The silver lance., 1898-07-08
s.NTIAGo WILL FALL
.erse GAN TAKE 1T.
Helm In the Harbor-Foreign
''% Consul. Want to Get oa'-"An' '' ''
oa.ers wounded.


-. July A cable to the
New Led General Skaters head
Herald. ,.afore Santiago. Sunday, by
quarters dispatch boat Golden Rod
the ne, srtonio. thence to kingston.
y ,1p.maica. Monday: .a,,,ro, Cor
WIN a., tha work of taking Santi-
| vera n ,,es much less difficult As
| ago VGaneral Shafter had no siege
long as d could not be assisted by a
guns az nn aeet in the harbor. the cap
friehu' the city promised TO be a hard
tufe VI ia II would be practically i'm
task, 49, an 70 hold the city if captured. 1t
possip.s astimated that between 1,200
Is ~" .oo americans are dead, wound
ana lis ,,ssing after the two days fight
ed u IN, santiago. l am told by one
lns surgeons who assisted in the
OF l,o, ~. work that probably $50 TO 300
nosp.a p.;lans were killed. No official list
aineI ea,aiaI estimate of the dead and
oi oi,,nded can be obtained yet.
"y.notficial estimates place our loss as
- as . 600. and to date 4oO men suf-
is;ns his from wounds that are not seri-
pns have been brought to the hospital.
n,,r surgeons have not enough sup
,1.-6andapes or nurses. The medi-
cal staff is 100 sinah. A.
a,rr division were disabled. Both
Wheeler and Young are i'll as are Sum-
rar Wood and Lieutenant Carroll
When Carroll was wounded Lieutenant
colonel Hamilton took his command
Hamilton was killed soon afterward
and Major Vessels, who then took
command, was wounded.
Colonel Wood seemed to escape by
a succession of miracles. Lieutenant
CoIonel Roosevelt was not hurt, al
though he was everywhere in the thick
of the fight. The cavalry division lost
thirty officers killed and wounded, and
at one time a captain was in command
nf the regiment Nearly half of the en-
listed men in the cavalry We're wound
ed. The artillery forces were nearly
as bad off,
The Michigan troops at Aguadores
encountered the enemy in trenches and
on a 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 Shafter's
next move will be 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 as these
defenses have been silenced 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
to the inner harbor. This done. the
Spaniards will be compelled to surren-
der the city at once.
A 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 to a 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 if
non-combatants 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 will
leave. They ask if ! can supply them
with food. which 1 cannot do for want
of transportation to Caney, which is
fifteen miles from my landing"
Monday morning he telegraphed:
Killed Spanish general in affair
at Caney and large number of Off
GERS and men. who are still unburied.
General Linares' arm was broken. My
demand for surrender of Santiago still
being considered by the Spanish au-
thorities. Pando has arrived near
break in railroad with his advance. l
think he will be stopped
Also the following from Assistant
Adjutant General Wagner at same
place and time:
Pando six miles north with 5000.
Garcia opposes with 5000. Lawton
can support Garcia and prevent june
tion."
General Shafter's ultimatum re-
ierred TO called for the surrender of
the city at noon ON the 9th.
Inc present need of reinforcing
General Shafter is no longer felt now
that the Spanish fleet is out of the
way. A large number of men, how
ever are already on the way, and
others will follow.
The changed naval situation will
nring no abatement in tho activity of
'he authorities here in carrying the
war directly home to Spain.
~ mere Is renewed determination to
get Commodore Watson's Eastern
Sluauron away at the earliest mo-
aeh.' ;n Tor the double purpose of strik-
"A at
pain npaln ana of pursuing Admiral Ca
nara nnt Meet. which has halted at the
nalarce OF the SueZ canal. Secre-
.aiy Long made the official statement
Today that the fleet wouId sail at tho
&, iiesl possible moment. and al
s.hough !. he did not go into details as to
:. a. purpose, it is well understood that
II will devote its attention to the
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