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the fortifications of Santiago de Cuba and a lively cannonade ensued

for two hours, which silenced the Spanish batteries.

An American vessel, the Merrimac, described in the advices from

Santiago de Cuba as an auxiliary cruiser, making a dash to force the

entrance, succeeded in passing the first line of defenses, but was

torpedoed about 500 feet up the channel.

There is great cxcitement in the city. A part of the population

assisted in the fighting on the heights. Everybody is astonished at

the audacity of the American vessel. The Amerian squadron was

cruising aii the while in the offing. '1/

It will be noted that there is an important discrepancy as to the

time at which the bombardment is said to have begun this morning

between the dispatches from Cape Haytien and Port Au Prince, the

former saying 3 o'clock and the latter 8. It is possible that arises

from a confusion between the figures 3 and 8.

WASHINGTON, June 3.?Notwithstanding the rather positive

statement coming from Jamaica to the effcct that the second Spanish

fleet from Cadiz has crossed the Atlantic and is about to join Cervera

to-day at Santiago, the officers of the navy department refuse to be

frightened at what they declare to be a bugaboo. It appears that

the basis of their confidence is a telegraphic report of as late date as

yesterday delaring that the Cadiz fleet is still at Cadiz. Moreover

they know that there are not so. many as sixteen warships in that fleet

BALTIMORE, Md., June 4.?The Merrimac was purchased by

the government from the Lone Star Steamship company. The trans

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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. (1898). Wheeling, W. Va., 1898-06-04. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn84026844/1898-06-04/ed-1/?sp=1

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Library of Congress, Chronicling America: The Wheeling daily intelligencer, 1898-06-04.