The state herald., 1898-07-08
SANTIAGO WILL FALL
SKATER CAN TAKE 1T,
sampson Can Help In tho Harbor-Foreign
Consuis Want to Get Out-Many of Our
Officers Wounded.


New York, July "A cable to the
Herald, dated General Shafters head
quarters before Santiago, Sunday, by
the Herald's dispatch boat Golden Rod
to Port Antonio, thence to Kingston
Jamaica, Monday:
With the destruction of Admiral Ger.
vera's fleet the work of taking Santi-
ago becomes much less difficult. As
long as General Shafter had no siege
guns and could not be assisted by u
friendly fleet in the harbor, the cap
ture of the city promised to be hard
task, and II would be practically I'M
possible to hold the city If captured. Ii
is now estimated that between 1,2OG
and 1,J00 Americans are dead, Wound
ed or missing after the two days fight
ing about Santiago. l am told by one
of the surgeons who assisted in the
hospital work that probably 250 to 300
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 as 1000, and to date 450 men suf-
fering from wounds that are not seri-
GUS have been brought to the hospital
oui SNi Etohs lluNC iiot odp
piles, bandagcs or nurses. The medl-
cal staff is too small.
All the ranking officers of the cav
airy division We're 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
nn1 Nntnr. lNnssnls 1,-hn thnn tool
command, was wounded.
Colonel Wood seemed to escape by
succession of miracles. Lieutenant
Colonel Roosevelt was not hurt. nj
though he was everywhere in the thicl;
thirty officers killed and wounded, and
at one time captain was In command
of the regiment. Nearly half of the en-
listed men In the cavalry We're wound
ed. The artillery forces were nearly
as bad or.
The Michigan troops AZ Aguadores
encountered the enemy in trenches and
on fiat car. which was armored and
armed with machine guns. This
checked the expected advance toward
MORO which Rear Admiral Sampson
had hoped they would occupy after he
had shelled the batteries. There Is said
to be no doubt that General Skaters
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 ms these
dcfenses have been silcnced and put In
the possession of our forces Rear Ad.
miral Sampson will be able to free the
harbOr of mines and send his ships in.
10 the inner harbor. This done. the
Spaniards will be compelled to surren.
der the city at once.
n dispatch sent TO Washington on the
evening of the 3rd by Shafter says:
Tonight my lines completely sur.
rounded the town from the bay on the
north of the city 10 n point on San
Juan river on the south. The enemy
holds from West Bend San Juan river
TO Its mouth up the railroad TO the
city.
The British. Portuguese. Chinese and
Norwegian consuls have come to my
line with Colonel Dorst. They ask II
non-combaiants 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 viii
leave. They ask II can supply them
with food. which cannot do for want
OF transportation 10 Cancy, which is
fifteen miles from my landing"
Monday morning he telegraphed:
KILLED Spanish general In affair
Mt Cnney ana large number of ofii-
GERS and men. who are stlll unburled.
General Linarcs' arm was broken. My
demand for surrender of Santiago still
being considered by the Spanish aii-
thoritles. Pando has arrived near
break In railroad with his advance. |
think he will bc stopped
Also the following from Assistant
Adjutant General Wagner at same
place and time:
"Pando six miles north with 5000.
Garcia opposes with 1900. Lawton
can support Garcia and prevent june
ilon."
General Shaftcr's ultlmatum re.
ferred to called FOR the surrender of
the city nj noon on the 9th.
The present need. OF reinforcing
General Shnfter Is no longer felt now
that the Spanish fleet Is out OF the
way ~ idrE' nnHlb'f OF men. now
ever. are already on the way. and
others win follow.
The changed naval situation will
bring no abatement In tho activity of
the authorities here In carrying the
war directly home 10 Spain.
There is renewed dcterminnilot 10
get Commodore Natsun's Eastern
squadron AWAY NJ the earliest mo.
ment. for the double purpose Of strIk.
Ing blow at the coast towns OF
Spain and OF pursuing Admiral Cn.
innrn's fleet. which has halted nt the
entrance OF the Sucz canal Sccrc.
inry Long made the official statement
to-day that the fleet would sail at the
earliest possible moment. md nj.
though he lid not go Into details MS Ia
It's purpose, II IL well understood ,hnt
II VIII devote lis attention TO the
Spanish coast nni To cnmnrn. Tn,
destruction OF the Spanish Meet nj
Santiago relieves Admiral Sampson
from the surveillance OF this s1und.
ron. mud he can readily spare the
ships Intended for the attack ON the
knuuiah ,nusi