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THE DALLES. WASCO COUNTY, OREGON, SATURDAY, JUNE 25, 1893.
VOL. VIII.
NUMBER 34.
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ARMY OF INVASION :
REACHES SANTIAGO
Fleet of Thirty-live Transports, Under Convoy,
Carrying 16,000 Soldiers, Of Satiago.
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DEBARKING HAS NOT YET BEGUN
Officers Give no Hint of Their Intention Regard'
ing the Time and Place of Landing
Blanco's Cable Service Cut Off.
Off Santiago, June 20, vis Mole Sc.
Nicholas, Jane 21. Toe United States
army for the invasion of Cuba, abont
16000 strong, and commanded by Gen
eral Shatter, arrived off Santiago at noon
today. The time of its debarkation has
not yet been determined upon, bat it
probably will be within the next three
days. When the fleet of thirty-five
transports, with its freight of fighting
men swept op the western coast today,
and slowed up within sight of the
doomed city of Santiago, the anxiously
awaited soldiers were greeted with ring
ing cheers which faintly echoed to the
transports from the decks of the block
ading warships far in shore, they were
answered by the troops enthusiastically,
and in kind.
It waj 1 o'clock in the morning when
the lookout on the crnieer Brooklyn re
ported seeing the smoke of the steamers
away to the southeast, and a moment or
two later he announced that a dozen or
two transports were in sight. .The news
was exchanged from ship to ship. Half
ac hoar later a grim forest of masts had
sprang up apparently. from the sea, and
a most impressive scene, was presented
as the armada swept gracefully up from
the horizon toward the shore, where the
great struggle is to take place.
The transports were ranged in three
sh ifting lines, with the battleship, In
diana on the extreme right, - and the
other men-of-war on the outskirts of the
fleet. In this order the transports and
their escorts steamed slowly in toward
where Morro's red walls gleamed in the
sunlight.
It .was intended to take' the entire
fleet to the lines of Rear-Admiral Samp
son's squadron of warships, but an or
der from the admiral stopped the ad
vance of the ships about fifteen miles to
the southeast, and General Shatter went
forward on the Seguralca to confer with
bim. The transports lay on the smooth
eea while plans were oeing discussed by
the leaders on board the flagship;
Not the faintest bint of ' their inten
tions regarding a landing has been al
lowed to escape. Undoubtedly, how
ever, some of the troops will be landed
at Guantanamo bay, but it is generally
believed the main body of them will be
landed at a point much nearer the fated
city. : . - : ..
' The long and trying journey from
Tampa left the men in better condition
than was anticipated. There are four
teen mild ' cases of typhoid on the hos
pital ship, among them being Major
Horton, of the .Twenty-fifth infantry,
and several cases of measles. - There are,
however, no serious cases of sickness. '
The dispatch boat of the Associated
Press, as she steamed among the trans
ports, was eagerly besieged on all sides
for news of Admiral Sampson's opera
tions, officers and men clamoring for
word from the blockading, fleet. Much
satisfaction was expressed among the
troops when it became known that the
actua capture of Santiago is to be left to
the army.
. The American fleet off Santiago has
been materially strengthened by the
addition of the warships, which escorted
the transports, consisting of the Indi
ana, Detroit, Montgomery, Bancroft,
Helena, Ericsson and Foote. -
News Reaches War Department
Washington, June 21. There was im
portant news at the war department
when Secretary Alger reached bis office
today. The transports with 15,000
troops, he was informed, had arrived
safely off Santiago, and direct commnr
ntcation had 'been established between
the United States and Guantanamo,
where the United States parines now
hold a position on - Cuban soil. .Thus,
not only is Blanco cat off from commu
nication with the outside world, save
through the Key West cables within our
control, but the authorities in Washing
ton have been placed in close connec
tion with our forces, army and navy,
which are conducting the- invasion of
Cuba.
The vessels that have arrived off San
tiago with troops on board, according to
data supplied to the war department by
General Shatter, number.jrith convoys,
49 vessels. This is the largest fleet that
ever left the waters of the United States
for a foreign port.
It is expected here that the transports
will remain off Santiago or perhaps
nearer the exact landing point of .the
troops until Santiago has been captured,
when they will take aboard the greater
part of the invading army if they can be
spared from that locality and convey
the troops7 to Porto Rico to effect the
capture of that island.
SEN0R GALVEZ
WAXES TRAGICAL
Hopes the Sky Will Fall Before Invad
' ers Trample Spanish Soil.
Havana, June 21. Senor Galvez,
president of the colonial council, has
closed the debates in the chamber with
a message to the deputies. The presi
dent paid a tribute to the efforts of
Captain-General Blanco. , He concluded
by saying : ,
'.'Let the sky fall flat and Bink us in
the abyss before daring foreign invaders
trample Spanish soil."
The words of Galvez were warmly ap
plauded by the deputies ani others as
sembled in the ball.
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THE CRUISER
FIRED UPON
A Spanish Gunboat Attempted to Repel
the Invasion, ' but 'was1 Quickly
Driven Out of Sight InW Shallow
Water.
Off Santiago -db Cuba, June 22.
The United States cruiser Marblehead,
under command of Lieutenant-Com
mander McCalla, has done some re
markable work in the landing of ammu
nition and the driving out of the Span
iards.
Believing that Guantanamo was a
good place for the American army if it
came, and that the sheltered bay would
prove a good, smooth spot for the small
er boats to be coaled -in, Commodore
Schley, 'acting under 'Rear-Admiral
Sampson's orders, sent the Marblehead
down to look over the ground.
It bad been asserted that the place
was in control of the inso.-gents, but
Commander McCajla found that this
was not true, for no sooner did the crui
ser point Ler nose into the harbor than
two four-inch shells flew over ber. Dis
covering the gunboat that bad fired the
the projectiles, the Marblehead made a
target of it, and in a short time the
Spaniard steamed away into the shallow
inlet where the cruiser could not fol
low her. - - '
Commander McCalla took a look
around, came back to the squadron and
reported Guantanamo as a suitable
place for landing troops. Then taking a
collier' with bim he went back to the
bay, and under the very nose of the
enemy deliberately tied up to the collier
and for several hours coaled bis ship.
. The Vixen and Gloucester, two con
verted yachts, in the meantime carried
on active work with the insurgents at
Acerraderos. .
The value of making this place a point
of operations may be better appreciated
when it is known that it is half way be
tween Jucaro and Manzaniilo, two en
campment places of the Spanish. Be
hind Jucaro and Manzaniilo and, run
ning down close to the shore to Santiago
are high and almost Impassable moun
tains, so that operations between tbe
three places mast be conducted along t'ae
Caribbean sea. A railroad line was
constructed from Jucaro to Santiago,
and in March last General Paredo put a
large force ot troops at Jucaro and Man
zaniilo. tsayamo in tne interior was
elected as a place for interior move
ments and to menace the insurgents,
and the work of connecting it with Mail'
zanillo so as to have a triangle with
troops at every angle was begun.
The operations of Admiral Sampson
have broken one and the moet import
ant side of the triangle by putting the
insurgents in possession of Acerrados
and the triangle-has been broken again
by the landing of tbe United States ma
rines at Guantanamo.- In addition to
this it , is learned that the insurgents
have torn np the road and destroyed
communication ' between Bayamo and
Santiago, so that it is evident the three
stations of- Spanish troops are thor
oughly isolated from one another.
. The arrival of newspapers and mail
on June 10th was hailed with joy, but
much amusement was caused .by tbe
versions of the bombardment by Com
modore Schley. . The orders issued on
May 31st were not to fire at batteries,
but only at tbe ships seen in the har
bor. No damage of any kind was done
to the batteries on snore. The Spanish
warship Rein a Mercedes was hit, as
was also the Cristobal Colon, but not
seriously injured. The object of the
expedition was to find out what tbe de
fenses on shore amounted to, and that
object was attained. ,
STARVED WITH
MONEY AT HAND
A St. Louis Miser Forcibly Rescued
From Filth and Squalor.
St. Louis, Jane 22. In an attic,
clutching a bag of gold :a one band and
a crust of bread in the other, the police
found Simeon Hardin, a miser, elowly
starving. He glared at tbe officers and
shouted at them "Begone," but they
took him from his filthy room to the
hospital. The bag contained $580 in
gold and a bank note from the North
west Savings bank, showing deposits of
several hundred dollars.
Ten years ego Hardin lived with his
wife and four children in a comfortable
home at Turksville, Cal. His wife
remonst.ated with him for being so eco
nomical with his money and he left his
family, coming to this city, and has
been living in obscurity until discovered
today. .
HALF A HUN-
- DRED LIVES LOST
Water Displaced By the Launching of
a, Battle-Ship at Blackwell, Eng
: land, Submerges a Staging Which
Is Crowded With People.
London, June 21. During the launch
ng of the British first-class battle-ship
Albion, ot 12,950 tons, at Blackwell, to
day, by the Duchess of York, at which
ceremony the United States ambassador
Colonel John Hay, and Mrs. Hay and
Lieutenant Colonel Wells, United States
naval attache, assisted, the displacement
of water caused an immense mass of
water to rise on ail sides, completely
submerging one of the lower stages of
the yard, and immersing hundreds of
people. ' It ie estimated that 50 persons
were drowned. Another, but discredited
report, says the warsHip sank. As this
dispatch is sent, the bodies of 27 men,
women and children have been re
covered. The Duchess of York, Colonel and
Mrs. Hay and the remainder of the dis
tinguished guests did not see the acci
dent, which occurred at the moment
when three cheers were called for the
successful launching, and the cries and
screams of the victims were drowned by
the outburst Of hurrahs.
RAN THE BLOCK-
ADE IN SAFETY
Spanish Steamer Purmissa Said to Have
Arrived at Trinidad With Money
and Supplies for the Spanish
Troops.
Kingston, Jamaica, June 22 The
captain of the steamer Adula, which has
arrived I' ere from Cienfnegos learned
there that the Spanish steamer Pur
missa' Conception, whicfi sailed from
Kingston ou J one lU'li with a load of
snppft-s for Spanish troops, aud carry
ing, it is understood, $100,000 in gold,
has arrived at Trinidad, proviqce of
Santa Clara.
The captain further reports that while
on the way to this port be met the
United States auxiliary cruiser Yankee
70 miles off tbe Cuban coast. The Yan
kee was the only war veeeel be sighted
during the trip.
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that Cervera is prepared to make a desperate effort to
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WILL BE REMOVED
" FROM CUBA
Government Determines all Spaniards
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Be Treated Well.
New Yobk, June 22. A Tribune spe
cial from Washington says :
A serious problem the solution of
which was determined upon by the au
thorities today, is that of the disposition
of the vast number of prisoners who
must fall into American hands whenever
Santiago capitulates. -
The number is variously estimated at
from J 25,000 to 50,000 men, and tbe
United States will not permit them to
suffer any avoidable hardships. Pro
visions must be made at once for their
maintenance.
It has been definitely learned that
they cannot be permitted to remain in
Cuba, and it will therefore be necessary
to provide a large number of transports
to bring them to this country, where
they may be more readily fed. and
guardtd. This will require a larger num
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to be secured.
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met, for the president has finally deter
mined that no prisoner shall be permit
ted to remain in Cuba, and until they
are landed in this' country and the trans
ports can return to Santiago General
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