The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1898-06-13
Spanish GlerrilaS and Regulars Attack
American Invading Troops.
FOUGHT FOR THIRTEEN HOURS
Remarkable Bravery Was Shown by
Soldiers of Both Sides.
FOUR AMERICANS WE'RE KILLEI
The Advance Pickets Are Unaccountet
for-Southern Surgeon Is One
of the Dead.

| ''t'I DduiitltSS, Oll tudnldudlnO, OuIudy,
June 18th. via Mole st. Nicholas. Hayti
June 12-Lieutenant Colonel K. w. Hunt
ington's battalion of marines, which landed
| from the transport Panther on Friday and
encamped on the hill guarding the aban-
doned cable station at the entrance to the
haTbor of Guantanamo, has been engaged
In beating off bush attack by Spanish
guerrillas and Spanish regulars since
o'clock Saturday afternoon.
The fighting was almost continuous for
thirteen hours until this morning when
endorsements were landed from the Mar
| blehead.
-Four of our men were killed and one
wounded. The advance pickets under Lieu
tenants Neville and Shaw are unaccounted
for and fears are entertained for their
safety.
| List of Americans Killed.
ASSISTANT SURGEON JOHN BLAIR
| GIIaBS among the killed. Surgeon
| Gibbs is son Of Major Gibbs, of the regu-
| lar army, who fell in the Custer massacre
| His home was at Richmond, Va. but he has
| been practiclng in New York, ana he en-
tered the service since the war began lie
was very popular officer.
The others killed are:
SERGEANT G. II. SMITH. of Smallwood
PRIVATE WILLIAM DUNPiY, Of Glou-
| cester, Mass
PRIVATE JAMES NnCOLGAN of Stone
| ham. Mass.
Corporal Glass was accidentally wounded
in the head
The Spanish loss Is unknown, but It was
probably considerable. The splashes of
blood found a daylight at the position the
| Spanlards occupied indicate fatalities, but
their comrades carried off the killed and
wounded.
The engagement began with desutory
firing at the pickets thousand yards inland
from the camp. Captain Spicers company
was doing guard duty. and driven n
| finally raylng and requesting the enemy at
5 o'clock. The bodies of Privates MCCOlgdn
and Dunphy were found both shot in the
| head The large cavities caused by the
| bullets. which inside range of 800 yards
| have n rotary motion, indicate the victims
were killed at close range. The bodies
stripped of shoes, hats and cartridge belts
| and horribly muulated with machoteS.
| When they were brought In the whole bat
talon formed three sides of a hollow square
about the camp on the hilltop. Below in
the bay were the Warships at anchor In
land from the hill camp is a deep ravlne
and beyond this high hills. The adj
jacent country is heavy with thlcket
| growth The sky was blanketed with clouds
| and when the set gale was Blowing
| seaward. Night fell thick and impenetrQble.
| The Spanish squads concealed in the chap
| parTal cover had the advantage; the Ameri-
cans on the ridge furnishing fine targets
against the sky and the white tents. The
| GpaniarGs fought from cover until midnight.
! discoverabIe only by flames, at which the
marines fired voNeyS. The reporters sound
| ed Like crackers in a barrel. The Marble
| head launched Cot machine gun in her
bow pushed up the bay eniladinG the
| Standards and, it is thought, Killed several
of them The marines trailed much blood
| to the waters edge and there lost it.
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