The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 26, 1898, Page 1

, Graphic Details of the - - CO000000000000000000000000O0OT000000000000C0O00000UOOO000000QOO0NO000NO0NNONCOCOO000LONO0OODD p— to be taken This Paper not the Library.++++ from - The Call VOLUME LXXXIV.—NO. 26. SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, JUNE 26, 1898—THIRTY-TWO PAGES. SPANIARDS NO MATCH FOR THE AMERICANS WERE ROUTED Rough Riders and Regumrs? Cubans Do Valiant Service in the b [ » Mosphere FROM STRONG POSITION Battle Fought Near Sevilla, Defeat Twice Their Number, General Advance . Being Made Upon the City of Santiago. WITH THE AMER- ICAN ARMY, June 24 (by the Call-Her- ald dispatch boat Mindora to Port An- tonio,Jamaica,June 25). —This day’s fighting in the ad- vance upon Santi- ago has cost the American army up- wardof adozen men, but has been a day of magnificent suc- cess for the Ameri= can cause. For every Ameri- can who has fallen in battle the enemy haslost twoor three men, and for each of our soldiers who has been wounded several Spaniards have been disabled. This has been a day of action all along the line, al= though the fiercest fight was the one that took place early this morning to the southwest of Sevilla, where General Lin- ares is making his final stand before retreating into San= tiago City. It was in this engagement the Americans sustain- ed heavy losses. Santiago now is the center of rapidly converging forces. There has been stir- ring war all day with savage Iland fighting both east and west, while a score of warships have kept the at- of the coast filled with shrieking shrapnel. All of the country within a radius of twenty miles is one York | mes Gor- | \ | | | | from Santiago by the THE ADVANCE ON SANTIAGO. road. . A view of the village of Juragua, where the advance guard of General Shafter’s army, under General Lawton, camped on the 24th inst. and near which Roosevelt’s “Rough Riders’’ had their first taste of battle Friday. The picture is made from an old cut of the place and a telegraphic description. The village is nine miles from Baiquiri and fifteen long climb up the steep narrow sage to Mount Grand which shuts the city of Santiago from the sea. By this time the sun was beginning to be felt keenly by the men. full |in single file. There was not | enough air stirring to make a leaf flutter. Along the hillsides several halts were necessary be- fore the men could reach the mesa. A dozen mules carried the | reserve ammunition and hospital supplies. The beasts were affect- |ed by the heat also. Despite these obstacles the toilsome ascent finally was made and the refreshing sea breeze brought some trifling surcease. Before the Rough Riders there stretched for nine miles a com- paratively level plateau half a mile in width, dotted with chap- arral thickets and frequently broken by small ravines. | the battlements of ancient Morro, | situated ‘high on a point com- | manding Santiago Bay. The | mesa is traversed for about one- o [ third its length by Juraguasito © | Creek, a narrow stream which is © | spanned at the village of Juragua- 9 | sito by a railroad bridge over o | which General Shafter hopes to © | send his heavy artillery. OOOOOO000OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO00OOOOD00000000QOOQO00000900000000‘0000‘000‘0 great battlefield, re- g | The view from the hilltop was sounding with the o ;a splendid one, as General Law- din of artillery and g]iton’s columns slowly wound thgir the rifle fire echoes o | “"',’yh a}f’"g'tgr;c;didtby lfr skir- 4 mish line vent surprise. which are thrown g|‘The S e draggjngp i back fr9m the lofty o\ untain battery along after the mountains fifteen 3| Twenty-fifth Infantry. The dy- At 7 o’clock the Rough Riders | entered the village of Altares. | After a short halt they began the | g | trail which affords the only pas- | Mesa, Laden with | marching equipment they | slowly toiled up the rocky path | At the other extremity rose | nRRRLuLLLR KW E, Tenth Cavalry. were Rough Riders. Corporal J. D. Rhodes. C. W. Arringo. Russell. R L EEE R LR LTI ton and Wheeler. The American dead are: CAPTAIN ALLYN K. CAPRON of Troop L, First Volunteer Cavalry. SERGEANT HAMILTON FISH JR., Troop L. PRIVATES TILDEN, DAWSON Troop L, GEORGE DAUGTERY Troop A, W. T. IRWIN Troop F, all four of the same regiment, more familiarly known as the “Rough Riders,” and Privates DIX, YORK, BJORK, COLBA, BERLIN and LEMONCK, all of Troop K, First Regular Cavalry, and Corporal WHITE, Troop - The following officers were wounded: Major Brodie, shot through the arm; Captain McClintock, Troop B, shot through the right leg; Lieutenant J. R. Thomas, Troop M, shot through the right leg. All the foregoing officers Other officers wounded: Captain Knox, Major Bell, Lieutenant Byram of the First Regular Cavalry. The following are among the soldiers‘wounded: Rough Riders—Troop B: Privates E. M. Hill, Shelley F. Ishley, M. S. Newcomb, Fred N. Beale and Troop E—Corporal James F. Boan; Privates Frank B. Booth, Albert Hartley, R. G. Bailey, H. Alvers, E. J. Atherton, Clifford Reed and Sergeant Troop G—Sergeant Thomas F. Cavanaugh, Corporal L. L. Stewart, Pri- vates George Rowland, H. J. Haefner, Michael Coyle, R. M. Reid and M. Troop L — Privates J. R. Keane, John H. Dernal, Thomas F. Meagher, Edward Cablecost and Nathaniel Poe. Tenth Cavalry—Troop B: Privates Russell, Gaines, Miller, Gross, Brax- Troop I—Privates Ridd and Mayberry. Edward Marshall, correspondent of the New York Journal and Adver- tiser, was seriously wounded in the small of the back. PR TR TR R LR R R LR TR R R R TR R L TR E L R URRRRERURARRURLERAIIURARIIRIRIIIIRIIRIRIRISR REVISED LIST OF THE KILLED AND WOUNDED b e s & RV NUIIRBNNRNURININININNNRR NN 8’8 B 8 8 £ @ e sl 8 & ried by a detail of Rough Riders as far as the village of Juragua, where the men were resting. The Tenth Cavalry had dismounted and were climbing the mesa from Altares. The Seventy-first New York had just landed and were falling in, preparatory to begin- ning the same ascent. miles acrossthesea. e jnamite sicge gun had heen car-| _ It soon became evident the day, would be extremely hot. The land breeze died down and the first gusts of the sea breeze scarcely moved the leaves of a few scattered cocoanut trees along the line of march. The column had not-proceeded a mile before the men began to cast. off their blankets and other articles. The men soon began to fall out of i | the ranks and drop exhausted under the shade of the convenient brush. The ambulance corps un- der Dr. Lamotte had its hands full attending the numerous cases of heat prostration. Still no signs of the enemy. The columns labored slowly along 'over the narrow uneven paths. Suddenly, away over the yellow hillside, two or three miles across the valley which parallels the mesa, ‘a’puff of white smoke arose, then another and still an- other in quick succession. A short distance along the ridge, by the time perhaps the tenth puff was holding the at- tention of the Rough Riders, the sharp crack of Mausers was waft- ed across the intervening space. This was followed by an irregu- lar sputter, as Castillo’s Cubans replied. The softer, keener music of the Krag-Jorgensens followed, advanced lines were getting in touch of the game of battle. While the eyes of the Rough Rid- ers were riveted on this engage- ment, from the right a flash came from the chaparral thicket on the mesa barely 200 yards ahead. A score of Mauser bullets whis- tled over the heads of those in the foremost rank. This unex- pected attack quickly gave the Rough Riders an affair of their own to attend. “It’s up to us, boys,” shouted Lieutenant Colonel Roosevelt, who was riding near the head of the column. When = attacked, the Rough Riders were marching along a trail so narrow they could ad- vance only in single file. In-this position the fire of the enemy was doubly dangerots. “Deploy! Lie down!” Colonel Wood commanded. Troop L, which formed the ad- vance line, scattered, quickly sending a volley in the direction of the Spanish bullets. The fire did not check the ene- my, who advanced to the attack with great bravery, emptying their rifles as they came. The fire was delivered with too great Continued on Second Page. ” i IO HOURS OF SEVERE FICHTING Bravery of the Rough Riders After Being Surprised. Richard Harding Davis Tells of the Pluck of the Men Ambuscaded. Correspondents With the Daring Cavalry Assist in Caring for the Wounded and Identi- fying the Dead. BY RICHARD HARDING DAVIS. Special cable to The Call and the New York Herald. Copyrighted, 153, by James Gor- don Bennett. WITH THE ROUGH RID- ERS, near Santiago, Friday, via Port Antonio, Jamaica, June 25. —The first fight of the invading army took place here this morn- ing six miles from the coast. The First Volunteer Cavalry, known as Roosevelt’'s Rough Riders, were ambushed by the receding Spaniards in a narrow path, with a barbed wire fence along its right side. It was impossible to see more than twenty feet through it at any time. The first sign of the nearness of the enemy was the presence of a dead Cuban lying across the road, and beyond him a Spanish outpost. This was reported to Colonel Wood by scouts, and he sent one of the company down the trail and another through the jungle to the left and right. The Spaniards allowed the two scouts who were of the first troop, and Sergeant Hamilton Fish to pass down the trail unmolested, and then fired into the line of the men as they ran forward in sin- gle file. The scouts were both wounded. Fish was shot through the side on a line with his heart. He was killed instantly. | Meanwhile Captain Capron’s signifying that General Lawton’s | men lost their way and swung to the right, firing into their own men on that end. An order to cease firing was given, and Lieu- tenant Colonel Roosevelt led the troops back to the left again, where the firing was fiercest. It was here that Captain Capron was shot through the side over the heart, and died in a few hours. He was one of the most popular | captains and one of the hest offi- | cers in the regiment. | The men showed most splendid | spirit and discipline, although all - [the conditions were absolutely against them. They could not see more than twenty feet away. | The enemy was invisible. Their Mauser rifles’ smoke was indis- | tinguishable, and men were fall- |ing on every side of them with no enemy to retaliate upon. It | might have tried the spirit of any but the thoroughbred fighters they are. It is also to be remem- bered that this was the first time that a large percentage of the men were under fire. The fight lasted two hours, during which time the ground covered was over half a mile in width and a mile in length. The Spanish fire was well divected, and as they knew the trail thcy could guess where to aim. Bdward Marshall, a Journal corre- spondent, was with Captain Capron and was shot through the side In two places. Stephen Crane, who, with J. &