Show IS 0 OCCUPIED al AMERICAN n CAN FLAG HOISTED STED SEVEN MILES FROM SANTIAGO advance of uncle sims sams men has reached beached edge of tableland on which the harbor of santiago ties lies 0 on board diard tile the associated press dispatch boat dauntless oil off jaragua Jur agun agua province ince of santiago de da cuba thursday night june 23 via fort antonio Ant onla Ja jamaica malca june 24 copyrighted 1898 by the associated press the advance of the american army has reached the edge of 0 the tableland on w harbor or of santiago do dc cuba lies here afore seven miles front from morro castle as thurow the crow flies the main b body 0 dy of troops lias has united and the spaniards are arc in full toward santiago tic de cuba they may attempt a surprise but a decisive engagement Is not expected for several days gen law tons brigade 1 I bich rested last night at tour four miles west of Dai daiquiri quiri resumed its march at daylight before noon its ills brigade consisting of the infantry the elie first infantry the second massachusetts volunteers with corn com of the eighth cavalry halt half of the fourth cavalry and several companies of 0 the twenty fifth colored 0 lored infantry occupied jaragua Jur agua cl five ve miles beyond and the american america n nag flag was hoisted there the spaniards retired before the arrival of the americans which was covered by cuban skirmishers burning ilia ho blockhouses os as they went col Vv igner with a small recon nals sance party parly of about forty men brunod against the flank of a ro treating spanish column strong at A dozen shots were fired by the spaniards as col wagner fell back before gen JAM J AM ton ion could bring up the fecondo the van regiment the spaniards Spanial ids ds hall had de camped westward jaragua was abandoned by gen linares and spanish troops with such haste that they had no thue to burn the town though an ineffectual I 1 attempt attempt was aa made to destroy the locomotives arnot yes of the railroad and the rolling 8 stock lock gun gen linares betrea retreated led to se sc I 1 iaia a elx x miles west vest of jaragua by road find and n nine 11 ic miles milea from Santiago tic cle cuba A detachment of it cubans under col agirre collided with the spanish rear guard the cubans lost two rn nin n killed and had seven wounded mounded the k spanish loss la Is not known the spin spaniards were ft ore machetes mach eted gen chaffee with the ninth cavalry tile the remainder of tho the J and ninth seventh twelfth end and seventeenth infantry reached jaragua at dark gen bates alth u ith the reserve of the twentieth infantry and col woods rough riders dismounted with a dynamite gun hurried forward from Dai daiquiri quiri at 3 proceeding by forced marches when the couriers brought the news that jaragua had been occupied the th troopships m which aich had not dis embarked their troops st steamed earned to jurac with tho the view of landing them there but the heavy sea benting beating on the bea beach c h made it impossible to get the boats through the stiff |