The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1898-07-04

|aal captain Capron from that position
| lu,o the outer forilncatlons Of Santiago
before a response came when {, dd
clmc however. Il was with unexcelled
Iu,aumcy. shots and shells from 3..uch
rifles. evidently taken from Cerycra's
warsh.ps and mounted behind the forti-
Inat.ons The spanish guuners raked the
|hill on which ~ Pnso stands and which
| 90 the mcanumo had been made the
headquarters Of General Sumner and the
cuban Generals Garcia. Capotc and RabL
ono shell struck a large storehouse. on
l ,hc red corrugated roof Of which stood
some Cubans viewing the fight The roof
| f.u and al, the Cubans were wounded and
three Of them will die
A detachment Of Cubans went forward
from II Paso and then Colonel Woods.
with the rough riders. the First and
Tenth cavalry. started down the hillside
straight, for the cnemys fortlAeauons.
COLONEL WOODS ADVANCE.
Captain Grimes battery poured a steady
hro into the spaniaris 10 protect Colonel
Woods advance The dlsmounted cav
airy paused on their way through the
tangled grass and underbrush and half
way down the hillside selected a good
spot to halt. and from there opened
and maintained for twenty minutes a
hot IRE. The opposing batteries banged |
away. Captain Grimes sending storm
Of lead down into the outer tor;in, a,lons
and the spanlards pounding away at the
hill top with vicious persistence.
Most u tho Spanish shells went over
the h,n tops and fell In the ravlne beyond.
Hero several dctachments OF the Cuban |
troops were stationed as reserves and |
before they could be moved seven in
surgcnts were seriously wounded and
several slightly hurt, AZ the same tine
two Americans were k.lled and nino
wounded The Spanlards used smokcloss
powder and shot with much more ac-
curaey than during the previous engage
ment The wonder is that many more
lives were no, lost, as the opposing bat
tcries were less than TWO miles apart.
Colonel Woods command behaved with
great bravery, firing steaQAy and with
deadly vollcys, with the enemys shells
scrceching and bursting over their heads,
Twenty minutes Of fearfully hot work
sllenccd the Spanish batteries,
CANGI TAKEN.
Away to tn left General Lawton's div,-
sion, with Chafrees men and Capron's
battery, was in the meantime fighting
nercely with the enemy entrenched in
and about Caney. The Spaniards contest
ed every inch Of the ground bitterly ana
fought with unexpected GOODNESS and
courage, but the irresistible onward
movement OF the Americans slowly forced
them back on and beyond Caney. About
II o'clock a terrible fire from Capron's
guns and the muskets of the men broke
the Spanish line and a retreat began
towards the line Of the outer fortihca-
tlons, The enemy took the trail known
as the main Santiago road and Captain
Grimes battery Immediately began pitch
ing shells in ahead Of the retreating men,
while a detachment Of 1000 Cubans, head
ed by Garcia, were started to cut off the
retreat No report has been received
from them, a large detachment OF Gem
cral Kents reserves were sent to the aid
Of Garcia in this work and 1t is probable
that fierce lighting occurred.
WHEELER TAKES COMMAND.
All this time General Sumner had COM
manded the center, owing to General
Wheelers illness, but about 1850 o'clock
General Wheeler started on a two-mile
Journey to the front with an ambu-
lance, About half way to the front he
met a number Of litters bearing the
wounded. The veteran, under protest by .
his surgeons, Immediately ordered his
horse, and personally assisting the
wounded into the ambulance, mounted
and rode onward The men burst into
frantic cheers, which followed the gen.
eral all along the lines. BY noon, although
still very III, General Wheeler had estab-
lished headquarters at the extreme front
and in a corner Of the line and still holds
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