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Show SHAFTEn RBACHES SANTIAOO. ATrrll.lIUItlU lhel lor Upon IIU AlleHiH tn Leail Tn.r. I Wathlngton. Jeae -.1 -The United I Btate army for the Invaalon of Cuba, about ll.oorj ttrong, coamandeal by (k-neral Shatter, arrived off Han lingo il Cuba almut mum yrtlordny, and when tho licet of thlrtj Ave transport . with It freight of fighting men awept np the toothern coaat and tlowoil up, I , within eight of the doomed etty nfhu- tlago, the anxlonaly nrratled aoldtert were greeted with ringing eticert, which faintly echoing tothetrantport 1 from the deck of the blockading war-thlpa, war-thlpa, far Inahoro, they were anawered by the troop moat rotliaalaatlcally and In kind. The wck of nnxlona waiting and Impatient Im-patient chafing wa over, the army and tbe uavy had at lutt joined for n final I blownt Hantlago. It wa Intended to take the entire fleet to the line of Hear Admiral Matiip-ton' Matiip-ton' fleet of wnrthln. but an order from the admiral atopped tha advance of the Meet about In mile to tho tonth-(tit, tonth-(tit, and, extorted by the (lloucetter, llcneral Hlinfter went forward on the Heguraueln to confer with tha ad-mlraL ad-mlraL Tho long and trying Jonmey from Tampa ha left the men in a much better condition then anticipated, There nro M cato of typhoid on tho , hospital thlp, aiiHiug them living Ma-, Jor Hurton of the Twenty-flftli l-j fantry, and tevernl oate of ineatlc. There arc, however, no aerlon catet of Rlckncwt. Owing to the tmoothnett of the pavngc, the Mildlcr were not generally affected by teaalekneM They are all wildly nnxluua to get' (thore and legln fighting. j Whenever tha lending laka place there will undoubtedly lie toiiw warm fighting. The hpnntnrdt have n furre of from JO.OOO tn J,0v men, pltccil from (luntnamo to Cabana, n dl-i tanrcofflfty inllea, andatotir troopt will be landed at different polnt, tome warm work may be lookc fur. |
