America's war for humanity related in story and picture, embracing a complete history of Cuba's struggle for liberty, and the glorious heroism of America's soldiers and sailors . e of Santiago, the seawas crowded with ships, pour-ing men ashore in hundreds,while there was not a singleSpaniard on shore to fire ashot in opposition. The pointselected for the landing wasthe big ship pier of the Span-ish-American Iron Company,ata small place called Baiquiri,foreordained to fame throughall future ages as the firstlanding-place of the army ofhumanity, destined to setCuba there is deep water
America's war for humanity related in story and picture, embracing a complete history of Cuba's struggle for liberty, and the glorious heroism of America's soldiers and sailors . e of Santiago, the seawas crowded with ships, pour-ing men ashore in hundreds,while there was not a singleSpaniard on shore to fire ashot in opposition. The pointselected for the landing wasthe big ship pier of the Span-ish-American Iron Company,ata small place called Baiquiri,foreordained to fame throughall future ages as the firstlanding-place of the army ofhumanity, destined to setCuba there is deep water up to the very rocks, and there is, besides, asmall wooden jetty, or wharf, where the troops could be landed out of thesmall boats. There is no place where ships could come in, the huge pier atwhich the mineral is shipped being absolutely impracticable for landingtroops. The only difficulty in getting the men ashore was the heavy surf, whichbeats all along the coast; but on this eventful day the weather was fairly moder-ate, yet the big rollers were breaking in mountains over the rocks, and thejetty, sheltered as it is by the pillars of the great ship pier, was sometimes. GENERAL MAXIMO GOMEZ. J.\\/OX OF CUBA. IS1 completely submerged, while a moment later it would be standing up ten orfifteen feet out of the water. Operations for the disembarkation began abouthalf-past five oclock in the morning. At that time there were sixty bigsteamers and war vessels collected within a couple of miles of the coast, andthe wide surface of the Caribbean Sea appeared as if crowded beyond the limitsof safety when looked at from the shore. Perhaps the sight of this terriblearmada shook the courage of the small Spanish garrison in the block-houseon the-hill, and caused them to offer so poor a defense. Shortly before sixoclock the New Orleans and the other warships began throwing shells onshore and along the green hills behind the landing-place. On the eastern side a steep, isolated and heavil
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