The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-29
No Aggressive Movement Until Dynamite and
Other Guns Are i'm Position.
Reinforcements from Camp Alger Landed by the Yale
Council of War Held by Shafter and His
Officers-Food Scarce in Santiago.
ecopyright. 1898. by the Associated Press,

Copyright. 1898. by the Associated Press)
AT THE FRONT, on the Rio Guiana,
June II. noon. per the Associated Press dis
patch boat Wanda, via Port Antonio. Ja-
maica. June 2S. forenoon. via Kingston. ia
maica, 1895 D. m.-The American front has
been advanced beyond the first crossing of
the Rio Gauma about a mile, and now lies
three and half miles from the Spanish in
trenchments.
General Lawton's brigade rests on the
road to Santiago de Cuba. The Third Brig
ade, under General Chaffee, the Seven
teenth, Twelfth and Seventh Regiments,
holds the trench, with his command lying
across the road and river. The First Brig
ade, the Eighth, Twenty-second and Second
Massachusetts, under Gen. Evan Clarke,
lies on the left flank, slightly in the rear,
and the Second Brigade, the First. Fourth
and Twenty-fifth, occupies the opposite po-
sition on the right flank. General Wheeler.
with the cavalry, is in the rear, between the
Sevilla hills and the Rio Guiana. A strong
Chaffee's brigade, with three thousand Gu
bans under General Aguirra, and several
hundred under Colonel Gonzales. was siir-
mishing towards the city this morning.
The Cubans had several slight skirmishes
with the Spaniards stationed on the hills on
the American right flank, and our auxiliaries
occupied the blockhouses in that vicinity
which were evacuated before daybreak by
wards Santiago de Cuba. No fatalities are
reported
GOOD MAPS SECURED.
General Lawton, General Chaffee and
General Wheeler have thoroughly reconnoi-
tered the Spanish position, and. with the aid
of information furnished by the Cubans,
have very good maps of the roads and de-
fenses Of the city. Much information has
also been obtained from Spanish pacificos,
who have slipped out of the city and given
themselves up in the hope of getting food.
They renort great starvation and distress in
SANTIAGO. They say the Spanish troops
are on short rations and that all the sup
plies are being held for their use. The sick
in the hospitals. the pacifcos say, suf-
fering from lack of food. and they also re-
port that seventy-seven Spaniards were
killed and that eighty-nine were wounded
as the result of the engagement on Friday
mands.
The most startling information obtained
from the pacifcos is that since the advance
began almost twenty thousand Spanish sol
This statement is made en- the authority of
General Lawton, and he is also of the
opinion that General Pando may be able to
effect junction with General Linares at
Santiago de Cuba.
There are two forts of considerable i'm
portance within the Spanish lines-Punta
Banco, at the southern end of the bay and
Santa Ursula. at the southeast corner. on
the road to Caney, on the north. is another
fort. There are about 45O men in each of
these fortihcations, and stretching around
the whole city are nine barbed wire fences,
fifty yards apart, while Just inside these are
lines of rifle pits. Outside. to the eastward,
about two miles beyond the American out
posts. is a line of intrenchments, extend
ing from the northern extremity of the city
TO Moro Castle. A little west of south.
at distance of about seven miles from
General I.awton's headquarters lies Morro
Castle. The road to within few hundred
yards of the batteries at the rear of MORO
was reconnoitered yesterday afternoon by
General Chaffee and several members of his
staff.
CERVERA HELPLESS.
The Cubans believe that if the water sup
ply of the city can be cut off Santiago will
have to yield at once. They say that Ad-
miral Cervera's entire fleet except the tor
pedo boat destroyer Terror. is in the harbor.
General Lawton is inclined to dlscredit the
reports that guns have been taken from the
ships TO strengthen the defenses on land.
He says 1t would be impossible for Admiral
Cervera to reach the position of the Ameri-
can army with HIS big guns from where the
Spanish ships lie
No aggressive move by the Americans is
anticipated for several days. The road to
che base of supplies must be greatly inn