The Daily Texarkanian., 1898-06-23
TROOPS ON TERRA FIRNA..
The Spanlards Offered Slight
Resistance and Only
Fired From the Hills.
ONE OF OUR MEN KILLED
Submarine Mines Recovered From
the Channel at Guantanamo.
Telegraphio COmmunica
tion Established.
ONE OF OUR MEN KILLED

Playa del Este, June 23-Secre-
tary of War, Washington;-Oh
Daiquiri, Cuba, June %, Landing
at Daquiri this morning success
fully. Very little if any resistance.
(Signed,) SHAFTER.
Secretary Alger expressed him
self as delighted at the expedition
with which the landing of the
troops was being effected and with
the fact that no serious obstacle
was being offered by the enemy,
He construed the text of General
Skaters message to mean that the
enemy had made merely nominal
and ineffective resistance by firing
from the hills at long range.
Shortly after Secretary Alger re
ceiyed his dispatch Secretary Long
received a more extended cablegram
from Admiral Sampson. 1t, too,
was dated at Playa del Este The
text of the dispatch translated
from the navy cipher is as follows:
Landing of the army is progress
ing favorably at Daquiri There is
very little, if any resistance. The
New Orleans, Detroit, Castine,
Wasp and Suwanee shelled vicinity
before the landing, We made
demonstration at Cabanas to en-
gage the attention of the enemy.
The Texas engaged the West bat
terry for some hours. She had one
man killed. The submarine mines
have been recoyered from the
channel of Guantanamo, Commun-
icatlon by telegraph has been estab
lished at Guantanamo. Sampson.
In both army and navy circles
the information contained in the
dispatches of Gen. Shafter and Ad-
miral Sampson was received with
intense satisfaction. The landing
of so large d body of troops as
Gen. Shafter at present has under
his command is a task of immense
proportions. A prominent official
of the war department said the
complete debarkation of troops,
animals, field guns and supplies
within a week after their arrival
off the Cuban coast would be a task
we'll accomplished. 1t is probable
in the opinion of the officer re-
ferred to that only partial landing
of the troops was effected today
and that the landing will be con-
tinued from day to day until COM
pleted. 1t is likely, too, that the
troops will be landed at several
places along the coast within a
short distance of the headquarters
which Gen. Shafter will establish
for himself.
Admiral SIMPSONS dispatch indi.
Gates that he is carrying out his
instructions to clear a way for the
landing of the troops. The demon
stration which he made with the
Texas before Cabanas, which is
Just east of Guantanamo, may
have easily led the Spanish to sup
pose that a general landing was to
be attempted in that immediate
vicinity. 1t is evident from the
text of Simpsons dispatch that a
considerable landing has already
been effected near Guantanamo, as
he noted that communication by
telegraph had been re-established d
at that point and that the chan
mel had been cleared of submarine
mines.
The cable station through which
the American officers will commun-
icate with the departments in this
city, have been established, as
shown by the date of these dis
patches, received this morning at
Playa del Esse, small place di-
rectly on the coast and about fif-
teen miles east of Santiago. The
change was made from Camp
McCalla to Playa del Este in order
that the station might be nearer
the scene of action.