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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1898
Page
1
A Manila dispatch reports Aguinaldo has won several engagements and pushed toward Manila after receiving arms from Dewey. Spaniards retreat across the Zapote, with heavy losses. rebels seize rail lines and gain volunteers as Manila provisions thin and foreign evacuees are moved. Dewey prepares for potential city fall before American troops arrive.
From Manila May 31 insurgents claim seven miles of encirclement around the city as fierce hand to hand fighting continues despite typhoon winds. Over 1,000 killed reported. Malabon, Tarlac, Bacoor in insurgent hands. Santa Mesa and Molate assaulted. native regiment under Colonel Aguinaldo joins ranks. Cavite reports 197 wounded and 66 prisoners.
Hongkong correspondent says Manila advices report Admiral Dewey has gathered steamers blockaded in the river to lie off Cavite to aid refugees and protect foreign nationals as tensions rise amid naval action.
Admiral Dewey plans to await American troops while insurgents are restrained from crossing the Malate River near Manila. The Petrel will bombard if orders are violated. Volunteers reported powder and the clash left an officer dead and three wounded. A German resident joined the volunteers.
Manila reports a Spanish force heading toward the city including four cruisers and ten thousand troops. The movement is traced via Hongkong with a May 28 dispatch and a June 6 relay. Local natives are described as likely to react to the arrival.
The Army under Shafter prepares to load 20,000 men plus horses and materiel onto 46 transports at Tampa for arrival in Cuba. Ships, depots, and supplies are being staged while delays and pier issues threaten the timetable.
Greensboro Alabama residents joined publisher JohnL Rapier and R V Taylor in a drive to fund a mortgage on the home of hero Richmond Hobson. A foreclosure sale on the property is set for the 15th. Contributions have poured in, with the First National Bank of Mobile named as fund repository.
Report says Puerto Rico is next to fall within two weeks as transports used by the Santiago expedition are awaited return. The main invading force has not yet landed, with Marines and other units in position awaiting orders.
A night land attack looms near Santiago with heavy guns battering Aguadores fortifications. Reports claim fighting all day around the city, with hospitals filling and panic among civilians as rumors circulate of American landings and Spanish resistance along the coast. The scene includes eager artillery movement, troop transfers, and possible Merrimac crew treatment, amid conflicting reports of a broader American assault.
Washington June 6 The military and naval authorities discuss in formal fashion the advisability of sending an expedition to seize the Canary Islands. The plan hinges on Spain failing to sue for peace after Santiago falls and Puerto Rico is overtaken. Support grows among backers who foresee imminent peace and argue Canaries could force Madrid to negotiate.
War Department officials press to fix Tampa conditions as General Miles reports criticism of stalled railroad cars stretching ten miles from the city hindering troop embarkation to Cuba. Railroad officials pledge aid to the Quartermaster while Secretary Alger expects rapid resolution within days.
The Spanish fleet under Admiral Camara reportedly returned to Cadiz after completing its maneuver program. Officials say Cadiz ships were there last Friday, contradicting reports they were in the West Indies two days later.
Special dispatch reports that delays in sending the Santiago and Puerto Rico expeditions stem from slow commissary supplies. The War Department has asked bids for refrigerated beef and beef on the hoof to Cuba and Florida points to speed delivery.
A Vienna dispatch reports from Cadiz that the Spanish cruiser Carlos V the battleship Pelayo and the auxiliary cruisers Patriota and Raydo are progressing slowly toward active service and are not yet ready to put to sea.
Havana report says at 8 am twenty four American ships opened fire on forts at the entrance to Santiago Harbor and along the coast. Firing ceased about 11 am with details sparse. Earlier Colonel Alden with Spanish forces faced fire near Punta Cabrera from insurgents and US warships. Spanish lines entrenched Siboney to Aguadores.
A Cape Haytian report states that at dawn today United States troops landed near Aguadores east of Santiago harbor under cover of Admiral Sampson's guns, with Sampson covering the entrance of the soldiers to the shore.
Advices from the flagship New York off Santiago de Cuba say the United States transport Resolute has arrived with apprentices for the fleet. The dispatch boat Suwanee also reached the fleet safely. Fine weather remains off Santiago de Cuba.
Government dispatch boat reports a midnight attack on the flagship New York off Santiago de Cuba by a Spanish torpedo boat destroyer named Furor. The enemy vessel was detected by lookouts and fired upon, with a fusillade that likely sank her. The channel was then to be closed and the Merrimac sent in.
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