The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 4, 1898, Page 3

A THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, JULY 4, 1898. o= E T - e . e —:;_@ = == = = o — THE CITY OF SANTIAGO AND ITS GIRDLE OF GRIM FORTRESSES. A view of Santiago and the upper bay looking to the west from the El Pozo Ridge, south of the town of ous old cathedral of Santa Ana, and to the right the Church of La Trinidad and to the left the Dolores Church. In city, the Fuerte Canosa. To the right of Canosa come in succession Fuerte Espanta Buenos, Fuerte Santa Inez, Caney, where the American right un- front of the cathedral on a hill, where Fuerte Cuasilas, Fuerte Antonio, be- der General Lawton rested on Satur- the road to Sevilla leaves the “Camino tween Ta Arriba and the San Luis day. del Caney,” stands one of the best and roads. and the Fuerte Yarayo at the Directly in the center of the picture, most advanced of the many forts head of the bay guarding the road from in the quarter called “Alta,” is the fam- guarding the several approaches to the Palma Soriano by which General Pando came with the re-enforcements from Manzanillo. The first fort on the left of Canosa is the Fuerte Pedrera, with Fuerte Santa Ursula and Fuerte de las Can- adas covering the road from Justica, Fuerte Beneficencia and Fuerte del Castro on the San Juan and the Aguadores roads. Then an- other fort not named on the road to Las Cruses, hclf way down the entire side of the bay. Outside the circle of forts come the line of earthworks and the line of blockhouses, the three constituting the immediate and most important defenses of the city from attack by land. Admiral Cervera’s late fleet is shown in the position it took on Thursday above Cayo Ralones, from which the vessels and their guns fired with deadly effect on our troops under General Kent when ‘assaulting San Jaun Heights on Friday. WILL RUSH MORE TROOPS TO SHAFTER General Reports the Need| of Reinforcements to | Take Santiago. So the War Department Willl Send Additional Men to End the Fearful Carnage. WASHINGTON, July 3—|ly wounded in foot dur- From the heat and carnage of the | ing a sortie made last battie of Santi ), where h)rvthe night, which was hand-! last -three days the American ! for have pressed forward somely repulsed. The; againstian . entrenched enem_\'.‘behaVlor of the troops General Shafter to-day sent the ' was magnificent. Gen- following dispatch, summarizing | eral Garcia reported he Thesination : |holds the railroad from PLAYA DEL ESTE’isantiago to San Luis July 3—To Secretary of \ 4 land has burned a War, Washington: prigse and removed Camp near Sevilla, gome rails; also that July :3.—We have tr}e;General Pando has ar- town. well invested in|rived at Palma and that the north and east, but|ihe French Consul with witha very thin line. a4t 400 French citi- Upon approaching it we|,ons came into his line find it-of such a char- acter and the defenselago; have directed him 50 5‘;(;“g it will be'tir:- |to treat them with every possible to carry it bY courtesy possible. storm: with my present| SHAFTER, forces. - Our losses up| Major General to'.date will aggregatg a" Secretary Alger sent the fol- .th_O_USflndy but the list lowing reply to General Shafter: has .r?vot YEF been made. | To General Shafter: The . But little sickness out- | President directs me tosay that -_si'de of exhaustion from |you have the gratitude and ;,iifr‘tensev heat and exer- 1;hfm‘ks of t:e fr;atxt?n for the ZAtiOn of the battle of the | rilliant and effective wm.‘k of R Hutore e your noble army on Friday, day 30 y Y |July 1. The steady valor and vd“d tl“}e aln_most' COMN- heroism of officers and men stant fire which is kept | thrill the American people with up on the trenches. Thegpride. The country mourns wagon road to the rear the brave men who fell in bat- is kept up with Some?tle. They have added new Lt | names to our roll of heroes. difficulty on account of | ALGER, Secretary of War. rains, ?’ut I will be able The dispatch speaks for itself, to use it for the pr_‘esent- and, as Adjutant General Corbin General Wheeler is seri- | said, tells what a desperate fight ously ill and will prop-|our gallant troops have been in. ably have to go to the It was received at noon 'to-da.y, A Geheral after a lull of ngarly thirty-six rYear t? ly. s hours in the official information oungisalsoveryillan lyesterday from Santi- FIRST F LEET AT MANILA. Continued from First Page. Admiral Dewey. authorities are not delay. of the safety of the operations against | | | forces. commenced at once. It is the understanding of the depart- ment that as soon as the American troops have recovered from the effects of their voyage they will at once co- ‘operate with the insurgents and ships for the reduction of the city, and it is confidently expected the present week will bring the good news that Manila also has surrendered to the American Washington correspondent telegraphs : Secretary Long received to-night a dis- patch announcing the arrival of the dis- patch boat Zafiro at Hongkong for the purpose of filing dispatches from Rear At a late hour to-night these dis- patches had not arrived, but as they do not usually ‘come in until morning the ] concerned over the It is believed the purpose of the Ad- miral in sending the Zafiro to Hongkong was merely to assure the Government troops and that the Manila would be had reported the defenses to be so strong it would be impossible to carry them by storm with his present force, there was moment- arily a wave of deep apprehen- sion. But this was not shared by | the military authorities here. All | their energies, all their attention, was turned to meet the situation as presented by General Shafter. There was neither time nor dis- position to take account of what had gone before, when the fact was plain that the American army had fought its way, inch by inch, under a blazing sun, through a dense tropical vegetation, stead- ily advancing and beating back the foe, taking position after posi- tion, until, as General Shafter re- ported, the town was well in- vested on the north and east by the long drawn out line of Amer- ican troops. That was a sufficient tribute to the valor of our brave men, and it silenced all cavil over the conditions now presented by General Shafter. I from the field. confined to his bed. Gen= eral Hawkins was slight- At first, when it became known that the American commander It was a time for action, for re- enforcements, and toward the execution of this end every effort of the administration was at once turned. But there was other information of a different tenor coming about the same time. The American army was not alone feeling the effects of this three days’ shock of arms. Definite, posi- tive information was at hand that San- tiago had been literally torn to pieces, and that in the wreck and ruin of de- molished buildings the Spanish casual- ties numbered fully 1000. This was a fitting offset of any qualms raised by the reports from the American lines. This information came to one of the en- gineers stationed at Santiago, who re- ported to the representatives of his country in Washington the fearful ha- voe within the city wrought by the American army and the fleet. The distress of the city, even before the battle, was clearly shown by the action of the French Consul in serving out rations of half a pound daily to his fellow countrymen, a few hundred i number, for the last onth. Evidently there was no .ood to buy, the Spanish military forces having taken every available pound. Only by this official distribution cf rations to the foreign colony could they be kept from star- vation. Then came the brief but graphic re- cital of the terrible effect of the Amer- ican attack from land and sea. The bursting of shells from our fleet had done the “test damage inside of the city. Buildings were riddled with rifle shot and mown down with the huge shells and solid projectiles from the ships. Most serfous of all, the Spanish commander, General Linares, occupy- ing a place similar :o that of General Shafter in the American army, was se- riously wounded. This last fact had been grudgingly admitted from Madrid, but the report reaching here left no room for doubt as to the seriousness of this feature. With it was the further fact that the Spanish casualties, even behind entrenchments, ran up to a thousand, and was equal to that of the fearless men who fought in the open. ‘With all the lights furnished on the situation, official and unofficial, direct and indirect, it was apparent that each side had suffered terribly, with not a period of lull for those in responsibility to measure their conditions, bury their dead, care for their wounded and pre- pare for the graver conflict yet to come. The President and his war advisers remained calm throughout the trying experiences of the day. All their at- tention was directed to the work of preparation. The future movements of General Shafter are well established. They have been made known in his dis- patch, but it was demed advisable not to make this portion public as it would serve to advise the enemy of the Amer- ican plan. It can only be said that General Shafter’s forces will be strong- ly and favorably located, with the guns of the American warships serving as an additional protection to their front. Re-enforcements will be hurried to them, which will be ample for any emergency, whether it be storm or siege. With Santiago partially wrecked and filled with a thousand dead and wounded, the condition there is des- perate, even critical. There is little likelihood of any Spanish sortfe in force under such circumstances, but the pos- sibility is still open that the Spanish garrison may seek relief by evacuating the city and retiring to the mountain paths to the north. But the American plans are for offensive, vigorousaction. As General Miles said, 50,000 troops, if need be, will be moved on Santiago; if more aré needed, then it will be 75,000. The lesson of Santiago has served only to enkindle a greater earnestness throughout every avenue of official life at the national capital. And there is a deep-set determination to meet heroic conditions with heroic treatment. Following the receipt of General Shafter’s telegram there was a hurried war conference at the White House. Secretary Alger, accompanied by Gen- eral Corbin, reached there a few min- utes before 1 o'clock and was imme- diately closeted with the President. Secretary Alger brought the Shafter dispatch with him and also maps and other data necessary for the important meeting about to take place. General Corbin was with the President and the Secretary for a few minutes and then hurried back to the War Department, where he made public such portions of General Shafter's dispatch as was com- patible with the public interest. As- sistant Secretary Meiklejohn, who has a thorough knowledge of the transport service, was also hastily summoned and reached the White House about 1 o'clock. The conference lasted for some time. General Miles, who also was at the ‘White House, said that re-enforce- ments would be rushed to the assist- ance of General Shafter, and if neces- sary, these would aggregate 50,000 men, though the general had no idea that such a number would by any means be necessary. The combined American and Cuban forces now under the command of Gen- eral Shafter amounted approximately, he said, to 23,000 men, while those available for the Spaniards were prob- ably 23,600 soldiers. These included, however, the men at Holguin, presu ably about 10,000, and the force under another Spanish general, amounting to about 8000 men. : General Miles dir. not say whether the two bodies of men last referred to had actually joined General Linares, but the understanding here is that they have not. Colonel Humphries is in charge of the transport service with Shafter’s army, and he will send back to Tampa the vessels that can be spared as rap'lly as possible. In fact, word has been -°ceived that the trans- ports had started for the United States this . .orning. If poss’ the War Department will send 35,000 men from Tampa on these transports. Six vessels have been re- cently loaded with men, munitions, arms, supplies, etc., and are now either at Key West or on their way to rein- force Shafter's army. Included in this expedition are some batteries of artil- lery. In all tiese forces constitute about 25(: or 3000 men. General Miles, in the course of a brief talk, said to-day that General Shafter might contemplate the withdrawal of his forces to the highlands in the direc- tion of Siboney, where they would be near the sea. This, however, would be a temporary expedient, enabling the soldiers to rest and prepare for the work ahead Th~ officials hope to rush the rein- forcements to General Shafter, so that | there will be ‘rom 32,000 to 35,000 men | under his command within the next ten days, and sooner if this can be ar- | ranged. rhis is exclusive of the insur- gents, « hom General Garcia has been able to bring to Shafter’s com- mand approxi ately 4000 men. There were about 15,200 men and officers In the expedition that set out from Tampa less than a month ago. These have since been reinforced by the troops of | Brigadier General Dyffield’s command, amounting to 3000 men and consisting | of the Thirty-third and Thirty-fourth | Michigan and the Nint'. Massachusetts regiments. Th: first 1400 of Geperal Duffield’s brigade have been with Shaf- ter for a week, while the remainder | have just debarked. During the past week a cond expe- | dition of large proportion was sched- | uled to leav rampa, carrying a good porti n of General Simon Snyder’s divi- | sion of the Fourth Corps as reinforce- | ments for General Shafter. Assistant | Secretary Mciklejohn said to-day that | eleven transports were available to carry Snyder’s troops, and.while with- | out official information on the subject | he assumed th.t probably 5000 of them | were on the way in these transports toi join those in Santiago Province. The | other troops to be sent to the aid of | General Shafter will, according to the understanding here, be the remaining portion of General Snyder's dh’lsion[ and such other regiments now at Tam- | Nineteenth Infantry pa best equijped and ready for active work. \ General Brooke, ¢ommanding at Chickamauga, has already recelved in- structions to bave fifteen prepared for -immediate movement. General Snydex's division, which was under orders forn Santiago, included the following regiments: . Eleventh .and of the regular army; the First District of Columbtfa; the Second New York; the Fifth Mary- land; the Third Pennsylvania; the On) Lundred and Fiity-seventh Indiana and the First Ohio.. . General Garretson’s brigade, now at Camp Alger, Va., is under orders ~for Santiago. General Garretson’s brigade is composed of the Sixth Illinois, Fifth Massachusetts and . the Eighth Ohio Volunteer regiments. The army offi- cers, feeling that they have profited by the experience in preparing the first ex- pedition, say better time will be made with those to follow.. The Mohawk and the Mississippi, two' vessels “of the American transport line, just acquired by the Government,-haye facilities for abou 1800 men an animals, and will be utilized in sending aid to Shafter. They are now at New York under orders for Tampa. NEWS FROM MANILA HAILED WITH JOY Safe Arrival of the Volunteers Ends the Anxiety Felt Throughout : the :State. The news that our:-boys have at last reached their destination in the Orient canr )t fail* to. .send a thrill . of joy through the heart of: every patriotic American, and this ieéling will be par- ticularly strong on thisicoast, as it is to the glory of California that the first troops to sail.for a foreign land were from the Golden .State:;: E The day whe-. the transports salled; the 26th of May, Will live in the minds" of those who witnessed the ‘event as long as body and soul Higld together. -On the morning of the 24th;'amid the boor- ing of cannorn an oarse cheering of thousands, the. boys of the First Cali- fornia Volunteers, :under: eommand. ‘of Colonel Smith, marched dawn Market stree* and boarded the.City of Peking. They were followed by the Headquar- ters and two battalions of -the: Second Oregon, detailed to’the Australa, and the Headquarters and: a--battalion- of the Fourteenth United Statés Infantry, a battal’ of the Second Oregon. Vol- unteers and a detachment of Californig.- heavy artillery, assignéd to tha: City of’ Sydney. SR R il To tell again of the triuriphal march of the troops throuih -the : eity;” the crowds who watched the vessels swing- ing at anchor in the bay until the heavy mantle of night hid them from. view, and the parting salute-as they steamed through the Golden ..Gate; . while mothers, wives wnd sweethear vith pale, sad faces went. back; to desolate : : Years Hherice old men. children -in:. homes, is idle. will tell how they, "then arm- waved flags - with - their - pun hands and joined their childish trebleg in the mighty chorus of Fuzzas. which drowned the music of fife and drim and the deeper diapason ‘of-booming cannon;. Next came the story. of a-grand tri- umphal reception by the natives of: the Hawailan Islands, ‘where “somebody’s darling” was, for a. féw brief hours, made everybody’s .pet. : They realized what those blue yniforms -stood -for, and their welcome s siich that the boys regretted leaving-the sun-kisséd islands in the balmy Pacific. Then came another period of waiting. Stories of typhoons:in the seas far out in the track of the setting sun made the boldest tremble -as they thought of the danger. The. ships Wwere heavily laden and a few days overdue and rumers were constantly coming from some=- where, everywhere. or.nowhere that.-the | Peking had_foundered- in a storm and all on board. were lost. reasonable to give.the story credence for a moment, yet -when one’s mind is strained with anxiéty -he will listen to any rumor, good or ‘bad, and as bad. news spread quickest,-the city became accustomed to tales of the loss of the transports, until they-became almostlike the old cry of “wolf,” and people hap- pily let them pass without comment, It must be admitted,. however, thal there was considerable génuine anxiety felt, and the mews ‘that . our bolyu are now with the hero of Manila will make. It was hardly | our natal day all the more joyous. ADVERTISEMENTS. e < WASH 7] A YARD—500 pieces of 20 10¢ 15¢ 516 15¢ ular price 20c and 15c a y and 20c. A YARD—T750 pieces of heliotrope, biack and vhite. A YARD—250 pieses of at 15¢ yard. e« AT ... 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