The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1898-06-15


Prince, have landed very near Santiago
de Cuba. The United States auxiliary
cruiser st. Louis arrived at Mole st.
Nicolas yesterday
Washington, June 13.-Up 10 1880
o'clock this morning the report that S.
600 American troops had been landed
near Santiago cannot be confirmed and
Is discredited.
Associated Press Dispatch Boat Daunt-
less, off Guantanamo, June Il, via Mole
st. Nicholas, June 13.-[Copyright 1895.
by Associated Press. l-Huntington's
hill guarding the abandoned cable station
at the entrance to the outer harbor Of
guantanamo has been engaged in head
Ing eff a rush attack by Spanish
guerrillas and regulars since 8 o'clock
Saturday afternoon. The fighting was
almost continuous for thirteen hours
until o'clock yesterday morning, when
reinforcements were landed from the
Marblehead. -Four Of our men were
killed and one wounded. The advance
pickets under Lieutenants Neville and
Shaw are unaccounted for. Among the
killed is Assistant Surgeon John Blair
Gibbs, son OF Major Gibbs, of the regu-
lar army who fell in the Custer massacre.
His home was at Richmond. Va.
Names of the Men Killed.
The others killed are SCI geant Chas.
II. Smith, of Smallwood; Private Will
lam Dunphy, Of Gloucester, Mass, and
Private James McColgan, of Stoneham,
Mass. Corporal Glass was accidentally
wounded in the head. The Spanish loss
Is unknown, but it was probably consid-
cradle. The splashes of blood found at
daylight at the positions the Spaniards
occupied indicate fatalities, but their
comrades carried off the killed and
wounded. The engagement began with
desultory firing at the pickets a thou
sand yards inland from the camp. Cap
tain Spicer's company was doing guard
duty and was driven in, finally rallying
on the camp and repuising the enemy at
o'clock.
Bodies of the Dead Mutilated.
The large cavities caused by the bull
let's, which inside u range of 500 yards
have a rotary motion, indicate that the
victims were killed at close range. The
bodies were stripped of shoes. hats and
cartridge belts and horribly mutilated
with machetes. The Spaniards fought
from cover till midnight, discoverable
only by the flashes, at which the ma
rines fired volleys. The Marblehead
launch a Colt machine in her bow,
pushed up the bay. enflading the Span
iards and II 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.
Spaniards Charge up the Hill.
Shortly after midnight came the main
attack. The Spaniards made a charge
up the southwest slope, but were met by
repeated volleys from the main body
and broke but they came so close that
at points there was almost a hand-to-
hand struggle. The officers used their
revolvers. Three Spaniards got through
the open formation to the edge of the
camp. 1t was during this assault that
Assistant Surgeon Gibbs was killed. He
was shot in the head in front of his own
tent, the farthest point OF attack. The
attacks were continued at intervals
IhiOusnout tHe HlSHl, Win TTlHR from
small squads in various directions
Toward morning the fire slackened.
Men Showed Nerve and steadiness.
Lieutenant Colonel Huntington and
Major Cockrell gave high praise to the
nerve and steadiness of the officers and
men, especially the young ones, as the
engagement was a baptism of fire for a
large majority. The men were in dark
ness and in a strange land, but they
stood To their posts with courage and
fortitude and there was no symptom Of
panic. Next morning achievements
were landed from the Marblehead. Es-
Inmates vary as TO the attacking force
some say 200 and the figures ran 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 in
dictate that they were regulars, as most
Of the guerrllas carry Remingtons.
CAPTURE OF THE OUTER HARBOR.
spaniards Make a Stout Resistance and
Then Hurry Away.
Associated Press Dispatch Boat
Dauntless, off Guantanamo Bay, June
IL. via Kingston, Jamaica, June 49,
copyright, 1898 by Associated Press. !
In controlling the outer harbor of
Guantanamo, where Colonel Hunting
toms battalion OF marines landed on
Friday Rear Admiral Sampson secures
possession Of the Cuban terminus of the
n. II.