The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-06-22
ReinfOrcementS TO Be Sent to Santiago By Amer,
leans and SpaniardS.
EIGHT THOUSAND MORE FOR SKATER.
SIX BATTALIONS FOR THE ENEMY
After the Capture Of Santiago the American Army Will
Be Withdrawn-Cable Repaired.

WASHINGTON, June 21-The govern
ment has now determined to send heavy
achievements to General Shafter at
Santiago. To this end the first expedi-
ton will leave Newport News Thursday
morning. carrying Brigadier General
Duffield's separate brigade of the Sec
ond army corps, made up of the Ninth
Massachusetts, the Thirty-third and
Thirty fourth Michigan and the Third
Virginia regiments, in all about 4,OOO
men. Expeditions will follow rapidly
by way of Tampa, for while Fernandina
and Miami are considered to have many
good points for concentrating troops,
yet army officials are now satisfied that
Tampa can be retained with advantage
as the main point of embarkatiOn-
The next forces to go will include
those of Brigadier General Garretson
of the Second brigade, First division,
Second army corps, embracing the sixth
Illinois, the Sixth Massachusetts and
Eighth and Ninth Ohio regiments.
Brigadier General Guy V. Henry, a
distinguished cavalry officer OF the reg
ular army, arrived here today from
Tampa, and the present plans are ior
General Henry to command division
made up of the brigades of General
Duffield and General Garretson, this OIL
the speedy reinforcement of General
Shafter. 1t will at once swell the Amer
lean forces at Santiago de Cuba 10
about "a, 1000 men. But the expeditions
will not stop at that number, as tAere
is determined purpose to send for
ward a. sufficient force to crush any
Spanish command which can be con-
centrated az that point.
The reports from Santiago. that 1900
Spanish troops are in and about the
city do not agree with the reliable es-
Inmates in the possession of the war
department According to the latter,
there are not to exceed $4,000 Spanish
troops at Santiago. while 100 miles
away, to the northwest, at Holguln,
the Spanish corps commander, General
Pando, has 10000 men. The war de-
partment is satisfied the Cuban forces
under Garcia can keep Pando from re-
infOrcing Santiago. Should this not be
accomplished, the Spanish forces at
Santiago would be augmented TO about
20, 900 men.
They are all well armed, we'll disci-
plined, used to the climate, know the
lighting grounds of that locality, and
are probably as good an all-around
fighting force as the SpaniardS can
bring to bear. There is no purpose on
the part of the authorities here TO leave
General Shafter with inadequate forces
to meet the seasoned Spanish soldiers.
1t is for this reason, in part, that
division, probably under General
Henry. will reinforce Shafter, followed
by such additional troops as the needs
of the situation seem to demand The
landing may take considerable time
longer than it was anticipated. and OF
ficials believe that at least three days
more will be required before the troops
are on shore and in any sort of organ
lied condition. Some of the army OF
ficials allow even more than that time,
one of them holding that it will take
quite a month to get all the troops on
the transports. The purpose, however,
is to get off the troops first, leaving the
stores to be taken off later, and the
siege train last of all.
The vessels that have arrived of
Santiago with the troops on board or
each, according to the data supplied to
the war department by General Shat
ter. number, with the conveys, 40 YES
sells, and is the most numerous fleet
that ever left the waters of the United
States for a foreign port.
1t is expected here that the transports
will remain off Santiago, or. perhaps.
nearer the exact landing point of the
troops, until Santiago has been cap
tured, when they will take aboard the
greater part of the invading army, If
they can be spared from that locality.
and convey the troops TO Porto Rico, to
effect the capture of that island.