
Several pacincos. brought In by me
American outposts, profess 90 know
little ~ what II transpirlng In sanu-
ago.
\ dotnll Of company n. seventh rcgl.
mrnt. returned here last night ln !
state ~ great hllarity. luquIfiug whrr,
they could corral captured pack
train" In the center ~ the group Of
soldiers was pack train" "a spanish
pony. accurately described hy q curpnr.
nj as being "ns thick aa u shlnric and
az long 49, a lath." The prisoner had
been dedicated by the men 90 carrying
their captains baggage.
The camp conditions continue hard
Heavy rains Yesterday oct everything
nluat itttinna. however. are lrlng
served out moro regularly. but thtv mn,
aiili not picntlful onircir nni men
fare alike Tho latter arr Hunerng
during the cold nights from the lack oi
tho blankets thrown away on tho
march. These have boon appropriated
by the Cubans, who take everything
IN sight ana do 40 ..ttie as possible. on
the whole. they actually fare better
than our men.
The American officers generally oN-
pect "a movement today 10 capture
Caney which II short Ave miles north
east NJ Santiago.
This however. ~ not oniclal. such
a move may draw the apanlarda In
force from Santiago. but In vicw 0i
their previous retreats. whenever the
army might have been seriously har.
nsHcd on the march, an aggressive
move on the part Of the spanlards IL
considered unlikely.