The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1898-10-29

- 'Lookin' for the Tenth. I guess, boss
Then we came on. When we came to
those barb wire fences we worked It to-
gether. I'd stretch up wire and make a
hole for him. Then he'd do the same
from the other side. We were making
fast time along there. The Dagos had
the range of those fences down fine.
Pretty soon we got where we could see
the top of the ridge, and could drop when
we saw those straw hats rise up out of
the ground up there. They were keeping
the lead flying to beat hi.
1--WE struck the last fence just where it
ran along ditch. We came up on the
run. He was ahead. He jumped up on
the bank, yanked up a wire and made
dive to go through. One of the barbs
ran through the back of my belt and held
me- .I.E +
"Just then he said, Get k.ck; they're
going to fire volley! i
Il couldn't move, and he saw 1t. /
could just feel that volley coming. told
him to get down himself. He didn't. He
grabbed me by the belt and swung me
back behind him. into the ditch. iust-as.
but he didn't get up when did to make
another rush. All he said was. They've
got me, white friend saw two holes
where his shirt was open in front. Both
bullets had gone clean through him. I
knew by the look in his eyes 1t was all
up, ana Lnat ne knew IL. .,... .a,- =
II said goodbye, he said goodbye. and
had to come on. was up at the fence
when heard him trying to speak.
jumped back and bent over him. ''
He said, Better take along my belt;
there's sixty rounds left .... -.
HE died trying to unfasten the belt
hooks" r.. . 4 .s..5..
Lewis turned slowly back to his car
bine and resumed his watch of the sky
line. A moment later he added II took
the belt Then, grimly, II used his sixty
trst-for him. He could have saved him
SELF .-. 't'
Left in a Hurry. .'.
When part Of the Fifth army corps ex-
petition appeared in warships and trans
ports off Balquiri one morning in June,
several other vessels having been ordered
to remain we'll off the harbor Of Santiago
to lead the SDaniards to believe it was
the intention of the americans to land
near that point detachment of Spanish
troops was in possession of the squalid
little village. ~"
After the war vessels had shelled the
place and the surrounding forests for the
purpose of driving away the enemy. and
our troops had landed and taken possess
sion of the village, we learned from sew
eral non-combatant Cubans who had
been living there by permission of the
Spaniards, that the enemy had not be-
lieved landing would be attempted at
that spot by the Americans, but rather
at Acceraderos, beyond Santiago. The
Spanish colonel commanding the troops
at Baiquiri had given no orders to evacu-
ate the place until short time before the
New Orleans, Detroit and other warships
commenced firing.
Evidences of the hasty departure of tho
Spanish force was to be seen on every
hand. Money was literally to be "picked
up In the streets" So anxious had the
"valorous and noble''' soldiers of Spain
been to escape from reach of the shells
I'll fired by theE'Yankee pigs that in their
flight they dropped handfuls of paper bills,
which they had probably seized in
hurry from the places where they had
been kept. -
Many Of the bills were of small denom-
nation, and in the deprecated currency
monarchy were nots2as va l.lable as
might at first have seemed. The greater
part Of these bills were for sums as small
as five cents, the corresponding value in
American money being less than half
that amount. A handful of it, therefore,
might represent not more than a couple
of dollars in United States cash. It was
quickly picked up, however, by the SOL
diers, who were soon swarming through
the few miserable thoroughfares dignified
by the rame of streets
When the dirty cottage which had con-
stituted the headquarters of the Spanish
officer in command Of the troops was en-
tered several official documents were
found which the officer did not have time
to remove, SO hurried had been his flight
Among these was an official communica-
ton, dated that very morning, and ad.
dressed to his superior officer, Gen. Ii
mares, at Santiago.
In this letter the officer reported that
even with the small number OF the ''val-
orous sons of Spain" under his command
he could successfully repel the forces of
the centre American navy" Before the
ink was dry on this boastful communica-
ton the writer was running through the
chaparral trying to avoid having his skin
perforated by the shots which were pour
ing from the guns of the American ships.
Whatever became of this brave and
over-conident individual was never ascer-
tanned. His bones, long since picked clean
by the buzzards, may be hidden in the
thick underbrush near Baiquiri,> where a
Yankee shell found him while trying to
reach a point of safety.
At Siboney, a few miles above Baiquiri,
where a small Spanish force had been sta
toned, similar evidences of hasty flight
by the enemy were found in the head
quarters of the colonel in command. This
man, however, died a. soldiers death that
morning, being cut in two by a shot from
the gunbOat Helena while standing on
the railroad bridge which leads to Bal
quiri, and which will be readily recalled
by the men who were at Siboney. LIZ,
- DOMESTIC LIFE IN INDIA.