The San Francisco call., 1898-07-05

don Bennett.
 | GENERAL STARTERS HEA D. i QUARTERS, BEFORE SANTIAGO, July (by Call-Herald dispatch boat Golden Rod to Port Antonio, thence to Kingston, Jamaica, July 4.-With the destruction of Admiral Cervera's fleet the work of taking Santiago becomes much less difficult As long as General Shafter had no siege guns and could not be assisted by friendly fleet in the harbor the capture of the city promised to be hard task, and it would be practically impossible to hold the city if it were captured.
 It is now estimated that between 1900 and 1500 Americans are dead, wounded or missing after the two days fighting about Santiago I am told by one of the surgeons who assisted in the hospi- tai work that probably from 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 losses as high as 2000 and to date 450 men suffering from wounds that are not serious have been brought to the hospital.
 Our surgeons have not enough sup plies, bandages or nurses and the medi- cal staff is too small.
 Two hundred men from General l Wheeler's division now lie wounded in | the hospital at Siboney. With them are | two hundred from General Lawton' s l division
 | Among the wounded are Colonel Pat l terson, commanding Twenty h. | fantry; Lieutenant DeVerauX of the Rough Riders; Lieutenant Murphy of the Twenty-fourth Infantry; Captain l Mosher of the Twenty second Infantry; Lieutenant Godfrey of the Twenty sec- l ond Infantry, whose wounds are slight and Captain Jones and Lieutenant 1 Marshall, both of the Twenty second 1 Infantry.
 Lieutenant Deveraux was a well 1 known Princeton football player. Lieu | tenant Garastre, son of the famous general, and pet with the army, was killed while displaying most dis 1 tlngu1shed gallantry. He was a mem Der of General Hawkins staff. Lieu 1 tenant Michie, also of General Hawk ins' staff, was killed.
 All ranking officers of the cavalry di- vision were disabled. Both Wheeler and Young are i'll, as are Sumner 1 Wood and Lieutenant Colonel Carroll When Carroll was wounded Lieutenant Colonel Hamilton took his command Hamilton was killed soon afterward and Major Vessels, who then tool command, was wounded.
 Colonel Wood seemed to escape by s succession of miracles Lieutenan Roosevelt was not hurt, although h. was everywhere in the thick of th' fight
 The cavalry division lost thirty off cers killed and wounded, and at on time a captain was in command of tn regiment. Nearly half of the enlisted men in the cavalry were wounded.
 The artillery forces were nearly a badly off as the Michigan troops 9 Aguadores. They encountered tn enemy in trenches and on flat car which was armcred and armed witt machine guns. This checked their eX pected advance toward Morro, whicl Rear Admiral Sampson had hoped the! would occupy after he had shelled th batteries.
 There is said to be no doubt Genera Shafter's next move will be to push tn, troops forward along the railroad tracl to attack with the fleet the outer bat teries at the mouth of the harbOr. A soon as these defenses have been si fenced and put into possession of Gu1 forces Rear Admiral Sampson will b. able to free the harbOr of mines ant send his ships into the inner harbOr That done, the Spaniards would bt compelled tG surrender the city at once