| Show AT HOME AND ABROAD madrid june 8 10 am A semiofficial semi official report was published here today purporting to give an account of 0 i the bombardment of santiago de cuba by the american fleet on an monday last the american navy under admiral sampson hias has fiercely attacked santi ago de cuba and a bloody encounter ensued the americans made three attacks on the spanish marine and land batteries which replied As a consequence the americans were repulsed with heavy losses estimated sit ait 1600 1500 men the american projectiles however sank the spanish cruiser reina mercedes SOME OF THE SPANISH casualties havana june 7 delayed in transmission copyrighted 1898 by the associated press details of the bombardment of santiago was received here today describing the spanish losses on monday the marine chief killed on board the relva relna mercedes Mero edes was former capi tain emilio acosta ensign alejandro malenas Ml lenas on the mercedes was also killed col ordo orde 1 nez of the ax artillery tillery and inventor of the cannon cagnon bearing his name was slightly wounded some other off iders were slightly wounded by projectiles shells and fragments scattered by the explosion of at shells on land the insurgents today dynamited a passenger train near pinar overthrowing one car and derailing the train washington june 8 secretary day spent about halt half an hour with the president this morning mon ring on leaving he said there were no important dispatches and no developments in the war situation the president was in consultation with a senator when he received a press dispatch to trae effect that captain phillips of the battleship texas had been killed by a spanish shell at santiago he said there was no reason to believe it to be true he cited admiral sampsons Samp sons official dispatch announcing no casualties and sad it the report was to be given any credence he would have been wired at aft once throughout the forenoon there them was a long line lime of callers practically all of them sought war appointments senator white was among the callers the president has signed the war mei measure asre keeping lighthouses along the atlantic coast open throughout the yar new york june 8 A special cable dispatch from madrid says that in the course of mondays cannonading canno at santiago de cuba captain phillips of the united states battleship texas was killed by a spanish shell j i there is nothing in other dispatches from west indian waters to substantiate the report new york june 8 A special from kingston jamaica reports that the spanish creutzer vizcaya and the torpedo boat destroyer furor were badly damaged during the bombardment of defenses fences de on monday A shell from the brooklyn is said to have burst under the Viz cayas port quarter dia mounting a gun injuring the cruisers rudder and wounding several of her Bai lors madrid june 8 dispatches received here from havana from spanish sources say the americans were again repulsed at the last bombardment of santiago Sant lagro de cuba continuing the reports assert that the damage done to the batteries and to the town is unimportant or is already repaired adding the spanish guns did not cease to fire an instant during the fight and all the batteries were in condition to reply to the fire during a second attack col was on board the reina mercedes mercedea and personally assisted in working her guns every one regards col and gen linares as the heroes of the day according to official spanish dispatches received here the exact loss of the spaniards at santiago de cuba on monday is as follows land forces one soldier killed and five officers wounded including ool col slightly wounded sea forces the second officer in command of the reina mercedes five sailors and twenty four marines killed and an officer and eleven sailors wounded the official dispatches also say that many of the wounded including col are able to attend to their duties it is announced here that the spanish steamer benito has run the blockade of manzanillo and arrived at jamaica birmingham ala june 8 the business portion of Itt abena miss was destroyed by fire today with the exception of cwb stores the loss is over the fire started in the store of J li haley and co and spread rapidly washington june 9 it is believed here that t hat the first reinforcements fot foi sampsons Samp sons soils fleet have arrived today off santiago these alethe are the marines under the command of colonel huntington who sailed three days ago 11 from om key west on the steamer panther these marines had been encamped on the beach at key west for several weeks undergoing the most severe drill and military training they are intended not for distribution among the fleet but as a landing force pure and simple naval officers are confident that with this small but well disciplined landing force admiral sampson will be able immediately to take possession of such points in the neighborhood of santiago as he may deem necessary to serve as a base for the occupation if the regular united states troops when hen they artive arrive with the marines in possession of the batch and the american warships with their shells clearing the country behind there will be a little danger in affect in teg the e landing of the troops though no official 0 confirmation h he yet reached the navy ft department of the newspaper reports that caone from Samp Sampson sampsons sons 8 fleet to the effect that he landed marines at caimanera Cai manera and that they are still gill in bof of a strategic stronghold on the bills near by the naval officers here are aft inclined to accept t as an accurate the resorts they feel a prid eHi fh the fact fa ct that the navy through its marine a adjunct has earned the distinction of my bebin the farat to occupy terrt tw tor the th marines who S affect ift bi ble feat were drawn it to the whole fleet and capable and disciplined td Offiel officials kle hare et 0 go M 1 4 that troops ha have vt i almin aled T i X I 1 von pa but no oi ofte w k w ul hwi ft ty y of the fact ul I 1 i ment publicly the oh troops can be only su surma felt that there still 4 DAN sity for concealing thi the ecot at the departure of the troop ik M a nofi cable fact that in hi neil ta understanding that was day to the fact of the censor at tan pa would relax his blis rules as soon coonan it the he troops had actually departed there to no authentic news direct from key west or tampa today it does not follow if the troops left tampa yesterday that they are now on their way although such is generally believed to be the case for the original orders to the military commanders contemplated tem plated a start in finality from key west at that point the transports were to be rounded up and taken under convoy of some of the more formidable naval vessels f yauming that the transports left tampa yesterday moving at squadron speed they could scarcely do more than reach key west today some time must be consumed in organizing the 29 transports into the squadron and in placing them under convoy so that there is a probability that if tampa was left yesterday the final start from key west will not be made before tonight unmistakable signs of nervousness were exhibited by the army officers who saw the press bulletins today from key west giving currency to the report that three spanish men of war had run the blockade into havana the very first quest question ibn that rose was as to the identity of the ships if the report be true and more than one officer immediately recalled the fact that the department is still in some doubt as to the exact whereabouts of all the spanish warships n 0 I 1 alone ot of cerveris veras fleet but of others that had preceded it into west indian waters the naval officers made light of chese these tears fears taking their stand on sampsons Samp sons report that six spanish warships were in santiago harbor they admit that it would be no difficult task for a warship to run the havana blockade at this moment weakened as it has been by the withdrawal of the fast and powerful ships for service at santiago it Is recalled too that there were reports of recent date from jamaica of very heavy gales off the cuban coast and it Is comparatively easy in blinding tropical squalls for a vessel to escape detection while running a blockaded blockade still the impression is general that if any spanish warships really passed the blockade line they were little more than small gunboats gun boats that are numerous along the north that are numerous along the north new york june 10 A special to the herald from santiago de cuba wednesday via kingston jamaica thursday says rear admiral sampson is confident that in addition to the great damage done to the forts and earthworks earthworms earth works at ther the entrance ot of santiago harbor more than one half of the spanish guns gune were actually dismantled perhaps even this estimate may be found too low when the full effect of that terrible rain of shot and shell becomes fully known it has been learned that during the bombardment on the dolphin f wrecked a railroad train with a shell from one of her guns the train was ailed with spanish troops and it is known that many of them were ere killed st louis june 10 A to the post dispatch from dallas texas says say v reports were received by the santa ye fe officials in dallas that four train robbers attempted d to hold up an express press a train on an the lampas division last night A tight fight ensued between the trainmen and the bandits in which one of the latter was shot and fireman johnann was killed the santa fe officials declare that the robbers got no money dallas tex june 10 meager advice received here today of the robbery ot of the enger train on the san angelo branch pour four highwaymen flagged the train at a bling siding aiding and ordered the engineer to detach the express vars core thle this he refused to do and in the fight which followed the fireman 4 14 of the passenger train was fatany fatally shot the robbers then made off without further attempt to open the express car the santa fe officials here assert that they have no information regarding the holdup hold up saying they have not even been advised that a holdup hold up was attempted the san angelo branch of the santa fe runs from temple west to brownwood tex through a sparsely settled part and it will probably be late before particulars of the holdup hold up are obtainable Det detriot riat mich june 11 G F cases immense power building on congress street west was discovered on fire at 3 this morning the following firemen were caught inside the case building by the rush of flames all were severely burned and some otherwise crippled M J sheehan lieutenant lien tenant no 6 engine company henry fisher joseph hockaday thomas kennedy james T kenyon some of the woodwork in the upper stories of the union trust building got afire and lines of hose were hoisted and headway of the flames checked A four fou story annex to the buehl office on congress street west was set afire from the top by falling of burning debris from the case building the annex was badly gutted part of the spire of st pauls episcopal church was burned and the crowd watched the cross at its apex momentarily expecting to see it break off and fall two firemen were so badly I 1 burned that they were taken to the hospital another fireman was severely injured by a falling wall several incipient blazes started in the wayne county bank burldine and other office structures in the vicinity y and numerous awnings and other inflammable ma were consumed several little tires caught in the eleven story union trust building which was directly to leeward of the burning power building but serious spread of the flames was prevented an old story wooden structure west of the case building was crushed by a portion of the tottering wall falling upon it the front walls of the case building leaned outward menacingly and finally fell in the street portions at a time nothing in the case building was saved the case building was valued at it was insured for the contents content sare are roughly estimated cell mated at but may reach above that amount the fire is known to have originated in the drying room of the printing office of the michigan farmer newspaper on the fourth floor no one but the watchman was about but a number of people were asleep in a four story annex ot of the case building adjoining it on the west and separated by a fire wall these were all got out safely but the four story structure burned with the main building the rapidity with which the whole outfit went up in smoke and flames was extraordinary the building which was wa about by 50 feet in size and several stories and basement in height had no steel framework but was supported on the inside by wooden pillars and joists foists throughout above the second story the structure was full of tenant manufacturers only the upper stories of the buehl building annex burned but the lower stories were flooded with water off guantanamo Quanta namo cuba friday june 10 via port antonio saturday june 11 7 a m the invasion of cuba by the forces began today six hundren marines have vitel pitched hed their tents about the smoking ruins bf the outer fortifications of guantanamo and the stars and stripes for the first time bibat on a spanish flagstaff flag in cuba to capt dark clark and the battleship oregon belong the honor of effecting the first successful landino of the war the 40 marines from the battleship went ashore this morning and occupied the left entrance of the bay until the panther arrived with marines these under the command of col E W huntington arrived at 3 and within half an hour they had set fire to the miserable little village which crouched on the beach under the hill top of guantanamo the whole operation of silencing the guns guna and landing the forces were as easy an aa placing a sunday school picnic the marblehead had backed by the vixen and dolphin opened on the earthworks earthworms earth works the shores to the right ot at the entrance were lined with eiith auns and rifle pits but the spaniards stampeded atter after firing a few shots the city of guantanamo lies four miles up the bay and a little spanish gunboat come down to help the shore batteries but she stayed just long enough to turn aroi around tind numerous shots were fired by the spaniards but not one landed and no americans were injured I 1 the main fort lies within the city limits and to is still to be reduced but it is not in a difficult position and the american officers say it can be taken in fifteen minutes the marblehead dolphin vixen and two colliers have been off the entrance of the harbor for several days and yesterday morning they sailed mailed into the channel chann bl A mile further up they opened fire sending beading fifty shots at the fortifications on the left the hills on the right of the entrance were deserted there are no defenses on the right side of the harbor no attempt was made to land until the oregon steamed in early this morning captain dark clark immediately sant forty marines ashore and twenty from the marblehead followed they found evidence of a very hasty departure by the spaniards watches hammocks and ammunition were scattered about the earthworks earthworms earth works and a spanish flag was found in one of the rifle pits the little detachment of marines held the plaice place until the panther arrived when they ther were recalled and the work of aisem barking began the first boat load had scarcely landed when the village burst into flames company K under hall was the first ashore and without the loss of a moment the column volumn started up the steep rocky hill side to the earthworks earthworms earth works for an hour a brown column of rives rinee filed up the narrow path eventually taking up a position at the top of the hill As soon as aa the american 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