The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-07-04
BATH T OF SATURDAY
Fighting Was of the FierceSt
Description.
LIST OF OUR LOSSES
SHELLS FROM THE SPANISH
FLEET GAVE LITTLE
CONCERN.
THE WORK OF GRIMES BATTERIES
Shaftcr Thinks the Surrender of Santiago Will
Not Long be DeIayed-'-American
Losses Less Heavy, They Being
Protected by Entertainments.

Protected by IntrenchmentS.
(Copyright 1898 by Associated Press
Siboney, Cuba. Saturday, July >, p.
M, by the Associated Press dispatch
boat Dauntess, via Port Antonio, ~
maica and Kingston Sunday July ), 2:0O
D. m-The fighting on the right of our
line this afternoon developed unexpected
encounters, and for some hours almost
ms severe firing as yesterday Ctridayl
when General Lawt0n was assuming
lei Caney The Spanish made IN attack
in force on our position. pouring in vol
ley after volley in quick. succession and
with remarkable regularity. Our return
fire was certainly effective and continued
strong. after the Spanish volleys had
become rarer and less heavy. Mean
while the batteries on Grimes hill kept
booming away at the middle of the enc
my's line, materially aiding the flank
ing movement The Smelling from the
Spanish fleet apparently gave our left
but little concern At this hour a re-
port has just reached here that General
Lawton. aided by: fresher regiments,
sent him early in the afternoon, has
turned the enemy's left aud has troops
already in the city where almost a hand
to-hand encounter is going OF in the
streets.
The situation. when flo Associated
Press correspondent left the front. as
shown in an earlier dispatch, was such
that the capture of the city tonight lSat-
urday) would not he surprising, although
General Shafter himself, when the cor.
respondent left him three hours ago, did
not expect it.
General Shafter, however. sent word
this afternoon to General CaiXto Gar
cia that the surrender Of the city would
not be long delayed.
a conservative estimate by army men
not officials that our casualties
during yesterdays fighting were nearly,
If not quite thousand. about fifteen
per cent of which were deaths.
To-day's casualties on the American
side were much lower because our troops
had been well entrenched the night be-
fore.
The following is the latest list Of the
casualties IN the battle before Santiago,
so far as obtainable:
KILLED.
Captain Morrison. Company X, Six
teenth infantry.
Second Lieutenant Benchley, Company
r, Sixth infantry.
John Butler, private, Company Il,
Sixth volunteers.
Henry Anderson, sergeant, Company
A. First cavalry.
Second Lieutenant w. A. Safer, Com
pany A. Thirteenth infantry.
Captain w. f. Brum. Tenth infantry.
Lieutenant McCorckle, Twenty-Fifth
infantry
Wass. Battery A. Second artillery.
Mccoy, Battery A. Second artillery.
Wagner, Battery Il, Second artillery.
a. Z. Underwood, Battery a, Second
artillery.
James HELEN, Battery A. Second artil-
lery.
Lieutenant w: Il. Strip. Tenth cav
airy, brigade quartermaster on General
Young's staff
Lieutenant Colonel John NJ. Hamilton,
Ninth cavalry.
Major f. A. G. Force, First cavalry.
First Lieutenant w. III. Smith, Tenth
cavalry.
Second Lieutenant Slunnis Niche,
Seventeenth infantry, son of Prof.
Niche, of West Point.
WOUNDED.
Capt. NJ. ]. Henry, of the volunteers,
shot through hip.
Lieut.. Col. John III. Patterson, TWEEN
ty-second infantry.
Mason Mitchell, Company Il, Rough
Riders, right shoulder.
Sergeant Samuel Devon, arm fractur-
ed
Trooper Long, eshot through the leg.
Lieut.. Jos. Armstrong, cavalry.
Capt. Rodman, Twentieth infantry,
neck and shoulder
Lieut.. Col. Haskell, Seventeenth in
fantry.
Capt. Bloxam, Sixth cavalry, in the
leg.
Capt. Brerton. Twenty infan-
try, slightly in left leg.
Lieut. Col. Worth.
Capt. McFarlane, Sixteenth infantry,
slightly in leg.
Capt. Dodge, Twenty-fourth infantry.
Lieut.. Terman, Sixth infantry, fatally
in spine.
Lieut.. Robertson. Sixth infantry, be-
low heart, in left leg, right leg fractured
by third bullet.
Lieut.. Purdy, Sixth infantry, through
the thigh.
Major Mont, Tenth cavalry, in the
groin.
Lieut.. Seaborn, Eighth infantry.
Lieut.. Wood, Ninth cavalry, in the
mouth.
Il. Il. Carroll. Second Massachusetts.
Blackmore, Second Massachusetts.
Revere, Second Massachusetts.
Short, Second Massachusetts.
Fred. Junkse, Seventh infantry, in
head.
Sergeant Bite, battery a, Second ar
tillery.
Sergeant Cornfeld, battery A, Second
artillery.
Corporal Keane, battery a, Second ar
tillery.
Roor. battery A, Second artillery.
Lieut.. Horace.
Devereaux, through arm.
Jacob Poster troop III, Third cavalry
in hand.
Mcdonald Rough Riders, in the head.
Wagner, company II, Thirteenth infan-
try, in the leg.
Charles Jones, company b, Twenty