The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-06-24
ON TO SANTIAGO.
City Will Be Taken Before
Three Days Pass.
INVADING ARMY Is LANDED.
The Immense Body of Troops Put OF
Shore Without Losing
One Life.
INVADING ARMY is LANDED.

Last Boat Load Was Landed at O'Clock
I'm the Morning and at Daybreak the
March Toward Santiago Was begun
Landing of the Troops Covered by
Heavy Fire from a Portion of Admiral
sampson's Fleet.
New York, June PA special dated
at Playa del Este, Cuba. says that at
[ o'clock Thursday morning the last OF
General Skaters army OF invasion had
landed at Baiquiri.
Washington, June 24.-The war office
Is notified that, sleeping Wednesday
might on Cuban soil, General Skaters
army of invasion Thursday morning
promptly began moving toward Santia-
CO. No details of the advance are OBJ
tainable here, but ii is fully understood
General Shafter expects to capture the
city and the Spanish army by assault
before three days pass.
Playa 6e Este Cuba, June 24.-Major
General William r. Shafter is our man
of action. He began disembarking his
men from the transports at Baiquiri
and Juragua at noon Wednesday. In
an incredibly short time nearly all those
who are to be used at Santiago were on
shore. Baiquiri, one of the places Of
landing, is about fifteen miles east OF
Santiago, and the bay is large and well
protected. Juragua, in the Bay of Ba-
cano, is the nearer place to the destina-
tion of the troops. 1t is twelve miles
from Santiago and has smaller har-
Dor than Baiquiri.
While the troops were going ashore
ships Of Admiral SIMPSONS squadron
threw shells into several places In the
neighborhood where Spaniards were re-
ported to have been massed to attempt
to prevent the landing. A large body
of Cubans worked valiantly in the rear
Of the Spaniards, and when the first
bodies of our troops reached land and
began to shoot they very quickly drove
the enemy into the hands of the insur-
gents.
Man on the Texas Killed.
The battleship Texas took livelypart
in the work and took the minds ga
great many Spaniards away from the
scene by throwing shells into Masa-
mona, twenty miles west of Baiquiri,
and into the west batteries of Cabanas.
One man on the Texas was killed. This
was intended as a diversion, and was
a most successful one, as the greater
part of the Spanish forces evidently
were mistaken as to the places chosen
for landing.
Long before this reaches New York
the troops will be driving the Spanish
outposts into Santiago The landing
has been successfully made. Cuba is
invaded by the United States.
The cooperation Of the navy in
Skaters plan of invasion involved,
first. an attack on Manterola, west of
Santiago, by Cubans under Rabi; sec
ond, the shelling of Mazamorra block
house by warships; third, the shelling
of the hills overlooking every cove
where a landing might be effected east
of the harbor; fourth, the grouping OF
coal transports west of Santiago to
make Spaniards believe the landing
would take place there as soon as sMaza-
mora was taken.
Deceived the Spaniards.
At daybreak the Spaniards saw the
counterfeit movements of transports to
the west, and not the transports COM
ing In from the east, the latter gather
ing off Bacanao. One battleship and
one cruiser besides the Helena, st.
Louis. Suwanee and several auxiliary
yachts. were to cover the landing. Fires
began to blaze in town at dawn, show
ing that the Spaniards were destroying
IL. The day was beautiful and the wa
ter smooth. Boats were towed beside
those transports which were to go first.
The decks of the transports, then
forty miles away from Santiago were
crowded with troops impatient to land.
Spanish rihemen dotted the hills, but
there was no sign from the fortifica-
tions fifteen miles west of this point.
| The strategic game opened at o'clock.
Rabi's 1000 Cubans attacked the Span
ish at Mazamorra. The Texas at the
same time ran close in shore and
opened on the blockhouse back OF Ca
banas bay.
SiIenccd I'm Forty Minutes.
The Estrella battery opened on the
Texas, shots coming near for the range.
The Texas silenced the battery in forty
minutes. Then a Spanish field battery
ran down and opened fire on the Tex
as. 1t was driven off by her rapid-fire
guns. 1t opened up again, and again
was driven off.
Meantime the Spanish and Cubans
were hotly engaged and fierce rifle
fire was heard. Cervera's ships in the
harbor opened on the Cubans on the
plateau at the little bay of Julici,
where the hut in which Tweed lived
when he landed in Cuba from his yacht
Is believed to be. The Scorpion opened
fire on the hills as another diversion,
the slopes and harbor OF Juragua were
shelled by the Helena, Newport. Ban
croft and the yacht Vixen. Shrapnel
burst all over the hillside, and the
Spanish riflemen fed.
Watch Kept on Cervera.
AS still another diversion the battle-