The Florence tribune., 1898-06-25
TELEGRAPHIC REPORT

s0h aho Headquarters, 1 including large force of clerks will I taKe passage on the Newport with the fleet that is to sail next Monday The war department has been notified that the third expedition of six transports will sail on Monday, June 27, but the expeditionary authorities here still hold to the privilege of two days more It is thought that they may not get of until Wednesday, although every effort will be made to follow the dnte oivan to the war department.
 WASHINGTON, June 22.-To-day just week after the United States troons left Tortugas they began to disembark i on Cuban soil, landing in formation at two points so as to attack Santiago in | the rear and at the sides, with the navy 1 to help the work in the front. Thus | the military invasion of Cuba may be l said to have fairly begun, for though the United States marines were the first of the regular forces to land upon Cuban soil, their purpose was not, after all. invasion. but. the establishment of
 neval base and a base for Fl cable
 station in the south, in which they
 were eminently successful. To the
 regular troops was left the beginnibg
 Of the formidable task of invading
 Cuba in force by land. At the close of
 ofhce hours brief cablegram came to
 the war department from Lieutenant
 Colonel Allen. The cablegram was
 dated Plays del Este, abont twenty
 miles west of Guantanamo bay and
 about half that distance between that
 and Santiago bay. It's exact wording
 is withheld, but tue statement is
 authorized that it is said the troops
 were landing and that preparations had been made to attack Santiago at the side and in the rear.
 NEw YORK, June 23.-A special dated ? at ? alaya del Este, Cuba, to-day said , at ] o'clock this morning General ] Shutters army of invasion landed at Bsiquiri. Only one landing in the military sense had been made, but
 naturally with so large number of transports to be discharged the troops Q have been scattered up and down the :, beach for several miles.
 0 The navy co-operated splendidly, and
 ! a a the hiur o11 l. &l.
 shore to pave the way for the approach T of the transports and then went back !. again, three cheers for the navy went ' up from ten thousand throats on the e transports and three cheers rose for o the army from ship to ship as the Q troopships moved in to take their t share in the hazardous game.
 n It was war and it was magnificent ', The Cuban insurgents, too, bore theil t share in the enterprise honorably and IS well. Five thousand of thrrn in noun 1- tain businesses and dark thickets of rR
 vines lay all last night on their gum
 watching every road and mountain | path leading from Santiago to Gnan U tanamo. A thousand were within T sight of Baiquiri making the approach IT of the Spaniards under cover Of dark ie ness an inpossibility.
 " As the despatch boat of the Associat '0 ed Press ran closer in where the New . Orleans was lying with her great Arm a' strong guns trained on Baiquiri IL tongues of lurid flame and black smok, v were seen rising in town, the inevita h ble consequence of war and surs ' sign that the spsniards had gone
 leaving ruin behind. The Spanish flag
 was deiantly floating at sunset las p night, but it was gone to-day and witt ' it small Spanish guard which ha, y maintained the signal station. Be 's tween nightfall and dawn the Span " iards had taken alarm and fled iron '' the place, firing the town before the. ' left. General Shafter, on board th' ' Segueranon, closely watched the land ~ ing of the troops.
 1 The landing was accomplished with :, out loss of life, the only casualty be ' ing the wounding of an insurgent or the hills by shell from one of oul V ships. He will lose his arm. The in
 surgent troops at Baiquiri are com n manded by General Castilli, and ar' s estimated to number of thousand men j. PALERMo, June 2S.-A dispatch from t the island of Pantelleria announces z that Admiral Camara's squadron pas e sed there on June q in the direction oi Suez.
 : LONDON, June 2s.-A dispatch from Madrid says Sagasta informed the chamber yesterday (Thursday) that , Camara's squadron is on the way to the Philippines.
 MADRID, June 23.-(4 p. m.)-Nsws of serious fighting near Santiago de Cuba has been received here. Admiral
 Cervera cables that the situation is
 critical and the Governor of Santiago advises that the Spaniards have been obliged to retreat, but Spanish ? victory is claimed.