Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1898-08-18


70 and b being further back and In tho
rear OF l., Capt. capron was shot
early In the fight, and the firing had
not gone on long before Hamilton Fish
fell MORALLY wounded. He had been In
the front rank pressing on and hrlnl
as fast as he could load, Every one
who Witnessed his behavior under a
calling fire speaks OF II with enthu.
siaam. Fish died the death OF a brave
soldier.
II can be said Of the Rough Riders
that almost TO man they faced with
the GOODNESS OF veterans tho ordea! Of
fire, which was the more trying be-
cause the foe, attacking from cover,
could not be seen. Five times during
the engagement the order was given to
stop firing, and II was oboyed instantly,
There could be no better evidence tina,
the men kept their heads, and army
officers speak OF the circumstance as an
unusual one, One man, however, seema
to have lost his head. He rode back to
Siboney when the lighting was flercoSt
with story that the Rough Riders
were being cut to 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
command Of 500 men, and far from be-
Ing driven back, the Rough Riders I'm
ished their part In the battle with
charge up the hill on the left with
rush that filled the SpanlardS with
panic.
Troops D, + and were concerned In
this final movement, and Lleut,-C
Roosevelt led them In person. MAJ
Brodle having been wounded and taken
to the rear, On the top OF the sops
was block house from which the
spanlards were firing with apparently
little risk TO themselves, The boys
yelled like Comanches as they pressed
up the hill on the run, and Col, Roose-
welt, forgetting In his ardor that no
was In command, snatched up Krag-
Jorgensen and pumped shot after shot
into the block house.
Inc Spanish fire was steady enough.
but In It's sweep the charge of the three
troops was cyclonlc and the spanIards
burst from the block house and took
to their heels In the brush. Seventeen
bodies were counted In and around the
house, Meanwhile the other troops.
tho Tenth cavalry and the First, the
last OF which was not heavily engaged,
finished the rout Of the Spanlards on
the right and In front, The battle
seems to have been deliberately plan
ed, for they took their wounded away
In wagons, and there was a long line
Of them. The Spanish loss In killed
was then known to be at least fifty.
Some fruit pickers who came out from
Santiago the following day reported
that the Spaniards returned with ths
story that they had been fighting thu
whole American army, and they COM
planned that the more they fired on
Americans the faster they came on
The Spanlards were plainly heart
broken and dlsmayed by the result OF
the battle So sure were they OF vic
tory that they brought some OF their
women with them to witness the de-
feat Of the Americans. The fact Ia,
the unfalterlng advance OF our men
after volleys had been poured into
them from the front and TANKS was m
unpleasant surprise for the Spanlards,
who had always seen the Cubans &C.
treat after one raklng volley. BY Span
lsh rules OF war the Americans wers
whipped early In the fight, and so bad
ly whipped that their lnvlnclble yolley.
ing and rushing were like the resur-
rection OF dead man,
About 1900 Americans were engaged;
the Spanish force was not less than
$500, and some estimates have made
1t 1000. Its position should have beer
impregnable, even II 1t had been OUT