The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 2, 1898, Page 1

T VOLUME SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, JULY 2, 1898. s EXXXIV. .. PRICE FIVE CENTS. OUTER INTRENCHMENTS . OF SANTIAGO CARRIED EL MORRO PROBABLY CAPTURED: | NTW YORK, . July ial to the Her- 1.—A |the American gunners will be di- | rected without loss of time, upon { the batteries on the western shore of the harbor and Cayo Smith. | With these silenced, Rear Ad- | . {miral Sampson will at once send ey for the pur-|. 5 in small boats to pick up the mines in the harbor. It is ex-| pected -this will have been ac-| complished by Sunday morning, | > [when the real attack upon (‘er»% Ivera's ships and the city of San-| tiago de Cuba will begin. | acking Santiago Major made -a General | feint the attention of 1¢ main object cente BY d BRAVE 3’35283?98982333232?3!3!3??!9!3!3!2!28282!359!3332282:35;'33,!2!3?38? 8332589?2223382335233!353!3&88875 3 WASHINGTON, July 1.—The War Department has 2 ¢ received the following from General Shafter, dated at = & Siboney: § ;; “Had a very heavy engagement to-day, which lasted £ # from 8 A. M. until sundown. We have carried their = = outworks and are now in possession of them. There § s is now about three-quarters of a mile open between 2 3;3 my lines and the city. By morning troops will be in- E: = trenched and considerable augmentation of forces will & 2 be there. General Lawton’s division and General & = Bates’ brigade, which have been engaged all day in & = carrying EI Caney, which was accomplished at 4P. M., & = will be in line and in front of Santiago during the night. = | regret to say that our casualties will be above 400. 3 i Of these, not many killed. SHAFTER.” E lores. T Reliable information which 1| obtained to-night shows this to { have been the plan of ope he losses ations The troops to 15 suecessfully: car- | the eastward of Santiago i during the day: Es- | y Castle and at the . “American squadron tifications to the westward of the | harbor. At an hour agreed upon were | by Gen 1135 are being mount- | ordered to attack the city, while { miral bom- | to cea and that the fire of | barded Morro Castle and the for- iU'uops selected to assault the for- R RR R R PR R AR RAPR R R R R AR AR R RAR R R R AR A RA R R R AR R AR R R RR R AR tifications were to make a dash | tention to first capture the forti- upon Morro Castle and, possibly, | fications has been announced. in the Estrella battery. | the Herald, and they feel certain The authorities have naturally | to-night that it has been carried kept their plans secret, although ! out without a hitch; though pos- the fact that it had been the in—l 1l Shafter and Rear Ad- 1ipson the warships were e firing and the American Continued on. Third Page. ASSAULT AMERICANS AND CUBANS VICTORIOUS Special Cable to The Call and the New York Herald. Copyrighted, 1808, by James Gordon Bennett. WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY BEFORE SANTIAGO (via Playa del Este), July 1.—Major General Shafter this morning began with great vigor the attack on-the outer defenses of Santiago. From threedirections the American forces advarnced toward the doomed city. While General Lawton and General Wheeler were at- tacking Caney, northeast of Santiago, General Kent was advancing toward Aguadores. General Garcia, with his Cuban troops, at the same time approached Caney from the southeast, and other divisions of the ‘American army pressed toward Santiago from the east, our forces thus presenting a solid front from the coast to General Linares’ northern defenses. 0000000000000 00000 00000000000 0000000 Four members of the Twenty-, wounded. Both ' the “American first Regiment of regulars were |and - the Spanish fleets early killed in the fighting bétween Se- | joined in the battle. While Ad- villa:and “Aguadores, while six-|[miral Sampson’s: men were re- teen other Americans, all ' mem-|ducing :the _recently emplaced bers of ‘the Twenty-first.. were [batteries at Aguiadores, Admiral BATTLING ALL ALONG THE LINE BEFORE SANTIAGO.. ha View of the scene of action s’boWing General Lawton’s division attacking at Caney on the right and General Joe Wheeler’s in the center, ’whllie General Kent on the left moves on Aguadores and Sampson’s fleet bombards Morro and the other forts. at the entrance. The Spanish fleet in the upper harbor is also taking part in the fight.