The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-06-30
LANDING OF SIEGE GUNS

Aguadores was She|led Yesterday by Part of
The American Fleet and It will be Taken as
Soon as the Reinforceme MS from Tampa Ar
riye--This Place will Probably Become the
Base Of Operations Guns Will be Brought up
To day and the Spanish Entertainments will
be Shelled by tee Artillery and Dynamite
Guns.
copyrighted 1898 by Associated Press.l
At the front on the Rio Guiana, Sec
ond crossing, Tuesday, June 2S.-4 p. III.
Per the Associated Press Dispatch
Boat Dauntless, via Port Antonio, Ja-
nlaica, Wednesday, June 29.-1 a. H.,
and kingston, Jamaica, $3.50 a. m.-Ihe
preparations for general advance OF
the American troops on Santiago de Gu
ba are being pushed steadily forward
and troops of all branches of the service
are being hurried to the front.
Gen. kent's division, consisting of the
brigades of Gen. Hawkins, Col. Pearson
and Col Worth, has joined Gen. Law
tons division and with the cavalry divi-
sion of Gen. Wheeler and four batteries
of light artillery will now be strung out
in the rear of Gen Lawtons division.
The front still rests OH the second
crossing of the RIO Guiana River, on the
road to Santiago de Cuba, in the rear Of
the crest of the Sevilla Hills and mile
and half back.
The brigade of General Bates, the
Thirty-third Michigan regiment, and Il
battalion of the Thirty-fourth Michigan
regiment which were landed yesterday
by the auxiliary cruiser Yale, remain
at Juragua or Siboney.
The delay in the general forward
movements is due to the inability to get
subsistence stores to the front rapidly
enough.
The advance, it is said will not be or
dered until every man has three days
rations in his knapsack. This. however.
is impossible until the road is passable
for wagon trains. The pack trains can
only convey one days rations in day.
: he men. constructing the bridge
roads have the work almost completed
and this afternoon the first wagon train
of four mule teams will go. In two or
three days more every man will have
three days rations in his knapsack, and
as soon as that occurs the army will
move upon the enemy. The delay has
been utilized to good advantage Al
though the Cubans appear to have Il
thorough knowledge Of the country and
the trails, nothing is taken for granted
and the whole country, front and flank
is being thoroughly reconnoitered, and
an accurate map has been made by the
engineers. Much of the information thus
obtained will be of inestimable value.
Last night Gen. Mendonica, of Gen
Lawton's staff, made reconnaissance
up to the very trenches of the enemy
their sentrys talking on picket duty be
ing plainly heard.
Corporal Dewey and nine sharp
shooters from the Seventh Infantry
went ont at dark last night with one
days rations. toward the Spanish lines
and have not yet returned, but no feal
is entertained for their safety. 1t is
believed they are probably lying III the
brush waiting for night.
At day light this morning Lieutenant
Smith, of the Fourth Infantry, with (
detali OF fifty men from the Seventh
Infantry, under Lieutenant Dearfoe
'ioSsNu the san Juan ana went Ill
northwestery direction as far as Caney
or Gaumey, as it is marked on the
maps, without encountering any Spanish
troops. and fifty men of Company A
Seventh regiment, under Captain Young
also made IL reconnaissance The
Spaniards have seemingly retired te
their entertainments, as no pickets OF
skirmishers were encountered.
General Lawton. General WheeIe,
and General Chaffee have had riders
ont beyond our advance posts severa
times.
Captain Wright. of General Bate,
staff, to-day followed the line of thu
railroad running out of Juragua toward,
Santiago de Scuba. to within two an,
one-haIf miles of the city. The roat
approaches within mile and a half o
our front and can be utilized to brin:
up supplies and siege guns, the frs
of which were landed at Baiguiri fhi
afternoon. As soon as the remaining
battalions of the Thirty Fourth Michi
gan and Eighth Massachusetts, which
arrive on the Harvard tomorrow, an,