Arizona republican., 1898-07-23
GALLANT TROUGH RIDERS"
Governor MCCord Receives a Leffer
 From Captain nCCiinfoCk.

Governor McCord yesterday received the following letter from Captain James McClintock It was dated from off Santiago on the day of the de- struction of Ceryera's fleet. Cap tain McClintock is now at a hospital on Staten Island:
 July 8, 1898. My Dear Governor: I dictate this, flat on my back off Santiago. There is glorious news. The Spanish fleet is destroyed ana 1000 Spaniards | lives are to us almost sufficient ven. geance for the Maine.
 q telegraphed you briefly the result of our first action-to it 1 add that Captain O'Neill died soldiers death
 yesterday. He was shot through the head and died instantly. He was lead 1 ing his men in charge upon clock
 house. When he fell the squadron pressed forward the harder and cap
 tured two block houses. The rife pits were found full of dead Spaniards. ONeill died as he would have wished.
 His work throughout was marked by
 excellent ganantry.
 When we presented ourselves to
 you at the executive chambers, and
 later when you handed me the flag at
 Prescott, you said you knew Arizona's
 sons would do her honor. 1 now reply that not an Arizonian has flnched, though scores have fallen on the bat
 tlefield. The "Kough Riders" have
 won name The Swedish attache
 voiced it when he watched the battle I 1r
 "We had a tedious journey from Tampa. We landed at Baiquiri, eight cen miles east of Santiago, after the
 Spanish had been shelled from the
 front on the hill.
 "Tell the ladies of the Relief Corps
 that their flag, now our regimental
 stand, was the first to be displayed by the American army on Cuban soil. It was raised on the hilltop above the
 block house ana was saluted by the
 whistle of every vessel in the great
 fleet and by the cheers of 10000 men. The flag has bullet holes in it now,
 but the rents have made it the dearer :, to us. We marched hard the next day . and camped at Siboney, nine miles nearer Santiago. The next morning, , the 24th, we were ordered back in the l hills six miles to meet body of Span
 iards reported by Cuban scouts. The , column consisted of the eight troops of Rough Riders -four troops had ! been left in Tampa) and four troops
 of the First United States cavalry, all
 told about 720 men. What we found = was 4,0O0 Spanish regulars and two , machine guns, seemingly entrenched , in a jungle-covered hillside. We de U ployed on the opposite hillside, tried u craftsmanship for awhile and routed
 them. A couple of troops of the Tenth
 cavalry came up in time to aid very
 materially in the chase. In Santiago
 the Spaniards reported that with only n 4,000 men they had been compelled tt
 give way before an attack Of the whole
 American army.
 Il 'The battle lasted two hours ani - forty minutes The Spanish fire wa n not accurate, but the bullets came il r. a hailstorm. We found bushels O D cartridge shells in the rife pits ant e captured as well over a ton of nev y Mauser cartridges. Most of thei 1, wounded they took off. Of the dea, 1, they had left about 150 and bodies ar y still being found where the buzzard ;e drop into the underbrush. There wer ,r hundreds of wounded Spaniards takel st into Santiago. One Spanish captain s was caught. He was turned over t g. the Cubans. They chopped off hi to head. But the Cubans, however, wer 0, not armed when the fighting was on $ 'We had in the first battle min Id killed and forty-one wounded in al to commands. Major Brodie's right arr le was badly fractured. I got two bul Tt lets just. above the ankle-both bone IS smashed. Norman Orme, who di ef ever more than gallant soldier