Burlington Hawk-Eye (Newspaper) - July 6, 1898, Burlington, Iowa THE BURLING TON WEDNESDAY JULY SANTIAGOS BOMBARDMENT IS The Destruction of Fleet Completely Changes Military and Naval IT THE EHf OF OUR FORCES But Final Assault Must Be Delayed Till Non Combatants Are son to Enter July the result of of using contact so there is little I cabinet meeting instructions sent by the president to Admiral Simpson and General Shatter to confer concerning a joint plan of at tack upon the Upon the outcome I this conference depends the line of for the immediate For the resent the land bombardment by General Shatters forces has been de tint ai the situation has so complete ly chanced by the annihilation of the Beet that it is manifestly the fanct wisdom for this land bombard to await the cooperation and t at the bombardment from Ad demand for the sur Santiago on pain of bombard i made at Sunday morn An hour later Admiral Cervera It his suicidal dash for the in a complete transformation ef and military Dp the dose of office hours today M wart had come either to the war or mrr department so far as was dis as to what determination ha reached at the At the time it is clear the expectation the authorities here Is that the con will result in a determination by the admiral to take a position before city for There is to belief that the instructions to Admiral Sampson at least con a If not that he enter the but it is said that the admiral and general continue to be the supreme officials in authority and on the their judgment will taken as final In the course to be is said to be no so far is concerned to the en of the harbor by the American The Cristobal Colon drew 23 fet t which is within inches the draft of the Massachusetts and account is taken of the mines the Spanish fleet passed over The are in the habit likelihood that the mines are operated by electric connection with the The forts batteries have been badly wrecked by the constant fire of the fleet for many weeks and while still a are greatly No less than 292 heavy guns have been trained from the American ships on the city at the same time the big siege which it is expected have been the front of would rain down torrent of steel from that The action of the foreign representa tives at Santiago have been an addi tional reason for deferring the bom It was made known late to day that one of General dis patches stated that these representa tives had joined in a request to him to put off the shelling of the city for an other brief until their respective colonies were This accounts for the departure of the foreign war ships from Santiago harbor as they were bearing away foreign residents in the period before the bombardment be The definite official report reaching here today that the Spanish fleet had entered the Suez canal made no change in the plans of the navy department as to sending Commodore Watsons squadron to the coast of Secre tary Long said it would start at the earliest possible but he did not care to give the day of The annihilation of the Spanish fleet continues to be the absorbing topic among the naval who are giv ing most generous praise to Commo dore Schley for the notable manner in which he directed the when the immediate command fell to his It is perhaps the greatest achievement in the long line with which Commodore name has been The others included the relief of the Greely arctic expedition and the command of the Baltimore at when war was imminent as the result of a mob attack on the American PRICE i Cantors Ifle H of The his alone was in position to attack the Spanish ves sels as they left the harbor and the commodore steamed directly toward them and engaged all four in great damage upon The Oregon was the first to join the Brooklyn and afterward the In Texas and Vixen closed around the all pouring In a deadly but from the beginning to the end of the fight the Oregon and Gloucester took the most important part in the destruction of the One George Henry was killed on board the His head was blown off by a One other was injured on board The Brooklyn was struck half a dozen times but no Injury was done to any of the other American ORDERED Ouml nt Al Will Move July brigade under General at Camp Al has been ordered to proceed at once to The Eighth Ohio goes to New York to take the cruiser The other the Sixth Massachusetts and the Sixth Illi go to where the Yale and Harvard will be inter on their way and will be used to embark troops to July troops left Chickamauga and it is not known when any will The general conditions have materially changed during the last twentyfour and as far as the troops here are it is apparent that the war department has materially altered its Six regiments had been ordered to move today in command of General Wilson as division and railroads had all the necessary trains to carry the soldiers to the front but the de Without Artillery the Soldiers Plunged Up the VICTORY IN FACE OF With the Men flint tvw and Hospital BY KICHARD HARDING El Pozo Satur by the Dispatch Boat to July by James Gordon Ben sortie in force was made by the Spaniards last night at sunset upon the troops that held the hills of San Our dismounted cavalry and the Sixth and Sixteenth regular who had captured the had been reenforced by the New York volunteers and the Ninth Thirteenth and Twentieth At the time the Spaniards made this final effort of the day to retake the lost our men were strung out in a single line for more than a They held the but no Reinforce ments had left to help them on the but on the had not been heard being busily engaged at It seemed a case of night or struction of fleet Sunday at w 7 1 Santiago changed the whole plan and but reinforcements and with a rescinding order was received last I Lawtons the single line of Everything will now have to j for a time withstood the attack of wait the next move of the The six regiments which expected to go today are The Second and Third Sixteenth Third the Fourth and the Fourth July after noon orders were issued to the First First division army to break camp and march to the The Spanish fire was too how and forced the Americans to fall back below the crest of the hills until it After except for an Irritating picket which continued all night to their there were a few hours of comparative Early on Saturday by order and before their hiding places were discovered they had killed and wound ed many surgeons and others of the hospital besides soldiers who were already A detail was sent Into the woods to scout for these and already nix of them have been discovered In tin branches of trees and disposed Their methods also include picking off officers and aides passing beneath them along the For a long time their fire was supposed to be spent bullets of the What the day would bring forth it was impossible to say after the first setback of our Our men have been under fire for twentyfour and in heat that is There is no shade on the Rations had been left in the rear with blanket Several of the generals advised Shatter to suspend all operations for the day to allow the troops to get food and urging that as they had the key to the there seemed to be no good reason why they should not taku time to It is now admitted by everyone thit the courage of the Spaniards has been but they cannot stand up under the steady advance of the Our own loss was cruelly especially among the who acquitted themselves so Three companies of the regulars are entirely without Major Markley commands the rgi ment and Captain Auman commands the Thirtieth all his senior officers having been There could be no finer sight than these same officers coming back to the front as soon as their wounds were dressed and commanding their men with their arms in slings or their wounds wrapped with bloody The dynamite gun of the rough riders rendered effective service on The report that the Borrowe brothers were killed is The gatling guns were also of the greatest It is a pity there are so few of them and that the infantry has to be called upon to do work artillery could have accomplished without this cruel loss of There is only one and that is that the Infantry and dismount I ed cavalry and their officers have dem the courage of the American soldiers and Their ad vance and charge up the hills of San Juan were a succession of forlorn They should never have been asked to make such a But they made and a picture of them as they reached the crest of the and planted their flags IIE Shatter Says the People Are Starv ing and Panic to Bring About a July has been i Speaking of the troops under his corn comparatively a quiet night at both the I mand Shatter says The men are In war and navy Several j good spirits and are remarkably dispatches were received by General j In another dispatch refer Corbin from Shafter but the contents j ring to the condition of those were not given to the No buli says letins were posted at midnight either by the war or navy A message from Shafter indicates that the situation of the people of Santiago is They are not only panic stricken over fear of but they are suffering from lack of the ac tual necessaries of In one of his cablegrams Shafter says The town Santiago is In a terrible All the wounded are doing singular ly well only one death has occurred since the A private telegram from General formerly colonel of the Sixth stationed at says All of the Fort Meyer officers are safe and MADE A Had He Sailed His Vessels East He Might Have Escaped for The HawkEye the Associated 08 Santiago de July via Port per Associated Press July Cer held a consultation with his Spanish fleet was It Is before sailing out of the harbor of and by a small majority the was agreed The minority Destruction was sure as many of had mutinied and the best in the fleet were worn out by serv guns in the shore on the morning of the observations were taken of the and Admiral Cervera de on board of The commander of the Spanish armored cruiser came for ward to surrender and was taken on rante Oquendo and Maria Teresa were killed by the insurgents who were seen in the chaparal near the could not be verified at this writing as no accurate estimate of the loss to the claimed that one shell killed 100 men on the raking the vessel fore and After a chase of sixty miles to the westward the closely fol lowed by the overhauled the Cristobal Colon after bad run ashore and hauled down her Captain Cook of the Brooklyn went Med taking a westward course Cienfuegos if pos the port to be have gone east but for the of the large transport fleet off and the assurance that the of war vessels was still with matter of fact there were no vessels larger than a converted except the New that could Admiral es men here are the Spanish vessels could disabled or sunk the New York tne course for a time by many that board the New which came feared an hour after the Brooklyn and the Or egon bad completed the capture of the Cristobal The latter was not se though she was struck several times by shots from the Brook lyn and During the chase the maneuver of Commodore Schley In heading due west to Cape Caney while the Cristobal Colon had taken a more southerly direction with a much greater distance to the Spaniards escape impos There seems no doubt that the Cristobal Colon and perhaps the other i three Spanish armored cruisers would and officers who have had it not been for the from the prompt action of Commodore The glad tidings received from both condition as to People are starvI Shatter and Sumner concerning the Rice Is practically the only staple j condition of the troops and particular article of food they i ly the will be received with Further along in the same dispatch joy in ail parts of the Shafter says the growing food crops in I statement of the situation the vicinity of the city have already in Santiago is borne out by the condi been utilized by the residents of the I tion of the men captured by the Amer city and the only growing article of food left is a few lean fleet from the vessels of They have been on half ra tions so long that many of them are nearly and if they had not been taught that capture by the Amer meant death they would have welcomed because it Insured them good board and plenty of It Is learned authoritatively that a tremendous pressure is being brought to bear upon the Spanish commander of Santiago by the foreign consuls res ident In the city to induce in the interests of to surrender to the The consuls communi with their home governments and it Is believed here that representations will be made by them to Spain to in duce her to permit the city to surren thereby preventing further loss of life and What the result of these negotiations may be cannot be SPAIN IS DECEIVED Delirious With Joy Over False Re ports That Cervera Escaped From Santiago SUPPRESSES TRUE Absurd Version of the Battle Which Gives the Spanish Admiral Credit For a Successful for The HawkEye by the Associated July indescribable enthusiasm continues to prevail here over the supposed escape of Admiral Cervera and his squadron from the har bor of The admirals name is on every It is claimed it was he who saved Santiago by adding to General Linares handful of soldiers his brave sailors to man the guns and repel the Americans under General Such is about the exultant eulogy of Admiral Genera heard on all this state of public feeling being due to official announcements from For one statement from Santiago follows When Admiral Cer vera found that it was certain Colonel reinforcements were in the proximity of the admiral held a council with the commanders of his squadron disclosing to them a plan to force the blockade in broad day The commanders responded unani ad lante It was then arranged that torpedo boat de should take the lead the and discharge torpedoes against the the Cristobal Colon protecting their shel tered by the batteries of Morro distracting the attention while the remainder of the squadron sailed out of the The Americans at first were taken by Then re covering they opened a tremendous especially against the torpedo boat de which vessels Admiral Cer vera had instructed to steer in the op course to the The Americans were deceived and maneu vered towards the supposed course of the Spaniards while Admiral Cervera went full steam maintaining a continuous fire until clear of the Amer lean lines and then steamed away pursued and breasted for The opinion expressed by the some distance by tne swiftest American war officials is that the Spaniards will fight to the last and capitulate only when they are forced to do there to take trains for South An hour later three regiments composing the the Second and Third Wiscon sin and Sixteenth had left the The Third Fourth Ohio and Fourth Pennsylvania will command the detachment which goes from here to has orders to proceed to Charleston CERVERA MAY CABLE July Mc through General Gree chief signal sent permission to Cervera to communicate with his family in Spain by Permission was also granted the other captured Spanish officers to use the cable for similar PEACE IS Paris Blood Has and Property to j July Temps publishes an article headed Peace in of which it says Per haps the only service Sagasta can now render his liberalism and is to open negotiations for There has been enough blood battles and destruction of forts and If is not now when in the name of heaven will it be Train July Rio Grande Southern train was held up at Stony Creek this morning by three men sup posed to be The robbers of General Major among the spent cartridges of the en battery advanced to within 400 yards j emy should TMI As I conclude this dispatch thp ar of the Spanish lines on the right Dil lenback intrenched under cover of and at sunrise began shelling Santiago city and the Spanish He was instantly answered by two one gun and a merciless infantry it is tillery is preparing to bombard San and we have gond hopes of cel the Fourth of July In the plaza of the chief city of eastern came from the troops driven back by Lawton from Our artillery men could not stand up against it and loaded their guns while lying on their Captain Park was wounded in the arm and many of the men of our batteries were The American battery was forced to fall back on El from whenit had begun firing on Friday The battery should never have been ordered to the front with the effective fire of modern The placing of the battery within 400 yards of the infantry line was Caprons battery arrived from the right Just as Dillenback arrived from the They constitute all the artil lery we sixteen guns in There should be eighty or one When this movement began the horses had not been out of their har for a day and a and neither officers nor men had had food for thirtysix At this oclock Saturday horses are being waterd and the men are some preparatory to es themselves and shelling the city at a range of Lawton and after an all night march from are now coming to the front to Join the men who took and still hold the ridges of San three quarters of a mile from the An element of the fight that exas the men was the discovery of many sharpshooters in the trees along the The courage of these guer rillas cannot be as they were absolutely cut off from their own went through the cars relieving the I but their methods are beyond passengers of about The express 1 They kept up a steady fire on and mail can were a dressing station of the field CHICAGO PAPERS ESCAPE Printers and Stand BT and Will Be ThU SPECIAL TO THE July The Chicago papers have resumed publication and will get out papers The Stereotyp ers Union was turned down by the printers and who voted to stand by their agreements with the For the time since last Friday morning the Chron and Inter Ocean will be issued tomorrow A suf ficient number of outside nonunion stereotypers have been imported into the city to make this The will be published only in 4page but this will be increased as rapidly as The Chicago afternoon papers will also publish tomorrow in reduced REFUGEES FROM for The by the Associated July Brit ish warships Alert and the for mer with fourteen and the latter with also the Aus trian manofwar Kaiserin Maria The with thirtyeight ar rived at Port Royal They left the harbor of Santiago Monday after until she was lost sight of from Morro In the meantime the tor pedo boat destroyers sank under a rain of shell from the numerous American It is presumed part of their crews were saved by the enemy or swam A number of life buoys were provided on board the torpedo boat whose crews antici pated that their vessels would be de The foregoing is the popular Spanish version of the sortie of Admiral Cer vera from the harbor of Santiago and the sacrifice of the crews of the tor pedo boat is said to be high ly appreciated by the queen regent while the general public are overjoyed at their It is supposed here that Admiral Cer vera is running for since he has not been reported arriving at Cien There will tremendous anxiety here until it is reported Ad miral Cervera and the squadron are safe in Havana The foreign news giving contradic tory versions of the sortie have cast a tinge of perplexity and dampness upon the general In military circles it is considered that General Shafter has been Rear Admiral Sampson has been and the aspect of the has been but of opinion is that peace is impossible until something occurs which is satis factory to the national July dispatches of the Associated Press telling of the de struction of Admiral fleet in the official accounts of the bat tle have been telegraphed to Madrid and a dispatch just received from Mad rid giving the Spanish version of the shows the Spanish censor has suppressed the Associated Press dis patches or they are regarded by the Spaniards as JOT Turned to July Times Madrid correspondent says Dispatches from American sources describing the de struction of which the morning papers considered wild ex and consequently held have now been published in spe cial They are generally re garded as substantially and have produced a most painful impression among all The Daily Telegraphs Madrid corre says Disorder is spreading among the military crowds in are getting riotous and everywhere signs are apparent that the population is aiming for a civil Marshal Martinez Campos and the captain gen eral of Madrid held a long consultation as to ways and means of preserving REINFORCEMENTS ARE OFF FOR Regiments of Men From Camp Alger and Chattanooga Leave to Join July Second brigade the first division of the second army broke camp at this afternoon and started on its Journey to Santiago to reinforce The Second brigade is composed of the Eighth the Sixth Illinois and the Sixth General Garretson The Sixth Massachusetts was the first to get going aboard the cars at Dun Loring and leaving for Charles South shortly after ten The other regiments will de part by The Ohio goes to New will embark on the while the Illinois troops go to Charles South and with the Mas men will be transported up on the Harvard and The brigade is in fine condition and the men are enthusiastic and eager to leach the seat of July was an other change of orders today from renewing the order mada yesterday and rescinded later In the General Wilson and staff are or dered to precede at once to and take with him the First and Sec ond brigade of the first corps as fol lows First General commanding Third Wiscon Colonel commanding Second Colonel Charles Sixteenth Colonel Willis Hulings Second General Peter commanding Third General Fred commanding Fourth Colonel Fourth CoL General Wilson left this
