The San Francisco call., 1898-06-13

Colt machine gun in her bow, pushed up the bay, enflading the Spaniards, and 1t IS thought that some were killed The marines trailed much blood to the waters edge and there lost it. Sharks are numerous in the vicinity.
 The ships threw their searchlights ashore, the powerful eyes sweeping the deep tropical foliage and disclosing oc- casionally skul<ing parties of Spaniards. It all represented a transformation scene at the harbor.
 Each discovery of the enemy was greeted by the cracks of carbines along the edge of the camp ridge or by the long roll of the launch's machine gun, searching the thickets with leaden stream.
 Shortly after midnight came the main attack The Spaniards made gallant charge up the southwest slope, but were met by repeated volleys from the main body and broke before they were one-third of the way up the hill; but they came so close that at points this was almost a hand-to-hand strug- gle. The officers fired their revolvers. The Spaniards got through the open formation to the edge of the camp. Colonel Jose Campina, the Cuban guide, discharged his revolver, and they, turning and finding themselves without support, ran helter skelter down the re- verse side of the hill.
 ,noo..IA 4Lz tant Surgeon Gibbs was killed. He was shot in the head in front of his own tent, the farthest point of attack. He fell into the arms of Private Sullivan and both dropped The second bullet threw dust in their faces. Surgeon Gibbs lived ten minutes, but did not regain consciousness
 The surgeons of the hospital corps then moved their quarters to the trenches about the old Spanish stock ade north of the camp. The attacks were continued at intervals during the rest of the night with firing by small squads in various directions.
 Toward morning the fire slackened. Dawn is the favorable time for attack, and as the east paled the marines lying on their guns were aroused Some were actually asleep, as they had had no rest for forty-eight hours, and tired na- ture could no longer stand the strain. But no attack came
 Three new two-pound field guns, which could not be used during the night for fear of hitting our own men, shelled several squads of Spaniards af- ter daylight They dove into the bushes like prairie dogs into burrows as the shells broke over them in the gray dawn. As the correspondent of the Associated Press talked with Major CCcKreii. who was in charge of the out posts, word came of the finding of the bcdy of Sergeant Smith He was re- ported as having been killed at o'clock on the previous day, but it appears that lie had been seen alive at 10 o'clock i;, the evening When and how he was killed no one knows at this writing. Neither had the men been mustered out. TOT had the outposts of Nevill aul Shaw Teen relieved
 Lieutenant Colonel Huntington and Major Cockrell gave high praise to the nerve and steadiness of officers and men, especially the younger as the en- gagement was baptism of fire for large majority. The men were in dark ness and in strange land, but they stood to their posts with courage and fortitude and there were no symptoms of panic. The marines, though much exhausted, were eager for more fight ing, promising to infict heavy punish ment
 To-day the amplest precautions have been taken, and, as the Dauntless was leaving, re-enforcements were landing from the Marblchead A stormy time was expected.
 Estimates vary as to the attacking force. Some say 200 and the others run as high as 1000. Colonel Campina, the Cuban guide, said the Spaniards were mostly irregulars, but the reports of the discharge of Mauser rifles would