The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-03
AT THE GATES OF SANTIAGO.

AT THE GATES OF SANTIAGO.
Fifteen Thousand American Troops
Harassed Spaniards All Day.
Copyright. 1898. by the Associated Press)
| OFF JURAGUA, on board the Associated
Press dispatch boat Dandy, July /, p. m
via Port Antonio, Jamaica, July g. a. M.
and Kingston, Jamaica, I'll a. m.-The bat
| tie of Santiago has ragged all day and at 4
o'clock this afternoon 5000 American troops
are laundering at the outer Notifications
of the doomed city. Since daybreak General
Skaters army has fought it's way across
| two and a half miles of bitterly contested
and strongly fortified country; and the en-
tire line from left to right is within gunshot
| of Santiago town. The American loss thus
far is estimated at hospital corps hedquar-
| tiers at twenty killed and fifty wounded, but
| it will be hours before the death roll can be
accurately given. Lieutenant Colonel Pat
terson. of the Twenty-second Infantry, is
| the only officer known to have been
wounded, and he is not fatally hurt. The
| Spanish killed and wounded are undoubtedly
numbered by hundreds.
The Spanish strongholds of Caney and Ell
| Paso have fallen and the fort at Aguadores,
| just east of MORO Castle, on the coast, has
been blown to ruins by the guns of the fleet
| With the exception of about thousand
| troops. who are guarding Baiquiri and
Juragua, the entire army is engaged, to-
| ban troops. The men fought glorously and
if the same measure of success which at
tended to-day's engagement follows the
| fighting of the next twenty-four hours. the
on Sunday. Officers and men are fully con-
WINGED that the city will be theirs by to-
morrow night.
"THERELL BE A HOT TIME" ETC.
The battle began just at daylight at
point about eight miles from Juragua and
four miles northeast of the outer fortifica-
lions of Santiago. The general order for an
advance was issued by General Shafter at
dark last night and by midnight every man
in the army knew that desperate struggle
would come with the dawn The news put
night was spent in cheering and singing, the
popular strain being, ''Therell be hot time
in Santiago tomorrow"
At o'clock this morning hundreds of
bugles rang out the reveille and before the
sun had risen the great line complete.
To the extreme left was General Duffield
with the Thirty-third Michigan, his COM
mand having reached the Aguadores bridge
by train. Next, to the northeast, was Gen.
Kents division, mile and half from the
sea and held as a reserve force. The center
of the line was held by cavalry division,
which, until General Wheeler arrived at
noon, was commanded by General Sumner.
Owing to General Youngs illness, Colonel
Woods of the Rough Riders, commanded
his brigade, which consisted of the First
regulars, the First Volunteers and the Tenth
regular and one battalion of the Ninth Reg
uldT cavalry OtSHlOuAltCO Win eAlO Ca
ception of two troops on the extreme right,
under Generals Lawton and Chaffee, fully
five miles from the sea. 1t had been ar
ranged that General Duffield should make
"a feint of attacking Aguadores in order to
draw attention from the main movement,
and at 5 o'clock General Lawtons troops
ri lad NV haf of ba
First Artillery under Command of Captain
Allyn Capron.
THE FIRST ARTILLERY SHOT.
The first shot was fired from the battery
at $3.50 by Captain Capron. whose son, Capt.
Allyn X. Capron. of the Rough Riders"
was killed in the battle of Sevilla. The shot
was directed at Caney, where the Spaniards
were in force, and it fell in the heart of
the town. The firing continued twenty min
utes without response. Meantime the cav
airy division had moved forward on the
main Santiago trail. headed by a light bat
terry of the Second Artillery under Captain
Grimes The movement of this battery was
a heart-breaking task. owing to the mud
in the valley and a steep hill. Under the
musketry fire of the cavalry the Spaniards
in the little town of Ell Paso retreated and
Captain Grimes's battery took up position
| there and began rapid firing into CAney.
The guns of the two batteries made the
place so hot that the enemy finally retired,
having no artillery. The town was sur
rounded by rough earthworks and lines of
barbed wire.
After the enemy had been driven from ri
Paso twenty-One shots were fred by Capt