The Meeker herald., 1898-07-09
SANTIAGO WILL FALL
Smarter GAN TAKE
IT .
ssupsoa Can Help sn tho H.sbor-roreisn
Conssls waas to Get ous-Aany Of Our
O1eses wo1udsd.

ssupson Car Help In the a.sbor-Foreign
Oaesrs woeaded.
New York. July "A cable to the
Herald, dated General Skaters head
quarters before Santiago. Sunday, by
the Hcrald's dispatch boat Golden Rod
to Port Antonio, thence to Kingston,
Jamafca, Monday:
With the, destruction Of Admiral Ger
yera's feet the work OF taking Santi-
ago becomes much less difficult. As
long M General Shafter had no siege
guns and could not be assisted by u
friendly feet In the harbor. the cap
ture OF the city promised to be hard
task. and 1t would be practically I'M
possible to hold the city IL captured. 1t
il now estimated that between 1,2OO
and. ], 800 Americans are dead. wound
et} missing after the two days fight
~ bout Santiago am told by one
off,, surgeons who assisted In the
hospital work that probably 25O to 800
Americans We're killed. No official list
or official estimate OF the dead and
wounded can be obtained yet.
Unofficial estimates place our loss as
high ms 1000. and to date 45O men suf-
fering from wounds that are not scri-
GUS have been brought to the hospital.
Our surgeons laye not enough sup
niles, 6andages or nurses. The medi-
cal staff is too small.
All the ranking officers of the cav
airy division were disabled. Both
Wheeler and Young are Ill as are Sum
ner, Wood and Lieutenant Carroll.
When Carroll was wounded Lieutenant
Colonel Hamilton took his command.
Hamilton was killed soon afterward.
and Major Vessels. who then took
command. was wounded.
Colonel Wood seemed 10 escape by
succession of miracles. Lieutenant
Colonel Roosevelt was not hurt. al
though he was everywhere in the thick
of the fight. The cavalry division lost
thirty officers killed and wounded. and
at one time captain was in command
of the regiment. Nearly half OF the en-
listed Inen in the cavalry We're wound
ed The artillery forces We're nearly
rs bad off,
The Michigan troops at Aguadores
encountered the enemy in trenches and
on fiat car, which was armored and
armed with machine. guns. This
checked the expected advance toward
Morro which Rear Admiral Sampson
had hoped they would occupy after he
had shelled the batteries. There is said
TO be no doubt that General Shafter's
next move will he to push troops for
ward along the railroad track to attack
with the fleet the outer batteries at the
mouth Of the harbor. As soon rs these
defenses have been silenced and put in
the possession OF our forces Rear Ad-
miral Sampson will he able to free the
harbor of mines and send his ships in
to the inner hnrbor. This done. the
Spaniar,ls will be compelled to surren-
der the city at once.
A dispatch. sent to Washington on the
evening Of the Bird by Shafter says:
'eTopight my lines completely sur
rounded the town, from the bay on the
north of, the city to point on San
Juan river on the south. The enemy
holds from West Bend San Juan river
to It's mouth UP the railroad to the
city.
Norwegian consuls have come to my
line with Colonel Dorst. They ask if
non-combafnnts can occupy the town
of Caney and railroad points, and ask
until 10 O'Clock of 9th instant before
the city Is fired on. They claim that
there are between 1900 and 10000
people-many of them old, who will
leave. They ask II / can supply them
with food, which cannot do for want
of transportation to Caney, which is
fifteen miles from my landing."
Monday morning he telegraphed:
KILLED a Spanish general in affair
Mt Caney and a large number of Off
GERS and men. who are still unburied.
General LfnareS' arm was broken NV
demand for surrender of Santiago still
being considered by the Spanish au-
thorlties. Pando has arrived near
break In railroad with his advance. l
think he will be stopped"
Also the following from Assistant
Adjutant General Wagner ut same
place and time:
"Pando six miles north with 5000.
Garcia opposes with 3,O00 Lawton
can support Garcia and prevent june
tion."
General shnfter's ultimatum re-
ferred to called for the surrender of
the city at noon OH the 9Th.
The present need of reinforcing
General Shafter is no longer felt now
that the Spanish fleet is ont of the
way. A large number of men, how
ever. are already on the way, and
others will follow.
The changed naval situation will
bring no abatement in tho activity of
the authorities here in carrying the
war directly home to Spain.
There Is renewed determination to
get Commodore Watson's Eastern
squadron away at the earliest mo-
ment. for the double purpose Of strik-
ing blow at the coast towns of
Spain and of pursuing Admiral Ca
'mnrn's feet, which has halted at the
entrance of the Suez canal. Secre-
tnry Long made the official statement
to-day that the feet would sail at the
earliest possible moment. and al
though he did not go into details as to
its purDoAe. It is well understood that