Lincoln County leader., July 01, 1898, Image 2

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Lincoln County Leader
J. F. STEWAItT. Publtaher.
TOLEDO OREGON
Interesting Collection of Items Front
Many Placet Called From the rreM
l&enorti of the Current Week.
Owing to the continued strike in the
Welch coal mines, England's coal is
running low, and steamers are forced
to turn to America for thoir supplies.
A serious riot attendant upon a strike,
in which women took a leading part,
occurred at Oahkosh, Wis. Non-union
men wore shut out of a sash and door
factory and tho plant was ordered closed
down.
A Madrid dispatch from San Juan
isuytt: An American cruiser uppeuied
oil tho harbor nnd the cruiser Isabella
and gunboat Terror sailed out to attack
her. Tho American withdrew immedi
ately. One Spaniard was killed and
three wounded.
No revenue stamps will be required
on money orders, according to a con
struction of the new law. Instead, an
additional charge of the amount of the
stamp provided for will be made for
the money order upon its issuance from
tho postofflce.
Surgeon-General Van Roypen, of the
navy, has roceived a number of letters
from ofiieers with Admiral Sampson's
squadron testifying to the gratefulness
and appreciation with which the deli
cacies sent for tho sick and wounded
have been received.
A Madrid dispatch gays: News of
serious fighting near Santiago has been
received horo. Cervera cables that the
situation is critical. The governor of
Santiago admits that the Spaniards
have been obliged to retire, but a Span
ish victory is claimed.
A Cuban scout has brought news to
tho United States camp at Baiquiri
that Cervera's ships are now in battle
array. The positions have been
changed to make tho guns command
the harbor entrance. Both Spanish
torpedo-bont destroyers have been to
tally disabled by the incessant firing of
the American ships. ,
Colonel Torrey's regiment of rough
riders have left Cheyenne for Jackson
ville. This regiment is mado up of
the pick of " the mountain and plain,
men skilled in the use of the rifle and
revolver, and will unquestionably make
a valuable addition to the mounted
forces to bo sent to Cuba.
Cornell won tho university boat race
at New London, Conu. Yale crossed
the lino four lengths behind and
Harvard oamo in third. It was a pretty
contest, but was CornoU's raco, almost
from the stait, her ciew taking the load
before reaching the half-mile line and
maintaining it until tho finish line was
crossed.
A special from Santiago says Corvera
will attempt to unhottle liiB fleet. His
ships are coaled and ready to seize
the first opportunity to make a dash for
the open sea.
A dispatch from Kingston, Jamaica,
says the Spanish steamer Funnies
Concopoioii ran the blockade in safety
and has arrived at Trinidad with money
and supplies for tho Spanish troops.
General Miles has received a cipher
message from Captain Allen, chief
signal ufllcer in Cuba, saying tho land
ing of troops has actually begun, and
was in progress when the dispatch was
sent.
Tho United States omiser Marble
head has landed supplies in Guantana-
mo and ousted tho Spaniards. The
cruiser was tired upon bv a Spanish
gunboat which attempted to repel the
invasion., but was quickly drivon out of
sight and into shallow water.
A cable between tho United States
ami Hawaii may soon be laid. The
prospect of annexation has revived now
interest in the project. Tho house
committee on commerce will make an
effort to secure action on the pending
measure in congress at tho sessions to
be held next winter.
Spanish prisoners captured during
the Santiago campaign will be removed
from Cuba. Tho government has de
termined that all Spaniards falling into
American hands shall bo well cared for.
They will bo brought away In trans
ports. Tho number has been various
ly estimated at from 23,000 to 30,000.
The projected expedition to Forto
Rico has been abandoned at least for
the present. It is stated that there ure
no troops to spare for tho movement.
The entire attention of the war de
partment is to be concentrated upon
the prosecution to a successful issue of
the Santiago campaign, in accordance
with Miles' recommendations.
The house committee on military
affairs has agreed on and favorably re
ported a joint resolution reviving' the
gtado of lieutenant gcuctal in the
army. It authorizes the president to
appoint a lieutenant-general whenever
he deems it expedient, to bo selected
lroiu those drivers in the military sei
vice distinguished for courage," skill
nnd ability, and the limitation in tho
bill as to the choice from officers "not
below the grade of major-geueial'' be
ing diickeu out by the committee.
LATER NEWS.
A belief exists that the true objec
tive point of Camuru's tleet is not Ma
nila, but Hawaii and finally San Fran
cisco. A Madrid dispatcli this nftornnnn
;ays the Spanish government is active
ly preparing to dispatch reinforcements
to Porto Rico by the first available
transportation.
A special dispatch from Fitime, a
jcaport town of Aiistio-Ihingary, says
mi Austrian vessel is on her way to the
Philippines with 600 torpedo?, "in
tended for the Spanish fleet."
The navy department on Monday
lasted the following bulletin: ' "Com
modore Watson sails today on the New
ark to join Sampson, when he will
take under his command an armored
squadron with the cruisers and proceed
at once off the Spanish coast." Wat
son's "Eastern squadron" consists of
the Newark, Iowa, Oregon, Yosemite,
Yankee, Dixie and three colliers. They
leave Santiago immediately.
Four batteries cf Anioric.ir. artil
lery and a galling gun have been
placed on a hill overlooking the basin
in which Santiago lies. The American
troops were within 200 yards of the
Spanish entrenchments last Sunday
night. It is helieved that more
artillery will be necessary before an
assault can be made upon the Spanish
works. All the hills about Santiago
are covered with block houses. There
are 34 lines of intrencliments and be
hind them ore iour lines of rille pits,
while the fronts are secureJ by rows of
barbed wire.
A dispatch from Port Antonio eavs
that while t!ie dynamite cruiser Vesu
vius was making observations along
the inner harlor of Santiago a few
nights agj, ample evidence was dis
covered that the sanken collier Meni
mac does not completely blockade the
chinnel. Further information develops
t.V-fact that two battle-ships can enter
the hrarbor abreast, one passing on
each side of the Merrimac. This will
be of great advantage to Sampson when
the final attack on Santiago begins.
Lieutenant Hobson and his men are
still in communication with the fleet.
Theie is little prospect that they will
be exchanged before the attack on
Santiago is made.
Blanco has issued a proclamation an
nouncing that any one daring to ex
press an unfavorable opinion of, or sus
pected of being dissatisfid with the
present policy of tho government, will
be summarily shot without trial or
investigation. This proclamation, it
appears, caused dissatisfaction among
the members of the police force, who
threatened to revolt if full rations were
not given thorn. It is expected that,
as the polico is a numerous body, turn
bio will result. Spanish infantry and
artillery soldiers are maintaining guard
over them at every corner. Famine, it
seems, is imminent, and stories of sup
plioB for Havana coming via Batabaiio
are reported to be untrue.
Thursday a detachment of 170 Cu
bans collided With the Spanish rear
guard. The Cubans lost two men kill
ed. The Spanish loss is not known.
The navy department has received
n cablegram from Sampson, saying the
Spaniards ut Santiago report that Hob
son and his companions are well. They
ure confined font miles from Morro.
Thursday night, the American armv
of invasion hud reached on its advance
the edge of the table land on which the
harbor of Santiago de Cuba lies. Hero,
seven miles from Mono castle, tho
main body of troops united, and the
Spaniards were in full retreat towurd
Santiago.
Admiial Sampson is now in con
stant and practically immediate cable
communication with the navy depart
ment Six dispatches were leeeived in
rapid succession through the early
hours Friday morning. They showed
that only half an hour elapsed between
the filing of tho message by the admiral
ami tho receipt of it in Washington.
General Lawton's brigade, which
tested Thursday at Demajayabo, four
miles west of Daiquiri, resumed its
march at daylight. Before noon his
brigade, consisting of the Second Mas
sachusetts, tho Twelfth infantry, the
First battalion of the Fourth infantry,
two companies of the Tenth infantr'v,
and the Second battalion of the Fourth
infantiy, occupied Juragua, live miles
beyond, and the Ameiicau Hag was
hoisted there. The Spaniards retired
before the advance of the Americana,
which wa9 coverts! by Cuban skirmish
ers, burning the block houses us they
went
A dispatch to the New York World
from Santiago de Cuba, June 24 via
Fort Antonia, Jamaica, says: Ono
man was killed today anil eight
wounded on the Texas. The battle
ship at the time of the landing of the
troops went to Matamoras to make a
feint attack on the fortifications there
in connection with a laud force of Cu
bans under Kabi. The Texas silenced
the Socapa battery. Just as the action
euded a shell stiuek tlia battle-ship ami
riuiuueu wnn me result given above.
The dead man is F. R. Blakelv, of
Newpoit, R, I., an apprentice of " the
first class. The wounded are: R. f
Engle, H. A. Gee, J. E. Livelv G F
Mullen, J. E, Nelson, K. Russell, W.
J. Simonson, A. Soogvist. Russell U
ery seriously wounded. The
will all recover.
others
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Two River Steamers Go
to Pieces.
UNDER TOW TO THE YUKON
Stemwheeleri Gamecock and Stag
hounl litiliiccl All Provision Were
Wititheil Overbouril No Lives Lost
Property Duumee, 8135,000.
Astoria, June 28. When the Elihu
Thompson, towing the sternwheel
steamers Gamecock and Staghound,
started for Alaska Friday afternoon,
the prediction was freely mado that
they would never reach their destina
tion. This prediction has come true,
and the three vessels put back into port
this afternoon. The stern wheelers are
total wrecks; their decks are awash,
and, but for the cordwood stored bo-
tween decks, they would have gone to
the bottom.
Eearly thi9 morning tho lookout at
Cape Disappointment reported that the
steamers had crossed Hi and anchored.
The report also stated that tho river
boats were badly battered. When the
tide began flooding the Thompson got
under way and slowly towed the disa
bled steamers into port, reaching the
city at 4 o'clock. Never were vessels
more completely demolished by the
sea. lhe decks were three feet under
water and huge gaps had been rent in
the steamers' sides. The upper works
had caved in, and were carried away
by the seas. Baggage washed about on
the lower decks and broken timbers
were scattered over the vcssols. They
were dooked near the western extrem
ity of the city, whither a crowd of
nearly 5,000 people flocked to view
them.
The expedition met disaster at the
very start. Friday evening, while
crossing the bar, the hogchains on both
the Gamecock ond Staghound parted.
Despite this the Thompson continued
on her course. Tho river steamers be
gan breaking almost immediately. The
situation was not serious, however, till
about midnight, as the weather was
comparatively calni. Soon after 12
o'clock the passengers, of whom there
were 87 ou the two steamers, became
alarmed. The holds began to fill and
the timbers would strain and give
away with every wave. About 1:30
Captain Fisher, of the Gamecock, sig
nailed the Thompson with a rod light,
but she continued on her course.
By 4 o'clock in the morning, all the
lower woras of the boats were rent
apart and there was two feet of water
in the holds. Boats wore sent hack from
tho Thompson, and the passengers,
who had provided themselves with lifo.
preservers, were ordered to jump into
the sea. Mr. Knapp, the Kansas Citv
promoter, as tho first man to obey the
command, and the others soon follow
ed. Captains Lane and Fisher, each
with three men, remained on th
steamers. By 6 o'clock, the boats wore
leaking badly, and it was decided to
put back to port, after having proceed
ed 8o miles up the coast. Thev crossed
in ut daybreak this morning.
REAR-END COLLISION.
Several 3teinlM.ru of Torroy't Rough
Hitlers Killed.
Tupelo, Miss., June 28. A railway
ni'iMilinr. ii'P.nrr..il 'it tliia tilnt.a n( '-I. il
this afternoon, by which five members
oi lorrey s legiinent oi rough ridor
from Cheyenne lost thoir lives nnd
others received injuries. The ucciden
occuned on the Kansas City, Memphis
i Birmingham road. The Uist section
stopped to take water and had whistle
to start on, when the second section
rounded the shatp curvo in the trad
just before the town is reached, and
dashed into it. The rear cur of the fits
section was the sleeper Seville, con
taining Colonel Torrey and his Btutf,
This car was completely demolished,
yet, strange to say, every inmate es
caped unscathed, except tho colonel
who is injured, though not seriously,
Tho chief fatalities occurred in'i
coach which stood in the center of tin
first section, which carried troop C
from Laramie. This coanh
pletely telescoped, and the soldiers
wmiin were jammed and bruised be
neath musse9 of timbers, broken car
seats, and other debris. In the second
section one baccate car tli-n-..
into the ditch, but in this train few
were mm, and none seriously.
Immediate action was tik-n
soldiers to save their imtwiill..,! ,.,
rades, and with axes and ropes, and
uuvKt-18 oi waiei tiiey worked like
nions, tearing away tho wreckage
le
to
b-v hi uie wounded and dead
and
quenching the fire, which had started
in the sleeper Seville, which was a
mass of wreckage, covering a steaming,
hissing engir.e. The wounded were re
moved to a vacant building in the
town.
New York, June 28. The torpedo.
iiumn ieit nuiav lor Key West
nd will call at Norfolk
IN A DEATH TRAP.
Some More Detail of tho
tattle of La
Quuaillll.
Juragua, Cuba, June 28 The initial
flght of Colonel Wood's rouli riders
and the troopers of the First and Tenth
regular cavalry will be known in his
tory as the battle of La Quasina.
That it did not end in the complete
slaughter of the Americans was not due
to any miscalculation in tlfo plans
of tho Spaniards, for us perfect an am
buscade as was ever formed in the
brain of an Apache Indian was pre
pared and Lieutenant-Colonol Roose
velt and his men walked squarely into
it. For nn hour and a half they hold
their ground under a nerfect storm of
bullets from front and sides, and then
Colonel Wood at the light, and Lieutenant-Colonel
Roosevelt, at the left,
led a charge which turned the tide of
battle and sent the enemy flying over
tho hills toward Santiago.
It is now definitely known that 16
men on the American side were killed,
while 00 were wounded or are reported
to be missing. It is impossible to cal
culate the Spanish losses, but It is
known they were far heavier than those
of the Americana, at least as regards
actual loss of life. Already 87 dead
Spanish soldiers have been found and
buried, and muny others are undoubt
edly lying in tho thick underbrush.
The wounded were all removed.
That the Spaniards were thoroughly
posted as to the route to be taken bv
the Americans in their advance toward
Sevilla was evident as shown by the
careful preparations they had made.
The mam body of the Spaniards, was
posted on a hill in the heavily wooded
Blopes on which hud been erected two
blockhouses, flanked by irregular en
trenchments of stone and fallen trees.
At the bottom of these hills run two
roads, along which Colonel Roosevelt
and eight troops of the First and Tenth
cavalry, with a battery of four howitz
ers, advanced. These roads are little
more than gullies, and at places almost
impassable. In these trails the fight
occurred.
About two and a half miles out
from Siboney, some Cubans, breathless
and excited, rushed into the camp with
the announcement that the Span
iards were but a little way in front,
and strongly entrenched, tjuickly the
Hotchkiss guns out in the front were
brought to the rear, while a strong
scouting line was thrown out. Then,
cautiously and in silence, the troops
moved forward until a bend in a road
disclosed the hill where the'Spaniards
were located. The guns were again
brought to the front and placed in po
sition, while the men crouched in the
road waiting impatiently to give Roose
velt's men, who were toiling over the
little trail along the crest of the lidge,
time to get up.
At 7:80 A. M., General Young gave
the command to the men at the Hotch
kiss guns to open fire. The command
was the beginning of a fight that for
stubbornness has seldom been equaled.
The instant the Hotchkiss guns were
fired, the hillsides commanding the
road gave forth volley after volley from
the Mausers ol the Spaniards.
"Don't shoot until von see some'
thing to shoot at," yelled General
Young, and the men, with set jaws
and gleaming eyes, obeyed the order
Crawling along the edge of the road
and protecting themselves as much as
possible from the fearful fire of the
Spaniaids. lhe troops, some of them
stripped to the waist, watched the
base of the hill, and when any part of a
Spaniard became visible, they fired.
Never for an instant did they falter.
One dusky warrior of the Tenth, with
a ragged wound in his thiuh. coollv
knelt behind u rock, loading and firine.
and when told by one of his comrades
that he was wounded, laughed and
saitl:
"Oh, that's all right; that's been
there for some time. '
In tho meantime, away off to the
left, was heard the crack of the rifles
of Colonel Wood's men, and then the
deeper toned volley tiring of the Span
ish. Over there the American losses
were the greatest.
Colonel Wood's men, with an ad
vance guaid well out in front and two
Cnhan gindes before them, but annar
ently with no flangers. went squarely
into the trap set for them bv tho Soan-
iards, and only the unfaltering courage
of the men in the face of a fire that
would make even a veteran quail, pre
vented what might easily have been a
disaster. As it was, tropp L. the ad
vance guard, under the uufortunate
Cupron, was well surrounded, and but
tor the reinforcements hurriedly sent
forward, every man would probably
have been killed or wounded.
"There must have been nearly 1,500
Spaniards in front and to the sides of
us, said Lieutenant-Colonel Roose
velt today, when discussim? thn fiht-
"They held the ridges with rifle-pits
and guns, and hail a bodv of men in
ambush in the thick jungle at the
sides of the road over which we were
advancing. Our advance forward struck
tne men in ambush and drove them
out, but we lost Captain Capron, Lieu
tenant i nomas and about 15 men
killed or wounded.
"I want to say a word for nnr ntrn
men," continued Lieutenant-Colonel
Roosevelt. "Every officer and man
uij ins amy tip to the handle. Not
mun flinched.''
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Cavalrymen Fought tli
Spaniards.
ENEMY WAS DRIVEN BACK
Twelve Simiilurila Known to Have i!(p
Killed Koonevelt'i Hough Kder,
In the Thick of the Fljht Spaniard!
Opened Fire From Thickets.
Off Juragua, via Flaya del Este,
Quatanamo Bay, June 27. This morn
ing four troops of the first cavalry, lour
troops of the Tenth cavalry, and eight
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leas than 1.000 men in all, dismounted
and attacked 2,000 Spanish soldiers in
the thickets within five miles of San
tiago de Cuba.
The Americans beat the enemy back
into the city, but left tho following
dead upon tho Sold:
Rough riders Captain Allyn K.
Capron, of troop L; sorgeant Hamilton
Fish, jr.; Privates Tilmun and Dan
son, of troop L; Private Dougherty, of
troop A; Private W. T. Eiwm, of
troop F. First cavalry Privates Dii,
York, Bejork, Kolbe, Berlin, Lcunock,
Tenth cavalry Corporal White.
At least 50 Americans were wounded,
including Bix officers. Several of the
wounded will die.
Twelve Spaniards, dead, wore found
in the bush after the fight, but their
loss was doubtless far in excess of that.
General Young commanded the ex
pedition and was with tho regulars,
while Colonel AVood directed the opera
tions of the rough riders, several utiles
west.
Both parties struck the Spaniards
about the same time, and the fiht
lasted an hour.
The Spaniards opened fire from the
thickets and had every advantage of
numbers and position, but the troops
drove them back from their station,
stormed the blockhouses around which
they made a final stand, and sent them
scattering over the mountains.
The cavalrymen wore afterwards re
inforced by the Seventh, Twelfth and
Seventeenth infantry, part of the Ninth
cavalry and the Second Massachusetts
and the Seventy-first Now York. , i
The Americans now hold a position
at the threshold of Santiago de Cuba, .
with more troops going forward con- ,
stantly, and they are preparing for a
final assault upon the oity.
The officers wounded were:
Major Brodie, shot through the right
forearm.
Captain McClintock, troop B, shot
through the right leg.
Lieutenant J. T. Thomas, troops It,
shot through tho right leg. His condi
tion is serious.
All the foregoing officers are rough
riders.
Other officers who were wounded are:
Cuptain Knox, whose condition is
Berious. Major Bell.Lieutonnnt George
L. Bryam. These officers are of the
First cavalry.
The following are among the soldiers
who were wounded:
Rough riders Troop M, Privates E.
M. Hill, Shelly, Fisher, M. S. New
comb, Fled Beale and Corporal Rhodes.
Troop E, Corporal James F. Bean,
Privates Frunk Booth, W. Bert Chart
ley, Dailey, llalvers, E. G. Atherton,
Clifford Boed and Sergeant G. W. Ar
ringo. Troop C, Sergeant Joseph F.
Cavunaugh, .Corporal L. L. Stewart,
Privates George Rowland, II. F. Haef
ner, Michael Coyle, R. M. Reed. M.
Russell. Troop L, Privates J. R. Hcen,
Thomas F. Meagher, Edward Calvers,
Nathan P. Poe.
Tenth cavalry Troop B, Privates
Russoll, Gaines, Miller, Cross., Brax
ton, Wheoler. Troop I, Privates RiJd,
Mayberry.
Edward Marshal, correspondent of
the New York Journal and Adver
tiser, was seriously wounded in tlio
small of the back.
It is probable that at least 10 in the
list of wounded will die.
llmulltoft r'ltih( Jr.
New York, June 27. Hamilton
Fish, jr., one of the killed, was a
young New Yorker of good position and
family, who went to tho front with
Roosevelt's rough riders. He was of
distinguished ancestry, M? family be
ing one of the oldest in this state. His
father, Nicholas Fish, is the son of the
late Hamilton Fish, who was secretary
of state in Grant's cabinet. He is
banker and lives in this city.
Captain Capron.
Washington, June 27. Captain Cup
ron, of Roosevelt's rough riders, who
was among the killed, is a eon of Allyn
Capron, of the First artillery, nnd was
well known in Washington. He was a
second lieutenant of the Seventh cav
alry, and was recently promoted to be
a captain ot volunteers.
A New York infant has just been
condemned to stagger through lif" " .
der the name of Walter Sampson Schley
Dewey Cullen.
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