The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-07-15
HORRORS OF THE CAMPAIGN
SOLDIER DESCRIBES AWFUL
CONDITIONS AT SANTIAGO.
Chilled By the Rains and Broiled By
the Sun-Marched Through Boys
infested With Guerillas.

New York. July 1l.-Private James
Carroll, company Nj, Seventy-first reg
iment, who was wounded in the battle
near SANTIAGO or July l, and who ar
rived here or the steamer Kansas City,
said last night: IF the people here
OILY knew What the boys nave TO SUI
Ter. there would be no interest in any
body else II this county. with the
awful rams that chill through the night
ard the son that DiislerS all through
the DAY, they nave not q minute OF
lest IL is misery to live there. only
h2O d little OF IL, AFTER an, and while
III have more of it as soon as IN able
10 so 10 the ronL aSdin, - IS o.
bece use il Is my duty that l will go.
-'One OF the worst eX0erle1csS l Aad
was when we were on Outpost ddty, on
June ~, the day beIoTe Ine DomJ4rd-
mert We had been soaked through
with rain ara DTOiied with the sun
han dozen times over, ana. nns>4iy, were
ordered to return 10 the base OF SD
plies 20 get raJlOlS Tor the brigade In
ciCentally, We heard thai we V1id set
The oroer to start al cloci- IL the
n,or.lns II was thu n-du-5nt. We
were tod to Uuin III Tor it, s-~sD.
aud ID so. Two hoLis vas 1T &C.
but we slept. All sto-ies about certain
men not D.Ing aD-e - 1872 c2r-pe 49,
DER ce-Ia.a conditions / p-ls~ve are
yaIns All Of us sept, and we had al
sClts of conditions a0Odt Us o. deStl-
nation vas san juan, ABOUT eloht Niles
from Whlre we wee
The march was one OF the most diff
cult we hGd - tbs short TINE ~ were
away. It was through ground that
was DOGGY with the r~ins, and through
cactus pants that Jagged and causht
as seemingly at every point on the
-
although cur orders were to make all
haste POSSIBLE, VI round Il g. cos.-d
do TO trave! thrle-cuGrters OF = nIe
IL an hour.
~ he natural difficulties were not the
worst. either. Cur marching had been
discovered by the Spanish gueriilas.
and. while we could not see them, they
made their presence felt They s6ulked
through the chapparel and kept up a
fire which gave US not an instant OF
security Every now ana again some
of the boys would be wounded. The
firing kept up ali III o ga the niSht,
which showed that we were pursued
by those villainOuS bushWhackels
"AIl the time We thought W. saw
their shadows as they sAulked alOnS
in the brush that made oar march 4
he'll, but which protected tnsm- Their
numbers we could not tell, but judging
from the way tat the Eu-iets en-
whenever we reached an opening. th~y
must have been considerable. When We
were not in the open, the plan was to
pick US OH, and, unfortunately, they
succeeded in TOO man. c@s>s-
I'VE could only do the best we could,
but that was not much. Now and
again we would hear scream follow
the crack of one of our rifles that Eoil
us the bullet had done its duty. but IL
was hard or US. The march would
have been costly, even If We had noth-
ing but the difficulties OF the way 10
fight When to those was added fire
from a foe that was relentless, you may
imagine our condition.
The progress was so slow that it
was light when We had made four
miles. The firing had got hotter by
this time. and the orders 10 fight had
come. We were told TO throw away
everything not needed. From that time
on until in the afternoon it was q
case OF fight all the time. About :
O'Clock in the afternoon the Seventy
first charged the hill at San Juan. Aalf
way I'D we got hot voiley from he
Spaniards that made us stop IRON the
very force of impact, but the stop Was
only momentarily. The boys kept on
and Voc"