Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-08-20
} Less Than in Single Battles of the
Rebellion.
INCURRED CHIEFLY ABOUT SANTIAGO
Only One American Naval Officer
Killed.
CASUALTIES OF SPANISH
From the New York Times.


and limb in the ia days war. The double
battles in our civil war.
The Spanish casualties are. of course, far
greater than ours, but are difficult to esti-
mate because of conflicting reports. The
first defenders of Spanish honor to fall in
the war were undoubtedly killed at the
bombardment of Matanzas on April q, the
war having been declared by Congress to
have commenced on April 81
Shortly after this the cruiser New York
fought some Spanish cavalry at Cabanas,
thirty-e!ght miles west of Havana, without
sustaining loss, and on May 1 Dewey won
his world-famous victory off Manila. after
stopping for breakfast when half way
through. The loss on the Spanish side foot
ed up 400 killed and over 600 wounded The
American casualties consisted of the wound
ing of six seamen.
Among the Spanish wounded We're the
two commanders of the Castillo and the
Don Antonio de Ulloa and the executive
officer of the Reina Cristina. The captain
chaplain, clerk and boatswain of the Reina
Cr1stina were killed few days later
Dewey captured the gunboats Leyte and
CallaO. and the Spaniards captured tic
American bark Saranac.
Only American Naval officer Killed
The Vicksburg and the cutter Morrill, en-
gagged the Santa Clara batteries off Ha-
wanna on May without sustaining injury
-Four days later came the fight in Cardenas
iharbor, in which the only American naval
offlcer to be killed in the war met his death
The cruiser Wilmington. torpedo boat Win
slow and Sunboat Hudson had entered the
narDor TO attack some Spanish gunboats
In the fight a shell burst aboard the Win
Slow, killing Ensign Worth Bagley and four
others The Spanish losses in CarGenas in
Guided one medical officer three sailors
chi lyi 11a|
unknown.
The day of this skirnish was also the
day on which the cruiser Marblenead the
gCnboat Nashville and the auxiliary cruiser
N lndom attaked Soma Spanish troops be-
hlnd improytsed breastworks at Cienfuesos
one seaman was killed and another was
50 badly hurt that he died later Captain
Maynard and Lieutenant Cameron Win
slow, both of the Nashville were slightly.
and Robert Volts of the Nashville Herman
w kuchneisted, John Davis and John T
Doran of the Marblehead, and William
Ievery were seriously wounded Manv
other Americans received trifine wounds
The Spaniards lost 300 killed and MANY
hundreds wounded.
SIMPSONS bombardment of San Juan de
Puerto Rico an engagement satisfactory in
its results. took place the next day the
Iowa, Indiana, New York, Terror, Amphi-
tr1te, Detroit, Montgomery, Wampatuck
and Porter Joining in the attack. The en-
envy responded with a heavy fire killing
FRANK Widemark, a seaman on the New
York, and the gunner's mate on the Am
phItrite. and wounding seven. The ships
were uninjured. The Spanish governor
general reported the casualties in the town
as eight killed and thirty-four wounded.
A second minor attack on Cardenas took
place in which seven Spaniards were re-
ported wounded. and on May 81 Commo-
dcre Schiey bombarded the Santiago forti-
hcations. firing on MORO Castle La Coca
pa and Punta GOrda. Our forces were I'M
scathed and the Spanish loss was reported
hoo IN
the forts, silencing them without sustain
ing loss On the Spanish side Colonel Or
dcnez. Captain Sanchez. Lieutenant Yrizar
ana Ofhcers Perez and Garcia were wound
ed An ensign and five sailors were killed
and sixteen sailors wounded. One infan-
tryman was killed and twenty wounded
Losses i'm the Marine Corps.
Five American ships bombarded Caiman-
era, in the Bay of Guantanamo, on June .
and forty marines went ashore there from
the Oregon three days later. Then they
were Joined by 600 more marines from the
troopshlp Panther, under Lieutenant Colo
mel Huntington. and the Marblehead, Vixen
and Dolphin ran up the bay to fire on the
Spanish earthworks. The first battle of
the marines took place June II. when As
slstant Surgeon John Blair Gibbs of Rich
mOnd. Va, Sergeant Charles H. Smith and
two privatcs were killed. The Spanish loss
is unknown. In the next two or three
days fighting. IN which the marines did
B gallant work, Sergeant Major Henry Goode
and Private Tauman were killed and five
privates wounded There were also some
Cuban casualties.
SamDson's next bombardment of Santiago
resulted in the killing of officer ami
three men and the wounding of an officer
and twenty men. On June IL the Yankee
fought Spanish gunboat off Cienfuegos,
and Solon P. Kennedy of this city was
wounded Three days later the Spanish
general JOval, was killed in a naval attack
on Santiago. A gunner was killed at tar
she'll
Then Shafter effected landing in Cuba
and moved upon Siboney. and the army
took up its share of suffering and danger
The daring and famous charge of the
Rough Riders and the 10th Cavalry and LIST
Cavalry on Sevilla Heights near Siboney
when 1000 Americans fought twice their
number took place on June "a. The killed
Included Capt Allyn K. Capron, Sergt
Hamilton Fish Sergt Marcus d. Russeu
all Of the Rough Riders; Capt Maximil-
i0no, Corp. White of the 10th Cavalry
corp Doherty and ten privates Maj
Crow, Lieut. Col. Alexander o. Brodie
Cast McClintoek and Lieut.. Thomas of the
Rough Riders and Maj. Bell Capt Knox
and Lieut. Byram of the LIST Cavalry were
wounded and fOrty-six other soldiers The
Spanish lost 2s5 killed and wounded.
The Texas shelled the Santiago batteries
on June -. when a six-inch shell killed An
prentice Frank E. Blakely and wounded
seven seamen.
Casualties at Santiago
In the advance or Santiago of July /
and there were killed twenty-one officers,
T2S enlisted men, and seventy-seven officers
ard .l9I enlisted men were wounded At
this time eighty-four enlisted men, Of
whom many have since been found, were
reported missing
: In the destruction of Cervera's feet on
July Chief Yeoman George H Ellis of the
brooklyn was the only American killed
three were slightly wounded on the Texas
The Spanish loss has been estimated at
$50 killed and 100 wounded including Ad-
miral Cervera himself and Capt EuIata
Besides this In the sinking of the Spanish
cruiser Reina Mercedes. Capt Acosta. Ave
seaman and twenty-one marines were kill
ed and lieutenant and eleven men wound
ed. In the subsequent mutiny of Spanish
prisoners on the Harvard six OF them wers
killed and fifteen wounded. The loss with
the Spanish cruiser Alfonso XII Is un-
known
Gen. Miles. after affecting his landing in
Porto Rico, at Guanica. has had such a
gratifying time of II that there were prac-
ideally no American casualties Can't Gil
hon Barrett and four men, all 9Th Massa-
ehusetts, were wounded in a fight before
. Iauco. where four Spaniards were found