Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-06-07

Cape lIaytien. June $3.50 a. NTH,
bombardment of the forts at Santiago
it appears from information obtained
here, lasted from 8 a. IN. until IL a. m
yesterday, inflicting immense damage
The Notifications are riddled AM
shattered.
10 a. m.-The American squadron
maintained a steady. carefully directe'
fire against Moro castle and the bat
| teries of Punta Gorda, Socapa and Gin
corcales, at the entrance of Santiago d,
Cuba harbor, in addition to bombardins
the Spanish fleet in the harbor. The
percentage of effective proiectiles was
large. About 1000 projectiles are sat
to have been fired by the American war
ships. The responsive fire from the
Spanish forts and ships was scarcely
felt at all by the American ships.
The Notifications near the entrance
of the harbor are described as being
riddled with solid shot and shattered by
the explosion of the immense shells trcc
by the American battleships. The Span
ish batteries are understood to have
been virtually silenced. Ell MORO ant
Notifications of Socapa and Punta Gorda
are reported demolished.
The American attack Is next said tC
have been specially directed against
Aguadores. a small coast town little
TO the east of the entrance of Santiago
bay. The idea of the American ad-
miral, it appears, was to land troops and
siege guns there, after reducing the
defenses of the place, thence to make a
close assault on Santiago, which, in
view of the present condition of its for
tifications, may be expected to yield soon
after beginning such an attack.
The latest advices received from Span
ish sources do not indicate duration of
the fire or whether American troops and
siege guns were actually landed at Aqua
dores. but from information obtainable
it cannot be doubted that the net result
of Mondays fighting was extremely
disastrous to the Spanish defenses. 1t
is also understood that the Cuban troops
maintained throughout a greater part
Of Yesterdays attack by land upon San
tiago. The Spanish reports say the
garrison lost heavily in killed and
wounded. The military commander of
Santiago acknowledges the following
casualties among his land forces: Col
onel Ordonez, Captain Sanchez. Lieut.
enant Yrizas, of artillery, and Perez
and Garcia. both Spanish officers. whose
rank is not mentioned.
MORO Castle in Ruins.
New York, June IA special from
Cape Haytien. describing the lombard
ment at Santiago de Cuba. saws the
forts of the harbor are now mass of
ruins. MORO castle is a shapeless mass
of ruined masonry and dismantled
guns. Ten American ironclads passed
back and forth from Port Cabrera on
the west, to Port Aguadores on the east
of the harbor entrance, discharging
their heavy guns as they steamed along,
so that scarcely yard Of the coast es-
capped deadly cannOnading. At Port
AguadoreS, the fort recently constructed
by Colonel Ordonez, an artillery expert.
was blown to dust. and Colonel Ordoncz
himself was badly wounded
Compelled to Abandon Their Ship.
The old cruiser Reina Mercedes was
discerned attempting to place explo-
sives about the hull of the Merrimac to
blow her to pieces and clear the chan
mel. A 13-inch shell from the Oregon
landed squarely about her pilot house
and tore her upper works to shreds.
Her second commodore" five sailors
and marine were killed, and second
lieutenant and 16 seamen were seriously
wounded. The crew by the order of the
admiral abandoned the ship for the
shore for safety.
The loss on the American side, Santi-
ago reports say, is not known. The
Spaniards acknowledge that great
deal of damage was inflicted on the
Spanish cruiser Reina Mercedes, and
say that MORO castle shows great, gap
ing breaches in the walls. Later in the
day, it appears, landing of American
troops was effected near Daiquiri some