The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-06-16
sPAN1ARDs DRIVEN BACK.
Another Attack By Guerillas Repealed
BV the Marines

Another Attack By Guerillas Repealed
By the Marines.
! Copyright, 1885, by the Associated Press)
On Board the Associated Press Boat
! Dauntless, off Guantanamo Bay, Tues
/ day, June IA, noon (via Kingston, ia
/ maica, Wednesday, June 15).-There
was no renewal of the attack on the
marines last night They slept in the
! trenches, with their rifles beside them,
protected by heavy picket line of in
Surgents and marines under the COM
mand of L1eutenantS LenOre and Smith.
! The picketS had strict orders not to
I fire unless commanded to do so. There
were several alarms, but no firing
during the night. In consequence the
men awoke much refreshed after four
uays and nights Of continuous work
and fighting.
1t was supposed the enemy had re-
tired to the windmill on the south
coast. the only remaining source of
water supply The windmill was
shelled at intervals all day yesterday,
by the Dolphin, but the Spaniards
were still there this morning At
o'clock the enemy made an unexpected
sharp attack on the American rear and
left flank. When the pickets came in
for relief the Spanish guerillas crept
along behind them, and got within 100
yards, when the accidental discharge of
a rifle in the trenches led them to be-
Heve they We're discovered and they
opened fire with a volley, which whis-
tied harmlessly overhead. They had
shot too high, as usual
The marines then scrambled I'D from
their steaming coffee and hard tack
back to the trenches and met the
gueriilas with struggling. but we'll
directed rifle fire. In addition. five
field pieces mounted at angles in the
trenches and the machine guns poured
a hail of bullets into the chapparal,
scattering the main battery of the
Spaniards in all directions. Shells were
dropped in their midst as they ran.
A few of the enemy stood their
ground desperately on the left flank
and the crack of the Mauser rifles and
the Pings" of the bullets were heard
rather than seen for an hour. as the
smokeless powder used by the Span
lards made their location in the dense
underbrush almost impossible to dis
cover The Panther fired siX-pounders
into the Spaniards while the marines
were engaged in beating off the at
tack. only one man was wounded and !
he sustained only a Slight injury in mis- /
hand.
The Cubans, who acted well last
night, were with difficulty forced out
u lIe ShITInlSn line THIS morning. |
Some of them refused to be driven,
even when struck by their officers with !
the fiat of their machetes but thew
were not censured. They do good work, /
out OF their knowledge of the methods |
OF the Spanish guerillas u warfare.
and in land service as guides they are
invaluable.
Our men are at a great disadvantage
with the guerillas. who are past grand
of their peculiar plan of cam
palgn of savage rather than of civil
lZed warfare. The men stink through
The tropical underground as noiseIess-
" as shadows, some with their naked
bodies concealed with palm leaves. so
that they are neither seen nor heard.
our men are not familiar with these /
tactics. and awkwardly crash through
the brush
Captain Elliott says the enemy could !
not stand a minute in the open. but he
admits that they are dangerous antag-
onlsts at this sort of work The ma
ines are seasoning rapidly. The hos
oltal snip Solace is in Guantanamo bay
with the wounded on board.
AS the Dauntless left the bav. the
smoke of two Spanish gunboats in the
nner harbor could be seen. and the
Dolphin stood up the channel to meet
ne attack, If the Spaniards had the
to make one. When ten
niles off shore the booming of guns
'ould be heard, and the harbor was
relied in smoke