Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-06-29
FORWARD MOVEMENT
Preparations for Advance of Amer
ican Forces on Santiago Troops
Hurrying to Front,
BAD ROADS CAUSING DELAY
Pack Trains Inadequate to Supply Rations
Bridge Building Almost Completed
First Wagon Train Started This
Afternoon Will Go Through. =

At front of Rio Guiana, June 2s,
4. p. NJ. by Associated Press dispatch
boat Dauntless, via Port Antonio, June
29.-Preparations for general advance
of the American troops on Santiago de
Cuba are being pushed steadily forward,
and troops of all branches of the
service are being hurried to the front.
General Kent's division consisting of the
brigades of General Hawkins, Colonel
Pearson and Colonel Worth, have joined
General Lawton's division, and with a
cavalry division of General Wheeler and
four batteries of light artillery will now
be strung out in the rear of General
Lawton's division. The front still rests
on the second crossing of the Rio Guiana
on the road to Santiago de Cuba, in rear
of the crest of the Sevilla hills, and a
mile and half back. The brigade of
General Bates, the 32nd Michigan
regiment and battalion of the 34th
Michigan regiment, landed Yesterday by
the auxiliary cruiser Yale will remain at
.)uragua or Siboney.
The delay in the general forward
movement is due to an inability to get
subsistence stores to the front rapidly
enough. An advance, it is said will not
be ordered until every man has three
days rations in his knapsack. This,
however. is impossible until the road is
passable for wagon trains, as the pack
train can only convey one days rations
in day. The men constructing bridges
on the road have the work almost com
pleted, and this afternoon the first
wagon train of four SiXmlle teams will
go through. In two or three days more
every man will have three days rations
in his knapsack, and then the army will
move on the enemy
Corporal Dewey and nine sharp shoot
ers from the 18th infantry went out at
dark last night, with one days rations,
toward the Spanish lines, and they have
not yet returned. 1t is believed they
are lying in the bush waiting for the
night. When the remaining battalions
of the 34th Michigan and 9th Massa-
chusetts, which will arrive on the Har
ward tomorrow, and the 5000 reinforce
ments sent out from Tampa are here,
Aguadores, a town on the coast four
miles west of Juragua, will be taken.
The place was shelled today by several
ships. Aguadores will probably become
the base of operations. General Law
ton will probably make diversion with
his artillery SO soon as it is in position
A heavy rain this afternoon made it i'm
possible to move beyond General Wheel
er's headquarters, but the roads will
dry quickly. the guns will probably be
brought up tomorrow, and the entrench-
ments shelled by the artillery and
Colonel Woods dynamite guns. The
Cubans say Spaniards are in deadly fear
of dynamite.
simultaneously with bombardment
General Chaffee's brigade will occupy
a position of vital Importance in advance
of our front. The military telegraph
line has been completed to General
Wheeler's headquarters, thus placing
the front in direct communication with
General Shafter, who still maintains
headquarters on board the Seguranca,
whore he can keep in close touch with
Rear Admiral Sampson. 1t is probable,
however, that he will establish head
quarters at Juragua tomorrow or Thurs
day. There are now more than $4,000
men at the front. Drinking water for
the troops is obtained from the Rio
Guiana. The epidemic of measles which
started on board one or two of the trans
ports is spreading, about 80 new cases
have broken out today.