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smoke a “Bill Arp'jjwarters New Brand.
|IO)| THEY LANDED
d Dctaelinient of the Bth In
fantry The First
HO'r A LIFE WRS LOST
Me . by Cuban Escort .nd con
ducted to Camp.
Paiquiri, Jone 53—At 9 o'clock,
r.d.rd.ylbe hour euppo.ed .to
j,„e been ««•<> f ° r
lh p disembarkation, came, and
passed, the expedition waa in OU»>
peiige, but the squadron lay rock
i,g complacently outside the bay.
At 9'15 »• m - the bombardment
of the hitlt» surrounding the village
of Jurapa. some six miles away.
bAgauto distract our atlenti. n
from our cwn affaira.
Thee steam pinnace*, trailing
strings of empty boats began
speeding to and fro among He
transports and gradually, though
perceptibly filling up with trooj a
At 9:45 Cuban scouts appeared
wo tof Daiquiri and the New
Orleans, Machias, Detroit.Suwai.ee
and Wasp began bombard ng.
Forty-five rounds were fired into
the bush during the first quarts
of an h >ur. and many rounds frem
the quick tirii u guns. Ni t a shot
was tired in response. At 9:50 the
first boat load containing the men
of the Bth and Ist Inst. etart, d
for the shore, followed by the 25th
(colrndj the 10th and 12th Inst.
at 10:10
Pr.digious cheering from shore
cauiht up by the nearest ships
and flyiug from v easel to vessel
through the squadron, announced
the fact that the Americans had
bgun a lauding on Cuban soil,
the honor of setting the first foot
<i. the island tailing to a detach
ment of the Bth Infantry that
whs towed ashore by the lug
Wampatuck.
This important operation thus
successfully completed without
loss of life or accident, the troops
on land formed and moved up
and away to the quarters with
out confusion. A force of mount
ed Cubans, which had been un
do'cover during the bombard
ment, now arrived and congrat
ulations were exchanged.
At 11:30 a detachment of the
2nd Mass. Vol. started for the
shore and by noon probably 3,-
men had landed. Other de
tachments were following as
rapidly as steam launches could
h‘ made available. The sea wi ■
auspiciously calm and the sky
clear,
A cool breeze was blowing and
the iroopg wore in the highest spir
'ts. and the strains of “Yankee
I* dlt were greeting every string
°t boats coining.
landing AT juragua
" I Juaragua, Province of San*
bago De Cuba. June 23—The
troops under Maj.-Gen. Shatter
I *t‘rday morning b-gan landing
Joofagua. ten miles east of the
to Santiago harbor. Lit
resistance was offered. An im
J M <iiate advance will be made aid
th l * military forces arsinposaes
k‘°“ ot llie h‘ll> back of Santiago,
“Shined attack byth „ fljet Bnd
will beordered. It i. thought
y >-aturday Santiago with all its
'heati.ms and the strong fleet
t ? r Ad(nir »l Cervera will have
dlier captured or destroyed,
in I? 8 ’ 1 new pickles, all styles,
ari ? , aUd fanc y Plages, just
will r' ? Ijloyd ' 8 ’ where you
to,?" tl,e best of everything
THE ROME HUSTLER-COMMERCIAL
REGULARS LAND
Forming at two Points lo
Attack Santiago.
FLEET DEMONSTRATION
*
Distracted Spaniards Attention
And Made Easy ths Landing.
•
Wellington, June 23.—Yes
day just a week after the United
States troops left Tortugas, they
began to disembark on Cuban
soil, landing in formation at two
• •’ 1
points so as to attack Santiago
in the rear aud at the sides,
with the navy to help the work
iu front.
Thus the military invasion of
Cuba may be said to have fairly
begun, lor though the United
States marines were the first to
land on Cuban soil , their pur
pose was not after all invasion,
but the establishment of a na
val base aud a base for a cable
station, in both of which they
were eminently successful.
To the regular troops was
left the formidable task of in
vading Cuba in force by land.
Just at the close of office
houis a brief cablegram came to
the war department from Lieut.-
Col. Allen. It had been expect
ed all day. To the surprise of
the officials the cablegram was
dated not at Guantanamo but
at a place called Playa de! Eate,
about 20 miles West of Guantan
amo bay and about half the dis
tance between that and Santia
go bay.
The statement is made that
the troops have landed and that
preparat o is have been made to
attack Santiago at the sides and
rear. The delay in receiving
further cable communications
after the first, of last evening,
is thus explained: The lines
were being carried Westward,
probably to be nearer the point
selected as the landing place in
Cuba.
In his dispatch Lieut.-Col.
said he had heard nothing offi
cially from either Gen Shafter
or Admiral Sampson. Thie is
accounted for easily by General
Miles in a cablegram sent yes
terday not to embarrass General
Shafter by any unnecessary
suggestions.
Thus it will be seen to the
delight of all true soldiers, that
Gen. Shafter, like Admiral
Sampson, is not to be tied by
exact orders from Washington,
but is to be allowed the widest
liberty of option, in the belief
that he; on the ground, is
capable of judging best the pr>
priety of projected movements.
The lieutenantcolonel, how
ever, who is a member of Gen.
Miles’ staff, and directly in
charge of the. signal work in
Santiago province. communicat
ed briefly to Gert. Miles in cl»
pher the fact that the debarka
tion of the troops had begun and
that a plan of attack had been
arranged.
Thkv Goto Florida.— Sergeant
S. Cook and private* B. D- Pos
tell and W. C. Tucker, were in tl e
1 city today enroute to Chicamaoga
i from Atlanta to join there reg'
■ iment, th* let U. 8. V . which has
orders to move to Fta. wvvk.
ROME GEORGIA. THURSDAY EVENING. JUNE, 23. 1898.
VOLLEY FIRKD
By Spanish flushWhackert at
The BiJrial of Marines.
j
NEWS MEH PRESEJII
T ■ ' l‘
Sad Funeral Scenes Made Yet
Mors Tragic.
New York, June 23.—A letter
received here today from a <br
respondeiit on the dispatch
boat Premier gives some graphic
personal impression of the fi:s
attack on Camp McCall*. Sever,
al newspaper men were there,
and, being given guns, got their
first taste of real war. But it was
the next morning that the full
tragedy of it all was realized.
The body of Surgeon Gibbs,
who had been the jolliest fellow
in the camp the day before, lay
in hie tent, where a Spanish
bullet had reached him, and they
were carrying the bodies of Ser
geant Smith and the two pri
vates up the hill on litters.
All three were frightfully
mangled, and one of the marines
who seemed most shocked at the
Spaniards’ brutal work, on the
following night, when aurn und
ed by the enemy and knowing
escape to be impossible, drowned
himself in the lagoon.
Half past 10 was the hour set
for the funeral. Four graves were
dug on ths side of the hill and
Chaplai* Jones, of the Tex •«,
hurried on shore to officials.
The bodies were wrapped in
shrouds, from which their bare
showed.
The body of Surgeon Gibbs,
who was shot within the lines,
was the only one who had boots
on. The Spaniards had stripped
the other three of every rag.
There was time for very little
ceremony. As many marine* as
c »uld be spared from work on
the trenches grouped themselves
about the graves and uncovered
their heads.
The strong voice of the Clrip
liiu had just started th* first
lines of the Episcopal burial ser
vice, “I Am the Resurrection
and the Life,” when from that
same old second ridge of hills
there came a volley of musketry,
which brought every marine to
attention in a trice.
Chaplain Jones shifted his
position a little, but never paus
ed. Looking back at this close
range upon the last four days at
Guantanamo tne picture which
stands out clearest on the mind
is those open graves, the ma ines
at full length reverently chant
ing “Our Father,” while their
guns spit at the enemy; Dewey,
the marines’ mascot mongrel
pup, perched on the earthworks
wagging his unfledged tail most
unconcernedly, and full in the
sunlight the tall, strong figure
of Chaplain Jones as he chanted
sonorously, “Man that is born
of woman.”
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cleansing action of a laxative
remedy she uses the gentle and
pleasant Syrupof figs,manufac
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