The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 24, 1898, Page 1

PRICE FIVE CENTS. BIG GUNS SOON TO BE " TRAINED ON SAN JUAN REPLY OF SHAFTER T0 GEN. GARTIA Cuban Leader Plainly| £ = | Told Some Cold | Facts. | Given Credit for Fighting, But | Informed Santiago Su rendered to Uncle Sam, il + [l \ SANTIAGO, July 22 (via| ngston, Jamaica, July 23).| General Shafter has sent the following letter in reply to| the com to him by General Garcia, in | which the Cuban leader com- 1 plained of the treatment ac-| to the Cubans and| announced the withdrawal of | his troops from further co- operation with theAmericans : 1 must say that | was very much surprised at the re-| ceipt of yeur letter this morning and regret exceed- ingly that you should regard yourself in any way slighted | or aggrieved. You will re-| member the fact that I in-| vited you to accompany me | into the town of Santiago to| witness the surrender, which you declined. This war, as you know, is | between the United States| and Spain, and it is out of| the question for me to take any action in regard to your| forces in connection with| the surrender, which was| made solely to the American army. The policy of my/ Government in continuing in | power temporarily persons occupying offices is one! which I am, of course, una- | ble to discuss. Toshow you the views held by my Gov-| ernment | inclose a copy of}| instructions recgived by me yesterday from the Presi- dent, which appear to cover everything thatcan possibly arise in the government of this territory while it is held | by the United States. i Full credit has been given | to you and your valiant men in my report to my Govern-| ment,and | wish to acknowl- | edde to you the great and valuable assistance you rendered during the cam- paign. | regret very much to know of your determina- tion to withdraw yourself from this vicinity. Iremain, yours very sincerely, SHAFTER, Major General. General Garcia has withdrawn his troops from the vicinity of the city. Moderate Cubans dread the accession | | | to power of the Cubans as much as the Spa is do. McKinley's procla- mation announcing that property Tights would be respected and law en- forced produced a feeling of re- lief among the Spaniards, who feared a conflscation of their property. A great many Spaniards will remain in ! Santiago instead of Treturning to Spain. The Judges of the Spanish Court of Justice held a conference upon the | question of recognizing the soverelgnty. of the United States or resigning, and desired to consult the Madrid Govern- ment in the matter. General Shafter informad them that the Madrid Gov- | ernment was powerless In Santiago af- fairs, and the Justices wil conse- quently resign, Cuban non-combatants are preparing P! THE APPROACHES TO SAN JUAN. imunication addressed | View of the Eastern End of San Juan, Island of Porto Rico, Showing Escambron Landing and San Antonio Bridge, Over Which Passes the Caguas Road, the Only Wagon Road Leading From the City to the Mainland, With Fort San Antonio on the Left, qut San Ge!-omino in the Center and the New Battery Lately Erected on Escambron Point on the Right, Which Constitute the Immediate Guardians of These Important Approaches. The Bridge Carrying the Railroad Leading From San Juan Along the Coast to the West as Far as Ca- Y VICTIMS ELLOW FEVER'S IN THE SIBONEY HOSPITAL Cases Number a Hundred and Fifty, but Shafter Says the Sit- uation Is Not @dlarming. ® WASHINGTON, July 24.—At midnight the War Department made @ ® public the following dispatch from General Shafter regarding the yel- ©® ® low fever situation: ® ® antiago de Cuba, July 23. ® ® Adjutant General, Washington. @© ® The following men ‘died at the yellow fever hospital at Siboney ©® ® to-day: @ ® Jack Dongan, civilian. ® ® Bert Louis, bandsman, Seventh Infantry. @® ©® . Private Frederick A. Percival, Company F, Thirty-third Michigan. © ® On the 21st, Sergeant J. Britton, Troop G, First Cavalry. ® © Willlam J. How, teamster. ® ® Patrick Sullivan, Company E, Seventh Infantry. ® S No deaths at the front have been reported as yet. Complete re- ® port will be sent in the morning. The situation not alarming, though ® there are many sick with fever—about 1,500 (the exact number will be ® given in the morning). Only a small part of those sick are down with ® yellow fever—about 10 per cent, 150 in all. Slight changes of all the ® troops have been made to get them on fresh ground and the artillery © and cavalry have been moved about three mile ® SHAFTER, Major General Commanding. ® IOXOXOXOXOROJOROXOXO} a petition to President McKinley ask- ing the removal of Spanish office-bold- ers. They say thet the Cubans were struggling for liberty when the Ameri- cans intervened to expel the Spanish| hence all the Spanish authorities should be excluded. 1l Leonard Wood of the Rough F rs has been appointed Military Governor of Santiago. With the excep- tion of a few encounters in the suburbs the city is quiet. Shops are opening and business generally Is picking up. The Spanlards, both soldiery and civil- | ians, bear no animosity toward the Americans, but they speak very bit- terly of the Cubans. — GARCIA DID NOT WRITE THE LETTER SANTIAGO DE CUBA, July 23.—It now turns out that the letter alleged to have been addressed by General Garela to General Shafter complaining of the treatment accorded to the Cu- bans and advisin~ General Shafter of General Garcia's resignation, was pre- pared by a newspaper correspondent named Arms, who has been acting on the staff of General Castil ,. It is not clear that General Garcia ever saw the letter. GENERAL BROOKE OFF FOR PORTO RICO CHICKAMAUGA MILITARY PARK, Tenn., July 23.—General Brooke and staff left this afternoon on a special train for Newport News, whence they go to Porto Rico. The departve of General Brooke leaves Major General Wade in command of Camp Thomas. At an early hour to-day the Reserve Hospital Corps, Reserve Ambulance Corps, the Bignal Corps, Troop H of the Sixth United States Cavalry and Com- pany F, Eighth TUnited States In- fantry, left on special trains for New- ort News. To-morrow morning four 1ight batteries of artillery, A of Iifinofs, B of Pennsylvania, A of Missouri and the Twenty-seventh Indiana will leave for Newport News, The whole of the First Corps, with the exception of the two brigades of the first division, which are now en route, leaves next ‘week for CIoIOIOIoK [CRCXOROROROXOXOXOROXOXO} | Porto Rico. The regiments are th | Fifth Tllinofs, Tk e t Wisconsgin First Kentucky, Sixteenth Pannsylvania, | S8econd Wisconsin, Third Kentucky, | Thirty-first Michigan, One |and Sixtieth' Indian: First Georgia, | Bixth Ohio, OCne Hundred and Fifty- | eighth Indiana, First Nest Virginia, |Second Ohio, First Pennsylvania, Fourteenth Minnesota, Seventeenth Minnesota, First South Carolina, Fifth | Pennsylvania, Tighth. Massachusetts, Twenty-first Kansas York, Ninth Penns; ania, Missouri and First New Hampshire. It is announced here that imme- diately after the several corps have left Chickamauga Park *‘he organiza- tlon of the Sixth Corps, to be com- manded by Major General James Wilson, will be begun and complete regiments from the second call volunteers, numbering in ali 86,000, 'FIVE TROOPS OF CAVALRY TO BE SENT WASHINGTON, July 23. — Five | troops of cavalry at Camp Alger, Va., have been ordered to proceed to New- { port News for embarkation on trans- | ports for Porto Rico, to reinforce Gen- eral Miles. They will leave, if prac- ticable, with General Haines’ brigade. The troops sent are all famous ones in their section, the list being Troops A and C of New York Cavalry, the Gov- | ernor’s Troop. Sheridan’s troop and the Philadelphia City Troop of Pennsyl- vania. for Sl vl ROGERS’ BRIGADE IS CN THE WAY WASHINGTON, July 23.—The War Department to-night received the fol- dowing: PORT TAMPA, Fla., July 23.—Adju- tant General, Washington: The trans- ports Arkadia, Whitney, Miller, Flotilda and Cherokee, with General Schwan's headquarters, salled between 10 and 13:30 o'clock to-day with two light batteries Seventh Artillery, one troop Second Cav- ary, two companies Eleventh Infantry, full regiment Nineteenth Infantry an two sections of the general packtratn, Hundreq | The corps will consist of twenty-seven | may Crosses the Water Front Just Beyond the San Antonio Bridge. & 200000000000 00COC0000000H000E0000T00C 0O | | S000000000000000C00 o NO RESISTANGE AT GUANTANAMO WASHINGTON, July: 83-<The War Departiient to-night received the tollowing from General Shafter: “SANTIAGO DE CUBA, July 23, 6 p. m.—Headquarters . Fifth Army Corps, Santiago de Cuba, July 23.—Adjutant General, Wash- ington, D. C.: A colonel of engi- neers from the Spanish army has Jjust arrived from Guantanamo. He heard from the French Consul there that Santiago had surren- dered and that they had been in- cluded. Not crediting it, he was sent here to verify the fact. They will be very glad to accept the terms of surrender. They are very short of rations, and I shall have to begin feeding them at once. He tells me there are 6000 men at that place. Am now feeding 6000 well prisoners here and 1600 sick in hospital. Expect 2000 men in to- morrow from San Luls and Palmas, Will send an officer to- mMorrow or n day with one of General Toral's to receive the sur- render at Guantanamo, and then Bo to Sagua and Baracoa to re- ceive the surrender there. Think the number of prisoners will be fully up to the estimate—22,000 or 23,000 SHAFTER, Major General Commanding. ODO00000C0OTOTO000000CO000NI0CO0Ce0O0000 000 The Mohawk, which can easily overtake these boats, cannot sail before 10 o'clock to-morrow, It will car ten companies of the Eleventh Infantr, about 600 pack animals, the brigade ambulance train and | | ments instead of in one vast army, as Red Cross ambulances. JOHN I. ROGHRS, Brigadier General Volunteers, Senior Oi- ficer at Port Tampa. SPANIARDS PREPARE TO OFFER RESISTANCE ST. THOMAS, D. W. L, July 23.—The | Spaniards at San Juan de Porto Rico ki extensive preparations to | U 2 | sighted off the harbor at 6 o’clock last | evening. They were going in the direc- | ticn of Porto Rico. resist an anticipated attack on the part | of the United States warships, which are understood to be escorting the farmy of invasion commanded by Gene- Twelfth New | ral Miles. Second | morning of the American warships or There were no signs this transports, but news of them is ex- pected shortly. MILES’ EXPEDITION. IN MONA PASSAGE WASHINGTON, July 23.—General Miles’ expedition, in all probability, is now in the Mona passage between Hayti and Porto Rico and will be in sight of the landing point in the morn- ing. While this Is the expectation of Secretary Alger, for prudential rea- sons, the War Department declines to make any comment as to the accur- acy of the various guesses that have been made in the effort to ascertain just what point has been selected for the landing place. There is likely to be ! a lapse of a day or two between the arrival of the expedition and the notifi- catlon of the fact to the department, unless some merchant vessel crossing to St. Thomas should sight the Ameri- can flotilla. ..fter that, however, the department will be in the closest com- | munication with General Miles, for it will possess ltself of a cable connect- ing General Miles' headquarters di- rectly with the department. Some parts of the Porto Rico expedition have been delayed for a few .days beyond the dates fixed for their departure, but in view of the difficulties of handling large bodies of men and the supplies for them, this is not surprisirg. Thus Schwan's troops got away only to-day from Tampa, though it was believed they started yesterday, while the most numerous detachment of the whole ex- pedition, the First Division, under General Brooke, will not 1 able to 00000000000 000C00T| > PEOOOOOEEEOOOO® PREFER ANNEXATION TO CUBAN REPUBLIC Madrid Merchants and Others Having Interests on the Island Favor Rule by Uncle Sam. @ the dy sty. day with the Queen Regent. to its purport. (O] [oJORoXOJOYOXOXOXOROIOKOJOJOXO) clear from Newport News before Mon- day. arrive at Porto Rico in good season, and it will certainly facilitate an or- derly and comfortable landing of the | troops to have them land in detach- in the case of Shafter’s army at San- tiago. PR LE | WARSHIPS ON-THE WAY TO PORTO RICO Copyrighted, 18%, by James Gordon Bennett. CAPE HAYTIEN, Hayti, July 23.— Four large American warships were The German bark Car!, Captain Vols, arrived here to- day. Her commander reports that he saw eight American. warships last night at 9 o'clock off the coast of Haytl. He had a flashlight on his ship, and tried to make out the names of the Americans, but they were too far away. NO REPORT ON THE ALLEGED TREACHERY WASHINGTON, July 23.—Doubt is cast upon reports of recent exciting events among the Cubans at or near Santiago, owing to the failure of Gen- eral Shafter to make any report upon them, and inasmuch as he has made less important subjects matter of dis- patches, it is hard to understand why he should fail to mention an event of such importance as the reported attack by Garecia upon Spanish troops on their way to surrender to Shafter. T ..re was no health report received t. 'm Shafter to-day; but, so far from beiag discouraging, this is belleved to indi- cate the continuance of the improved condition reported yesterday and the day before as to the health of the camp. The War Department is now, while keeping a close watch upon General Miles’ expedition, looking with interest for detailed reports from Genera! Shaf- ter telling of the engagement preceding the leading up to the surrender of San- tiago. It was reported tu-day that Col- onel J. J. Astor of Shafter's staff was due in Washington, bringing with him the full capitulations signed by the commissioners, and it was expected that Shafter’s preceding reports would accompany them. However, up to the | lose of officlal hours, which to-day, to the rellef of the hard-worked olerks, ‘was 3 o'clock, for the first time in many .1 it is believed that they will | LONDON, July 24.—A special dispatch from Madrid says: @© chants and others having Cuban interests assert that their correspon- dents write that all seem to prefer annexation to the United States to independence, fearing the vengeance of the Separatists if the Ameri- cans do not remain to protect life and property in the islands. Senor Dupuy de Lome says the split between the Americans and the insurgents offers the best opportunity for peace that has occurred since the destruction of Admiral Cervera’s fleet. The Madrid correspondent of the Observer says the condition of the Government is now most critical, and that the authorities are de- voting all their attention to preventing a revolution and safeguarding The "Government offers the 8000 officers of the army in Cuba employment immediately upon their return to Spain, with the object of removing their opposition to the establishment of peace. MADRID, July 23.—General Polaviela had ‘a long conference to- The strictest reserve (OJOJORORORORCROXOFOXOFOROXOYOXOR oYX OXO) Mer- is maintained as [OXOXOYOIOJOIOXOIOXOIOXOICXOIOXOIO} ® ® [C] months, the officer did not appear, and {he department does not Know where e Is. It is stated positively at the War Department that the letter which Gen- eral Garcia is represented to hae ad- dressed to General Shafter, announcing his withdrawal from further co-opera- tion with the American troops, has not vet reached the War Department. The officials are inclined to believe that it the letter really exists—and of that they have little doubt—it will reach Washington only through the mails from Santiago. SICK AND WOUNGEN ' IN CUBAN CAMPAIGN Surgeon drown Gives a Statement of Condition of Men Brought on the Olivette. WASHINGTON, July 23—The War Department has received from Acting Surgeon Henry L. Brown, in charge of the ship Olivette, a list of the patients transported on board that - essel from Santiago to New York, with a state- ment of the diagnosis and condition of each person. The patients have been distributed in various hospitzls in and | around New York. The more serious cases given are as follows: Typhoid fever, serlous—Second In- fantry, Lieutenant Willlam M. Fiscus. Typhold fever, not serious—First Cavalry, Private Carl G. Doustad. First United States Volunteer Cavalry, Privates Dave A. Hadden and Walter S. Beebe. Third Infantry, Private John Carlson, Tenth Infantry, Private Gre- gario G. Losano. Twenty-first In- fantry, Private Jacob Rable. Sixth In- fantry, Private George Sager. Second Massachusetts Infantry, Private George Bennett. Wounded, serious — First United States Volunteer Cavalry, Major Alex. 0. Brodle, Second Lieutenant Horace K. Devereaux, Captain James H. Mec- Clintock, Sergeant S. J. Cline, Stephen A. Pate, Private Norman Orme. Sev- enteenth Infantry, Privates Richard F. Brewer, Frederick Danfelson, George Doorwarth. Twenty-fiftth Infantry, Corporal David Helden. First Cavalry, Captain T. Knox, Private John T. Hiil. Tenth Cavalry, Privates Samuel Redd, Luther D. Gould. First Infantry, Pri- vate Frank E. Morris. Fourth Infantry, Privates Peter Bergman, Bert Smith. Sixteenth Infantry, Privates Frederick Zietz, Joseph Balley. Third Cavalry, Private Milton Althouse. Seventeenth Infantry, Privates Adolph Meyer, Adoiph Mahack, James B. Riley. Ninth Infantry, Captain Mortcn J. Henry. Tenth Infantry, Sergeant Willis H. Parker, Private Walter E. Reynolds. ARTILLERY 10 PLAY A BIG PART Wil Nfilaugbter Men in Porto Rico Campaign, Gen. Miles Does Not Intend to Use Infantry Until Forti- fications Are Reduced, NEW YORK, July 23.—The Washington correspondent of the Herald telegraphs:. The quantity of artillery taken to Porto Rico by General Miles and the character of the materials called for by him strongly sug- gest the kind of campaigm that will be carried on in Porto Rico. It is to be an artillery fight, and the plan was to-day outlined to me by an official high in au- thority on this basis. That offi- cial, who stands near to the Sec- retary of War, pointed out on a birdseye view map of San Juan and vicinity, just prepared for the use of the War Department, that artillery would be put on the many hills commanding the city, fortifications and harbor. This will be done at leisure, and effec- tively. Meanwhile the fleet of Admiral Sampson will take its position off shore. The official added that it would not be infantry charging up the heights before an entrenched city, but the shell- ing of a city that would be be- low every point occupied by our troops. The city of San Juan is situated on an island, and separ- ated from the mainland by a very narrow arm of the sea, over which there are three bridges, re- spectively for railroad trains, trolley cars and wagons. It is expected that these three bridges will be destroyed by the Spaniards. After the reduction of the city, however, by the shore batteries and flect pile-drivers and piles and mechanics will be brought into use for replacing the bridges, and for the first time the infantry will then take part. It is not thought the infantry will have any heavy work to do, as it will be comparatively an easy task to march into the city, which will probably have already sur- | rendered, and occupy it. It is probable that official cable dispatches from General Miles will be infrequent and much de- layed. Not only have the cables touching at Porto Rico been cut, | but the St. Thomas cables, which are nearest, are subsidized by Spain and will not carry United States Government messages. The nearest points. from which cablegrams can be sent are Mar- tinique and Porto Plata, San Do- mingo. LESS SERIOUS THAN MIGHT BE EXPECTED WASHINGTON, July 23.—The War Department authorities say the yellow | fever situation among the troops, as shown by to-night's dispatch, is less serfous than they had expected. With 27,000 men before Santiago the officials say that with the conditions considered the proportion of victims and of the sick is less than might have been ex- pected. Adjutant General Corbin said to-night that the men were largely af- fected by exhaustion and over-expos- ure. “There is not,” he sald, “one regi- #ment that s not infected, and for that reason none of the men from the com- mand at Santiago will be taken on the Porto Rican expedition.”