The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-06-20
GEN. JOHNSON Was UNDER FIRE.
Insurgents Pour In yoiley- and One ban
GraIes the General, Going Through Coa''s

Insurgents Pour in voIIey- and One Ball
GraIes the General, Going Through Coai.s
Havana. June 18th.
To w. II. Hearst, the Journal New
York:
In answer to your telegram Of inquiry.
] reply that General Bradley i. Johnson.
your correspondent. IS here, very much
alive. tho survivor of two wars.
FrTZHUGH LEE.
General Brndley 7. Johnson writes the
Journal as follows:
HAVANA. June Il. via Jacksonville.
Fla, June 17.-There Is war In Cuba. !
am an eye witness to 1t and testify
TO the fact. went to Matanzas Saturday
on reconnaissance. ! left Matanzas on
the 4 =. NJ. train for Havana, with my
host Don Ricardo. our train consisted
o. an engine and freight-car, lined with
half-inch boilcriron. pierced Tor mus
kerry. IN which were about fifteen Span
ish soldiers under a sergeant, second
class car. and a third-class car, and
behind them two first-class cars.
Don Ricardo and myself got seats IN
the last car. IN which were several OF
fccrs and private soldiers.
Seven ana a half miles from HAVANA
there was an explosion Of dynamite. The
tho "sput, sput" Of bullets. in a second
everybody was on the floor. except my
self who being ignorant Of the customs
OF the country. got up out OF my seat ana
was going to the rear platform 10 see what
was going on. when my friend. the DON
who az first shot threw himself on the
floor behind the water-cooler, insisted
that I should not 20 ont as the Spaniards
were certain TO shoot me If the rebels
missed
Therefore, dld not 20. but took an
observation out OF our car. Just then
broken glass stung my face. and a ball
went crashing through the two seats the
Don and I mad just left.
Another cut through a book on the
seat I'm front and made little furry OF
torn paper. and ! heard the whizz and
whirr Of a bullet rs II scraped by me
going through my coat. Now, tho jerk OF
a bullet IS n thing You never forget. II
IS a quick movement jerk. tug az
your clothes. and FOR a second you do
not know whether yOu are dead or not
7 recognized IT, 7 had felt the sensation
at Toms Brook and al Woodstock. ana
in the Valley Of Virginia in lS5i and
knew what Il meant ! ran my hand
over my leg to see where ] was hit. and
finding no blood retired 20 the next car.
where 7 sat ON the floor with such dig
nifty as r. is possible for a gentleman 10
exhibit seated on a dirty floor with the
air full Of bullets.
While This was going on the rebels were
yelling "Surrendcr, At the first shot
the five soldiers got ont and "the suhse-
Qucnt proceedings interested them no
more"
Tho affair lasted. think. about five
minutes. There were about thirty rebels
The train was I'm a cut about fifteen
feet high. and these Cuhans lay on top
and pumped lead out OF Remingtons into
us at ten yards. They fired ahont one
hundred shots. think 7 heard one shot
fired from the soldiers five minutes after
the rebels were gone
am sure I did not hear n shot from
our ironclad. Those gallant fellows re-
tired on their discretion. and husbanded
their valor. They held the ironclad,
though.
tfter the battle comes the elorihcauon.
7 Old see a single rebel; an tho rest saw
lots. We took an account Of losses and
gains Tho first two ears behind the
ironclad had been ditched by the dyna-
mite. and no one hurt. The car In 'front.'
OF ours had sixteen bullet-holes through
81. and our car had thirty-two.
one negro I'm our car was shot through
the fore arm and bled profusely; two
white men were scratched. and my coat
had a holo through f.. 1 ala not know
10 until Spanish officials pointed IL ont TO
mo with great rolling of tho eye In
restaurant at Maianzas that night. after
We had all got back. a Spanish colonel
said:
these Americans have no blood. There
was large one there with gray mus
tache and eoatee. who stood mp while
every one was on the floor and Doc laugh
cd. actually laughed. He has no blood
nc is not "a man. be is q beast
Isn't this an insult 10 the flag qua an
other American outrage Besides. who
is going 10 pay for my coatF II has
large ragged hole. too large 90 patch.
ana tho bah passed within one-tenth OF
an inch Of my thigh.