Rocky Ford enterprise., 1898-06-30
AMERICANS KILLED.
ROUGH RIDERS in a FloHr.
A Thousand of Them Drive Twios Their
Number of spaniards Hack Toward
BantiaEo-Our Mon Fear Nothing.

Denver. June PA New York spe-
clal to the Rocky Mountain News gives
the following dispatch from the Jour.
nails correspondent In front OF San.
lingo:
The rough riders, First regular cav
airy, Massachusetts, volunteers. and u
detachment OF Cubans fought u bloody
fight this morning with the Spaniards
eight miles from Santiago.
Seventeen OF our men are dead and
forty-three wounded. Among the dead
Is Hamilton Fish. well known In every
club In New York. and one of the first
to Join the regiment OF rich New York
crs and western cowboys. Colonel
Leonard Wood and Lieutenant Roose-
welt led the desperate charge on a
Spanish ambush. Among the seriously
wounded was Edward Marshall. the
Journals correspondent, who rode
with Roosevelt In the charge.
The dead nre: Captain Allyn X. Ca
prom of troop l., Captain Luna Of the
Cuban army. Sergeant Hamilton Fish.
Jr., James Crews, private; Edward
Culver, private: Henry Hcffner. private
OF troop q; w. Il. Erwin, private OF
troop i, rough riders; PrIvates Dawson
and Tillman OF troop l.. and Dougher-
ty OF troop A, First cavalry: Privates
Dix, York. Bjerk, iiolbc. Berlin and
Lcnmarck.
Tenth cavalry: Corporal White.
The woundcd-I'lrst cavalry: Major
Bell, Captain Knox, Captain McCor-
mick, Lieutenant George l.. Byram.
First volunteer cavalry: NJ. Brodie,
Captain McCllntOck, Lieutenant Thom-
us. Privates barnett T. Isbell and
Nppnn t. Mt
anaugh, Corporal Stewart, Private NJ.
Coyle.
Troop G: G. w. Arinto.
Troop +: A. Rcbrutisci. A. +. Hartle,
Fred Beal and twenty-seven others.
The Spnniaris had placed an am
bush. and their first fire was most de-
structive. but they received a surprise
In return many times as disastrous.
The Americans and Cubans instead
OF retrcatlng, charged directly on the
Spanish, killing many. The Spanish
We're utterly unprepared for this, and
fell back.
The invaders pressed them closely,
and the retreat became n rout
Our men followed until their officers.
seeing that they would soon be upon
the Spanish main force. ordered halt.
The engagement probably cost the
Spanish 200 men. Our own loss was
about fifty.
The rough ride.n had pleaded for
duty In the advance. and General Shaf-
ter obliged them. They went In the
very van of Brigadier General Law
tons column, and last night found
them, after an extraordinarily rough
forced march through the swamps and
chnparrcl thickets, Mt Jurngua.
They dragged with them all the way
from Baiquiri, where they landed II, n
dynamite gun. Last night they spent
at Jurngua. which the Spanish. under
General Linares himself. had aban-
doned on the first appearance of the
Americans.
They We're out again Mt daybreak.
and heard the enemy Telling trees in
the forest. Realizing that this meant
that the Spnniards were building log
barricades. an order was given to
march against them.
At Colonel Woods request, the rough
riders We're made part of the command
sent on the pcrilous duty. With them
marched the veterans of the First cav
airy and part of Il Cuban regiment.
Over the toughest sort of country the
men advanced. They had about three
miles to go before they reached the en-
emy.
At times the brush was so thick that