La Junta tribune. (La Junta, Bent County, Colo.) 1881-1939, 1898-07-02
AMERICANS KILLED.
ROUGH RIDERS IN a FioHr.
a Thousand of Them Drive Twice Their
Sumber of spAniards Hack Toward
Santiago-Our Men Fear Nothing.

# Denver, June pa New York spe-
clal to the Rocky Mountain News gives
the following dispatch from the Jour
nal's correspondent in front OF San
,iago:
The rough riders. First regular cav
4 airy, Massachusetts volunteers, and n
detachment of Cubans fought bloody
Il fight this morning with the Spaniards
eight miles from Santiago.
Seventeen OF our men are dead and
forty-three wounded Among the dead
= Is Hamilton Fish. well known in every
club in New York. and one OF the first
80 join the regimen, OF rich New York
#ers and western cowboys. Colonel
ID .eonard Wood and Lieutenant Roose-
HRveli led the desperate charge on
&Span.sh ambush. Among the seriously
III Swounded was Edward Marshall the
Journals correspondent. who rode
n with Roosevelt In the charge.
The dead are: Captain Allyn X. Ca
q prom OF troop l.. Captain Luna OF the
Il Cuban army, Sergean, Hamilton Fish.
Jr, James Crews, private: Edward
q $Culver, private: Henry Heffner, private
Il OF troop g: W. 4. Erwin. private of
i, troop +. rough riders: Privates Dawson
= and 1illman of troop l.. and Dougher.
3 y Of troop A. First cavalry: Priyates
#Dix, York, Bjerk. kolbe, Berlin and
sLenmarck.
Il Tenth cavalry: Corporal White.
III The wounded-First cavalry: Major
BELL, Captain Knox. Captain McCor-
mick, Lieutenant George l.. Byram.
~ First volunteer cavalry: NJ. Brodie.
Captain McClintock, Lieutenant Thom-
ms, Privates barnett 4. Isbell and
Aeene Whitney, troop l.: Sergeant Cav
= Ip,-;t Y
Coyle.
~ Troop G: G. w. Arinto.
81 Troop F: A. Rebrutisch. A. F. Hartle,
Fred Beal and twenty-seven others.
5& The Spaniards had placed an am
bush. and their first fire was most de-
Rtructive. but they received a surprise
u return many times rs disastrous.
s& The Americans and Cubans instead
retreating, charged directly on the
panish. killing many. The Spanish
Nere utterly unprcpared for this. and
1kll back.
II The invaders pressed them closely,
q md the retreat became Il rout-
Our men followed until their officers.
5Tteeing that they would soon be upon
Stae Spanish main force, ordered n halt.
engagement probably cost the
panish 200 men. Our own loss was
1IASput
The rough riders had pleaded for
N hty In the advance. and General Shaf-
III obliged them. They went in the
ery van Of Brigndier General Law
p's column, and last night found
41em, after an extraordinarily rough
fDfced march through the swamps and
Se1nparrel thickets, Mt Juragua.
They dragged with them all the way
ION Baiquiri, where they landed 1t. n
Avnamite gun. Last night they spent
a Juragua. which the Spanish. under
eneral Linares himself, had aban-
pned on the first appearance OF the
pnericans.
They were out again at daybreak.
ID heard the enemy Telling trees in
ke forest. Realizing that this meant
lat the Spaniards were building log
Arricades. an order was given 10
3bnrch against them.
~. AT Colonel Woods request, the rough
3ders were made part of the command
ent on the perilous duty. With them
Marched the veterans of the First cav
&lry and part of a Cuban regiment.
Mss# Over the toughest sort of country the
HI ben advanced. They had about three
niles to go before they reached the en-
III my.
|tM At times the brush was so thick that