The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-07-03
VICTORY WON AT HEAVY COST.
The Killed and Wounded-Thc Pro
portion Of Officers is Large.


Copyright. 1895. by The Associated Press.)
AT GEN. sHAFTERs HEADQUAR-
TIERS Friday. July Ia p. My THE
ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH BOAT
C---,THIA TO PORT ANTONIO. July a.
via KINGSTON. July 2.-ll;30 l.. M.-Gcn-
eral Skaters army has had is baptism
d hre With desperate courage ana mag
efficient dash of veterans 70 has con-
querof the Spanish works before Santi-
ago and at th.s hour is driving the enc
my into she streets of the city. The VIC
tory was won at a heavy cost ia killed
ana wounded. 10 is impossible 20 esti-
mate the loss az this writing. but il pro-
badly approaches 500. The proportions Of
officers IS large.
A partial list OK the officers killed or
wounded follows.
Captain O'NEILL, of the Rough Riders,
killed
Lieut. Col LoBYNOFF Twenty-sec-
ord Infantry
captain W. p. MORRISON, Sixteenth
Infantry.
Lieutenant SCOTT. Thirteenth Infan-
Try wounded.
Lieutenant Colonel PATTERSON
Twenty~second Infantry wounded In the
groin.
Lieutenant ORE. Sixth
CAPTAIN TAYLOR. Ninth Cavalry
wounded In the stomach.
Lieutenant Colonel h. III. LlsCo4i.
Tyonty-fourth.
Captain J. y BRETT. Twenty-four-n.
wounded i1 the arm.
Captain a. O.. DUCAT Twenty fourth,
wounded in rerioD 81 he heart
Captain Charles Dodge. twenty fourln'
SECOND LIEUTENANT j. IL. Angus
TINS. wounded IN side and arm.
LIEUTENANT COLONEL rAREL,
Sixth, wounded In the hip.
LIEUTENANT MAYER, company H.
Third Cavalry wounded In nip.
LIEUTENANT HERMAN, SNth' SPINE
injured. 49,,
LIEUTENANT GROSS, Sixth wounded
I'm tho hip ana left lef.
CAPTAIN WALKER sixth infantry
wounded IN right leg.
LIEUTENANT ROBERTSON, Company
q. sixth Infantry. wounded In right leg.
LIEUTENANT PURDY. Company q.
Sixth Infantry wounded IN thigh
CAPTAIN MORGAN, Third Cavalry.
CAPTAIN DODD Third Cavalry
wounded IN head.
CAPTAIN CARPENTER, seventeenth,
wounded In stomach.
CAPTAIN KERR, Sixth cavalry,
wounded in arm.
CAPTAIN TORREY. shot in the leg.
LIEUTENANT BERASo. Seventh IN
MAJOR CORL.ss. Seventh.
CAPTAIN JACKSON. Seventh.
LIEUTENANT CHARLES =. FIELD,
Seventh, shot through the forehead, IA
tally
was killed.
In some cases every officer ia a COM
pany was lost The spanish loss must
have been heavy. The Spaniarls oppos-
ing General Lawton's Division lost IN
killed. wounded or taken prisoners, 200
men. and the loss on the centre and LETT
must be double that number.
THEIR POSITION.
Most OF our troops took position during
the night. although General Bates re-
serve aid not come NO until morning
General Lawton' Division on the eN-
IRENE rlgh.. supported By Captain Cap
ron's battery: General kent's Division
I'm the centre. and General Wheelers o.
vision on the left, supported by Captain
Grimes battery. planted on bin. formed
a line stretched across the whole width
of the basin In which Santiago lies. a
distance Of fully five miles. immeoirteiy
In front OF General Lawton lay Caney.
surrounded by block houses and enc
ttenchments. and against this point were
the operations directed. Beyond the san
Juan. two thousand yards before the CEN
tire and left. lay Inc Of entertainments
a mile west Of the city. These two divis-
ions We're covered by q heavy tangled
underground between San Juan and the
Rio Guiana.
on the extreme lc't on the heights.
beyond Captain Crimes battery behind
which. IN the shelter q AN old sugar
house where the rear cavalry division
was massed. were General Duf.leld's
ATichlzan Volunteers who moved ont al
daylight over the line OF the railroad
from Siboney
The Americans had the advantage ~
the sun IN The morning. which shore d.
rectiy in the cnemys faces.
The enFasemeat opeued when the feet
lying outside the entranG a. the harbor
begar dropping shells into the lower end
OF tho Spanish earthworks.
At T:20 the land engs cement opened with
firing from Captain Capron's battery on
the extreme right upon the biock-houses.
and entrenchmeAts before Caney. This