The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1898-06-29

Spanish Pacificos Who Went to the Ameri-
lean Soldiers to Obtain Food Declare
That Since the Advance Began Twenty
Thousand Spanish Troops Have Joined
General Linares' Forces-It Is Believed
That General Pando's Army Has Arrived.
No Aggressive Move Anticipated by Our
Forces For Several Days.
Kingston, Jamaica, June ga
newspaper boat has arrived here with
the following dispatches from the
front, on the Rio Guiana:
The American front has been adj
vanced beyond the first crossing of the
Rio Guiana about a mile and a tug
lies three and a half miles from the
Spanish entertainments. General Law
tons brigade rests on the road to San.
tiago de Cuba. The Third brigade,
under General Chaffee-the Seven
teenth, Twelfth and Seventh regi-
ments-holds the trench. with his
command lying across the road and
river. The First ~brigade-the Eighth,
Twenty-second and Second Massa-
chusetts-under General Evan Clarke,
lies on the left flank, slightly in the
rear, and the Second brigade-the
First, Fourth and Twenty-ffth-oc-
cuptes the opposite position, on the
right flank. General Wheeler, with his
cavalry, is in the rear, between the
Sevilla hills and the Rio Guiana. A
! cfrpnu limo np npf,Dgtz 10 v,oIatot,,l
ahead.
General Chaffee's brigade, with 1900
Cubans under General Aguirra and
several hundred under Colonel Con
gales, was diminishing towards the
city Monday morning, when the dis
patch boat left.
The Cubans had slight skirmishes
with the Spaniards stationed on the
hills on the American right flank, and
our auXiliaries occupied the block
houses in that vicinity which were
evacuated before daybreak by the
Spaniards, The latter retreated to-
wards Santiago de Cuba. No fatalities
are reported.
General Lawton. General Chaffee
and General Wheeler have thoroughly
reconnoitered the Spanish position,
and with the aid furnished by the Gu
bans have very good maps of the roads
and defenses.
Much information has also been OBJ
tanned from Spanish paciicos, who
have slipped out of the city and given
themselves up in the hope of getting
food. They report great starvation
and distress in Santiago. They say
the Spanish troops are On short ra-
tions, and that all the supplies are
being held for their use. The sick
in the hospitals, the pacilcos say, are
suffering for lack of food, and they say
n S%paniards were killed and SO wound
ed as the result of the engagement on
Friday last with Colonel Woods and
Young's commands.
The most startling information OBJ
tanned from the pacificos is that since
the advance began almost 20, 1000 Span
ish soldiers have arrived at Santiago.
This statement is made On the au-
thority of General Lawton, and he is
also of the opinion that General Pando
has been enabled to effect a junction
with General Linares at Santiago.
There are two forts of considerable
Importance within the Spanish lines,
Punta Blanco, at the southern end of
the bay, and Santa Ursula, at the
southeast corner. On the road to
Caney, on the north, is another fort.
There are about 450 men in each of
these Notifications, and stretching
around them are nine barbed wire
fences, 80 yards apart, while Just in
side these are lines Of rifle pits.
Outside this, to the eastward, about
two miles beyond the American out
posts, is a line of entertainments ex-
tending from the northern extremity
of the city to MORO Castle. A little
west of south, at a distance of about
seven miles from General Lawton's
headquarters, lies MORO Castle. The
road to within a few hundred yards
of the batteries at the rear of Moro,
was reconnoitered Sunday afternoon
. by General Chaffee and several mem
bers of his STAFF.
] General Wheeler, who made a re-
+. connaisance for half a mile beyond the