The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-06-30
When Supplies Reach the Front the Spanish Works
Will Be StOrmed.
REINFORC EMENTS FOR SPANIARDS \
WILL REACH SANTIAGO SUNDAY
American Artillery Was Expected to Open On the Enemy
Yesterday With Shrapne and Dynamite.
Copyright, 1898, by the Associated Press)

Copyright, 1898, by the Associated Press.)
At the Front, Rio Guiana, Second
Crossing, Tuesday, May 28.-The prep
arations for a 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
Vents division, consisting Of the bri-
gades OF General Hawkins, Colonel
Pearson and Colonel Worth, has joined
General Lawton'S division, and with
the cavalry division of General Wheeler
and four batteries of light artillery, will
now be strung out in the rear of Gen
eral Lawton's division.
The front still rests on the second
crossing of the Rio Guiana, on the road
to Santiago de Cuba, in the rear of the
crest of the Sevilla hills, and a mile
and half back.
The brigade of General Bates, the
Thirty-second Michigan regiment and
a battalion Of the Twenty-fourth Mich
igan regiment, which were landed yes
terday by the auxiliary cruiser Yale,
remain at Juragua or Siboney.
The delay in the general forward
movement is due to the inability Ito get
subsistence stores to the front rapidly
enough. The advance, it is said, will
not be ordered until every man has
three days rations in his knapsack.
This, however. is impossible until the
read Is passabie for wagon trains. The
pack trains can only convey one days
ZationS in day.
The men constructing the bridge
roads have the work almost completed,
and this afternoon the first wagon train
of four SiX-rnule teams will go through.
In two or three days more every man
, Il 49, hi
knapSack, and as soon as that occurs,
the army will move on the enemy.
The whole country, front and the
flank, is being thoroughly reconnoiter-
ed, ard an accurate map has been
made by the engineers. Much of the
information thus obtained will be Of
inestimable value from a strategic
point of view.
Last night General Mendonca of Cen
eral Lawton's staff made a reconnois-
ance up to the very trenches of the
enemy, their sentries on picket duty
being plainly heard.
Corporal Dewey and nine sharpshoot-
ers from the Seventh infantry went out
at dark last night, with one days ra-
items, towards the Spanish line, and
they have not yet returned, Out no fear
is entertained for their safety. 1t is
believed they are lying in the bush,
waiting for night.
SPANISH PICKETS.
At daylight this morning Lieutenant
Smith, of the Fourth infantry, with a
detail of so men of the Seventh in
fantry, under Lieutenant Dierfoo,
crossed the San Juan and went in a
northeasterly direction as far as Caney
or Ell Gaumey, as it is marked on the
maps, without encountering any Epan-
ish troops, and so men of company c,
Seventh regiment, Captain Young, also
made reconnaissance in force. The
Spaniards have seemingly retired to
their entertainments, as no pickets or
skirmiSherS were encountered.
Generals Lawton, Wheeler and Chat
fee have had riders out beyond our ad-
vance posts several times.
Captain Wright, of General Bates
staff, today followed the line of the
railroad running out of Juragua to-
wards Santiago to within two and
half miles of the city. The road ap-
breaches within half a mile of our
front, and can be utilized to bring up
supplies and siege guns, the first of
which was landed at Baiquiri this af-
eernoon.
AS soon as the remaining battalions