Burlington Hawk-Eye (Newspaper) - July 3, 1898, Burlington, Iowa V THE BURLINGTON SUNDAY JULY FRIGHTFUL VICTORY FOR AMERICAN ARMS Our Hosts of Brave Boys Beat Back the Spanish Forces With Terrible Enough Is to Indicate That Santiago Is cally S SHELLS DO New ter and DESTROY HEAVY LOSSES FOB of the Brilliant Fight of Friday De tailed by Good Work of Sampsons by Spanish Shot From Iti for The HawkEye by the Associated Off Santiago de July via July 5 oclock this morning the crew of the flagship was astir and eating a hurried and at general quar ters were sounded and the flagship headed towards three miles east of Morro The other ships retained their blockading Along the surf beaten shore the smoke of an approaching train from Altares was It was composed of open cars full of General At a cut a mile east of Agul dores the train stopped and the Cuban scouts proceeded along the railroad The troops got out of the cars and soon formed a long thin line stand Ing out vividly against the shadow of the rocks that rose perpendicularly shutting them off from the main body of the army on the east side of the several miles From the quarter of the flagship there went a signal by vigorously wig wagged letters and a few minutes later from a clump of green at the waters edge came an answer from the This was the first cooperation for offensive purposes between the army and With the flag in his hand the BO The lasted from to The damage was more bevere than in the previous The fire was Morro Castle was about the western and Punta and batteries were torn up in many The Spanish flag which has flown all the time on wag shot down by the No casualties were reported in the fleet The fire was several ships were near being hit bj small One of missiles passed over the forecastle of the flag ship New York while Admiral Sampson was on the Special to The July 4 A frightful victors for the American forces the battle of Santiago on Intelligent information as to tbe result of the has not been re in Washington up to 4 but enough had sifted In over the wires to make It positive that the American forces again covered themselves with But at what a sacrifice will only be fully known late For some strange reason the connection between the headquarters In tbe field outside of Santiago and which up to Saturday morn ing were has been silent as the grave all Not a word or sign to relieve the terrible official anxiety till about 4 oclock this afternoon when through a private message coming from the battlefield the president secretary war learned that the engagement which had ended so glor Friday was resumed Saturday morning and A ud and significant feature of the message was the all that the wounded were coming in indicating that the conflict WM resulting in heavy losses to the The dispatch did not indi a decisive result in any and the officials were keenly disap and their anxiety grew till welcome news this morning our forces had practically won another brilliant dispatch which came to the officials here this morning sim Hy laid the fighting had been resumed at daylight most of the American having slept on the ground captured the day before from the The day was and the fighting was carried on under the desperate Many of the American forces fell from the of the heat But on the the work of our men was as as that of list of the killed and wounded was not but it was estimated at from flve hundred to one thousand on the American and from two thousand to four thousand on the Spanish Same two thousand prisoners were taken by the American The fighting of the Cubans was fine and the bravery of the American was The fortitude of the wounded in the field was astonishing beyond Poor unto cheered on his The result of the battie has not been obtained and will not be till late as all means of direct communication seem to have been cut except for the brief news received this The officials who received the Dews believe that Santiago is in our SATURDAYS BATTLE WAS Special Cablegram to The HawkEy Washington Officials Hear But Vague News of Santiago Engagement By Associated Press to The Hawk July has been a day of almost unparalleled suspense and From President McKin down through all official Washing ton everybody has been under a tre mendous Tidings from Shatter have been eagerly and mo but brief word on the extent of the loss of yes nothing came fmm him during the day concerning the progress of the action at Just a the close of the day the first bit of I formation coming directly ti the iis reached the president and Secretar It was a private dis j patch no primarily intended for I although it came through official chan Briefly and expressively it told story of a day of terrific j It was direct from the field of action and was as late as 4 It stated an engagement had been in progress throughout the day that the dead and wounded were being carried to the rear and that the American losses wore The exact wording of the dis patch was not made but one of I the officials who read it said it I conveyed to him an idea of extreme tension and of a battle in which all the elements of warfare Until this came the officials were posi without a word as to whether the engagement begun yesterday waa continuing could Some taking the that the assault yesterday had been fol not chronicle a decisive advantage by the American forces wa construed by some of the officials as So far as official dispatches were con the day wag utterly devoid of any Information bearing on the situa tion at Secretary Alger said at the close of j office hours he had not received a word from Shafter since the brief dispatch at three this Secretary Long said at the same hour that nothing had come from Admiral Sampson and In the secre tary of the navy as ground less that word hud reached dier ashore looked like a Are you waiting for us to begin waa the signal made by the admiral to the army General Butterfield is ahead with came the answer from the shore to the By this time it was 7 oclock and the admiral ran the flagship within three quarters of a mile of the She remained almost as near during the forenoon and the daring way she was handled by Captain within sound of the made the Cu ban pilot on board stare with astonish The Suwanee was in company with the still closer in and the Gloucester was to the near From the southward the Newark came up and took a position to the Her decks were black with or more She went along side the flagship and was told to dis embark the troops at Then Sampson signalled General Duf fleld When do you want us to commence In a little while the white flag on shore gent back the answer When the rest of the command ar rives then I will signal It was a tedious wait for the ships before the second fifty car loads of troops came puffing along from Al About the last of the soldiers had left the open railroad disap In the thick brush that cov ered the eastern side of in Ashore there were no sign of the en They were believed to be on the western Between the bluff ran a rocky leading into Santiago On the extremity of the western arm was an old fort from which flags were and on the parapet of the east ern commanding the gully two stretches of red earth could be seen against the These were rifle At the signal flag ashore wig wagged to Sampson to commence fir ing and a minute later the New Yorks guns blazed away at the rifle pits and the old The Suwanee and Glou cester joined in the echoes which rum bled around and filled the All the stored up thunder of the clouds seemed to have and the smoke soon rose from over the hills and the gully was shut out from Then the firing became more Of our troops ashore in the brush nothing could be but the ping ping of small arms of the army floated out to sea during an occasional lull in the firing of the big guns which peppered the rifle pits until clouds of red earth rose above An shell from the Newark dropped in the massive old fort and clouds of white dust and huge stones filled the When small shells hit its battlements almost hidden by green frag ments of masonry came tumbling A shot from the Suwanee hit the east ern parapet and It crumbled away like a mummy exposed to air after long Amid the smokes debris the flagstaff was seen to fall The flag has been shot down shouted the ships but when the smoke cleared away the emblem of Spain was seen to he still blaz ing brilliantly in the though the flagstaff was bending toward the Apparently the flagstaff had been caught firmly In the wreckage of the A few more shots leveled the battle ments until the old castle was a When the firing Dele of the was anxious to finish his go he signalled the New permission to knock down the Spanish replied if you can do It in three The Suwanee then lay about sixteen hundred from the old She took her Lieutenant Blue care fully aimed the and the crews of all the ships watched the in cident amid intense When the smoke of the first shot cleared only two of the flag were The FRIDAYS DESPERATE BATTLE Unprecedented Heroism and Valor Win the Day for Ameri can mm LOSSES on American Troops March Against the With ering Spanish Fire Singing The Star Spangled Wounded Join in the TO THE July of the terrific battle at Santiago de Cuba yes are coming and they size the fact that it was a conflict un paralleled in valor and Brief reports from Shatter and other com manding officers indicate that the first accounts failed to give any adequate idea of the terrific struggle that con with unabating fury from eight oclock Friday morning until that Shatter informed the department that his first estimate of yester days battle was too but makea no began tna battle at Santiago tor attacking a de of bis and with his quickly joined Law tons men In their advance upon Ca ney The Spaniards for a time fought desperately to prevent Caney from falling into the hands of our It was a vain Before the fighting had been long under way the Amer and Cubans gained advanced Foot by foot the enemy wera driven back into the evident after the first hours fighting that Shatter had accurately gauged the strength of the and would be able to drive the Spaniards Santiago at his With dim new Alger is now in the commanding officers re strained order among our troops until shell had tone through the center of the A delighted yell broke from the crew of the Two or three min utes later the Suwanee fired and a huge cloud of dust rose from the base of the flagstaff for a few sec and It was impossible to tell what had been the effect of the him i hat Mono castle had been demol ft vas seen the she ished bv the American 1 the the seemed to have a claim of Jeneral Miles was similarly without j Rnd the had only one chance At three be joined Secretary jt seemed hardly possible for her in the latters and the two j to achieve her object with the big gun conferred for a long time on the mili tary Neither the nor the com manding general ths great task before the American with an enemy well intrenched in front of with guns shot and shell into our lines and with the possibility that Spanish reinforce ments have now swelled the ranks of the enemy until they are greater than the combined forces under the Ameri can military But all that the nt in Wash ington can do is being done The great issue remains tor General Shafter and his forces to work out to a His call early in the day for a large additional force of medical lowed today by tbe storming of the j was quickly responded Thj city others maintaining Shatters j ship which left New troops spent with tbe terrible strain of i was given orders before del July The about Santiago was resumed early The heat was the ranging above a hundred de The result of the fighting Is not definitely known at this Jt began very promptly at The courier from the front reported that the troops were advanc on Santiago on all slowly but and that the Spaniards stubbornly retiring still closer toward the any soldiers are being taken to the and it seems evl that the events of the day will be attended with considerable loss of SAMPSON POUNDS MORRO for The HawkEye by the Associated OK July Fort Admiral bombarded the of the harbor of Santiago for the fourth time this Saturday had paused long enough to clear the field of dead and H was only by this brief private mes sage which under ordinary circum stances would have received little at that the president and his ad visors were made aware that the battle was still in progress and still without definite Xs it the few words relieved th but not the It made cnown only that a fight was going One of the officials who read it said t conveyed as much hopeful informa ion as could be for he said had not expected victory But were far less hopeful In That the battle was still rag iif meant that our men were passing hrough a fearful having been i action now practically thirtysix The mere fact that the dispatch did sailing to stop on the way south at Fortress where an extra force of surgeons will board She will reach Fortress tomorrow and take on board the physicians and at once proceed hurriedly to the aid of the wounded under QUEEN WILL SACRIFICE of Europe Will July The Matin says the queen regent of Spain desires the in of and would will ingly sacrifice the throne for which Is imperative in the interests of and for the honor of reads The at such a distance and at such a tiny n There was a silence among watching They crowded on the ships decks and all eyes were on that tattered bending toward the from the top of what once had been a grand old it was only and not yet Lieutenant Commander and Lieutenant Blue took their The changed position slight ly Then a putt of smoke shot from her side and up went spouting cloud of debris from the and down fell the banner of Such yells from the flagship will probably never be heard There was more excitement than Is witnessed at the finish nf a college boat race or a popular race between first class thoroughbreds on some big Thp last shot had struck right at the base of the flagstaff and had it clear of the wreckage which had held Well signaled Sampson to At Duffield signaled that his scouts reported no damage done to the Spanish rifle pits by the shells from the Sampson told him they had been hit several but that there was no one in the However the Suwanee was ordered to fire a few more shots In their At the New York having dis continued firing at com firing 8inch shells clear over the What destruction they wrought was impossible to as the bluffs hide In reply to Outfields What is the news Sampson There are no Spaniards left in the rifle Later Duffield signaled that his scouts thought reinforcements were marching to the battered old and Sampson wigwagged him There are no Spaniards left If any the Gloucester will take care of Continued en tation with the president at the White The profoundest concern is manifested in military and official cir The desperate character of the fighting is now fully bid in formation to the department aside from dispatches indicate that the number of casualties was much larger than be at first Surgeon General Sternberg was early called in consultation by and It is under stood that it was decided to send a large force of medical officers to those at the SHAFTER CALLS FDR MORE The dreadful extent of the American losses Is indicated by the following dis patch received from Shafter this morn ing at 4 via Playa del July 6 fear I have underestimated todays A large and thor equipped hospital ship should be sent here at once to care for the The chief surgeon says he has use for forty or more medical The ship must bring a launch and boats for conveying the Signed RILLED AND WOUNDED ARE OVER A A copyrighted Associated Press dis patch received here this dated Province of Santiago de July 8 via del July says At this hour the lighting still The entire reserves of the American army have been to the front at apparently with the intention of forcing our way into San The troops have advanced near ly to the but the fortifications are very Our losses are An officer from the field estimates our killed and wounded at over a supposedly from the Spanish did heavy execution among our SOLDIERS SING AS THEY FACE During a lull in the fighting an im pressive incident The 21st infantry was out in front and suffer ing loss from the Spanish but the men sang The Star Spangled Banner even the wounded joining in the THE FIGHTING WAS MOST New July dispatch to the Herald from the headquarters of the American army before Santiago July the hour for beginning the Their enthusiasm was and their spirit quickly spread to the Cu ban HARD WORK AROUND who commanded the center of the general line of started the regiment of regulars to ward At the same now men advanced toward Upon these fell the brunt the battle toward the southeast of ag during the early hours of the There was desperate fighting about under orders from the Spaniards at that point returned the fire of the Americans with a fury that aroused our men to tha fiercest They boldly faced the holding their ground tenaciously and pressing ward whenever an opportunity to gain an advanced footing presented In the operations about the Americans weve encouraged by the operations of the which poured a heavy into the lines ot the Sampson ordered New Gloucester and Suwanee to attack the batteries recently placed on the east of The vessels engaged the batteries at short range and left only tbe scarred hillsides to show where the batteries had been The Massachusetts and New York opened with their big plunging a heavy fire into the ines and demoralizing The Newark joined the fleet this At noon the Iowa steamed within a thousand yards of hut was not permitted to The Harvard arrived at this morning with Michigan They were hurried ashore and hastened to join the American PLANS WORK As the enemy pressed back toward both at Caney and the progress of our forces was in tire harmony with the plans of Our lines thus became more closely and now the Americans and Cu bans present a continuous front from southeast to north of the On the right at E Caney is Lawton with three under Van commanding the 8th and 22d infantry and 2d Massa the 2d composed of the 4th and 25th infantry the lid under composed of the and lth with four light strung out in the rear of Lawtons di is to Wheelers This cavalry force dis mounted is composed of eight troops each of 9th and 10th On the left of in the resting on the second crossing of the just back f Sevil moving towards is force composed of the 1st un der with the Sth ard 6th 1st New York 2d tOtn and says Shafter this morning began 31st third with great vigor an attack on the defenses of From three di rections the American forces advanced toward the doomed While Law ton and Wheeler were attacking Ca northeast of Kent was advancing toward witt his Cuban at the same approached Caney from the south and other divisions of the Amer ican army pressed toward Santiago from the our forces thus present ing a solid front from the coast to Li the northern were killed in the fighting between and and sixteen members of the were Both the American and Spanish fleets early in the While Sampsons men were reducing the recently em ployed batteries at Cer veras fleet was hurling shells in the direction of the American and Cuban Two batteries of light ing under orders from and 2tth infant ry Bates has the 33d Michigan and a battalion of the IT WAS A GLORIOUS VICTORY DEARLY BOUGHT New July The Worlds copyrighted special says In the Field Two from Santi July San Juan Heights hava fallen and the way has been opened for an advance on Tt was a glo Four members of the but very dearly pur The place was the strongest Spanish well fortified and va but the American troops stormed heights and Span ish valor has yielded to the hull dns tenacity and of thr Anglo I write our troops ara swarming up the covering it The Spanish are The fighting has been of the hardest and iur troop suffered severe uut but the works are in I hands and they do not count the cost went to tha front at the head of the Caney is ours The general a
