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- -OROR itrnzbaeb. -=1 VOL. IX.--O. 807. ANACONDA, MONTANA, THURSDAY MORNIN'G, JULY 7, 1898. PRICE FIVE CUNlT. qamnmu unn--mmm nnuanu nu |u nnu •mm .,6000S,, Ladles' Waist Sets d ,~deOm- JEWELED BELTS =mh S..-- . hi.b n.. Our prices are so low that every lady can afford them. Wmi s, 5up BED IELTS $1.25 up The latest sad prettiest goods in the above lines Just received. Special bar gains In Ladies' Pocket Books And Sterling Silver Novelties. A full line of War Jeweair from 10c to $1.76. Offlll illillJ ll III JIWELER AND OPTICIAN WWSL.CT LOCK, . UTT, MNo Seed Us Tar aIrl rder Your Choice Of 800 Men's Up-to $10.90 Yorilng Suoits! GOES IIOWN WITH NEARLY ALL ON BOARD One Hundred and 8ixty-Three Saved, While Over Five Hundred and Fifty Went to a Frightful Death-The French Liner La Bourgogne Run Down Sin a Fog by a British Steamship. WOMEN KILLED BY MADDENED MEN The Were Stabbed IAke Sheep by the Cowardly Brutes Who Murdered the Weak in Their Fight for Safety-Orew Joined the Umigrants in the Btruggle for the Boats. THERE WAS NO1 DISCIPLINE The Ooel With One Noble Reotpom, Uttmrly Dsengeries mobe le1e of Sme PammsseIs, med Jotmsu in as light for the l.tom-5sort Women In Ono Doat Were Left to Their Fat-Ster age Passegers Used Their Knives With Deadly fibeot - The Frightful SBons n bDod Ship Were Repeated In the Water-Womes and Children Pushed Away Prom the Boat to Drown-A Story of Horror, Brutel Murder and Atmsot Cowardleo Whloh Has No DquaL Halifax, N. 8., July 6.-In one of the thick fogs which, at this time of the year hang like a pall over the Grand banks and Bable island, in the North Atlantic, occurred, on the early morn ing of July 4., one of the most appalling ocean disasters in the annals of the trans-Atlantic commerce, and, in fact, In the history of steam mailing of the weeri,.·AL. - warning the French liner La Bourgogne, with 725 souls on board, was run down by the iron saliiag ship Cromartyshire and sank within half an hour, carrying with her to the ocean's bottom over 550 of her passengers and crew, while the balance who were not drowned by the fearful suction, struggled and fought for life, until 163 were at length rescued by the crew of the Cromartyshire, which ship survived the collision. The story of the fearful disaster from the few officers and members of the crew who were saved is yet to be told, but if the words of the passengers who were dragged aboard the Cromartyshlre and later brought into this port by the steamer Grecian are to be believed, the last few minutes on board the La Bour gogne witnessed some of the most ter rible scenes of horror and cruelty that have blotted the history of a civilized race. Instead of the heroic discipline which so often has been the one bright fea ture of such awful moments, the crew fought like demons for the few life boats and rafts, battering the helpless passengers away from their only means of salvation, eith the result that the strong overcame the weak, for the list of 163 saves containf the name of but one woman. The disaster occurred at 5 o'clock in the morning on Monday, July 1, about 60 miles South of Sable island, which lies nearly a Hund-ed miles off this port. The Bourgogne had left New York bound for Havre on the previous Saturday, while the Cro martyshire was on its way over from Glasgow with a crew of 21 men. Although the trans-Atlantic steam ships have a definite course, the Bour gogne waas, by all accounts, 40 miles or more to the north of these lines. The fog was very dense and the Cromarty shire was sailing along with reduced canvas and blowing the fog horn. Sud denly out of the fog rushed a great steamer, and in a moment there was a fearful crash, the iron prow of the ship plunging into the port side of the steam er Just under the bridge. The shock was terrific and tore a tremendous hole in the steamer, while the entire bow of the shi. was demolished. The steamer plunged on into the fog again, her whis tle crying for help and her rockets sIg naling her distress. The Cromartyshire was rounded to and her master. Captain Henderson, was considerably relieved in finding that she was in no danger of sinking. Off to the eastward could be heard the hoarse call of the steamer, and as the fog began to lift all the boats on the ship were launched. Half an hour after the col lision the misty curtain went up, giving a clear view for miles, and then it was that those on the Cromartyshlre realised the fearful struggle for Ilfe on board the Bourgogne. The collision had come so suddenly and at such a time in the morninl that few besides her crew were on deck,. but the shock roused nearly everyone and within a few minutes the decks were crowded. Fought hr the ees. At first it seemed as if there was some attempt at discipline. A few of the beats.wcre swung off and some of the 1 passengers allowed to get into them, but as the steamer began to settle and list to port the officers lost control of the crew and a panic ensued. Pas sengers and crew fought for the boats and life rafts. The strong battered down the weak, the women and children being pushed far away from any hope of rescue. Fists, oars and even knives were used by some of the demons to keep their places. The officers seemed to have been powerless over their own men, and only four were saved. The fight for live on the decks of the steam er did not last long, for in a little more than a half hour she gave a long lurch to port and went down. As she sank beneath the surface the vortex of the water sucked down everything on the surface within a certain radius. When the suction ceased those still alive saw about 200 bodies come out of the water with a rush as if the sea were giving up the dead after having swallowed the ship. But the struggle for life still con tinued after the ship went down. Hun dreds still floated about, grasping for rafts, boats and wreckage in frantic endeavor to keep above water. Even then many of those in the boats, if the stories told are to be believed, showed their brutality by beating off those who attaeted to climb aboard. By this time the small boats of the Cromartyshire had come up and the work of rescue began. The crew if the ship worked heroically and saved every one who had managed to keep above water, but even then scores fell away from the boats, rafts and wreckage, exhausted, and were drowned. It was all over in an hour, although for some time after great pieces of wreckage came shooting up from the bottom, marking the spot where the great liner had gone down. But little attempt was made to recover the bod ies of any of the ill-fated passengers and crew, and the battered hulk .it the bottom of the ocean will probably be their tomb. In the afternoon the steamer Gre clan was sighted coming from the westward. and a few hours afterward the Cromartyshire was In tow and ar rived here this morning. 01ly One Woman .aved. Strangely enough. Mr. Lacasse Is the only man of the saloon and cabin pas sengers who survived. while his wife is the only woman of 300. not only of the first saloon cabin, but of the whole ship. who escaped. Mrs. Lacasse was roused from her berth by her husband, who was on deck at the time of the col lislon. When she reached the deck of the listing steamship she saw the cap tain of the steamer on the bridge and some of the officers at other points en deavoring to direct the efforts of the crew to launch the boats. There was little response to the orders of the oMli cers. The crew seemed paralysed. Mat ters were quiet, and there was no panic at first, though the decks were becom ing more and more crowded with frightened people. The steamer was listing and settling, and then a wild fear seized on the throng, and the peo ple lost their reason. Mrs. Lacasse was separated from her husband in the scramble and th steamer listed so badly that she sli.1 down the declivity and into the water. She had taken the precaution at her husband's direction to put on a life belt before leaving her state room, and shortly after being thrown into the sea she was seized by the arm and drawn onto the life raft. Her savior was her husband. A moment later the ill-fated steamer disappeared and a whirlpo l encircled the spot where the noble craft had been. Everybody around the vortex was drawn into It. The water rushed around, faster and fast er, and the unfortunates disappeared with despairing cries. Mrs. Lacasse had been on the edge of the maelstrom, but something strik ing her threw her outside the whirl pool. and the next she knew she was on the life raft. A boat containing 40 women was capsized and all went down in the whirlpool. There was not one man in this boat and it was left fast to the davits. Some of the women were trying to cut the ropes when the steamer careened and capsized the boat. Mrs. Lacasse says that a moment after the steamer was engulfed men,. women and children rose on every sid-. of the whirlpool, and the sight of the faces and the arms and the sound of shrieks was so terrible that she will remember them to her dying day. Terrible lrenes of Murder. Some of the scenes enacted on La Bourgogne just after the collision were terrible to witness. Men fought for positions In the boats like raving mani acs. Women were forced back from the boats and trampled on by the men., who made self-preservation their first object. Among them were a large num ber of lower class Italians and foreign ers, who. In their frenzy, stopped at nothing that promised safety for them selves. In a boat was a party of 40 women, but so great was the panic not a hand was raised to assist in its launching. The occupants so nearly saved were drowned like rats when the ship. with an awful hissing sound, went down. So desperate was the situation that an Italian drew a knife and made direct on one who. like himself, was endeav oring to reach the boats. Immediately his action was imitated in every direc tion. Knives were flourished and used with effect. Women and children were driven back to the inevitable death dt the point of weapons, the owners of which were experts in their use. Ar cording to the stories of the survivors. the women were stabbed like so many sheep. The scene on the water was even worse. Many of the unfortunates who were struggling in the water attempted to drag themselves into the boats or on rafts. These were pushed hack into a watery grave. Here, too, knives were used freely. Not all of the dead met death by drowning. ('hristopher lru Ininl saw a sailor belonging to La Bourgogne strike a passenger over the head with a bar and kill him. The body dropped into the water. The passenger grabbed the boat in which the sailor was and attempted to get on boaard. There were 714 persons on board, and 163 were saved. With the exception of two passengers. Professor Lacasse and his wife, all the passengers of La Bourgogne are aboard the steamer Gre clan at the Cunard wharf. The crew are also on board that boat. The (;re clan is expe'ted to sail for New York this evening. All the craew are col lected by themselves in the forward part of the deck and are anything but pleasant looking. The officer at the gangway looked at them with a scowl and said if he had his way, they would all have Irn hanged to the yard arm long ago. The Brave Second Omrer. The correspondent interviewed nearly all the passengers who could speak English. One passenger said the crfl cers and crew of La Hourgogne neglected the passengers entirely. The second officer was the only man of the crew who did anything to help the ter rified and helpless passengers. He aut loose al the boats he could, and in fa'ct all the boats that were launched .,ere launched by the brave second officer. He was last seen standing on the deck with his hand on the rigging, going re signedly to certain death. Christopher Bruinin., a passenger, was thrown into the wate.r and swam for two hours before he found a boat. He clung to this as his last hope. After some time another man gut hold of the same boat and they managed to right it. Under ih, seats they found the dead bodile of four men and three women, who had evidently been drowned by the capsizing of the boat. Bruinini sail the crew were cruel in their conduct toward the passengers. He was unable to get in the steamer's boat when he came on deck, being shoved away by the sailors. He saw many rof his friends being prevented from getting into the boats by the sail ors. lie lset everything but what he stood in. Mehilin .er'ondl, an Italian steerage passenger. is among the saved. 1When he got on deck he found a raft with five men on it. The raft. however. nwas tied and chained fast to the deck. and no sailors ,Tnre near to let it In"ee. None of the Live men had knives. The ship sank r;apidly and they were all precipitated into the water. lie was in the water ^t minutes and al.ni., the other five nw.n sinking before his eyes. He came a,.r ,. a boat, which he tried to get into. lie eventually suCrt.eed.,i. but not ht f. re- a desperate tight with the crew. tie was battered with oars and shoved out of the boat with hooks. Matte O. Bunch, a Norw~egan. sail. it did not a;l-ear to be anybody, duty to looik att, r the launchinl of ti.c boats. Th,.-. ,n the port ,:i. ,-re I ,n touched b'- 'h- crew. Pe.*plI cl:nmi. I into th, m. "' otitng for the bo.ts :.s launch,,d. t ut in a short time th steam..r I., I so rapidly it was ir. possible to do so. Many (ould Mave Beea Saved. Surich de, lares that two of the lihf rafts upon ohich people ',re .a\ 1 mere cut ir;it by him. It- w s u:i able to move them, but they tumbled overboard when the steamer ca reened and proved useful. The steam er slowly settled down by the stern and starboard side and the water ad vancing gradually drove the people forward. Finally men, women and children were walking about on the port bow. The stern was deep in the water and the how In the air. The ship gave a great plunge and hundreds of people were in the water, grabbing at broken oars, bits of canvas. etc., an struggling. Surich went over the star board side and caught a raft, onto which he climbed. He thinks that had the boats been launched as soon as the steamer struck se.veral hundred who perished would have been saved. Only one of the port boats, a small one. was launched. That was the boat the se, ond purser escaped in. Surich saw one boat leave the Blourgogne with only a few people in it. Among the survivors are nine Assyr lans and Armenians. There were 75 Assyrians in the party when it left New York. All but eight peristed. One of the eight lost his wife and two brothers and other relatives. Another lost two daughters. Only one of the 13 Armen lans survives. The one surviving Armenian tells a sorrowful tale of the drowning of an Armenian priest and his family, who had got into a boat with some 30 other people. When the end came and the boat was abandoned to its fate by the crew who had made an effort to launch it, the priest stood up, and with up lifted hands, prayed aloud. There are no survivors who saved more than enough clothing to cover their naked ness. Nearly all lost their savings, and they were mostly working people bound home to European lands. Patrick McKeown says he heard of one woman having her throat cut and being thrown out of the boat to lighten it. lto could not confirm it. Manaed by Mavages. August Piyrgi was eager to give your correspondent an account of his ex perience. He was in the water about half an hour and attempted to get into a hoat. He was seized when he man aged to get half in and thrown back into the water. Again he tried to enter the boat, but the savages who manned it were determined to keep him out. He managed at last to get in and to stay in. Clinging to the life line of a boat not far away he saw his mother. and, as If his trials were not enough. he was forced to watch a man shove her into the ocean with an oar. She never rose. He said the man was saved and he was almost sure he could recog nize him. Fred Nlffler. a Swiss. was the most jovial and contented of all the unfor tunate passengers. lie lost all his money and clothes with the exception of a pair of pants and a shirt, but he laughed now and again and cursed the frenzied sailors with passionate earn eatness. Niftier got Into a lifeboat with some others and remained there until he reached the water, when he thought it was time to leave. None of the sail ors ever attempted to let the boat loose. IH swam for a long time before he was picked up. He saw an Englishman attempt to) get into a boat, but the men in the boat, who were sailors of La Itourgogne. hit him over the head with the butt end of an oar. He fell back and sank. 'harles Liobra. a Frenchman. ex pressed himself as thoroughly ashamed of his countrymen's conduct. This man is one of the most unfortunate. He had his two motherless boys. 5 and 7 years old, with him. He put them on a boat, but was prevented from entering him self. lie did not get in and the boat went down With the ship, but he came to the surface and at once looked for the boat with his boys. They were no where to be seen, and he mourns them as lost. le floated a long time before a boat came along. He tried to get in but was assaulted with oars and boat hooks. Mr. Liobra showed the corre spondent his arms and body. Hir arms are black and blue and his body is ter ribly bruised from the blows he re ceived. After this boat went off he was in the water eight hours. Patrick MeKeown is an intelligent young Irishman from Wilmington. Del. He is indignant at the brutal treat ment. He was more fortunate than most of his fellow passengers and got on a raft when the Bourgogne was sinking. One of the worst sights. he said. he ever saw. was the murder of an American, with whom he had be cime acquainted on board the steamer. This man. whose name he cannot re call. was from Philadelphia. where he has a wife and family. The Phlladel phian was trying to get on a raft not far distant from the one McKeown was on. A French sailor grabbed halt an oar and beat him over the forehead. Charles Duttweiler. a German. man aged. by an interlpreter, to tell his story. It is this: Hie got in a boat which was tied fast to the ship and stayed in It ulntil he saw it was certain death to re main I.;ng.r. lie jumped, but was car ried down in the whirlpool made by the sinking steamer. He was in the aster half an hour when a boat came along within reach and he attempted to enter, but the wretches in it shoved him iff with hoat hooks. His left is badly cut by the jabs he received. He saw w-,,men shov.d away from boats with ours and bat hooks when clinging to tih Ilhfl.nes of the rafts and lifeboata. lie alsi. says the. crew assaulted many paiism.ngr rs with any Implement that carlt handy. and if no, instruments were to b. had punched the wunli-n into the %wa!, r with their lists. Threw His Mother II. -,wi f the most important witnesses Sill b." John Burgi. who got Into a boat with h mother Is-fore the slilp sank Th. .ul,,"rs in the hb at h.I'l hini and tir. , h:. p.or ,lid Ino th.r in:to the iai'. r The ea:lors threw him -ut. beat i!nlm \ i .b ars and sho\-vd him under :". . a' IIt waas iI; the aat-r ninn. h ,lr- Ibf. r,. he was saved by a boat ft ri thi- i'rouiartyshire i. 'rinimaux. a Fren, h p tsen ;- r .rr,,'orated the ithi r p.tss. ngers in th. ir -tatements about the irew. Th,-y did not attempt to cut any ba'ts I ose except those which they needed themselves He saw women shoved an av from boats with oars. and not jilnltinuet on Page Three) GENM SHAFTER IS WAITING FOR REINFORCEMEITS No Fcrward Movement Is in Immediate Cont.mnhtfo - Deep Concern Over the Sufering of Our Wounded Troops at Santiago-Departure of Uastern Fleet Denlaym Washington. July 6.-By comparison with what has gone before, to-day was very quiet at the war and navy de partments. There were bulletins posted in the former department, but there were none of more recent date than yesterday, and so far from indicating an Impending battle, the general ten dency of these bulletins was to show that no forward movement is in abso lute immediate contemplation. Deep concern is felt here at the deprivations and sufferings of our troops lying In trenches and in field hospitals sur rounding Santiago, and there is every where a disposijion to insist that here after haste shall be made slowly and that the equipment of our soldiers, their commissary and quartermaster's supplies, their ammunition and their hospital stores shall be complete in every respect before they advance fur ther. This is likely to be the rule. even at the expense of time and in the face of the criticism of the element that has been vehemently insisting upon rushing the campaign without regard to cost in blood and money. Confidence is felt that there will be no friction between the army and navy commanders, and that the conference between them will result in an agree ment on a joint plan for the prosecu tion of the campaign. In the event that this belief should not be well founded, the president is prepared to act himself by orders from first hand. There is much of force in the argument that If Sampson is obliged to enter Santiago harbor before the forts are captured he will jeopardise the whole of the iron clad fleet under his command, since by the sinking of one of theme ships in the narrow channel through a Spanish mine or shell the fleet would be left helpless and exposed to destruotion un der the guns of the forts, to which they could make no reply, owing to the ele vation of the latter. On the other hand. the army officers seem to be justified in avoiding the tremendous sacrifice of life that would be involved in again trying our soldiers upon the Spanish defenses until they have been material ly reinforced In numbers and strength ened by artillery. Sampson did not report to-day to the navy department, but the war depart ment sent over a very agreeable mes sage from Shafter announcing the rea diness of the Spanish to exchange Hob son and his men. It was believed that this was accomplished some time dur ing the day, though notice of %t has not yet been received. The fact that several of the vessels selected for Watson's fleet were in the thick of the engagement of July 3 prom ised to delay somewhat the departure of the eastern squadron for the shores of Spain. The vessels have consumed a good deal of coal and doubtless have expended a large quantity of their high est grade of ammunition in the furious attack on the steel warships of the Spanish. It will be necessary to re plenish these stores before so long s voyage can be begun. However, Sec retary Long has given rush orders for the preparation of this squadron, and it certainly will be off in the course of a few days. The movements of the Cadis fleet are very puzzling to our experts here. Weak ened as it is by the sending back of the torpedo boat destroyers, the Spanish squadron bound for the Philippines seems destined to go to as sure destrur tlon as did Cervera's unlucky ships when they headed westward from the Cape Verde islands. The Spaniards are without doubt fully aware of the in feriorlty of their fleet, and why they persist in sending it to be sunk in the Philippines is a mystery. The depart ment was advised to-day that the squadron was passing through the Sues canal, and as the vessels must have paid the heavy toll required in advance, the indications are now regarded as con clusive that the ships are actually bound for the Philippines. This belief stimulates the preparations here for Watson's sailing. He will strike straight after Camara. who, in the end. is doomed to be caught between Watson and Dewey. The report that the fine ship Yankee. lying at Tompkinsville, just from Cubs. had yellow fever, caused a good deal of worry at the department until Captain Brownson telegraphed during the day tha, there was absolutely no fever on the ship and that she was not in quar antine. HScretary Long regarded the report that the Alphonso XII. had been de stroyed while trying to run the Havana blockade as the best news of the day. It had not come to him in a direc: offi cial way, but through a report from General Greeley. chief signal officer. w.ho had receivedl a cipher message stating briefly that the Spanish ship had been overhauled near Mariel while trying to get through the blockade. and rwas a total loss as a result of the fire upon her. Both the secretary and G;eneral Greeley tgarded the report as authentic, but there was a desire to set more details. ss this has been some thing of a speculation. The Alphonso XII. Is an iron gunboat. ":th one screw. ullze funnel and one mr,;liary mast. barquc rigged. *O feet I na. 43 feet beam and 15 feet draught. 5h' has a displa~cmrnent of 3.90 tons. .he had a speed o. 17 knots at shrt .l:tanc~es. and an averaPge speed of 14 knots. and carried 1 large guns, five mnt hino guns and fi\e torpedo tubes. IL.r olfficers and (T.re~ numbered 3'7,. Secretary L.,'r is quite hopeful that several of the Spanish ships of the Cervera squadron can be saved Into part at least. and possibly as a whole. The contract with the Merritt Wrecking company is by the day, and may be cancelled at any time If the goveram egt finds the salvage is not progresotag satisfactorily. Two large wrecking vessels left Norfolk to-day to begin work upon the Colon. Viscaya and Oquendo. ALPHONSO XII. A TOTAL LOSS. Washington. July 5--Secretary Long has received word through General Greeley. signal officer, which is esapted as -:nfirming the report that the USpa isia ship Alphonso XIL was destroyed while trying to run the Havana bolek ade. General Greeley's nlafrmatise came in a cipher message and be con siders the report reliable. The shp Is said to be a total los. It occurred aear MarleL THE WHEREABOUTS OF HOSSON. Copyright 188 by Associated Press. The headquarters of General Keat's division. July 5. by the assoclated press dispatch boat Dauntless, via Fort hA tonio, Jamaica. July 5, via ElagtoS. Jamaica. July 6, 1:5 a. mn.--4eeral Kent. whose division faces tihhe piltal and barracks of Santiago de Cbs has been notified by the enemy that A-Ii* ant Naval Constructor Hooes and companions of the Merriasa ane oe fined in the adminlstraties beilg over which two white fags ate srta. During the dlplom.ale ealteresas yes terday Hobson and his fellow pIha es could be seen. through ashes free Kent's headquarters, looking out e the windows. TROOPS FOR SHAFTUL They wm ils au esLed a te C.e ta suippe as asumes New York. July t--It t epeends that the recently acquired troop Ls, the Mohawk and Mtseldppi, whie left here, will reach Tampa in three e and will be under way for aastirns t days afterward. The Atlantic steamship MeoYbi tain Layland, has arrived an paet London. making the voyage in 12. The Mobile Is one of the stem s sold by the company to the geeIasat. As soon as her cargo is disehesd sth will get under way for Talp. ALa other ocean steamer has bees igpeeted by Major J. W. Summerbays. The ees sel was the llamborethg, a riLti steamer, which plies between New TeSt and West Indian ports. She is as eid boat, but has good earrying caserty. The Port Victor, now lyting I the At lantic basin. I being fitted up Isr her voyage to Cube. She is a refigeratr ship, and will carry supplies ely.' Me will be ready to mall next Mo.nda. The Panama, one of the prises captured f Havana, is preparing for her depeate next Tuesday. the beloaged to the Spanish Atlantic ine. She wi ofrom here to Norfolk, where she take on 100 men and a carg o etppria At the Mallory line pier, Es ster, the Obdham has been takesn I hanh bh representatives of the gowereaest. When ready the Obdham will cevey 1.000 men and 500 horses. The Areada will sall from this port to-day for Tam pa. where she will take aboard iS maih and 300 horses. The quartermaster's department hea received no orders regarding the aew relief ship which was reported to have been ordered by the authorities in Washington. PANDO WOUNDED. But 7,000 of its Treepa uesseed"s fi IReerhing metige. New York. July 5.-A dispatch to the Herald from Kingston says: Another .t the Spanish leaders, General Pandb. has fallen in battle, but his troops, number ing 7.000. have succeeded in getting into the city of Santiago. This Interesting mews is obtained from refugees who arrived here from Santiago on the British man nf-war Pallas and the Austrian war.bip Maria Theresa. According to these refugees. Gemeral Pando was seriously wounded in the arm whitle commanding his troops in a battle at Ds Palmas. at which point Ouenetl Garcia with several thousand Cubans at tempted to prevent his further advance toward Santiago. After the battle General Pando's mer proceeded toward the city. fnally erser itng without difficulty. General Pando was carried along with the troops and is new being cared for on the dismantled Spas ash cruiser Retna Mercedes. which is ly trg in Santiago harbor and is used as a h.1spital ship. It is said that the Cubans under Gar-ia in t eir efforts to intercept Pando's army made a s:ubbort fight. They were nm match for th*' 7.0t) trained soldiers. how ever. although they checked the enemy's progress for a time. AFTER DISCHARGES. Assistant Serretary Me~Ytiea PMshSha an Order on the matt4e.. Washington. July ---.ores of ap plicatlons for the discharge of enisted men in the army have been received at the war department. They come flem fathers and mothers, wives and friends, all of whom are bringing every possible political influence to have their requests granted. Senators and rpr0 sentatives have been urged to e te Influence on the departmen.l es er that a clear understanding m be ad by the publle concerning the at discharge from the arq. Secretary Men tea . ~ . (Centinued es Page To) err-