The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1898-06-24
TROOPS LANDED.
Debarked at Daiquiri With But Little
Resistance From Spaniards.
One Man Was Killed on the Texas-Ten
Submarine Mines Removed From the
Channel of GuantanamO-Landing
of Troops Begun at 8 O'clock.

both Secretary Alger and Secretary
Long indicated that the landing of the
troops near Santiago was progressing
most favorably. The first landing was
effected at Daiquiri Wednesday morn
ing and met with comparatively slight
resistance. This was stated in IA dis
patch received Wednesday evening by
Secretary Alger, though brief, was full
of news and meaning. 1t follows:
PLAYA DEL ESTE, June %.
Secretary of War, Washington.-OFF
DAIQUIRI, Cuba, June 22.-Landing at
Daiquiri this morning successful.
Very little if any resistance
(Signed.) SKATER.
Secretary Alger expressed himself
as delighted at the expedition with
which the landing of the troops was
being effected and with the fact that
offered by the enemy. He con
strued the text of Gen. Skaters
message to mean that the enemy had
made merely a nominal and ineffective
resistance by firing from the hills at
long range. Shortly after Secretary
Alger received his dispatch, Secretary
Long received more extended cable
gram from Adm. Sampson. 1t too was
dated at Playa del Este, at Csc We'd
nesday evening. The text of the dis
patch translated from the navy de-
partment cipher is as follows:
Landing of the army is progressing
favorably at Daiquiri. There is very
little if any resistance. The New Or
leans, Detroit, Castine, Wasp, and Su-
vance shelled vicinity before the land
ing. We made a demonstration at
Cabanas to engage the attention of the
enemy. The Texas engaged the west
battery for some hours. She had one
man killed. Ten submarine mines
have been recovered from the channel
of Guantanamo. Communication bv
telegraph has been established at
Guantanamo.
(Signed) SAMPSON"
Adm. SIMPSONS dispatch indicated
that he was carrying out his instruc-
tons thoroughly to clear way for
the landing of troops. The demonstra-
ton which he made with the Texas
before Cabanas: which is just east of
Guantanamo, may easily have led the
Spaniards to suppose that a general
landing was to be attempted in that
immediate vicinity. 1t was evil
dent from the text of Adm. SaE1p-
sons dispatch that a considerable |
landing had already been effected near
Guantanamo as he noted that com
munication by telegraph had been re-
established at that point. and that the |
channel had been cleared of submarine |
mines. In the opinion of naval Off
GERS the landing at Guantanamo was
of marines rather than of land forces.
OFF DAIQUIRI, June %, via Playa del
Este, Guantanamo Bay, June o. AS 9
o'clock, the hour supposed to have
been fixed for commencing the disem-
barkatiOn, came and passed, the expe-
ditiOn was in suspense, but the squad
ron lay rocking complacently outside
the little bay.
About 9:15 a. m, the bonn bardment
of the hills surrounding the village of
Juragua, some six miles off, suddenly
began to distract our attention from
our own affairs. Then steam pinnaces,
trailing strings of empty boats began
speeding to and fro among the trans
ports, and gradually, though imper-
ceptibly, filing up with troops
At 9:45 Cuban scouts appeared west
of Daiquiri, and Immediately the New
Machias, Detroit, Suwanee
and Wasp began bombarding. Forty
five rounds were fred into the bush
during the first quarter of an hour
and many rounds from the quick
firing guns. Not shot was fired in
response.
At $50 the first boat load. contain
ing the men of the Sth and 1st in
fantry, started for the shore, followed
by the 25th (colored), the 10th, and
18th infantry at TO- TO-
The important operation thus sue
cessfully completed without loss of life
or accident, the troops on land formed
and moved up and away to quarters
without confusion. A force of mount
ed Cubans, whic h had been under cover
during the bombardment now arrived
and congratulations were exchanged.
The inhabitants of the village, assured
that the worst was over, came out
colored women and children creeping
INTO sight from subterranean shelters.
At 1880 detachment of the I'd Mas
'achusetts volunteers started for the
shore, and by noon probably 5000 men
had landed. Other attachments were
following as rapidly as the steam
aunches could be made available.
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