Dons Driven Back Capture the Outer Works at Santiago
General Shafter reports a very heavy engagement lasting from dawn to sundown. The US forces carried the outer works and hold a clear front toward the city with about three quarters of a mile of open ground. Casualties exceed four hundred, most not killed, and reinforcements are planned as Lawton Bates and Chaffee commands advance.
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Wilumeton
War Department
Shatter
Sibonsy
Lawton
Bates
Santi
Suarver
Bhafter
Tampa
Corbin
Humphreys
Lester
Ontcago
Levi
Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company
Leiter
Northwestern
Mr. Leiter
Chicago Board of Trade
ENEMY DRIVEN BACK AT SANTIAGO INDIAN WAR ERA
Four members of the Twenty first regiment were killed and sixteen wounded as American forces pressed inland toward Santiago. Admiral Sampson's fleet bombarded batteries near Aguadores while Admiral Cervera's ships answered with shells. General Shafter pushed a multi–direction assault with Lawton Wheeler and Garcia, driving Spaniards from Caney toward Santiago and tightening the front from the coast to Linares north defenses.
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Henry W. Lawton
Miles
Aldershot
Cervera
United States Infantry
Twenty
A. P. Chaffee
Seventh
Twelfth
Seventeenth
Second
Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry
Lawton
Caney
Santiago
James Gordon Bennett
Playa del Fate
Twenty-first
Sevilla
Aguadores
Sampson
Coset
Shafter
Joe’? Wheeler
Garcia
Linwton
Aquadores
New York
Gloucester
Suwanee
Morro
Kent
Layton
Linares
Fight International Bank Bill in Washington House
In Washington yesterday the House debated the bill to incorporate the International American National Bank. Filibustering occurred but failed to stop progress as adjournment came before a vote. The House approved the Indian appropriation bill report, stood united against senate amendments to the sundry civil bill, and sent the general deficit bill to conference.
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Fight International Bank
Washington
International American National Bank
House
Senate
Senate Appropriations Committee
Joint Commission
Ottawa
Canada
United States
Morro in ruins as Sampson reports bombardment
Washington dispatch confirms Admiral Sampson telegram detailing heavy shelling of Morro castle and adjacent fortifications. He states Morro is a total ruin and that American control would enable entering Santiago harbor to attack Cervera's squadron. Also notes St Paul reaches New York for supplies and repairs.
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St. Paul
San Juan
Navy Department
Sigsbee
Porto Rico
Sampson
Erneston
Jamaica
Adula
Santiago
Guantanamo
Lascelles, de Mercado & Co
United States
Dent
Washington
Boorth
Manila Aray
San Francisco
Manila
Otis
Navigation Bureau
Morro Castle
Morro
Cervera
Santiago Harbor
New York
Tompkinsville
Molo Bt. Nicholas
Sigelise
Terror
Isabel III
St. Louis
Camara
Carro
Admiral Camara
Red Sea
McHenry
Miss
Mississippi
Senate Adopts Historic Thanks Resolution in June Session
The Senate approved a landmark resolution thanking common sailors and private soldiers, naming Naval Constructor Hobson and Lieut Frank H Newcomb for rescues and services at Manila and off Cardenas. The session also forwarded the deficit bill with a major railroad settlement amendment and discussed Ottawa talks.
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Senate
Washington
Congress
Hobson
Merrimac
Frank H. Newcomb
Hudson
Winslow
Cardenas
Hodgson
McCulloch
Manila
Morgan
White
California
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Ocean Flower
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Montego Bay
Heath
Cxicano
Western Roads
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Ancient Order of Hibernians
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Atlantic Iron Works
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