Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1898-07-26

order on the right OF Company l., could
have driven the Spaniards Oh the hill
without support. The Tenth. on getting
the word, swarmed mp the hill, firing
with great elaboration yolley after vol.
ley. Their alignment and GOODNESS were
remarkable. Whenever a man was hit
the cry Of Hospital" went up calmly.
and the troopers pressed on az II engaged
In practice maneuyers. Although many
OF them had never been under Gre, there
was not the least falieriRg or confusion.
On the left Of the Rough Riders Troops
d and Y did the heaviest work, 4 and b
being farther back and In the rear Of l..
Captain CaprOn was shot early In the
fight, and the fighting had not gone on
long before Hamilton Fish fell mortally
wounded. lie had been in the front
rank pressing on and firing "a fast "a he
could load. Every one who witnessed
his behavior under a CALLING fire speaks
OF II with enthusiasm. Fish died the
death OF a brave soldier.
1t can be said Of the Rough Riders that
almost TO q mar they faced with the cool.
ness Of veterans the ordeal Of fire, which
was the more trying because the foe, at
lacking from cover, could not be seen.
Five times during engagement the order
was given 10 stop firing and 1t wa
Obeyed instantly. There could be no
better evidence that the men kept their
heads and army officers speak Of the cir
cumstance n an unusual one. One man,
however, seems 10 have lost bis head. lie
rode back 10 Siboney when the lighting
was aercest with a story that the Rough
Riders were being cut 10 pieces and were
falling back. Nothing could have been
further from the truth. Ten men killed
and perhaps three times that number
wounded was not a heavy loss In a com
mand OF 800 men, and, far from being
driven back. the Rough Riders finished
their part in the battle with a charge up
the hill on the left with a rush that oiled
the spaniards with panic.
Troops ID, Y and X we're concerned In
this anal movement. and Li~eut.-Colonel
Roosevelt led them in person. Major Bro
die having been wounded and taken 10
the rear. On the top OF the slope was q
b~lockhouse, from which the spaniards
we're firing with apparently little risk to
themselves. The boys yelled like Conan
ches as they pressed up the hill on the
run, and Col. Roosevelt, forgetting In his
ardor that he WAS in command, snatched
up a Krag- Jorgensen and pumped shot
after shot into the ~blockhouse.
The Spanish fire was steady enough,
but In its sweep the charge Of the three
troops was ]cyclOnic, and the spaniards
burst from the ~blockhouse and took TO
their heels In the brush Seventeen
bodies were counted In and around the
house. Meanwhile the other troops, the
Tenth cavalry and the First, the last Of
which was not heavily engaged, inished
the rout OF the Spaniards on the right
aud In front. The battle seems TO have
been deliberately planned, for they took
their wounded away in wagons, and
there was a long line Of them. The
Spanish loss in killed was then known "a
be- at least 1fty. Some fruit pickers who
came out from Santiago the following
day reported that the spaniards returned
with the story that they had been fight,
ing the whole American army, and they
complained that the more they fred on
the Americans the faster they came on.
The spaniards were plainly heart
broken and dismayed by the result Of the
battle. so sure we're they OF victory that
they brought some Of their women witt
them to witness the defeat Of the Amer
leans. The fact ia, the unfaltering ad'
vance OF our men after yolleys had beer
poured into them from the front ant
TANKS was an unpleasant surprise fol
the spaniards, who had always seen IN,
Cubans retreat after one raking yOlley
BY Spanish rules OF war the Americana
we're whipped early in the eight, and 3,
badly whipped that their ~inyincible vol
leying and rushing we're like the resur
rectiOn OF a dead man.
About 1900 Americans were engaged
The Spanish force was not less than 1000
, and some estimates have made IL 1900
, Its position should have been impregna
bic even II 1t had been Outnumbered. L
, Quasimas had been fought between Span
iards and Cubans 1t would have figure,
In the history OF the civil war as a grea
battle-the greatest battle, In fact, o
three years Of hghting.-New York Sun