The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-06-27

- y I. l.. REED, Troop F, First
Volunteer Cavalry.
COItPL. J. b. RHODES, Troop D, First
Nolunteer Cavalry
SERGT. THOMAS RYAN, Troop X,
Tenth Cavalry.
PRIVATE Z. j. ALBERTSON, Troop f.
FIRST volunteer Cavalry.
III METER l. F. MEAGHER, Troop
l., FIRST Volunteer Cavalry.
FRI WAITE GEORGE ROLAND. Troop
q. First Volunteer Cavalry.
Pr NATE f. A. MILLER, Troop B.
Tenth Cavalry.
First Cavalry.
PRIVATE JOHN DAMATr, Troop L.
lrst Volunteer Cavalry.
CAPT. JAMES II. MCLINTOCK. First
volunteer Cavalry.
LIEU T. J. R. THOMAS, JR., First Vol
unteer Cavalry.
PRIVATE T. w. WIGGINs, Troop b.
First Volunteer Cavalry.
PRIVATE ROBERT 4. BAILEY. Troop
r, First Volunteer Cavalry.
Fhl ATE Il. w. REID, Troop G, First
Volunteer Cavalry.
PRIVATE GAINES. Troon r Tenth
Cavalry
PRIVATE REILLY. Troop B, FRS,
Missing
PRIVATE MERRIAM CAMP, Troop
q, FIRST Volunteer Cavalry
SERGF. D. w. BELL, First Volunteer
Cavalry
TRUMPETER T. R. MDONALD. First
Volunteer Cavalry.
PRIVATE N. H. COCHRANE, First
Volunteer Cavalry.
PRIVATE FRED CHILCOT, First Vol
unteer Cavalry
PRIVATE J. S. MILLER, First volunz
teer Cavalry.
PRIVATE W S. SHARP, First volun-
PRIVATE j. E. sTEADMAN. First Vol
unteer Cavalry.
PRIVATE, D. c. DENIss, First volun-
teer Cavalry.
Capt Mccormick and Capt Luna of the
FIRST Volunteer Cavalry, who were report
ed yesterday as among the dead or wound
ed We're unharmed, as was also Col.
Wood, whom Adjt Hall reported as NOR
tally wounded
That the Spaniards were thoroughly
posted as to the route to be taken by the
Americans in their movement toward Sc
Nllla was evident. as shown by the care
tul preparations they had made.
The main body of the Spaniards was
posted on hill, on the heavily wooded
slopes of which had been erected two
block houses, aanked by irregular en-.
trenchments of stone and fallen trees.
AT the bottom of these hills run two
ROADS, along which Lieut.. Col. Roosevelt's
men and eight troops of the First and
Tenth Cavalry, with battery of four
Howitzers, advanced. These roads are but
little more than gullies, rough and mar
row and at places almost impossible.
In these trails the fight occurred. Near
iy half mile separated Lieut.. Col. Roose-
Velts men from the regulars, and between
them and on both sides of the road in the
Jhlck underbrush was concealed force of
Spaniards that must have been large,
Judging from the terrific and constant
fire they poured in on the Americans
The fight was opened by the First and
Tenth Cavalry under Gen. Young.
A force of Spaniards was known to be
in the vicinity of La Quasna, and early
in the morning Lieut.. Col. Roosevelts men
started off up the precipitous bluff back Of
Siboney to attack the Spaniards on their
right flank, Gen. Young at the same time
taking the road at the foot of the hill
About two and a half miles out from ST.
honey some Cubans. breathless and ex-
cited, rushed into campiwith the announce
ment that the Spaniards were but a little
way in front and were strongly en-
trenched.
Quickly the Hotchkiss guns out in the
front were brought to the rear, while a
strong scouting line was thrown out Then
cautiously and in silence the troops moved
III w dIu Qlllil a DGilu III lllG FOdQ OlSclOStQ
a hill where the Spaniards were located.
The guns We're again brought to the
front and placed in position, while the
men crouched down in the road, waiting
impatiently TO give Lieut.. Col. Roosevelt's
men, who were tolling over the llttle trail
along the crest of the ridge, time to get up
At 7:9O a. m. Gen. Young gave the COM
mand to the men at the Hotchkiss guns
to open ire
The command was the signal for fight
that for stubborness has seldom been
equalled. The instant the Hotchkiss
guns were fired, from the hlsides COM
manding the road came voley after vol
ley from the Mausers of the Spaniards
Don't shoot until you see something to
shoot at" yelled Gen. Young, and the
men, with set jaws and cleaning eyes,
obeyed the order.
Crawling along the edge of the road and
protecting themselves as much as possible
from the fearful fire of the Spanlards. the
troopers. some of them stripped to the
waist, watched the base of the hill and
when any part Of a Spaniard became Wis
ible they fired.
Never for an instant did they falter.
One husky warrior of the Tenth Cavalry.
with a ragged wound in his thigh coolly
knelt behind a rock loading and firing,
and when told by one Of his comrades
thdt he was WOUNDED, lduBNeQ ana Sal0s
"Oh, that's all right. That's been there
for some time"
In the meantime, away off to the left
could be heard the crack of the rifles Of
Col Woods men and the regular, deeper
toned voley firing of the Spanish.
Over there the Americans losses we're
the greatest Col Woods men, with an
advance guard well out in front and two
Cuban guides before them, but apparently
with no nankers, went squarely Into the
trap set for them by the Spaniards and
only the unfaltering courage of the men
in the face of q fire that would even maze
a veteran quail prevented what might
easily have been a disaster
AS II was. Troop L., the advance guard
under the unfortunate Capt Capron, was
surrounded. aud but for the reinforcement
burriedlv sent forward every man would
Drobably have been killed or wounded
"There must have been nearly 1.JO0
STANDARDS In front and to the sides Of us"
said Lieut.. Col. Roosevelt to-day when
1iscussina the fight. They held the ridges
with ride pits and machine guns, and mad
a hodv Of men in ambush in the thick
Jingle at the sides of the road over which
we were advancing
"Our advance guard struck the men in
arob,Ish and drove them out. But they
Iost cant. Capron. Lieut. Thomas and
atout ffteen men killed or wounded.
"rhe spanish firing was accurate, so