The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-06-29
ON TO THE FRONT
General Shafter Goes to the Scene of
Coming Battle

General Shafter Goes to the Scene of
Coming Battle
. JURAGUA. Province of Santiago .
de Cuba, Monday, June 27, per the AS Q
. ISOLATED Press dispatch boat Wanda .
via Kingston, Tuesday, June IS, 10 a. Q
. m.-Major General Shafter, in COM Q
mand of the United States army of in .
vasion, arrived here on board the Q
. transport Segurancea from Baiqu.ri Q
with Colonel John Jacob Astor. Cap .
. tain Stewart Brice and Lieutenants 0
Milya and Noble, his staff, at about Q
o'clock this afternoon. He was met by .
General Bates, who was superintend- .
ing the landing of commissary sup .
plies in the surf. General Shafter, in .
full uniform and wearing a straw he'll .
met, was soon mounted on large, .
handsome horse, and rode through the .
. town, surveying the scene of the land .
ing operations and the camps of the .
. troops. Q
Greets Cuban Generals
He halted for a moment before the .
cottage which served as the head Q
quarters of the Cuban insurgents .
. where Generals Garcia and Castillo .
. paid their respects to the American .
commander. About an hour later .
. General Shafter struck out on the road .
to the front in order to consult with .
. General Wheeler and the division COM Q
. manders and look over the field of op- .
. erations before Santiago de Cuba. The .
. general said he would probably return .
. to the Juragua headquarters tonight. .
The Hospital Ship
. Permanent hospital arrangements .
. are to be provided at Juragua at once. .
. The transport Iroquo.s, anchored off .
. the shore, is provided with trained .
. nurses and all convenences. Tent .
. hospitals will also be erected on a cliff .
. overlooking the sea. There are very .
. few cases of sickness among the .
. troops, measles, heat prostrations and .
| . dysentery chiefly. Sporadic cases of .
. yellow fever are reported by the insur- .
gents, but the disease is not epidemic. .
. The troops are in good camps, on high .
. ground overlooking the sea. The .
. nights and mornings are cool and pleas .
. ant, but the midday sun is hard on the .
| . unacclimated troops in the marches .
. over the hills. The medical men say .
| that if the campaign Is short the .
| . troops will go through in good condi- .
| . ton. .
Movement of Troops
. The movements of the troops to the .
efront are steadily going on. The Ameri- .
. can and Cuban infantry and cavalry .
| . and long lines of mule pack trains and .
. batteries of artillery choke all the .
| . roadways over the hills to Santiago de .
| . Cuba. .
. At 10 o'clock this morning, General Q
. Pearson's brigade, the Second Tenth .
| . and Twenty-first infantry of the First .
| . division, General Kemp commanding, .
. moved out to occupy position on the .
| . extreme left towards Moro Castle, .
. and for a few hours the camp was al .
| . most deserted.
More Recruits Arrive
. Then the auxiliary cruiser Yale came .
in sight with the new arrivals of .
| American volunteers, consisting of the .
. Thirty-third regiment, and one bat .
. talon of the Thirtyfourth regiment of .
. Michigan infantry, commanded by Col. .
. Peterman and Col. Boynton. .
0 Brigadier General Duffield accom- Q
panied them and the men are now en- .
. camped, awaiting the rest of the .
0 Thirty-fourth Michigan and the Ninth .
Q Massachusetts, regiment on board the .
Q Harvard, which vessel is expected here .
. tonight.