The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 3, 1898, Page 1

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( This Paper 'not. to be taken from - The VOLUME LXXXIV..NO. 33. SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, JULY 3, 1898 -—THIRTY-TWO PAGES. PRICE FIVE CENTS. TREMENDOUS LOSSES IN THE TWO DAYS' FIGHTING AT THE FRONT RENEWAL OF THE ATTACK ON SANTIAGO Shafter’s Forces Before In- ner Defenses of the Doomed City. Rough Riders Fight Like Demons, While Green Troops @Are Un- daunted by Fiery Baptism. Specinl Cable to The Call sind the New York Herald. Copyrighted, 1898, by James Gordon-Bennett. WITH THE ' AMERICAN 'ARMY, VIA PLAYA-DEL ESTE, Cuba, Saturday, noon, [x] (] o o July 2.=-Undaunted o © 0 o © § iardsin Santiago. = to (] o L © o o Q o o o o 2 before nightfall; - a° mile -lay the* city’s northeast the re ]).\\\ ng in S ;lu\gu and { -r -divisions of vere d(l\dhufl&‘ uportr ‘_\ fiLl\\(.Ln es the main -body -of the Iyancing ‘stéadily and y-dgainst thé-middle east- n of the city lines. Saitiago, the = iron:clad lering’ against ‘the Every ship .in a* the oF's 4Ty, the: ¢i red in this work. Mountains make, rising high above s in the fleet, rerican’ gunners e American resterday’s as- m W .x.m\mu msmvm. One- ght hours de- ter in-which the city has expired, s joined ‘with the -ml \lm vv h struggle lete within 1e Amierican : ]\ of the work accom- | our_forces: in “this ing’s attack: could be- ob- tained up to the hotir at which T am writing this dispafch, but there could be no mistaking the 1 by fury of the American assault, and | throughout the. Amierican :ranks | when daylight came - there was confidence ‘that :Saritiago would | fall in short order, and-that ‘Gen- eral-I res and-his'army will'be | a]anuI Lieutenant Wood of the: Sixth Cavalry, Captain’ Hunter of .the-| Ninth Cavalry, Lieutenant Col- | onel Patterson of the Third. Cay= alry and Lieutenant Bond of the' bloody reception they met yesterday, Gen- eral Shafter’s men early this morning re- sumed their fierce assault:upon the Span- They pressed forward attack with an energy that augurs. cer= in victory. Cheered by the advantages gained yesterday and with their enthusi- asm not at gll checked by the destructive work done by the Spanish shells in their ranks our-men moved on- with grim de- termination, confident' of taking Santiago ampson’s fleet was en- | showed | to-make the | by ‘the: terrible and 0000000000000 000C0DO0000000 between | duct infused in the troops steadi- inrer -de- | ness and-intrepidity. which result- | ed'in the capture and retention of i the entire’ line of Spanish outer ulefenecs | The advance was made in two | divisions,.the left storming the works at:San Juan. Our forces |in"this.assault were composed of the Rough Riders, commanded h\ Lieutenant Colonel Roosevelt, |and the First, Third, Sixth, Ninth and Tenth, dismounted cavalry. | Catching enthusiasm and bold- | ness of the Rough Riders, these men rushed against San Juan’s defenses with a fury which is ir- | resistible. Their fierce assault was met by the Spaniards with a stubborn- {ness born of desperation. Hour | after hour the troops on both sides fought like madmen. In the early morning the Kough Riders | met with a similar though less | costly experience to the one they |had at La Quasina just a week ago. target for a terrific Spanish fire, to resist which for a time was the |work of madmen. But the Rough Riders did not flinch. Fighting |like demons, they held back under - the ‘enemy’s fire to the position they held a few mo- ments before. Theé Spaniards were no match for the Roosevelt fighters, how- ‘ever, and- as had been the case at I fluasma, the -Western cow- wbovs and Eastern.dandies ham- mered the enemy from thieir path. | i Straiglit'ahead:they advanced un- ‘til by naon they were well along ‘toward San. Juad, the capture of which was &hexr 1mmedxate ob- ‘tiect. There: -was . terrlble fighting Twenty-second Infantry each dis- | about the heights during the next pla\cd great skill as leaders. in | |few hours. opening the attack yesterday. Our division officers and their While the Rough ‘Rlders were plaving such havoc tm the enemy’s lines, the. First, They found themselves a| o their | THE ATTACK ON SAN JUAN HEIGHTS. (] (4] o © (4] © © (4 PLAYA DEL © o [+] © ONE THOUSAND SPANIARDS SLAIN And Many Hundred Taken Prisoners by Shafter’s Victorious Army. Special Cable to The Call and the New York Herald. Copyrighted, 1898, by James Gordon Bennett. Generals Lawton and Chaffee saved the day. The artillery was cannon- ading Santiago at noon and the o chances are good for celebrating the Fourth of July in the city. A thou- sand Spaniards were killed and 500 ground tenaciously, now pressmq.g were taken prlsoners few feet, then falling |© 6 0000000O00000000000000000000000000 ESTE, July 2— 000000000C000C000 000 TWO THOUSAND PRISONERS TAKEN IN FRIDAY’S FIGHT General Shafter Expected to Capture Santiago Before Sundown on headquartors prisoners on this side of Santiago. er. ready moving past Caney. [SioJolololololololofolofofoYololoXoXo] ticular vicinity. Most noticeable was the lack of arn added to that of the afternoon, that their ammunition was greatly reduced. At this time, all the firing has ceased on the right of our position and General Lawton's artillery i3 al- Saturday. Copyrighted, 1868, by the Associated Press. SIBONEY, July 1,via Juragua, by the Assoclated Press: Dispatch Boat Cynthia, via Port Antonlo and Kingston, July 2.—At 6:30 Friday evening General Shafter sald to the Associated.Préss correspondent at his ““We have Caney in our possession and the whole crest of the plateau at Caney. We' have taken some 2000 General Lawton is moving to. the:left to join the The Spaniards have been driven back into the city and to-morrow we will take and enter it.’ This statement was fully confirmed by what the correspondent had seer half.ax. Hour bélors from Cap- tain Grimes’ crtillery position, which was still the best point of vantage from Wwhich to survey the fleld. At sundown, as the correspondent stood on the summit, behind the cannon that had done such gallant execution during the day, our infantry in possession of the blockhouse opposite our original center were yet persistently and cheerfully popping away »t the Span‘ards who were skulking ‘béhind the lesser intrench- ments and the refugees between them and the city. It a--~eared when darkness came that not - responsive fire froi. LIOoJoXOJoJOJoXOoJ e JOOROXOJOROROJOROROROIG @@@@@@@@@@@OO@@O@@@@@@"O@@@C@ Snaniard would. be found outside the city proper:in that par- with Ger eral ‘Wheel- the Spaniards, a further- evidence, @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@‘ Cavalry gallantly pressed forward to the right and left. Before the afternoon was far gone, these or- ganizations made one grand rush all” along the line, carrying the Spam:lrds off their feet, captur- ing San Juan’s fortifications and sending the enemy in mad haste off toward Santiago. ; It was but 3 o’clock when these troops were able to send word to General Shafter they had taken possessioh of the important posi- tion he had given them that day to capture. - In this.attack the .cavalrymen were supported .by the Sixth and Sixteenth Infantry, subordinates by their daring con- | Thn'd Sixth, Nmth nnd Tenth who made a brilliant charge at a crucial moment. The advance was up the last steep slope through the heavy underbrush. Our men were sub- jected to a terrific fire from the enemy’s trenclies and the Rough Riders and the Sixth Cavalry suf- fered severely. There was no ar- tillery to support the attack. The dynamite gun with the detach- ment of Rough Riders, under. the charge of Sergeant Hallett Alsop Borrowe, which had been hauled up from the coast with such tre- mendous effort, was jammed dur- ing the opening hours of the en- gagement and rendered useless for the time. : 1 On the right Genéral Lawton’s division, supported by Colonel Van Horne’s brigade, drove the Pando was hastening to the re- lief of General Linares with 4000 trained Spanish troops. - enemy from in front of Caney, | re-enforcements, the scouts he- forcing them back into the vil-| lage. There the Spaniards for a | time were able to hold their own, ported, were within ten miles of the city. But General Pando will be unable to render aid to the be- but early in the afternoon the|leaguered city unless he should American troops stormed the vil- lage defenses, driving the enemy out and taking possession of the fortifications Gaining a direct road into | driven out by our troops. Santiago, they established their | place. succeed in effecting a junction with the force that garrisoned the in Caney until These Spanish troops cannot linés within three-quarters of a|fall back into Santiago, owing to mile of the city at sunset. While the battle was raging about Caney, Cuban scouts brought a report that General General Shafter’s foresight. The American commander in his as- signment of troops ordered Gen- eral Kent and General Wheeler These | to advance from the southeast of | Caney and to take a stand be- tween Caney and Santiago. This { movement was carried out suc- cessfully. - The Thirty-third Michigan Volunteers, who debarked from the Harvard at Altares yesterday morning and hastened at once to- ward Santiago, were not long in Cuba before receiving their bap- tism of fire. Barely had they be- gun the ascent up the mountain path past Aguadores when they were fired upon from a masked battery. One of the shells did frightful execution in the ranks Continued on Second Page.

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