Show SANTIAGO DEFENSES Location of the Batteries and Number of the Guns Copyright 189i by the Associated Press With the U S Fleet off Santiago de Cuba May 29 via Port Antonio Jamaica June2rhe latest maps of Santiago harbor show a narrow but detp channel fairly well protected and I supposed to be mined The narrow I I neck Is not wide enough to allow more I than one ship at a time to pass upI up-I and the batteries unless reduced would be very destructive There are three battrles outside and three small ones Inside and between the entrance place and the city proper a distance very nearly three miles up the bay measuring from Morro castle The latest information In the possession posses-sion of the government showed that are three lines of electrically worked at the narrowest point entrance there mines 30 in nil Besides this there are two new batteries Just opposite Morro forming with the latter a dangerous I cross fire Just Inside this are two batteries on the east short Estrella I and Catalina Cayosanth about half I a mile up the bay and about In the j 0 center where the narrow entrance I widens out has batteries of modern I guns as has also the Blanco battery just near the city of Santiago itself About two mile west of Morro inshore in-shore is theCase battery and there a also supposed to be some mines near Cayosanth The armament of the various batteries is supposed to be as follows not including the new earthworks earth-works behind which there are modern guns gns I Morro Four modern guns and ten 18 and 24pounders Blanco Nine smooth bore 18 and 24pounders of little lit-tle account and two small mortars The Estrella Battery Ten smooth bore guns Cayosanth several modern guns I gns forts are mainly of brick and stone constructed a century ago although al-though there are evidences of new earthworks being thrown up The only view into the harbor for any distance is from the south As the flagship passed along Lieutenant I Sears noted that the Spanish cruiser Reina Mercedes which ha been partly I It dismantled lay In the harbor perhaps per-haps 1500 yards inside of Morro caste To the westward and further inside I was the Spanish firstclass armored cruiser Almirante Oquendo lying under the guns of Cayosanth and to the east I of the starboard bate looking down I upon the narrow channel was the Cristobal Colon with room only for one ship at a time to pass I will be thus seen that it will be suicidal to attempt to force an entrance I en-trance into the harbor at least until the batteries are reduced and that will I I consume a lot of ammunition |