Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-07-09
SAMPSON TO ACT.
Programme For Sea Attack
on Santiago.
ARMY MAY NOT MOVE.
Bhafter Evidently Decides to
Await Re-enforcements.
ARMY MAY NOT MOVE

II Army Is Ready, However, the Work
of the Navy VIII he Seconded and the
Attack VIII Become General-Prcsi-
dent Resolved the Navy Is Not to BE
Sacrificed-How the Spanish Prisoners
Now OH Their Way to This Country Are
to he Distributed - Shafter Extends
Arnistice In Order to Give Linarss
Time to Communicate WMh Blanco.
Official Report of Casualties In Recent
Fighting.
Washington, July 9.-General Shafter
reports all quiet in the camp before
Santiago The army is losing nothing
by It's rest End, according to the generals
account is gathering strength. More
endorsements are due speedily, and
when they arrive it is expected that the
assault on the city will be resumed. 1t
Is hoped that this will be at once,
though so far as the army is concerned,
it is gathered from General Skaters
report, it will not advance before re-
endorsements arrive unless in order to
repel a counter attack from the Span
iards.
General Shafter and Admiral Samp-
son have had conference, and as re-
suit the fleet is going to make another
try at the Notifications at the mouth
If the harbor at once. If the army II
ready, this will partake of the nature OF
O general attack; if not, then the navy's
action will be simply in the line OF exc
cution OF a policy Of reducing Santiago
by stages according to regular siege
methods.
Navy Not to lie Sacrificed.
While cooperating as far as possible
with the army the navy is not to be
sacrificed in this attack upon the Span
ish forts. The dropping of lnch
shell from on high through the deck OF
the Indiana during the trifling engage
ment with the forts, when the Mercedes
was sunk, strikingly verified the predic-
tons of naval experts as to the danger
Of the effect of elevated fire upon war
ships at close range. 1t was more by
good luck than by good management
that the Indiana escaped destruction or
an awful loss Of life from this one shell.
The president Is determined that the
navy shall not be sacrificed for small
stake, such as Santiago. To his cabinet
officers he has pointed out the extreme
ly dangerous position that the United
States would occupy among nations II
left exposed by the loss of its navy, the
arm of the service which has evoked
the unwilling admiration and respect OF
the greatest powers Of Europe.
Without a navy, or at least without
the steel bulldogs that make up Its
backbone now lying before Santiago, 1t
might be concluded that we should no
longer be as safe as we feel ourselves to
be at present from the arbitrary inter-
ference of European powers In the set
Element of our difficulties with Spain.
The Navy's shnre of Work.
The function of the navy in the pres
ent attack will be to help the army in
the assault when it shall come to the
final stage by entering the harbor, but
this will be done only after the forth
dcations at the entrance have been re-
duced and the way cleared. 1t Is gath
cred here that that was the conclusion
reached at the conference between
Shafter and Sampson.
Sampson reported briefly just after
the conference, but the department has
not been able to communicate with him
since, and it Is feared that wire trou-
bles exist that will prove embarrassing
at this juncure. Shafter has said MOTH
ing about a forward movement on his
part leaving the conclusion plain that
he waits the re-enforcements.
All the Spanish naval officers cap
tured by the American fleet are to be
confined within the limits Of the Naval
academy grounds at Annapolis. They
will be placed in the quarters vacated
by the American naval officers who left
the academy to go into active service
and will be treated with the greatest
consideration having earned the ad-
miration of the American sailors by
their splendid exhibition of courage in
the face of almost inevitable death or
capture. Admiral Cervera. 1t Is expect
oil likelihood will be given the freedom
Of the grounds under limited parole.
VIII Arrive Mt Once,
The prisoners are expected to arrive
almost Immediately at Portsmouth, N.
H., on the steamer St. Louis. Captain
Crowninshield, chief of the navigation
bureau, has just returned to Washing
ton, having prepared quarters there for
the enlisted men and noncommissioned
officers. Being given carte blanche by
the secretary of the navy, this officer
succeeded in having erected in 4S hours
eight buildings 100 feet long by 1S feet
broad each for the accommodation of
The prisoners
The site is at Seavey's island, in
Portsmouth harbor, where it will be
easy to confine them within bounds.
Considering the limited time allotted
Tor the preparation of quarters for these
men, much has been done. There are
a hospital, marine barracks for the
guards, a complete system of sewage
and waterworks, including piping for
the reservoir. cooks quarters and all
things that go to make up q complete
prison ground.
The st. Louis will land the enlisted
men at Portsmouth, and they will be
across the harbor to Seavey's
Island. The Spanish officers will not be
landed at Portsmouth, but will remain
aboard the st. Louis and be taken to
where they should arrive
about the middle of next week On the
St. Louis there are 40 Spanish officers
and 500 men.
Skaters Report of Casualties.
From General Shafter has come the
following dispatch, giving, as far as