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The News and Observer. VOIi. XliIV. NO. 125. [MS ALL mm OMEDNA HOES 11 Oilß AND yIWMTim PART OF PORTO RICAN 'EXPEDITION ON ITS WAY General Miles With Some Artillery and Troops Sailed Yesterday on the Yale, to be Followed Quickly by an Army of About Thirty Thousand Men. AN OVERWHELMING FORCE TO BE LANDED The Purpose of Secretary Alger is to Make the Porto Rican Campaign a Short One—The 30,000 Men to be Load ed at Once, Embarking at Different Points on the Coast, Will be Swelled to 70,000 if • Necessary, and it is Possible that a Bloodless Victory Will be Achieved. ARTILLERY TO PLAY AN IMPORTANT PART The Expedition will be Particularly Strong in Artillery as Some of that at Santiago is to be Drawn Upon. There will be no Conv -ys as They are Now Deemed Unnecessary. Gen. Srooke will be Gen. Miles’ Senior Officer. The First Troops will Go from Charleston, j Chickamauga and c Tampa, Shafur’s Army will be Left aCSantiago and its March May ! End at Havana. Washington, I). V., July 18.—-After* three day’s consultation* between the President, Secretary Alger and General Brooke, during which there was frequent communication with General Miles at Siloney, the details of the Porto Rican expedition were perfected and the ex-1 pedition itself was gotten under way. General Miles, with some artillery and j troops sailed to-day for Porto Rico <>n the converted cruiser Yale, to be follow ed quickly by an army of about 30,000 men. There are some notable differences in the plan for this expedition, and Ou tlie stately naval pageant that sailed away from Tampa under General Shatt er’s command to attack Santiago. First, there will be practically no naval convoys; the Navy Department has de clared that they are unnecessary; that thero is not a Spanish warship in the West Indies that dare trust its how out of port. In the second place, the expedi tion does not start from one point, hut will he divided among several ports, • thus preventing the tremendous conges tion that was encountered at Tampa in the effort to start the Dig fleet, together, hut the transports will he allowed to find their own way to their destination without concerted movements. General Miles leads the way. He had been prem ised by the President that he should go to Porto Rico, and tin* promise was re deemed when the Yale headed to-day from Siboney for Porto Rico. 800 miles distant. General Brooke will Im* llu* senior officer in Miles command, and upon him will fall the responsibility for the execution of tin* details of bis su periors plans. It is estimated that Gen eral Miles should arrive by Wednesday night at the point seh*eted for the land ing and will hoist the American flag at once over Porto Rican soil. Tin* point chosen for his landing is kept a secret as the General will land before the full body of tin* expedition is at hand, and it is consequently not desirable that the enemy should he able to assemble a su perior force to meet him. The distance from Charleston, where the first body of troops for Miles’ expedition was to start from to-day, is more than double the distance from San tiago to Porto Rico so that the transports which sail from the former city can scarcely reach General Miles before the early part of next week. These Charleston troops are the First brigade of the First division of the First Army Corps, and are commanded by Brigadier General George H. Frost. The brigade comprises the Second Wis consin, Third Wisconsin, and Sixteenth Pennsylvania regiments. The purpose of Secretary Alger is to make the Porto Rican campaign a short one. An overwhelming force will be thrown upon the island and it is possible that a bloodless victory will be achieved when the Spanish become convinced that they have no reasonable chance to resist successfully. The expedition is to comprise 30JMMI mtn at the start, and it will In* swelled soon to 10,00 and if necessary to TdJHKJ men. the equipment of the volunteer forc es having now progressed so well as to withstand the statement that that num ber can he ready for service in Porto Rico wjthiu a very short time. The body of troops at Tampa will betaken, number ing about 13,000 men and including a lot of heavy and light artillery under j command of Gen. Rodgers. The expe f dit ion will he particularly strong with ar tillery as some of that at Santiago com- I maruled by Gen. Randolph is to be I drawn upon. The Tampa troops are ! known as the Fourth corps under Major | Gen. Coppingcr. comprising the j oi*d division under Brig. Gen. Simon Snyder and made up of the First Brig ade, Brig. Gen. Seliwan, Eleventh and Twelfth United States infantry; Second brigade. Brig. Gen. Carpenter. Second New York and Fifth Maryland; Third brigade. One Hundred and Fifty-seventh Indiana; Third Pennsylvania and First 'Ohio, Brig. Gen. Hale; Third division, j Brig. Gen. Kline commanding; First 'brigade. Col. C. L. Keniian, Fifth Ohio, i First Florida and Thirty-second Miehi I gan; Second brigade. Brig. Gen. Liucoiii. Sixty-ninth New York, Third Ohio and Second Georgia: the provisional cavalry brigade. Col. Noyes. Fifth I’nitcd States and detachments of First. Second, Third Sixth and Tenth United States -avalry and eight troops of Rough Riders; artil-j ler.v brigade, Gen. Randolph, two light j and ten heavy batteries. It is possible ! that all of the cavalry will not he called upon. i Gen. Brooke will take with him from | Chickamauga Park most of the First and j Second brigades of his army corps, the j First —these are (in addition to Gen. Ernst’s brigade at Charleston) the Sec ' ond brigade. First division. Gen. Haines, ! Fourth Ohio. Third Illinois and Fourth I Pennsylvania; Third brigade. Col. J. S. Culver, First Kentucky. Third Ken tucky. Fifth Illinois; Second division. | Col. J. S. Poland commanding. First brigade. Brig. Gen. C. T. Roe, Thirty i first Michigan. First Georgia. One Hi.in- I dred and Sixtieth Indiana, First West .Virginia; Third brigade. Brig. Gen. Ros • ser. Second Ohio. First Pennsylvania, ! Fourteenth Minnesola. ‘I The part which the navy is to take • in the assault against Porto Rico lias been fully matured. The several trans • port fleets will have wilh them one or • two auxiliary craft carrying strong sec ondary batteries of six or eight pound ers ■ j Secretary Long said this afternoon that ’ no time had been fixed for the departure 1 of Admiral Sampson’s fleet for San Juan. Ij As to the navy’s plans he would only - say that they would co-operate in every » way With the movements of tin* army. • The reports that three monitors were fin their way from Key West to San Juan > was characterized by the Secretary as ■ unauthorized. It is the general under l standing, however, that the navy will ■ rely mainly on armored ships for the • bombardment of San Juan, as the big - battleships and monitors afford the best - means of offensive warfare, while their - armor belts protect them from such fire t as tin* San .Tuan batteries can bring to i bear. The fortifications there are much t i!ko those of Santiago, with a Morro I Castle at the entrance of the harbor and t a number of lesser fortifications leading , up to tin* city. These, however, are .‘viewed with less awe since an examina , tion of tin* Morro batteries at Santiago . has shown them to be antiquated and , capable of little effective resistance. ,1 The movement of the ships from San .l tiago to their new fields of action will t ! begin at once, ami it is probable that some of Admiral Sampson’s ships were s dWtaeh<*d to-day, and proceeds! with General Miles’ first expedition toward , Porto Rico. They will be needed to , cover the debarkation of the troops on v Porto Itiean soil. The others will fol low as soon as the full army expedition i_ is ready to make a landing, when the Ij attack will begin simultaneously from land and sea. r) Secretary Long said to-day that no ap t prehension whatever existed over tin* L , Spanish threat that the Camara sqtiad ron would be divided, a part of the ships I coming to this side to attack American I seaport cities. This is looked upon as t a sheer bluff, and it will not have the effect of changing any of the navy plans , or of withdrawing any ships for patrol j service on tilt* Atlantic coast. Should q the Spanish threat be made good ships . more than a match for any of Camara’s r) vessels would be available at any Atlan . tie port on short notice. No time has been set for the departur of Commodore Watson’s squadron for Spain, although this move, also, is draw si ing rapidly near. Secretary Long said r to-day that reported new lists of the RALEIGH, N. C., TUESDAY MORNING, JULY ll>, 1898. ships of the squadron were inaccurate, its the list had not been finally made up. It Ims been decided that none of the troops that participated in the actual lighting before Santiago shall be employ ed on the Porto Rican expedition. There are two reasons for this, tirst, the men have suffered severely from hardship, tbe climate and from fever:;, and are en titled to a rest; second, it is denned 10 be very bad practice to allow the soldiers who have been exposed to yellow fever to be brought in contact with those fresh from the United States. Then' is ;ilso still smother reason, a purely mili tary one. Ten thousand Spanish troops are at Holguin. Manzanillo and other points within striking distance of San tiago. and might not lose an opportunity to recover the ground lost at Santiago, if the place wen* left insufficiently pro tected. Therefore. Shatter's entire army is to be kept on guard on the high bills in the re.tr of the town until the men have stamped out the yellow fever. Then they will take a turn at the Span iards if the can he found, and it may ho that Shatter's march will end at Ha vana. He will work sis far from his Paso as possible after bis army is thor oughly refreshed, hunting the enemy wherever they are liable to be found. THE DIFFICULTIES OF toral. Messengers to be Sent to Outlying Har risons Notifying Them to Surrender. Huantanamo Bay. duly IT.—O p. nr.— The problem of notifying the Spanish troops of the Fourth sirtny corps, out side of those which compose the garrison of Santiago do Cuba, of the surrender oi Heneral Torahs forces is likely to cause some trouble. The Spaniards at Huantanamo are evidently still ignorant of the surrender, and the Cuba ns mulct Heneral Perez have daily skirmishes wffh the defenders of the town, wlm tire apparently trying to break through the lines ami join the Spanish forces at Santiago. Heneral Miles, who arrived here on the Yale this afternoon, say that Hen eraJ Toni will send officers to the different garrisons in the province no tifying them of the surrender. The Spaniards in Huantanamo can be easily reached, and they will be ordered to come down the bay and surrender. Those inland, however, will be more dif ficult to communicate with, and it will probably be some time before all the Spanish troops are notified. FORTY THOUSAND MEN Are to Re Landed on Porto Rican Soil Within Ten Days. Washington, D. C.. July I.S. —Secretary Alger, as he left the White House at midnight, announced that the vanguard of the Porto Rican expedition had start ed from Cuba. The troops at Charleston are under or ders to start late tonight or tomorrow. Unless delays should occur, all of the troops at Charleston will have embarked before sundown tomorrow. The regular troops now at Tampa will be hurried to Porto Rico as rapidly as ships can carry them. It is the exp«*eta "tion of the Secretary of War that, with in ten days 10,000 American troops will be on Porto Rican soil. * WAR TARIFF FOR SANTIAGO. Abolishes the Discriminative Tariff in Operation at Santiago Now. Washington, D. July 18.—'The President has signed the war tariff for Santiago and it takes effect tomorrow. It adopts in general the privileged rates now given Spain there and makes that tariff uniform for all countries including the United States. The following telegram has been sent to principal collectors along the Atlan tic coast: “You may clear American or neutral vessels with supplies and provisions for Santiago do Cuba.” The dispatch was sent by the Treasury 1 tepartment. NEW TARIFF IN FORCE AT ONCE. Washington. D. C. July 18. —The tarid was signed by President McKinley after a brief conference late this afternoon with Secretaries H ige and Alger. Ihe instructions were immediately cabled t (| the authorities in charge of Santiago by Secretary Alger so that the tariff can be put ill force tomorrow morning. The new tariff abolishes tin* discrimina tive tariff now in operation there, the rates of different countries at Cuban ports varying. This country took as its liasis the rates accorded products of Spain and applied them to all countries, not even excepting the United States. The most important change effected is a reduction of the tonnage duty on ships carrying 2.000 tons or more, which go in and out of the port from the present rate of .SI.(M» a ton to a rate of 20 cents per ton. This old prohibitive tonnage tax under the Spanish custom has b(*en additional to the custom duties and in contrast t<> the 20c. rate dt*clared for Santiago is our own tonnage of three cents and that of most, of the other countries of three or four times that much. The heavy export duty on to bacco and eertaiii other Cuban products and the five cent export tax on iron are 1 retained for a while at least. MANZANILLO IS BOMBARDED Throe Steamers Set on Fire —Gunboats Stranded. THE CARLISTS ARMING BREAD RIOTS AHAIN BREAK OUT IN SPAIN. SPANISH EXPLODE THEIR MAGAZINE And Spike Their Guns at Guantanamo as a Protest Against Toral's Surrender. Light Houses Also Set on Fire. London, .Tilly 11). —A special dispatch from Havana, dated Monday, says: ‘Seven American warships heavily bombarded Manzanillo this morning. Three steamers of the Mencmrfm Line were set on fire. Several gunboats that were in the harbor issued for the defence of the town, but were stranded. The re sult of the bombardment is not yet known here.” DISORDERS IN SPAIN. Troops Called Out to Suppress the Dis turbances. Madrid. July 18. — (3 p. m.) —The in crease in the octroi rates, or duties on produce taken into the towns, is caus ing turbulence in the rural districts of Spain. The populace of the province of llu elva lias rebelled against the impost* on corn and flour and attacked and set tire to a number of public buildings. The troops bad to be called out to repress the disorder. The Pais, organ of the Republicans, is endeavoring to secure the support of the army and navy for this purpose. BLOW UP THEIR MAGAZINE. Spaniards Also Spike Cannon and Burn Eight House in Protest Against Toral. New York. July 18.—The Journal’s Key West dispatch, says: "In protest against the act of capitu lation signed by Heneral Toral at San tiago, the Spanish light house keepers at Cai*c Maysi and Cape Eucrecen. Cu ba. both within tin* district ngm*d to be surrendered, have burned down their light houses. “The Spanish garrison at Huantanamo city, is reported to have spiked its can non and blown up its magazines. “Tin* gunboat Maehias, which lett Huantanamo Bay. <m July lltli. arrived this morning. Her officers report hav ing seen the Cape Maysi light and two other Spanish light houses on the north coast of eastern Cuba, on fire, as they steamed by.” CARLISTS SECRETLY ARMING. ' Weyler Said to Be in Communication With Both Cnrlists and Republicans. London, July 11).—The Madrid corre spondent of the Daily Mail says: “It is well known here that for some time past the Carlists have been se cretly placing stores, arms and a muni tion in many of the smaller towns along the French side of the frontier. “When the signal for a Carlist rising is given the taking of these supplies and munitions of war across the frontier will occupy at the most a single night. “The government lias increased meas ures of precaution to nip in the bud an> attempt of the kind. “I have also information that the Re publicans. especially those of Valencia and Andalusia, are buying arms. Hen. Weyler is reported to be in communica tion with both the Carlists and the Re publicans.” HEN. DUFFIELD HAS THE FEVER He is Doing Nicely. However—Three Hundred Cases. Washington. D. C., July 18.—A dis patch was received late last night stat ing that the entire number of fever cases up to that time, did not nexeeed .”00. This lowered tin* estimate by one-halt from that given in the press dispatches, and was a source of satisfaction to tin* authorities. Surgeon Arthur at Now York, lias been given carte blanche to get together at the* earliest moment a large number of contract doctors and nurses familiar with fever eases. They will go t<» Santiago on the Resolute, which leaves the American Line pier to morrow morning. The following tele gram was received from Dr. Eagarde. regarding the ease of Heneral Duffield. It was dated yesterday, but did not come to hand until to-day: “Heneral Duffiold has yellow fever; is at Division hospital, but is doing nice- Iv: much better to-day.” Heneral Duffield is a man of vigorous constitution, and no doubt is felt that he will be able to recover from the disease. MORE TROOPS TO MANILA. San Francisco. Cal., July 18.—Today 1,500 men of the First Montana regi ment and 300 recruits for the hirst ( al ifornia volunteers broke camp and marched to the transport steamer Penn sylvania which will convey them to Manila. IThe Pennsylvania will probably sail some time tomorrow. Exploding Minas In Santiago Bag They Were not so Formidable as was Expect ed and Were Exploded Under the Supervision of the Vixen. EL MORRO AND OTHER HARBOR DEFENCES Lieut. Hobson was One of the First to Enter the Harbor Af ter the Raising of the Star-Spangled Banner—After wards Commodore Schley With Others Went into the Bay on a Steam Launch, Which Moved Slowly as they Thorough ly Inspected the Defences. (Copyright 1898 by Associated Press.) Under Morro Castle, Harbor of San tiago do Cuba, July 1 <. —3 p. m.—Via Playa. del Este, Province, of Santiago de Cubi, July Ul.tDelayed in transmis sion.)—At exactly nine o’clock this morning the Spanish flag was lowered from the staff crowning the heights upon which battered Morro Castle spreads half way. The ceremony attesting the defunct sovereignty of Spain in this part of tin* world was witnessed by a few Si lanish and American troops on shore; by the Brooklyn,. Now York. Vixen and Vesuvius, lying within a few hundred yards of the harbor entrance. Almost immediately after the flag was hauled down steam launches commanded by Lieutenants Hobson and Palmer entered the harbor, penetrating as far as the firing stations of the sub-marine mines. These mines were judged to be not so formidable as expected, and l iter in tin* afternoon they were all exploded under the supervision of the Vixen. It was seen that two mines had been exploded at the time of the entrance of the Merrimae into the channel of San tiago harbor, but it is not thought pro bable that either of them had anything to do with the sinking of tin* craft. Six or seven fine steamers in tin* har bor fall as prizes to the navy and jinny. The Spanish gunboat Alvarez had al ready been taken possession of by a prize crew from the New York. The other vessels lie at the other end of the harbor, at Santiago proper. Soon afternoon Commodore Schley, with Captain Cook, of the Brooklyn; Lieutenant J. H. Sears, the Hag lieuten ant. Lieutenant B. TV. Wells, the flag secretary, and the invited correspond ents of tin* Associated Press, went into the harbor on a steam launch which moved slowly in order to make close ob servation of the Spanish forts and bat teries. Every one expressed satisfaction at the fact that Morro Castle was not de molished by the bombardment. Captain Cook saying: “We need El Morro as an object lesson, and America is rather shy on ruins, any how.” The old fort stands on the bluff, ter race fashion. From the water’s edge to tin* brow of the beetling cliff there are huge caves formed by the action of the waves, and round the base and in the superstructure are not a few eaves m’ido by the navy’s projectiles. It would ap pear. however, that only one bastion was knocked to pieces, while the queer little sentry boxes, dating back to the sixteenth century, escaped almost in tact. Morro Castle is the only imposing for tification in the harbor, and it is only so in apiiearanee, since not a gun is mounted within or on the crumbled walls. In fact, all tin* batteries, masked and open, dwindled in their terror inspiring qualities as tin* inspection grew closer. Crowning the bill on the west side of the. entrance were* tin* famous six-inch rapid firing guns from the Spanish cruis er Reina Mercedes. Those were ugly looking and dangerous. Directly east of Morro Castle, on the erost of the plateau-like cliff, were six big guns, one or two of which were dis mounted. The Estrella battery and a small neigh bor further in showed no guns, while the famous Cayo Smith filled the islet with blue, white and yellow houses, situated in groves of flowering trees, some the buildings looking as if they had been the resorts of pleasure* seekers in hap pier times. Others were humble enough in appearance for fishermen’s houses. All were deserted and. strange to say. not one, apparently, had been touched by a hostile projectile. On the inside of the slope and bill to the westward some hastily constructed but very comfortable casemates were seen, into which the Spanish gunners were wont to retire when our ship* opened fire. When the firing ceased the gunners only had a few steps to climb to thoir six-inch rapid firing guns which almost always fired a few spitful shots. At Punta Horda there were two four inch guns, one above the other, neither protected by even sand or earth. These commanded the harbor entrance pretty well, but they could have been silenced by one well directed lie; ’v shell. Commodore Schley lias over and over expressed the belief that ortr fleet could probably have entered the harbor with out the loss of a single ship. The mines THIRD EDITION! PRICE FIVE CENTS. might have stopped ingress by sinking the leading ship. But this is the ehaneo of war and not so grave as many taken during the civil strife, nor as serious as would have been the situation had there Ih*cn good batteries, properly manned, in the harbor. Commodore Schley’s party first steamed around the wreck of the Iteina Mercedes, which lies with her bow pointed toward the city. She had a list to starboard and rested on a reef neai the foot of Morro cliff. The cruiser was sunk to tin* upper deck, on which one six-inch gun remained. One torpedo tube was loaded and the auxiliary bat tery seemed in place. Evidently the crew of the Reina Mercedes left her in a hurry. This is less to he wondered at when it is noted that there were great gaps in her sides, showing where two twelve-inch and two thirteen-inch shells had struck her. The sea washed gently through the af ter cabin of the cruiser, which was dec orated in old-fashioned style, and the wind fluttered a red silk curtain, which could be plainly seen over an iniincr door, as the launch steamed by. About tint* yards ahead of the Reina Mercedes and almost in line with her was the wreck of the Merrimac. lying in fully six fathoms of water on the very edge of the channel. Had not the current swung the doomed alongside instead of athwart the channel, the latter would have been well blocked. When Assistant Naval Con structor Hobson took the collier into the ha(hor lie was hunting for a four fathom spot and only missed it by a few yards. At the firing stations on the west side, which Commodore Schley inspected in person, the American party met a Span ish artillery captain, who was courteous but gloomy. Commodore Schley was his own interpreter and advised the officer, with the few men under his command, to go iqi to the city and surrender as quick ly as possible. When the Spanish captain was asked to point out the route to the six-inch battery on the west hill, he said there was none, and explained that the way to get there was over steep, rocky and dif ficult ground. It was learned later that this was not true. av<l it was surmised that tin* Spaniard was anxious to pre vent the Americans from seeing the damage done by the bombardment. Commodore Schley then said he was determined to have a glimpse at Santi ago city and the launch was headed along the west side of the channel, going slowly and sticking to the shallow water, lest some contact mine put an end, as the Commodore remarked, “to our quiet pleasure party.” Skirting the broad, lake-like spot in the harbor where llu* Spanish Heet. de stroyed t\jo weeks ago today, used to lie during the bombardments, and noting the brilliantly painted buoys which marked the shallows, l’unta Gorda was rounded, and distant about two miles, the city of Santiago shone out, the ca thedral being especially well defined and the masts and funnels of not a few ves sels showing at its wharves. At that distance Santiago did not show any trace of the destruction wrought by the till out of the 10t» eight inch shells tired on the city last Monday. Returning to the Broklyn, Commodore Schley, accompanied by his staff, entered the harbor this evening, soon after the mines were exploded. Captain Cook, of the Brooklyn, is au thority for the statement that the former Spanish flagship, tin* Inafnta Maria Teresa, had floated off the reef on which she stranded and that her heavy armament is practically uninjured. The Captain also says this cruiser will al most surely he saved and form an addi tion to the United States navy, a tro phy of the glorious July Third. The Cristobal Colon may also be saved, although a good deal depends on the weather, which is very uncertain at this time of the year. A heavy storm might drive the cruiser so high on the coral reef that it would be impossible to float her. Many of the naval men are outspoken in their criticism of the treatment of the Colon immediately after her surrender. They believe the ship could have been saved when she slipped back from the reef into deep water had divers, carpen ters and machinists with a competent prize crew been sent on board of her. (Continued on Second Page.)
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