The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-07-07
DELAWAREAN'S
BATTLE STORY.
J. P. Dunning Tells His
Wife of How the Army
and Navy are Pro. {
crossing. .@

| ]. P. Dlnnlng Is another Dslswsrea2
who Is before Santiago, MIR. Dunnin0 Ia
war correspondent Of the Associated Press
anu In letter recently received by his wife
at Dover. he relates somo thrilling exper
Well. I've had some experience this last
week and Pm glad you did not know
fight Of the Rough Riders within six or
eight miles OF Santiago. III which about
twenty Of our men were killed and many
wounded II certainly was hot for an hour
but got out with, whole skin. L landed
from the Dandy the day before at Daiquiri,
east Of Santiago, and marched twelve
miles IN the broillng sun. with several regl.
nents to q place called Juragua. where
our base OF supplies has been established.
Roosevelt's Rough Riders that night, or, at
least tried to sleep, but was so dead tired
that couldn't aud did not get more than
two hours sleep We had 10 get up at
four the next morning and started out
again. We walked about Eve miles; tho
sun was blisterlng and most OF the way II
was the hardest kind Of climb up steep
nountain trail. had . cup Of coffee and
piece OF hard tack at four In the mora
Ing, thon nothing more till five in ths
AFTERNOON, and there was not five minutes
In all that time that was not on the
move climbing rocks or pushing jlny way
through the bushes. was without water
aud nearly famished from thirst most OF
the time, Tor utter the fight started gave
away the water In my cauteen to wounded
soldiers.
When got back to the coast late IN the
afternoon, found the Wanda" 10 the
bay, Her boat came ashore and simply
fell into 1t and was rowed out to the yacht.
Mr.. Diehl, (the Assistant General Msnag.
or Of the Associated Press) and others lift-
ed me ovor the side and then almost col.
lapsed; they gave mo some whiskey,
stripped my clothes off and gave me cold
bath. After a little restI was all right
again and able to write. We ran over to
five hundred words giving the main details
of the fight and tho list Of the killed and
wounded. Then we went to Port Anton
and wrote two columns on the way over
and sent 1t from here 1.-THE cable tolls on 1t
amounted to an enormous sum.
won't attempt to tell gou any details
Of the fight as don't believe you would
like to read them; however, stayed with
the performance from beginning to end
and " seemed to me that about thousand
Spanish bullets whistled around my ears.
One ball cut tho strand Of d wire fence just
over my head, but aimed to keep In
protected position as much as possible and
was not In such great danger. There were
only four correspondents besides myself
present.
The journal" man, Edward Marshall,
WINS nearly killed and the "World" man
took care of him; another correspondent
ran away early In the fight, ard the fourth
ono was Richard Harding Davis. My nc.
count was the only complete one sent and
Mr.. Diehl was delighted with 1t. l have
been transferred to the wanda and will
probably be on her alone. The wanda"
Is a 100000 boat, the finest despatch boat
here; she is {. beauty and very fast. I
don't think I shall do any more shore
work with the army but will look after
the Navy end which is more to my TASTE