The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1898-07-21
,,reH ON SOLDIER BOYS.
,.osHlps THEY HAVE TO SUFFER.

KeH IUih'
III company III, seventy first
.nent. who was wounded in the
Y. near Santiago on July l, aud
arrived here on the steamer
H. City, said last night;
In the people here only knew
H.. The boys have to suffer, there
- BE- no interest in anybody
IN this country. With the awful
H. that chill through the night,
j The sun that blisters all through
dsy, they have not a minute of
h It is misery to live there. [ |
d. |, had little OF it, after all; and
j 4as I'll have more as seon as I'm
h. 10 90 to the front again, it is
ID because it is my duty that l
1rago.
Y ooe Of the worst experiences l
III was when we were on outpost
n, on Juns 30, the day before the
,nbardro -. We had been soaked
l.,uph with rain and broiled with
H. suu half a dozen timas over, and
4.sly were ordered to return to the
se Of supplies to get ratiors for
i brigade. incidentally we heard
Is,E we would get the order to start
II o'clock in the morning. II was
lon midnight. We were told to
un in for little sleep, and did so.
1.-Two hours Was not long, but we
ant. All stories about certain man
! Dt being able to sleep except under
gtain conditions, I believe, are
arms. All of US slept, and we had
! d sorts OF conditions about us
|0u destination was San Juan,
bout eight miles from where we
Fae-
THROUGH BO6s AND CACTUS.
The march was one of the most
|dficult we had IN the short TINA we
rars away. It was through ground
bat was Doggy with the rains and
|IArOugh cactus plants that jagged
10 seemingly every point on the
way. Although our orders were to
make all haste possible, we found
i all we could do to travel three
quarters of mile an hour. The
natural difficulties were not the
worst, either. Our marching had
been discovered by the Spanish
gusrrillas, aud, while we could not
Zee them, they made their presence
islt- They skulked through the
chaperral aud kept up a fire which
gave US not an instant OF security
Every now and then some OF the
boys would be wounded. The firing
kept up all through the night, which
showed that we were pursued by
those villainous bushwhackers.
All the time we thought we saw
their shadows as they skulked along
N the brush that made our march
hell. but which protected them
Their numbers we could not tell,
but Judging from the way that the
bullets came whenever we reached
an opening, they must have been
considerable.
PICKED OFF BY THE ENEMY.
When we were not in the open the
plan was to pick us off, and unfor-
tunately they succeeded in too many
cases. We could only do the best
We could, but that was not much
Now and again we could hear a
scream follow the crack Of one Of
our rifles that told US the bullet had
done its work, but it was hard OF
US. The march would have beer
costly even if we had nothing bu
the difficulties of the way to fight
When to those was added a FIRE from
4 foe that was relentless you may i'm
agine our condition.
The progress was so slow that i
vas light when we had made foul
niles. The firing had got hotter b.
Ibis time and the orders to figh
had come. We were told to throw
way everything not needed. From
hat time on until 5 o'clock in tn
fternoon it was a case of fight al
ne time. About 2 o'clock in thu
iternoon the seventy first charged
he hill at San Juan. Half way III