Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-07-13
VILLBE0URSSO0N
No Doubt That Santiago
Must Speedily Fall.
CITY rs SURROUNDED.
Feared, However, That Toral's
Troops May Get Away.

Mondays Fighting of Desultory Nature
shafter Reports That 1t Resulted In
Very Few Casualties - No Americans
Killed as Far as He Knows - Dummy
Cannon Found In the Enemy's Line.
Flag of Truce Up and Proposition For
Surrender Being ConsIdered-MilesN Not
to Dust Shafter From Command - The
SchIey-Sampson Controversy Captain
Concas of the Spanish Navy Not Killed,
as Was Reported, but n Prlsoner-Young
Ayers Good Work.
Washington, July 13-The expectation
is general that Santiago will be ours
very soon. The main source Of appre-
hension today is that the Spaniards
may have succeeded to considerable
degree in evacuating the town before
the American lines of investment were
completed, so that when the American
troops entered it would be found a mere
empty husk with perhaps nothing more
than a desperate rear guard of Span
iards left to protect and conceal the re-
treat of the main body of the troops.
There were several indications of
some such move, which is supposed to
have been in progress for the past three
or four days. General Shafter himself
reported under date of Sunday that the
Spanards had evacuated a small town
on the west side of the bay, one of the
suburbs of Santiago, while press dis
patches of yesterday referred to the de-
parture Of a body of Spanish troops
from Santiago toward Holguin.
OF course these facts are not conclu-
sive that the town has been evacuated
by the Spanish army but the fact cam
not be concealed that there is some APP
prehension entertained that the main
result of the investment of Santiago,
aside from the important achievement
of driving the Spanish squadron to it's
destruction will be the Inheritance by
Shafter of several thousand wounded
Spanish soldiers and many more thou
sands of hungry mouths in Santiago.
shafter Reports.
The following dispatch from General
Shafter was received here during the
day:
playa del Este, July II, via Haiti,
July 12.-It has been very quiet, but
little fighting. A flag of truce up since
2 o'clock considering proposition for
surrendering now that have town sur
rounded on the north. Lines were COM
pleted at 5 p. m. by General Ludlow
right down to the bay. The line is rath-
err thin, but will have it strengthened
in the morning by General Henry, who
has just arrived at headquarters. Only
three or four casualties. No one killed
so far as I can learn. Expect to have
two Of the new batteries in position to-
morrow. Great deal of suffering among
the people who have gone out of San
tiago. Am doing my best to relieve 1t,
but not entirely successful"
In addition to this the following brief
account of Mondays fighting was re-
ceived from the seat Of war:
"Fighting continued during the day.
and at this hour it is believed that the
city of Santiago de Cuba will be cap
tured by the American forces within the
next "a hours The Americans have ad-
vanced steadily all day. In several Of
the Spanish trenches our troops found
dummy wooden guns and no Spanish
soldiers. There was a very weak fire
from the Spanish troops, and the Amer
lean officers have received further evil
dence of the great distress existing in
Santiago"
General Miles, who has arrived at
Siboney on the Yale. made the following
report to Secretary Alger today:
ARRIVED at noon. Had consultation
with Admiral Sampson and with Gener-
al Shefter by telephone. Troops brought
from Tampa, Charleston and New York
arrived and leaving for the front. Line
of investment being extended"
Miles Not to Take Command
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