The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 23, 1898, Page 1

] » Call .~T;\“; Pab‘)’e“ not 1o be taken from the Libraty.**° ! e VOLUME 7L.§XXIV.-—NO. 23. SAN FRANCISCO, THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 1898. PRICE FIVE CENTS. TROOPS DISEMBARK WHILE ‘ SAMPSON SHELLS THE SHORE GEN. SHAFTER THE MILITARY MAN OF ACTION Enemy to Cover the Debarka- tion of His Force. American Warships Engage the Spanish @Along the Coast, While Insurgents @dAttack in the Rear. Special Cable to the Call and New York Herald. Copyrighted, 1888, by James Gordon Bennett. SANTIAGO DE CUBA, June 22—Major General William R. Shafter is a man of action. He began disem- barking his men from transports at Baiquiri and Juragua at noon to-day. In an incredibly short time nearly all those who are to be used at Santiago were on shore. Baiquiri, one of the places of landing, is about fifteen miles east of Santiago, and the bay oe and well protected. Juragua, on the Bay of Baconao, is a place nearer to the destination of the troops. It f,\»\rlll_\' twelve miles from Santiago and has a smaller harbor than that of Baiquiri. While the troops were going ashore the ships of Admiral Sampson’s squadron threw shells 0000000COQO0O000 ar. mnto seve aces in the neighborhood where the Spaniards were reported to have massed to at- tempt to prevent the landing. A large body of Cubans worked valiantly in the rear of the Span- iards, and when the first bodies of our troops reached land and began to shoot they very quickly drove the enemy into the hands of the insurgents. The battle-ship Texas took a lively part in the work, and took the minds of a great many ay from the scene by throwing shells into Mazamono, twenty miles west of Baiquiri, One man on the Texas, whose name I could not learn, Spaniards z and into the west batteries of Cabanas. was killed, This was intended as a diversion and was a most successful one, as the greater part of the ntly were mistaken as to the places chosen for the landing. Gen ifter’s plan of invasion involved, first, an attack on Manterola, west of Santi- ago, by the Cubans under General Rabi; second, the shelling of the Mazamorra blockhouse by the warships, and, third, the shelling of the hills overlooking every cove where a landing might be east of the harbor. A group consisting of coal transports was formed to the west to lead niards into believing that a landing would take place there as soon as Mazamorra was Spanish forces e ral S fectec Spa th taken. At see the tre vbreak the enemy saw the counterfeit transports sailing to the west, but they did not nsports coming in from the east, the latter gathering off Baconao. With them was one 1ip and one cruiser, the gunboats Helena, St. Louis and Suwanee and several auxiliary o cover the landing. Fires began to blaze in the town, showing the Spaniards were de- stroying it. battle-s yachts t The water was smooth. The boats were towed beside the tran- se troops were to go first. The decks of the transports, now forty hours off Santiago, were crowded with troops, impatient to land. Spanish riflemen dotted the hills. The strategic game opened at 8 o’clock this morning. General Rabi’s 2000 Cubans at- he Spanish at Mazamorra. The Texas at the same time ran close in shore and opened fire Jockhouse in the back part of Cabanas Bay. The Estrella battery opened on the Texas. inish shots came near, for the range was short. The Texas silenced the battery in forty minutes. A Spanish field battery ran down the beach and opened on the Texas. It was driven off by the rapid-fire guns. Again it opened and again it was driven off. ; In the meantime the Spanish and Cubans were hotly engaged and the noise of fierce rifle firing was heard. Cervera’s ships in the harbor opened on the Cubans on a plateau at the little Bay of Julici, where is the hut that William M. Tweed lived in when he landed in Cuba. t was a beautiful day. sports wl he 1 The Spa A yacht believed to be the Scorpion bégan firing to the hills, and as another diversion the slopes and harbor of Juragua were shelled by the Helena, Newport and Bancroft and the yacht Vixen. Shrapnel burst all over the hillsides and the Spanish riflemen fled. Still another diversion was created when the battle-ship left the convoy and returned to the fleet. Sampson, leaving Schley in command, ordering him to smash Cervera if he came out of the harbor, steamed down to Baconao to superintend the naval part of the disembarkation: The gunboats continued to rake the shore. The Iowa took a hand and engaged the water bat- teries beneath Morro, silencing them. The gunboats continued raking Juragua with shells. The Texas kept on firing and so did the Scorpion. The ships stretched for many miles in line of battle. The New York opened on Baconao, clearing the beach. Jugle calls rang over the water. The troops clambered into the boats and began landing. 0000000000000 0 SCENE AT THE COUNCIL OF WAR HELD MONDAY AT ASERRADERO BETWEEN GENERALS SHAFTER AND GARCIA AND ADMIRAL SAMPSON. DID MANILA SURRENDER TO DIEDRICHS? Doubtful Report of an Occu- pation by Crews of Foreign Ships. German Admiral Said to Com- mand Forces in Possession of the.City. LONDON, June 23.— The Daily News publishes a statement alleged to come from a correspondent having access to reliable information that the occupation of Manila by parts of the crews of foreign warships there is an accomplished fact, although it may probably be three or four days before the official news arrives by way of Hong- kong. The communication proceeds|arms. While Germany gathered r you will detail Brigadier General|{ The Twenty-third Michigan and on to NFORCEMENTS SOON | Dathera (00 one regiment and one WILL BE UNDER WAY. (it & another regiment of his com ceed to-morrow morning 1 | a Regiment and One Battalion Ordered | b REE tachment comprising 1350 men an: rt News, 5. fifty-three officers. VA te s travel wport, Ne battalion of the Thirty-fourth Michi. gan were selected 0 go first, this de. It is expected that they will board the Harvard. The re- to say: “Over a month ago Ad- miral Dewey prepared to bom- bard Manila. At this juncture, however, a new factor was added a naval force the intention at Ber- lin was, if not to take possession of Manila, at least to co-operate in the landing, Admiral Dewey’s o a to Board Ships at Newport {on ¢ paining regiments and batalions .r|to the situation. The German |force not being sufficien = N FEid General Dufneld's command will 1 t to pro ews. to de Cul o eave 1 4 T &3 - . WASHINGTON June 22.—The for- | that} cs"h”}'{; will he reported to Major | 98 Saturday next, taking the Yals Consul, acting on ;{are_cxse instruc- | tect German interests. Captain- = o2 o 2 " | Genera after, commandi the Unitel | e entire expes ion w en H i %, = = - warding of reinforcements to General | States forces thére. The troops will cr:xfi‘r,\-fiunder command of General [';;%‘:E tions, which had just arrived | General Augusti had on his part Shafter at Santiago de Cuba has be- gun and at 9§ o'clock this morning the first body of troops left Camp Alger for Newport News, there to take trans- | ports for Cuba. This was in accord- | ance with orders issued by Major Gen- | eral Miles last night, directing the movement to begin to-day. The order was. to Major General Graham, com- manding the Second Army Corps, | camped at Falls Church, and is as fol- | lows: ‘With the approval of the Secretary of complete camp equipments and full sup- | w Vi lies of ammunition for field service. It M’.;’;if‘,c}:{,‘;f;‘é; c&r;sxsr}sh;,'-iy.t,fi,dhx:,‘,g s understood not t iy : Can’Be Taken on boird” the ship: "°T¢® | Thirty-fourth Michigan and the Third Virginia regiments. N. A. MILES, Major General Commanding. Found Hanging in a Shed. Other orders will follow. The first| JAMESTOWN, June 22.—J. R. Camp- movement is confined to one regiment | bell of Coulterville killed himself last and one battalion because it was nec- | night, and this morning his bhody was essary to divide General Duffield’s | found hanging in a shed at the Gross command in order to meet the accom- man House at Coulterville. He was a modations of trhe“(r'ansports Hugrvapa | Dotlee of HIluEle "‘,Eg,,';“"yl’:fi.‘ ";!M%H- and Yale, the facilities of one being « ¥ . e has considered -greater than those of the &;Sfi.%fi“{gz‘}%fi; g’?r,, ?222..,{“3,?.,8;' ;f; other. % ! recently declded. e S by the German warship Irene, strongly opposed a bombard- ment, These instructions were clear and categorical and ema- nated directly from Emperor Wil- liam’s Cabinet. “It was then that Admiral Dewey asked for re-enforcements and supplied Aguinaldo with informed his Government of the situation and several interviews took place at Madrid with the| German Embassador, the result being that it was decided that Captain-General Augusti_should appeal to the foreign warships at Manila, excluding the Americans, Continued on Second Page. l LANDING UNDER FIRE 'OF SHIPS Shafter Cables That He Is Meeting but Little Resistance. One Man Killed on the Texas in an Engagement With the Forts. WASHINGTON, June 22.—Official dispatches received to- night by both Secretary Alger and Secretary Long indicated that the landing of troops near Santiago was progressing most favorably. The first landing was effected at Baiquiri this morn- ing and with comparatively slight resistance. This was stated in a dispatch received this evening by Secretary Alger, which, though brief, was full of news and meaning. It follows: TII—IIII—IIIII—III—I—I—I—I | PLAYA DEL ESTE, June 22. - f Secretary of War, Washington. T ? OFF BAIQUIRI, Cuba, June 22. — Landing at T m Baiquiri this morning successful. Very little, if m fi any, resistance. SHAFTER. ; | ‘Ill.llIIII--II—I—III—IIII. Secretary Alger expressed himself as delighted at the expe- dition with which the landing of the troops was being effected and with the fact that no serious obstacle was being offered by the enemy. He construed the text of General Shafter’s message to mean that the enemy had made merely a nominal and in- effective resistance by firiné from the hills at long range. Shortly after Secretary Alger received this dispatch Secre- tary Long received a more extended cablegram from Admiral Sampson. It, too, was dated at Playa del Este at 6:50 o'clock