The times., 1898-07-04

Nearly every one of Capt. Rafrerty's men
was wounded. but they refused to leave.
They held their pit for an hour until the
sharpshooters and artillery on the next
hill made it too not for them. Capt. Raf-
ferty saw that he could not gain any
thing by holding onto the captured posi-
tion, so he withdrew his men over the
crest and half way down ehe hill out or
range of the Spaniards.
With re-enforcements from mis- own reg
iment he made a move to the left flank.
his men crawling on their bellies until
they got into position TO concentrate their
fire on the Spaniards on the other hill
They soon drove the enemy into their
trenches and held this position for three
quarters of an hour while the Seventy
first, Sixteenth and Sixth Regiments
moved around to the right and in the face
of another binding fire. charged the sec
ond hill. disFodging the Spaniards driving
them out of their trenches and capturing
some prisoners and stand Of eolors.
The Spaniards who were driven off re-
formed in other trenches, and the battle
went on for hours. The Spaniards tried
to recapture their position, but were
driven off again and again. with heavy
losses. The Americans pressed on. fight
ing. and drove them out of their
trenches. the enemy leaving their dead
and wounded behind them.
1t was at this point that the Spaniards
showed themselves incapable of carrying
on civilized warfare. and acted in a way
which many thought called for reprisals-
They deliberately fired on our wounded
as they were being taken from the field.
but. fortunately. despite their evil inten-
tions they did little harm.
At the latest reports the steady ad-
vance of the Americans had carried them
TO within half mile of Santiago In
the whole days lighting Col W. a
Downs, of the Seventy-first Regiment;
Adjt. A. II. PelI, of the Second Battalion.
and Adjt. H. B. Fisher were conspicuous
for their bravery.
Fighting Parson.
Chaplain Yandewater was in the field.
He was always in the thickest of the
fight. encouraging the men and helping
to dress wounds. He won the hearty ad-
miration of his own men and also that
of the regulars. On every hilltop around
Santiago was a blockhouse and intrench-
ments. There were probably twenty all
told. The San Juan River runs at the
foot of the San Juan hill on the far side
from the city There was a blockhouse
on its bank. The Ninth Cavalry was sent
to capture it while the seventy-first Reg
iment was doing its fighting. Four troops
of the second squadron under Capt Dunn
mick took up a position at the left of the
advance The First Brigade Of the cavaI-
ry division moved around in sight of a
series of blockhouses that dotted the
country as they did az Guantanamo. In
the jungle and brush the men got sep
arated and could not see each other. They
made their way up by circuitous routes
eight miles all told, beating the brush as
they went. All met on the ridge of the
Second Brigade and now for the first
time the enemy discovered them and COM
meneed firing, first with rifles and then
with Gatling guns. Our troops at once
responded. They adopted Indian tactics
and sought shelter as much as possible
in lodging from tree to tree, but always
advancing. The volley firing was not eff
fective. A lot of our men saw the Span
ierds moving from work to work and
from brush to brush.