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VOL. XXVI.
ODE FLAG EMM SANTIAGO
Twelve Thousand People Were
Witnesses of Great Event.
Mail Americans Yellcfl TFemsslies Hoarse Will
Deiiibl as Oli filar? Was Hon Dp.
AFTER SURRENDER GEN. TOR A IAS SWORD WAS
RETURNED RY GEN. SHIFTER.
The City Is Left Temporarily In Possession of Its Municipal
Authorities, Subject to Control of Goiieral MclCibben.
Shatter Cables Washington.
An Associated Press dispatch from
Santiago under date of Sunday at 1
o'clock p. m , says:
The American flag if? floating in tri
umph over the governor’s palace at
Santiago do Cuba.
General MoKibbin has been appoint
ed temporary military governor.
It was amid impressive ceremonies
that the Spanish troops laid down their
arms between the lines of the Spanish
and American forces at 9 o’clock Sun
day morning. General Shatter and
tho American division and brigade
commanders and their staffs were es
corted by a troop of cavalry, and Gen
eral Toral and his staff by 100 picked
men. Trumpeters on both sides sa
luted with flourishes.
General Shatter returned to General
Toral the latter’s sword after it had
been handed the American comman
der.
Our troops, lined up at. the trenches,
were eye-witnesses of the ceremony.
Genera! Shaffer ami his escort, accom
panied by General Toral, rode through
the city, taking formal possession.
The ceremony of hoisting the stars
stripes was worth all tho blood
and treasure it cost.
A concourse of 12,000 people wit
nessed the stir ring and thrilling scene
that will live forever in the minds of
all the Americans present.
A finer setting for a dramatic epi
sode it would be difficult to imagine.
The palace, a picturesque old dwelling
in the Moorish style of architecture,
faces the Plaza do la Ueina, tho prin
cipal public square. Opposite rise:?
the imposing Catholic cathedral. On
one side is a quaint,brilliantly painted
building, with broad verandas —the
club of Ban Carlos—on the other a
building of much the same description
—the Cafe de La Venus.
Across the plaza was drawn up the
Ninth infantry—headed by the Sixth
cavalry band. In the street facing
the palace stood a picked troop of the
Second cavalry, with drawn sabers,
under command of Captain Brett.
Massed on the stone flagging between
the band and the line of horsemen
were the brigade commanders of <len.
Bbnfter’s division, with their staffs.
On the red-tiled roof of the palace
stood Captain McKittrick, Lieutenant
Miiey and Kieutenant Wheeler; im
immediately over them, upon the
flagstaff, the illuminated Spanish arms
and the legend, “Viva Alfonso XIII.”
All about, pressing against the veranda
rails, crowding the windows and doors
and lining the roofs, were the people
of the town, principally women and
non-combatants.
THE FEVER STATUS.
Sixteen New Case* Among Troops ami
One Death.
The war department at Washington
posted the following at 10.30 a. m.,
Sunday:
Sibonkt, via Hayti, July lfl.—Stern
berg, Washington: Sixteen new cases
past twenty-four hours, one death.
Sanitation measures rigid.
(lItKENI,EAF,
“Chief Surgeon.”
CERVERA AT ANNAPOLIS.
He anti Other Spanish Officers Quartered
In Historic Town.
Admiral Cervera, the recent com
mander of the Spanish rqnadron
which was destroyed off Santiago, and
ahont forty Spanish officers, were
transferred to Annapolis, Md., Satur
day and are now prisoners of war
within the historic precincts of the
United States Naval Academy.
The auxiliary cruiser St. Louis car
ried the foreign prisoners up Chesa
peake hay. A few of the Spaniards
were dressed in the Spanish uniform,
but most of them were rigged out
wholly or in part in duck uniforms
that had been furnished them by
American officers.
CORBETT AND THE “KID”
Sign Article. For a Fight In Buffalo Next
Septenilher.
Articles of agreement which will
govern a twenty-round glove contest
between James J. Corbett and Kid
McCoy have been signed at New York
by representatives of both pugilists.
According to the agreement the men
will fight for a purse of 82'),000, the
winner to take all, before the Haw
thorne Athletic club, of Buffalo, N. Y.,
on the afternoon of September Ist.
As the chimes of the old cathedral
rang out tho hour of 12 tho infantry
and cavalry presented firms. Every
American uncovered his head and Cap
tain McKittrick hoisted the stars and
stripes.
As tho brilliant folds unfurled in a
gentle breeze against a flockless sky
the cavalry band broke into the strains
of “The Star Spangled banner,” mak
ing the American pulse leap and tho
American heart thrill with joy,
At the same instant tho sound of
the distant booming of Captain Cnp
ron* battery, firing a salute of twen
ty one guns, drifted in. When the
j music ceased, from all directions
j around our line came floating adoHR
the plaza the strains of the regimental
| bands and the muffled, hoarse cheers
of our men. The infantry came out
to “order arms” a moment later, after
; the flag was up and the lmnd played
“Rally ’Bound the Flag, Boys.”
Instantly General INUdvinbin called
for three cheers for General Slmfter,
which were given with great enthusi
asm, the band playing the “Stars and
Stripes Forever.” The coremony over,
General Shafterand his stuff returned
to the American lines, leaving the city
in the possession of the municipal
authorities, subject to tho control of
General MoKibbin.
Offiulttl Nollco From Klmftpr.
The war department posted tho fol
lowing at Washington at 5:15 p, in.,
Sunday:
“Santiago de Cuba, July 17. Ad
jutant General United States Army,
Washington, 1), C.—l have the honor
to announce that the American flag
has been this instant, 12 noon, hoisted
over the house of the civil government
in the city of Santiago. An immense
concourse of people present. A squad
of cavalry and a regiment of infantry
presenting arms and band playing
national airs. Light battery fired
salute of twenty-one guns. Perfect
order is being maintained by munici
pal government.
“Distress is very great; but little
sickness in town. Scarcely any yellow
fever. A small gunboat and about 200
seamen left by Cervera have surren
dered to me. Obstructions are being
removed from mouth of harbor.
“Upon coming into tho city I dis
covered a perfect entanglement of de
fenses. Fighting as the Spaniards did
the first day it would have cost 5,000
lives to have taken it. Battalions of
Spanish troops have been depositing
arms since daylight in armory, over
which I have guard. General Toral
formally surrendered tho plaza and all
stores at 9 a. m.
“W. It. Sh AFTER,
“Major General.”
DESTROYED SPANISH OUN HO AT.
Cruitu*r New Orlcun# Play# Havoc With
the Antonio Lopez.
Advices from St. Thomas state that
the United States cruiser New Orleans
Saturday completely destroyed the
Spanish gunboat Antonio Lopez, whoso
captain recently ran liis vessel ashore
at Silinas, near San Juan de Porto
ltico, upon being chased by American
vessels, while attempting to enter San
Juan with a cargo of provisions and
war material.
THE LIST OF CASUALTIES
Since Our Troop* Flr*t Landed on Cuban
Soil—A Remarkable Showing*
According to advices from Gen.
Shafter’s headquarters, the final report
of casualties in the army since it land
ed in Cuba three weeks ago has been
forwarded to Washington. It shows
an aggregate of 1,911 officers and men
killed, wounded and missing. The
killed number 240, of whom twenty
one were officers; wounded, 1,584 of
whom ninety-eight were officers, and
missing, eighty-four, of whom none
were officers. Of the wounded only
sixy-eight have died.
Colonel Pope, the surgeon-in-chie/,
says this is a remarkably small num
ber of fatalities. „
BLANDIN DIED FROM SHOCK.
He Wan Officer of the Deck When the
Maine Was Blown Up.
Lieutenant John J. Illnndin, who
was officer of tho deck on the Maine
when she was destroyed in Havana
harbor, died at Baltimore Saturday.
His death was the resultof the shock
to his nervous system sustained on the
fata! night of the explosion. For some
time it was thought he would recover
but hopes were in vain.
HARBOR CLEARED Of MIS.
COMMODORE SCHLEY ENTERS DAY
AT SANTIAGO.
A CLOSE INSPECTION IS MADE.
Defense# Were Not So Formidable A*
Appearances Indicated— Not a Gun
Mounted on Morro,
At exactly 9 o’clock Sunday morn
ing, a few hours before our flag was
raised over Santiago City, the Spanish
flag was lowered from the staff crown
ing the heights at the entrance of tho
harbor, upon which battered Morro
castle spreads half way.
The lowering of thir emblem of tho
defunct Spanish sovereignty was wit
nessed by a few Spanish and American
troops on shore and by the Brooklyn,
New York, Vixen and Vesuvius, lying
within a few hundred yards of tho
harbor entrance.
Almost immediately after the flag
was hauled down steam launches com
manded by Lieutenants Hobson ami
Palmer entered the harbor, penetrating
ns far as the firing stations of tho sub
marine mines.
These mines vrero judged to bo not
so formidable as expected, and later in
the afternoon they were nil exploded
under the supervision of the Vixen.
It was seen that two mines had boon
exploded at the time of the entrance
of the Morrimae into the channel of
of Santiago harbor, but it is not
thought probable that either of them
had anything to do with tho sinking
of the craft.
Six or seven fine steamers in the
harbor fall as prizes to the navy nrnl
army. The Spanish gunboat Alvariez
had already been taken possession of
by a prize crew from the Now York.
The other vessels lie at, the other ond
of the. harbor at Santiago proper.
Soon after noon Commodore Schley,
with Captain (Took, of the Brooklyn,
Lieutenant J. 11. Sears, the flag lieu
tenant, Lieutenant It. W. Wells, tho
flag secretary, and three invited cor
respondents of the Associated Press
went into the harbor on a steam
launch which moved slowly in order to
make close observations of the Spanish
forts and batteries.
Every one expressed satisfaction at
the fact that Morro castle was not de
molished by the bombardment.
Morro Uustle Without Gun.
The old fort stands on tho h\i\p,
terrace-fashion. From the wat erics
edge to the brow-beetling cliff there aife
huge caves formed by the action of tho
waves, and round the base and in tho
superstructure are not a few caves
made by tho navy’s projectiles. It
would appear, however, that only one
bastion was knocked to pieces,
while the queer little sentry boxes,
dating back to tho sixteenth century,
escaped almost intact.
Morro Castle is the only imposing
fortification in tho harbor, and it is
only so in appearance, since not a gun
is mounted within or on the crumbled
walls. In fact,all tho batteries,masked
and open, dwindled in their terror-in
spiring qualities as tho inspection
grew closer.
Commodore Schley said he was de
termined to have a glimpse at Santi
ago City, and the launch was headed
along the west side of the channel,
going slowly and keeping in shallow
water, “lest some contact mine put an
end,” as the commodore remarked,“to
our quiet pleasure party.”
Skirting the broad, lakelike spot in
tho harbor where the Spanish fleet,
destroyed two weeks ago, used to lio
during the bombardment, and noting
the brilliantly painted buoys which
marked the shallows, Puuta Gordawas
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
vessels showing at its wharves.
A HOME FOR CERVERA
Will B Off red By Citizen# of Fort
Tamp, Fla.
A movement has been started at
Port Tampa, Fla., to present Admiral
Cervera a home on Tampa bay in re
cognition of bis humane and chivalric
treatment of Lieutenant Hobson and
his crew and a desire to save him from
insult and possible death should he
return to Spain.
NOT ALLOWED TO LAND.
The Quarantine Officer at. Newport New#,
Va., Knter# Objection.
The United States transport Seneca
arrived in Hampton Bonds Monday af
ternoon with ninety-nine Hick and
wounded soldiers from Santiago. In
view of the prevalence of yellow fever
at Santiago, Dr. I’cttus, the Uuitod
States quarantine officer, refused to
permit the sick and wounded men to
be landed.
It is understood that they will be
taken to Nevr York. Dr. Pettns says
that no yellow fever has developed
among the patients aboard, but it is
understood that there are three suspi
cious cases on the vessel.
LIGHTHOUSES BURNED DOWN.
I>i#Kruntlp<l Spaniard# Show Displeasure
Over the Surrender.
The New York Journal’s Key West
dispatch says that in protest against
the act of capitulation signed by Toral
at Santiago, the Spanish liglitkeepcrs
at Cape Maysiand Cape Luerea, Cuba,
both within the district agreed to be
surrendered, have burned down their
lighthouses.
The Spanish Garrison at Guantana
mo City is reported to have spiked its
cannon and blown up its magazines.
THOMSON. GA., SATURDAY. JULY 23.1898.
PREPARING NW’S FLEE!
VESSELS TO HE WELL SUPPLIED
WITH AMMUNITION.
WILL SOON BE OFF FOR SPAIN.
Administration Will Leave Nothing; Un
done That Will Assure Success
of the Moyo.
A Washington special says: Com
mander Brownson, of tho auxiliary
cruiser Yankee* was in conference with
Secretary Long Saturday, arranging
for the trip of bin ship with tho largo
cargo of ammunition for Commodore
Watson’s squadron in its attack on the
coast of Spain. Tho Yankee is at Nor
folk fttid will sail at once for Santiago.
When she reaches her destination
the big stock of ammunition will bo
placed aboard tho battleships and
cruisers.
This transference of powder and
shells is a delicate operation,requiring
time, and it is probable that the week
will bo well along before this and tho
rerouting of tho Yankee will permit
this squadron to actually get under
way for Spain.
Owing to tho important mission of
Commodore Watson’s squadron and its
possibility of long absence from an
American port, every magazine on
the ships will bo full when tho ships
sail.
Admiral Sampson recently made tho
requisition for the ammunition sup
plies, as these had run low ns a result
of tho engagement with the Cervera
squadron and tho frequent shelling of
Santiago.
Aside from a big equipment of shells
the squadron ih well provided with
•olid armor-piercing steel shot.
There has boon no call for a renewal
of tho armor-piercers, as Admiral
Sampson’s fleet seems to have used
very fmv of thorn thus far, confining
their work to tho big explosive shells.
The latter, although not made for
armor-piercing, are tested by the navy
department to pass through four
inches of solid steel, not exploding
until through the steel. They have
dono such execution that Admiral
Sampson Ims reserved id most his en
tire stock of armor piercing shells.
The navy department, will not set a
time for the departVnimmdoio
T.qr,*nrrf^|j^pp^
livery of
munition very few days will bo lost,
before this formidable squadron will
bo headed for Spain.
SHAFTER IS(ONDHATULATED.
Both I’n*#l<l®iit, MoKlnlny nntl Secretary
Al|fr Konl Thunk#.
The following messages were sent
to Gen. Slmfter Saturday by President
McKinley and Secretary It. A. Alger:
“To General Shafter, Commanding
Front, Near Santiago, Playa—The
president of tho United States sends
to you and your brave army the pro
found thanks of the American people
for tho brilliant achievements at San
tiago, resulting in the surrender of the
city and all of tho Spanish troops and
territory under General Toral.
“Your splendid command has en
dured not only the hardships and sac
rifices incident to campaign and bat
tle, but in stress of beat and weather
has triumphed over obstacles which
would have overcome men less brave
and determined. One and all have
displayed the most conspicuous gal
lantry and earned the gratitude of the
nation. The hearts of the people turn
with tender sympathy to the sick and
wounded.
“The Father of mercies protect and
comfort them.
“William McKinlky.”
“To Major General Shafter, Front,
Near Santiago, Playa: I cannot ex
press in words my gratitude to you
and your heroic men. Your work has
been well done. God bless you all.
“It. A. Alger,
“Secretary of War.”
FEVER CASES EXAGGERATED.
Tbe Scon rife Well In Hand and Sati#fc
faciory Report# Being Made.
A dlapatoh wn received at Wash
ington Sunday night Gating that the
number of fever eases up to that time
did not exceed 300.
This lowered the ontimato by one
half from that given in press dia
patchcs, and was a source of oatisfac
tion to the authorities.
Burgeon Archer, at New York, lias
been given carte blanche to get to
gether, at the earliest moment, a large
number of contract doctors and nurses
familiar with fever cases. They will
go to Santiago on the Resolute.
EXPRESS ( Alt RUBBED.
HiKbwnrmflii 15..1.1 Up 'Fri.eo I’A.*.ng.r
Train In Khiiaar.
The ’Frisco passenger train leaving
Wichita, Kaos., at 9:10 o’clock for St.
Louis, was held up Saturday night by
two masked men at Andover, a station
ten miles east. A citizen of Andover,
who learned of the plan to rob the
train, attempted to notify the train
officials and was shot by the robbers.
He will probably die.
Several hundred dollars was taken
from the express car, but the exact
amount is not known.
No attempt was made to rob the
passengers. After getting what money
.they could, tho robbers rode off across
the prairie at a full gallop, firing back
toward the town. The sheriff and a
posse followed them from Wichita.
MILES OFF TO
POETO10!
Leaves Slboney
With Troops.
II BIG All mi FOLLOW.
Arrangements Are Planned to
Make the Campaign a Quick
and Decisive One by Use
of Large Force.
A Washington special says: After
three days’ consultation between the
president, Secretary Alger and Gen
eral Brooke, during which there was
frequent communications with Gen
eral Miles at Sibonoy, tho details of
the Porto Rican expedition wore per
fected and the expedition itself vas
got under way. General Miles, with
some artillery and troops, sailed Mon
day for Porto ltico on tho converted
cruiser Yale, to bo followed quickly by
an army of 50,000 men.
There are somo notable differences
in the plans for this expedition and
for tho stately naval pageant that, sail
ed away from Tampa under General
Shafter’s command to attack Santiago.
First, there will be practically no
naval convoys, tbe navy department
having declared that they are unneces
sary a? there is not a Spanish warship
in the West Indies that dare trust its
bow out- of port.
In the second place, tho expedition
does not start from one point,, but will
be divided among several ports, thus
preventing the tremendous congestion
that, was encountered at Tampa in the
effort to start, the big fleet. Lastly,
there will be no effort made to get, the
ships away together, but the transports
will be allowed to find their own way
to their destination without concerto l
movements.
General Miles loads the way. Ho
had been promised by tho president
that he should go to Porto ltico and
the promise was redeemed whom tho
Yale headed from Sibonoy for Porto
Rico, 800 miles distant. General
Brooke will be the senior officer in
Miles’ command and upon him will
full tho responsibility for the execu
tion of the details of his superior’s
plans.
Tho point chosen for tho landing is
kept secret, as the general will land
before the full body of tho expedition
is nt hand and it is consequently not
desirable that tho enemy should be
able to assemble a superior force to
meet him. The distance from Charles
ton, where the first, body of troops for
Miles’ expedition starts, is more than
double the distance from Santiago to
Porto Rico, so that the transports
which sail from the former city can
scarcely reach General Milos before
the early part of noxt week. Theso
Charleston troops are the First brig
ade of the First division of tho First
army corps and are commanded by
Brigadier General George 11. Ernst.
The brigade comprises the Second
Wisconsin, Third Wisconsin and Six
teenth Pennsylvania regiments.
Uitmpnltfn Will Bo Short.
The purpose gf Secretary Alger is to
make the Porto Rican campaign a short
one. An overwhelming force will bo
thrown upon the island, and it is pos
sible that a bloodless victory will bo
achieved when the Spanish become
convinced that they have no reasona
ble chance to resist successfully.
The expedition is to comprise 30,000
men at the start, and it will be swelled
soon to 40,000, and if necessary to
70,000 men, the equipment of volun
teer forces having now progressed so
well as to warrant the statement that
that number can bo ready for service
in Porto Rico within a very short
time.
FEVER EXPERTS FOR CURA.
Major Boiiinr# nml Twunty-Flv® Men
Leave Uairip Algtir for Santiago.
Major Thomas O. Sommers and
twenty-five"men of the Second Tennes
see regiment have left Camp Algor es
route to Cuba to lake charge of the
hospital for' yellow fever patients ut
Santiago.
Major Sommers is an oxpert in the
matter of yellow and malarial fevers.
He treated and saved 1,500 patients
during the epidemic of 1878-9. Tho
twenty-five men who go with him are
yellow fever immune:, au I will be
transferred to the regular army hospi
tal service.
WATCHING FOR FEVER.
Vigilance In CAinp at Tampa, Fla., Will
Bo Redouble^!.
A Washington special says: Tho
onthrenk or yellow fever at Santiago
has caused tho war department to re
double its vigilance over the camp at
Tampa, where typhoid fever exists.
Advices received state that thero are
some cases of raarial fever there,which
are being closely watched, hut the
strict precautions being taken are ex
pected to prevent any more serious
disease.
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