The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 20, 1898, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, JUNE 20, 1898. PREPARED TO DESTROY CAIMANERA Inhabitants Will dpply Before of the City the Torch Fleeing. Situation of the Besieged Is Fear-| ful and the People Are Eat- ing Horses © ON BOARD ASSOCIATED © © PRESS DIs ATDAN- © O DY, OFF GUANTA June © © 18 (via Kingston, Jamaica, June © © 19).—Cuban scouts report to-day © 4 O that the inhabitants of Caima- © © nera have strewn the streets with & O straw and ofl with the intention © O of destroying the city and fleeing © o Caimanera lies four Q (4] s up the bay from Camp Mc- © © Calla, under the guns of the © © nd the situation €| [Ad 5 rving and fam- © (2] canvinced of the ul- © S h of the American O [ nd without faith in the © 4] ction of the Spanish sol- © [+] the people are believed te © © have determined to leave their © s in ashes behind them and © in the hills of the © The scouts declare that © Q lding of the town is be- © © ing prepared for the © Q a eating ing the fonally merican he people and are s imane: and will her cor ring that she will never b an pri as complete a rilians and induced to riser Mar- nel Hur marines, are the reported ed informa- general attack by sh soldiers and lla is contem- two. Prepara- > were brill of the search- , Dolphin and were lying in nd mps of the in- blished along Santiago and 1 by admiral as communicati with the The aid which ved highly Their revolt this inter a d by inter- tured arounc s capt oubtedly ning of The prisoners who appear to have » apparently indif- captured yesterc nsign A. A. Pratt of the Marblehead. While cruis- ing in a steam launch outside the bay he picked up a forty foot sloop con- ANVERTIS! EMENTS. Annual Sales over 8,000,000 Boxes CH E@E&@g FOR BILIOUS AND NERVOUS DISORDERS nin the Stomach, ftor meals, Head- 3 iness, Flushings s of Appetite. Costiveness, Cold Chills, Dis- rightful Dreams and all e Trembling Sensations. THE FIRST DOSE WILL GIVE RELIEF IN TWENTY MINUTES, Every sufferer nowledge them to be A WONDERFUL MEDICINE. EEECHAM'S PILLS, taken as direct~ ed, will quickly restore Fomales to com- plete health. They promptly remove obstruetions or irregularities of the sys- tom and cure sick Meadache. Fora Weak Stomach Impaired Digestion Disordered Liver IN MEN, WOMEN OR CHILDREN Beecham’s Pills are Without a Rival And_have the n this vi- | and Mules. ! taining a Spanish captain by the name of Tores and four sailors. They said they were on their way to Guantanamo to get a supply of oil for the lighthouse at Cape Maysl, but the papers found on the sloop proved that they had been | sent to obtain information relative to | the American forces. The crew of the | sloop asserted that they had been ill- fed and frightfully ill-treated by the Spanish commander of the Cape Maysi forces. | There was a brief bombardment of a | blockhouse up the bay by the battle- ship Oregon yesterday and it is believed | that at least a score of Spaniards were killed. Scouting parties report that the blockhouse was completely destroyed, been carried off by their comrades. Late this afternoon the flagship New York returned to the fleet off Santiago de Cuba. The marines are growing very rest- less, owing to the delay in the arrival of the reinforcements of troops, but it | is generally believed here to-day that the transports will reach Santiago not later than Monday. A rumor to the effect that Lieutenant Hobson and his fellow heroes have been seen on the walls of Morro Castle under a Spanish guard ca ed much excite- ment among the fleet off Santiago to- day, but the story is discredited on Commodore Schley’s flagzhip. The offi- cers say that the Spanish sentries were mistaken as to the American prisoners. SAN JUAN EXPECTS AN EARLY ATTACK Fortifications Strengthened Mines Laid at the Harbor | Entrance. NEW YORK, June 19.—The Herald | correspondent at San Juan, Porto Rico, sends the following under date of June 9: Since the bombardment of the city May 12 there has been a general | g of unrest, uneasiness and un- | nty as to what is to come next, | as it is too clearly evident that matters | will not rest long in None | of the Spanish fleet in[ port yet except the torpedo-boat Ter- | ror, thought to be a grand | acquisition to the defenses. Her sis- ter vessel, the Furor, lies at Martiniqu: cording to latest advices, The othe warships in port are the usual ones— the Isabella II, and on fee cer which Ponce de Leon and the Concha. armed transatlantic o XIII 1 laden with provisions for Santiago or some other Cuban port, but does not seem inclined ut. She made a quick run a go to and Ponce sons Th Provisions are very scarce and prices been increased 75 per cent above > norma In the interior of the island th diti are still werse. No wor! Thousands of men are unemp misery and hun are working b n ng done on the estate: >d and he mines at the harbor entrance have been laid further seaward, cov- ering all the lines the United States 1 took during bombardment, hich was toc close in to eflect on Morro, which lies on the flat top of the cliff The island has now a population of 1,000,000. The urely Spanish element may be counted as only one-tenth of the whole. - OF GREAT IMPORTANCE | 1 TO ARMY OFFICERS. | | Secretary Alger Kenders a Decision | i Sustaining the Paymaster General. | WASHINGTON, June 19.—Secretary | | Alger has®rendered a decision of great | | importance to army officers, in which | he holds that men serving within the limits of the United States at a tirie | | when theve Is no foreign army within | said limits are not “operating against | | an enemy,” notwithstanding the exist- | ence of war conditions. The case upon | which the decision was based arose in | connection with the claim of some offi- | cers whc had exercised a higher com- | mand than their grade, and who con- | | tended they were entitled to the pay | | of the higher grade. The paymaster- general maintained that the troops were not operating against the enemy | until they had actually left the shores | of the United States, and in this he is upheld by the Secretary. The Sec- | retary has decided also that for the| purpose of restricting assignments to command under Section 7 ¢f the volun- | teer army to “competent authority,” such authority can be exercised only by the Secrétary of War or by the commanding general of an army “oper- ating against an enemy.” Xl CHARACTERIZES THE RUMOR AS ABSURD. WASHINGTON, June 19.—Adjutant- General Corbin characterizes as ab- surd the published report that he would be given an important command at the front and in a measure would succeed General Miles in the direction of military affairs. Such a thing, he sald, had never entered his mind, or, so far as he knew, that of any one else in authority. He had never heard it intimated from any responsible source that General Miles might be relieved of some of his duties, and he did not believe that such a thing was ever con- gldered. And, even were it true, it was LARCEST SALE of any Patent Medicine in the World, 25¢. at all Drug Btores. beyond reason, he added, that his (Cor- bin's) position would be changed in consequence. but that they were unable to discover | any bodles, the remais of the soldiers | who had been killed probably having | { while their head | of guncotton blown | landed. i LIEUTENANT COLONEL ROBERT W. HUNTINGTON, U. S. N,, Who Commanded the Detach Guantanamo Bau. ment of Marines Landed in DEAT | RUIN AND H ON AlL SIDES ?quoc Wrought by the Recent Bombardment of Santiago. Flc;g at Half-Mast on the Morro Causes Alarm as to Hob- son’s Fate. ON BOARD THE ASSOCIATED | PRESS DISPATCH BOAT DAUNT- | LESS, OFF SALTIAGO DE, CUBA,| June 18 (via Kingston Jamaica, June 19).—A careful inspection of the for- | tifications alor the crest the hilis defending Santiago Harbor Vsince the | bombardment Thurs morning shows | the American s spread wreck | and ruin ev Some of the bat- teries were hed beyond re- pair. The vuitures which circled over | the hills as thick as swallows around a chimney for hours after the firing | ceased furnished grewsome evidence of the fatality among the Spanish soldiers. | Hundreds of troops could be seen from | the ships digging in mounds of earth | piled by the explosions of the projec- | tiles from the heavy guns for bodies, were fanned by the wings of the black scavengers of the battlefield. There were two £pots, one on the east and the other cn the west of the harbor ent -h were denuded of foli- age. tops seemed ese marked the piaces s Vesuvius blown away. Th where the two hundred pound charge: by the But the most ominous token of death flew from Morro Castle. The saffron flag of Spain was half-masted for sev- eral hours. The significance of this not knov It is not customary to half- mast flags, but possibly some Spanish leader was killed bv the heavy fire of the guns, though some officers of the squadron believe the flag was half- masted as a notification to the Ameri- cans that Lieutenant Hobson and his brave men were dead. If such is the case they must have been wantonly murdered. The Spanish might seek to lay their death to the bombardment, but not a shot from the Americans struck the fortress. Neither niral Sampson nor Com- modore Schley believe that Lieutenant Hobson and his party have been killed. We have seventeen prisoners taken at Guantanamo, including a lieutenant, besides a number in the United States, for reprisais or exchange. There was evident demoralization among the Spanish troops during the bombardment. Officers could be seen, with drawn swords, driving the men to the guns, but even then they could not be forced to stay so long as our fire was directed at them. Fifteen minutes’ night work of the Vesuvius had shat- tered their nerves. It is believed by some that the 13- inch projectile fired from the Texas, which was reported to have exploded the powder magazine In one of the western batteries, did not fall in the battery, but went beyond and blew up one of the ships in the harbor. A dramatic incident of the bombard- ment was the act of a Spanish officer, who bravely ran along the parapet un- der a heavy fire, encouraging his men to stand their ground. Shot and shell rained about him, and, after one terrific explosion, he was seen no more and the parapet had disappeared. He could not have escaped death. From the foretop of the Brooklyn, 2900 yards distant, the men in the grounds could be noticed, but a min- ute later dust and flying debris would take their places, and when the smoke raised only a spot of red earth could be seen—guns and gunners had been swept away. It was the most deadly and destructive bombardment of the war this far. Scarcely a shot from the big guns of the squadron went astray. The alm of our gunners wag superb, and not only were the ccast forts anni- | with Smith, up the harbor, were destroyed. Had ail the ships used smokeless pow- der, as did the New Orleal there would remain no signs of guns or forti- | fications to indicate that there had ever been any defenses there. There were no casualties on our fleet, though our ships held a fixed position. | The half-stripped ships’ gunuers never worked with more enthusiasm. The words of Rear-Admiral Sampson were: “First silence the batteries on the shore and then continue firing until the foriifications are reduced.” This order was strictly obeyed. It was the first time such instructions | had been given and the men responded a will. In thirty-eight minutes the order was given to cease firing and the message went to each ship from the admiral: “Well done.” The ofiicers and men turned in for brealkfa Every detail of the engage- ment had been executed to the letter, from the opening of fire by the New York to the last shot from the Iowa. The Spaniards evidently were sur- prised while strengthening their forti- ficatio: The first shot from the New York Janded full and fair on the top of the hills to the east, where the gunners were already at work erecting new pieces. The earth:seemed to rise in a cloud, and when the i2-inch shells of the Iowa and the 12-inch beauties of the Oregon landed. squarely and fairly a great cheer went up from the ships. The western squadron got into line and began firing before the eastern one did, and the effect of the shots could be plainly seen. The Spanish gunners at the batteries could be noted and a quick flre was returned, but only for a brief time did they withstand the terrible assault of the fleet. HAVANA BLOCKADE TO BE RE-ENFORCED Vessels Which Convoyed the Fleet of Transports Will Return to Their Posts. NEW YORK, June 19.—A Washing- ton special to the Herald says: In ac- cordance with instructions given him Rear Admiral Sampson will immediate- ly take measures to re-enforce the block- ade squadron on the safe arrival of troops at Santfago. With the excep- tion of the battleship Indiana and the torpedo boats which accompanied the troops, the convoy squadron will be ordered to proceed with all dispatch back to the western end of Cuba to re- sume its station at the points where it was located before it was attached to the convoying fleet. AS a result of the return of these vessels, about fourteen in number, the authorities say there will be no further danger of blockade runners getting through to Cuban ports. Bl S To Repair the Cable. MOLE ST. NICHOLAS, June 19.—For several days the French cable com- pany has been trying to re-establish its broken cable between here and Guantanamo and Santiago. Its repair steamer Mancel finally sailed yesterday from here to make the repairs, so that commerclal business, which has been interrupted for the past ten days, can again be accepted by the French cable lines, It is understood that the United States authorities will permit this cable to be worked commerclally un- der the supervision of its censor, as Is the case with the cable between Ha- hilated, but the batterles on Cayo!vana and Key West. b ‘Spaniards eonnoi Crews Escaped Are Warmly OFF SANTIAGO DE CUBA, June 18 (via Kingston, Jamaica, June 19).— Several attempts to find landing places for the United States troops within a distance of two miles west of Santiago have determined, with previous inquir- ies to the eastward, that the shore for fifteen miles is lined with Spaniards. ‘While this will not prevent a landing close to Santiago it may entall con- siderable delay, as the surrounding country must be thoroughly shelled and cleared before the troops can land in safety. ‘When Rear-Admiral Sampson yester- day recelved advices that upward of thirty transports would be here to-day (Saturday) he sent word that they should stand to the south ten miles and lie there until a landing place had been secured. Yesterday at daylight the launches of the New York and Massachusetts reconnoitered the shore between Ca- banas, two miles westward of the en- trance to Santiago harbor, and Guaya- cano, two miles further west, both of which peints lie east of the range of mountains surrounding Santiago Bay. The launches pushed their noses into a hornets’ nest. The brush was fairly alive with Spanish troops, infantry and cavalry, and the fire opened upon the launches was so flerce that their re- treat had to be covered by the Vixen and Texas. When the Texas asked permission of Commodore Schley to take a hand the commodore seized the megaphore and shouted to Captain Philips: “Yes, go in and give ’em —, Jack!” The Texas landed several 4-inch shells on the battery at Cabanas, com- pletely demolishing it. = Lieutenant Sharpe of the Vixen and Lieutenant Harlow, in command of the launches, were both complimented by Admiral Sampson for gallantry. It is believed the insurgents, who are in force and under the command of General Garcia, abcut fifteen miles west, will render effective aid in driv- ing the Spanish skirmishers off the shore. Following is the abstract of Lieuten- Sampson. TWO LITTLE | LAUNCHES - UNDER FIRE Struck‘ a Hornets’ Nest of While Re- tering. Unharmed and Praised by ant Harlow's report to the commander of the V , dated June 18: “The expedition consisted of a steam launch from the Massachusetts in charge of Cadet Hart and a launch from the New York in charge of Cadet Powell. I took passage on the Massa- chusetts’ launch, leading the way. Soundings were taken on entering the bay close under the old fort, and we were preparing to circumnavigate the bay at full speed when fire was opened from the fort and rocks on shore. The Massachusetts’ launch was some dis- tance ahead and about forty yards off the fort. There was no room to turn, and our one-pounder could not be brought to bear. We backed and turned under a heavy fire. “Cadet Hart operated the gunassoon as it could be brought to bear, sitting exposed in the bow and working the gun as coolly and as carefully as if at | target practice. Cadet Powell had been | firing since the Spaniards opened. He | also was perfectly cool. Both launches ran out under a heavy fire. The nun ber of Spaniards along the shore w: large. The launches, as soon as s practicable, sheered to give the Vixen the range of the fort. The Vixen and Texas silenced the shore fire promptly. “I strongly commend Cadet Hart and | Cadet Powell for their cool management | of the launches. One launch was struck | several times, but nobody on either | was hurt. A bullet struck a shell at| Cadet Hart's foot between the pro- | jectile and the powder, but failed to | explode the latter. i “Coc in O'Donnell and Seaman | e commended, as is also the with_which the marines and | worked under the Spanish fire. | hing was learned at Cabanas | Bay, but at Guayagance it is e\'identi a landing is practicable for ships’ boats. | The same is true of Ranco Cruz, a| small bay at the eastward. Both would | be valuable with Cabanas, but useless without it. I am informed that to t north and westward of Cabanas Bay there is a large clearing with plenty of ground, grass and water. I think a simultaneous landing within the three places named would be practicable if the ships shell the adjacent woods. A | junction would naturaily follow at the clearing.” ‘ | | | YOUNGEST “MAN” IN TH'EiNAVAL SERVICE Heroism of the Fifteen-Year-Old Son | of the Collier Alexander’s Captain. Copyrighted, 1898, bv James Gordon Bennett. MOLE ST. NICHOLAS, Haytl, June 19.—The big collier Alexander arrived at 7 o’clock this morning with a cargo for the fleet. She is commanded by | Captain W. L Burrell and is direct from Hampton Roads. On board the | Alexander is the youngest “man” in | the United States navy. He is Willlam | | Burrell, a son of the captain. He is | 15 years old. He was appointed by Sec- | | retary Long . before the Alexander | sailed. Willle acts as flag lleutenant and is eager to fight Spain. The Alexander on her way here over- hauled a Norwegian bark that looked like a Spanish ship. A high sea was running at the time...From one boat in which were men sent to board the bark two were thrown into the water near | | the steamer’s side. Willle superin- | tended the lowering of the other boat | and saved their lives. When his-gather | complimented him for his gallantry he | sald simply: i “I am sorry, papa, she was not a| Spanish warship.” i The Alexander's entire armament | consists of two 3-inch guns. o COMMITS SUICIDE. His Mind Probably Unbalanced by a | Blow Received While Resist- ; ing Arrest. | E. Phelps of Company C, Sixth Cali- fornia Volunteer Infantry, located at Benicla Barracks, shot himself through the heart with his own rifle this after- noon, dylng instantly. He obtained some notoriety a few weeks ago in San Francisco by resisting arrest. During the scuffle he received a severe blow on the head from a musket, since which time he has been apparently of unsound mind. To-day his companions noticed him working his rifle with his foot, with the muzzle pressed against the body. Evidently he was testing his intended method of ending his life. The officers say that Phelps was a very good soldier, always obeying or- ders promptly, but he acted as though he felt keenly disgraced since the affair the city. nPhelps was 34 years old. He was born in Philadelphia and resided for some time in Pittsburg. He was in Califor- nia but a few months. He joined his company In Fresno. Very little is known of his private affairs. The offi- cers of the company believe his mother | and sister live somewhere near Fresno. He will be burfed to-morrow. PASSED THE PEKING APPROACHING MANILA. Chinese Steamer Reports the Trans- port About to Join Dewey on June 15. | Copyrighted, 18, by James Cordon Bennett. HONGKONG, June 19.—The steamer Yuen Sang arrived here to-day. She left Manila June 14 with 1200 passen- gers, mostly Chinese. There were flrty| CASTORIA | For Infants and Children. 1 ‘The fao- H T B Lo . 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