| Show SPANISH ESCAPE from the city oi of santiago de cuba sampsons heavy bombardment of forts and probable attack on the city make the po populace dulace panic stricken destruction of ofa the forts on board the associated press dispatch boat dandy of off santiago do decuba cuba monday noon via kingston jamaica tuesday tane june 7 noon the american fleet this morning encased engaged the spanish batteries defending the entrance of the harbor of santiago de cuba and after a three hours bombardment silenced eilen ced nearly all the forts destroyed several earthworks earthworms earth works and rendered the estrella and caya smith batter batteries iee the two principal fortifications useless new york jane june 7 A special from cape haytian describing the bombard jentof santiago le cuba on monday says that the forts of the harbor are now dow a mass of ruina q the morro ia is a shapeless pile of rained mahonry and dismantled CUDS guns and the estrella Ef trella battery is utterly rained tola this result the Ais dispatch patch says was the work of 0 ten american ironclads which passed back a and n d forth from port cavrera on the west to port Agn Agu adorea adores on oa the east of the harbor entrance discharging their heavy guna guns as they steamed along eo so that scarcely a yard of the coast escaped the deadly cannonading canno at port Agu Azu adores the fort recently con strutted rusted st by col the th artillery expert t was wa blown to the dust and col himself waa was badly wounded by the flying splinters and debris capt sanchez and arez tr artillery officers were aleo also wounded tiro two infantry lieutenants garda garcia and perez and 21 privates are reported fatally wounded later tn in the day the american ships moved closer toward the mouth of the old harbor where the old cruiser reina mercedee bd had been discerned attempting to place diplo elves about the ball hull of the merrimac to blow her bor to pieces and deaf cleat the channel A 13 inch shell from the oregon landed squarely abart her ber pilot house and tore her upper works to shreds iter her second commodore five of her lor ballore ea sa ilor and aud gc marine were killed killel A leond lien lieutenant tenant of the ier cedes and id 16 of her seamen were very seriously wounded A perfect shower of shell and shot fell ell upon and around the old cruiser and she was so badly baily damaged that her crew by y order of 0 admiral corvera cervera abandoned the ship for the shore tor for safety about noon according to the cape flay tien dispatch a landing party of american marines near daiquiri Ditl quiri was attacked by spanish infantry and a squadron of cavalry the hilar gents nta were posted in the neighborhood and with the aid of mari marines nei successfully took up a R position posit ioa holding it and making it a base from which they operated the spanish force was defeated with heavy losses and driven bacic back to santiago leaving their wounded behind them the americans are now entrenched near Dai quire and are landing heavy bune guns preparatory to moving them toward santiago and laying to the city there is 19 a panic in I 1 santiago the residents who can are fleeing to the country joining the insurgents or doing anything to ret get away from the certain destruction that now awaits Cerve verae rals AMERICAN MARINES LANDING NEAR SANTIAGO ON BOARD AMERICAN SHIPS AT SANTIAGO f I 1 WOW a ix gex ii I 1 if rag I 1 a 14 N J P tf 7 1 X ten inch siege guns to be used against santiago fleet and the forces of pando and linares later reports show that col cant capt sanchez grisar of the artillery and conors perez and garcia officers whoso rank ie Is not mentioned are only severely wounded and not tilled killed as at first reported the spaniards claim that only one soldier was killed though the in ibe naval force are said to bo be as already cabled madrid june juno 7 noon the following official dispatch has been received from havana col aldea commanding a spanish Span leli column baa has had some sharp with a body of rebels who are supporting the landing ol 01 american forces near santiago de cuba two american warships protected the landing party the result of the operations to e not known it is supposed that the renewal of the bombardment of santiago lasting from G 6 to 11 II on monday morning was as intended to distract die tract the attention of the Spun spaniards lards and enable the landing to be effected without molestation A later dispatch dil patch from gen aldea bay that one of bis his soldiers Bol diera was bit hit by the american bli shells elle which he asserts fell among the insurgents kingston jamaica jane june 78 a it ie is reported here that rear admiral w sampson beean began the bombardment at the oater outer fortifications of satiago de do cuba monday morning A fierce storm has been sweeping over jamaica end and a heavy sea was running run ring causing pilots to refuse to take dispatch boats out of kingston harbor toe the railroad to port antonio is washed oat out and the telegraph lines are down havana JUGO juine 6 10 p m w delayed in transmission from spanish sources received here today of the tle bom bard ment this monday morning of the forts of santiago de cuba by the amerl american fleet eay say the warships ot of the united states fired a boat about 1500 projectiles of all kinds this fire the spaniards add was answered by morro ensile castle and the batteries at socapa and punta ponta gorda at noon it is added another bombard ment began against Aga Agn adores eastok baat of santiago aso de cuba the firing lasting one haur both attack attacks the spaniards arde as bert were repulsed morro castle ie is admitted to bare been damaged as was the exterior bead head quarters built during the time of peace at cayo smith and in addition the cruiser reina re i na mercedes is admitted to have been slightly damaged 29 the spanish commander at santiago reports that the american fire did not dismount die mount one piece ot artillery and be he says that nine ol 01 the american vessels disappeared from sight bight before dark the spanish army losses according to official report are one soldier killed and one chief chiet four officers and wad 21 soldiers wounded the spanish navy losses are reported to be one chief and five tailors killed and nd one officer and five sailors wounded finally the spanish version of the aff air says the american losses are supposed to be considerable it captain general blanco has congnata gen linares the spanish commander at santiago and those who took part in the fighting baying he will call the attention of the spanish government to the heroism bero ism exhibited by all the spanish forces in such an un equal combat |
