The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1898-06-10
SANTIAGO FORTS IN RUINS
The American Fleet Bombarded the
Batteries at the Harbor with
Most Destructive Effect.
CUBAN TROOPS MAKE A LAND ATTACK.

SOiu"u Oh Sp80l0n TfOOO2 ana an Amer.
lean Force just Landed-The Spanish
Cruiser Maria Teresa sunk BY tho Fire
of the American Vessels.
CAPE HAYTIEN, Hayti, June a-The
fighting before and in the vicinity of
Santiago de Cuba continued the great
er part of yesterday, from 7:45 a. m.
until nearly II o'clock. Ten of the
American warships maintained a
steady and carefully directed fire
against Ell Moro castle and the bat
teries at Punta Gorda, Socapa and Gin
coreales, in addition to bonn harding
the Spanish feet in the harbor. The
percentage of effective projectiles was
very large. 1t appears, from the best
information obtainable at this place,
the cable station connecting with San
tiago, that immense damage was in
hlcted on the enemy. The Spanisrds
admit that the bombardment from the
American feet was most destructive.
About 1000 projectiles were said to
have been fred by the American war
ships and it seems the responsive fire
from the Spanish forts and ships was
scarcely felt at all by the Americans.
The Notifications near the entrance of
the harbor are described as being rid
died with solid shot and shattered by
the explosion of the immense shells
fred by the American battleships.
The Spanish batteries are understood
to have been virtually silenced and
Ell Moro and the Notifications at
Socapa and Punta Gorda are reported
to have been demolished by the three
hours uninterrupted hammering of
the American feet.
The American attack is next said to
have been specially directed against
Aguadores, small coast town little
to the east of the entrance of Santiago
bay. The idea of the American admit
raj, it appears, was to land troops and
siege guns there, after reducing the
defenses of the place, and thence make
a close assault upon Santiago, which,
in view of the present condition of its
Notifications, may be expected to yield
very soon after the beginning of such
an attack. The latest advices received
here from Spanish sources do not indi-
cate the duration of the fire or whether
American troops and siege guns were
actually landed at Aguadores, but,
from the information obtainable, it
cannot be doubted that the net result
of Mondays fighting was extremely
disastrous to the Spanish defenses.
It is also understood here that the
Cuban troops maintained throughout
the greater part of yesterday an at
tack by land upon Santiago, and the
Spanish reports say the garrison lost
heavily in killed and wounded. In the
naval force, the Spaniards say that the
officer who was second in command of
the partly dismantled Spanish cruiser
Reina Mercedes and five sailors and an
ensign were killed. The Spanish sail
ors wounded, it is asserted, number 16
men. The loss on the American side,
the Santiago report says, is not known.
Later in the day, it appears, land
ing of American tfoops was effected
near Daiquiri, SOME distance east of
Aguadores and near the railroad sta.
ton connecting with Santiago de
Cuba Later an engagement took
place between the American forces
and a column of Spanish troops which
had been sent against the landing
party. The accounts of the battle OBJ
tainable here, being from Spanish
sources, do not set forth the result,
and, therefore, it is to be inferred that
the Americans were victorious and
that is the belief which prevails here.
There is report current at Cape
Hay that the first-class armored
Spanish cruiser Maria Teresa was sunk
yesterday by fire of the American
ships
1t is said that only 500 American
troops were landed at Daiquiri, or
possibly at Aguadores, the two places
being confused in the reports reaching
here. 1t seems to be admitted that tho
fire of the American soldiers was so
accurate that the Spaniards were COM
PEELED to flee from the Notifications
they were defending.
The Americans are now said to be
entrenched near Daiquiri and landing
heavy guns preparatory to moving
them toward Santiago and laying siege
to the city. There is a panic in Santa
90. The residents who can are fleeing
to the country, joining the insurgents
or doing anything to get away from
the certain destruction that now
awaits Cervera's fleet and the forces of
Pando and Linares-