The evening times., 1898-06-29
BURIED WHERE THEY FELL
Graves Of the American Dead
Marked With a Cross.
Hi NORS TO FALLEN HEROES
Rough Riders Resting Beneath the
Cuban Soil Close to the Battle
field Where They Gave Up Their
Unconstitutional Details of the
Fight at La Quasimas.


Del Este. June 29.-The graves of the
Rough Riders and cavalrymen who fell
in last Fridays skirmish with the Span
iards are in beautiful spot in a shady
dell not far from the battlefield. The
troopers have been encamped there since
the fight. The effects of the dead SOL
diers have been preserved and will be
handed over to their friends.
A small iron cross was raised to mark
the spot until monument can be erected
on the battlefield.
Just after the fight last Friday Lieut.
Col. Roosevelt said:
MY men behaved superbly and their
baptism of fire last night was christened
with Cuban rain today
The colonel laughed when told that he
had been reported killed and exclaimed:
mot this time thank God
Loriner Worden said: Its hell
Elliott Cowdin said: 81 saw poor Ham
Fish fall. 1t was all over in minute"
Joseph Lee said: 81 was getting over
the measles and il knocked the last of 1t
out of me- There are several bullet
holes in Lees clothing, but he was not
hurt.
Reginald Ronalds said: .fIt was a regu-
lar lead syndicate"
Kenneth Robinson said: Our troop
must have mascot. Not one of us was
killed"
Captain Capron died superbly. As two
troopers lifted him from the ground he
asked: How are the boys fighting?
Like hell, SIR" answered Trooper Beale.
Very we'll" cried Capron, resting on one
arm, I'm going to see this out"
He lay on the grass refusing to be NOV
ed. and died in twenty minutes in the
thick of the fight.
The troopers admit that they made a
fatal mistake in leaving their field guns
at Baiquiri. but they were forced to do
so, as the wheels of the gun carriages
were not yet unloaded from the transport
ship. A Spanish field piece taken ashore
from one of the warshps did terribly ef-
fective work against the Americans.
The charge of the Rough Riders was
made over an open, rolling space. Troops
l. and G. rushed TO the front like Indians
and so fast was the pace of the men that
they threw away their side arms and ac-
coutrements in order that they might get
along even faster Their blankets. which
were wet from the storm of the night be-
fore. were too heavy to carry and these
were left at the outset.
The enemy was waiting for them at the
top of the hill and opened fire a hundred
yards away. From two other slopes the
Spanish guerrillas Joined in cross fire
with deadly effect.
The first of the wounded were brought
five miles TO the coast by their comrades
and those more seriously hurt were con-
veyed later by litters. The railroad shed
at Siboney was turned into a hospital and
the wounded men lay upon the floor with
tags upon their clothing to distinguish
them. Their wounds were dressed by
candle light. The shed became so crowd
ed that some Of the wounded were stepped
on by those moving about.
Sergt. NJ d. Russell. of Troy. and Sergt.
Hobson. of Dayton. had been deployed by
Lieut.. Col Roosevelt. who called for two
volunteers to go into the valley to see
whether the firing there was from friend
or foe Russell went in one direction and
Hobson in another. Russell found that
and while returning to report he was
killed.
The forced march of the troops in the
broiling sun was so furious that two col
ored troopers died from the effects of the
heat and many others fell by the way
side exhausted.
Col. ]. J. Van Horne. of the Eighth
Infantry. was probably fatally injured
on Friday. his leg having been crushed
while he was disembarking from the
transport ship Seneca. Private Tomlin-
son. of Roosevelts Rough Riders. died
on Friday from typhoid fever and was
buried ashore.
Five thousand Americans and 1000 Gu
bans are today occupying the hills of
Hicacos. the highest points on the road
to Santiago. They report that the Span
iards are terrifying the hills three miles
from the city. The guns they are mount
ting are of heavy caliber, but they are
of the old smooth-bore pattern.
The Cubans yesterday captured three
Spanish spies on their way from Guam
tanamo to Gen Linares at Santiago.
The papers found upon them gave warn
ing to Linares of the preparations which
were being made by the Americans to at
tack Santiago. and also contained the
information that the Spaniards in Guam
tanamo were in dire straits They had
been subsisting upon half rations for two