The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-07-15
BACK FROM SANTIAGO
Torn With Shot and Shell
They Come.
SOME WERE SINGING
DAUGHTERS OF FIGHTING BOB
EVANS AMONG THE NURSES.
THE C0RP0RAL'S STIRRING STORY
THE CORPORAL'S STIRRING STORY
Claimed That but for the Negro Cavalry The
Rough Riders Would Have Been Ex-
terminated. Rough Riders
Desperate Fighters.

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Newport News, Va, July 14.-The
transport Breakwater arrived at Fort
ress Monroe this afternoon from Santi-
ago de Cuba bringing 14O wounded and
sick soldiers. Hundreds of people stood
on the pier and watched the vessel
steam slowly up to the dock, and Il few
minutes after the Breakwater was
moored. transferring the soldiers to the
wharf was commenced. The scenes
witnessed yesterday when the City Of
Washington arrived were re-enacted. 1t
was Il reproduction of the same drama
of pathos and enthusiasm in which sobs
and cheers were cOmingled. Men who
had been wounded while fighting under a
tropical sun to liberate an oppressed peo-
pie were carried from the Breakwater
on stretchers. some grOaning on account
of eXcruciating pain while others were
singing the Star Spangled Banner
The soldiers were placed in the hospital
tents where their wounds were redressed
and change of clothing placed on them.
Some of the men are seriously wounded.
but the surgeons believe that, with prob
ably Il few exceptions, all of them will
recover. 1t was impossible to get list
of the wounded and sick, as the surgeon
in charge has not completed it.
Among those who came on the Break
water was Colonel Mills. His wife was
at the wharf to meet him. The valiant
colonel was shot in the head during the
first days engagement. The ball en-
tered his right eye and ploughed its way
just under the skull to point above the
ear. where it made its exit Colonel
Mills vii recover.
Among the nurses at Fort Monroe are
the Misses Evans, daughters of Flight
ing Bob Evans, commander of the
battleship Iowa.
Some Of the officers who accompanied
the wounded soldiers on the trip north
give interesting accounts of the fight
Ing around Santiago. Il was standing
near Captain CaprOn and Hamilton
Fish,, Jr," said a corporal to the Asso.
ciated Press correspondent tonight. "and
saw them shot down. They were with
the Rough Riders and ran into an am
buscade, though they had been warned
of the danger. If it had not been for the
negro cavalry the Rough Riders would
have been eXterminated. | am not n
negro lover. My father fought with
Mosby's Rangers, and | was born in the
South. but the negroes saved that fight.
and the day will come when General
Shafter will give them credit for their
bravery"
Are the Rough Riders fghters?"
Those fellows never know when they
are licked, and there are no Drawer men
III the regiment than Colonel Wood and
Lieutenant Colonel Roosevelt"
This corporal was in the fight at FL
Caney, and is regular. In speaking
of it, he said:
THAT was the hottest fight / ever
expect to see. When we made the
charge the Spanards rained Mauser
bullets at us, moving down men like
blades of grass"
This corporal said that after hard
tight he went through the clothes of a
number of dead Spaniards.
Il was looking for coin" said he. ''but
only got forty cents Afterwards |
heard they had been paid off in cigar
cites"
The supply ship Resolute in command
of Captain J. G. Eaton, arrived here
this morning from Santiago. On the
morning Cervera made his daring at
tempt to escape from the Cuban har-
Dor the Resolute was lying ut the
entrance and was the first ship to give
the signal that the Spanish ships were
making for the sea.
we were sitting in the forecastle
smoking" said Il gunner's mate. land
| saw smoke curling above the hills
We gave the alarm and in n few min
ntes the Maria Teresa was coming down
the channel at full speed. The Iowa
was the first to respond. She sent two
l3-inch shells straight at the Spaniard
And for the next hour there was hell
around there. Admiral Sampson was
10 miles away holding Il conference
with General Shafter, and we put out to
at full speed to notify him."
The remainder of the story is best
told by Ensign Frank III. Silvers, of the
Rcsolute. He said:
when. the Maria Teresa was first
seen coming out of the harbor, owing
to the distance. il was thought to be
IA tug boat, but almost instantly two
reports in rapid succession from the
Iowa's sixinch guns told the story.
The men made run for the hatchway,
and went down like rats. In short
time awnings were down, the ships made
fast from stem to stern, decks cleared
for action, and every gun properly man
ned. The Spanish feet came out game
", and the fore guns of the Maria
Teresa and Vizcaya weres splitting fire
like the eyes of serpents as they came
from between the deep cliffs of the mar
row channel.
'"Hhe first shot fired from the Maria
Teresa went high of its mark, cleared
the Indiana. and went within twenty
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