Show t r i. i N k SHAFTER REACHES SANTIAGO Terrible A Battle Dattlo Is III Looked For Upon His Ills AtI Attempt empt to Land Troops Troop Washington June 22 The The United States army for the invasion of Cuba about 16 1600 strong commanded by General Gener l Shafter arrived off Santiago antiago de Cuba about noon yesterday ay and when the fleet of thirty five transports with its freight of fighting g men D n swept up the south southern rn coast and i d slowed up of the doomed city of San- San anxiously awaited soldiers were were greeted with i h ringing cheers which faintly echoing to the transports from the tIle decks of the blo blockading w war warships r- r sl slips ships fa far inshore they were here Fere answered red soy iby the tro troops ps most enthusiastically ical y yand and sand in kind The week of Us waiting and fin i im impatient n p patient ti nt nth chafing h was over th the army and the navy had hod at last joined for a a. a final nal Santiago S It was intended intend d to take toke the entire fleet to the lines of Rear Admiral Sampsons Sampsons Sampson's Sampsons Samp Samp- sons son's he fleet t of i warships but an order from the admiral stopped stopped the advance j of the fleet about 15 miles south southeast e east st and e escorted by the Gloucester General Gener f Shafter went forward on the the to confer with the admiral ad ad ad- miral f- f The he Thelong long and trying journey from Tampa has left the men in a 0 much bett better r condition than anti anticipated There are are 14 14 cases cases' of typhoid on the hospital ship among them being Major Major Ma Ma- jor jor Horton o. o 1 of the Twenty-fifth Twenty in infantry infantry in- in fantry and arid several cases of measles There There- are however no serious cases Owing to the smoothness of f the passage the he soldiers soldier were not generally affected by seasickness They are re all wildly anxious to get ashore and begin fighting W Whenever enever the landing takes place there will undoubtedly be some be-some some warm fighting The Spaniards h have have ve a of from to m men m placed placeit from Guantanamo to Cabanas a distance distance distance dis dis- dis- dis tance of fifty miles and as our our troops will be landed at lot different points some warm work may be lo looked ked for |