Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-06-28

stopping to return the fire of the Span
iards, but kept on with a grim deter
mination to capture that b%lockhouse.
''That charge was the end. When
within 500 wards of the coveted point.
the Spaniards broke and ran and for
the first time we had the pleasure which
the Spaniards had been experiencing all
through the engagement, of shooting
with the enemy in sight"
Deeds of Heroism.
In the two hours fighting. during
which the volunteers battled against
their concealed enemies, enough deeds
of heroism were done to fill a volume.
One OF the men of troop E, desperately
wounded, was lying squarely between
the lines of fire. Surgeon Church hur-
ried to his side and with bullets pelting
all around him, calmly dressed the
mans wound, bandaged it and walked
uncOncernedly back, soon returning
with two men and a litter. The wound
ed man was placed on the litter and
brought within our lines. Another SOL
der of troop l., concealing himself as
best he could behind a tree, gave up his
place to a wounded companion, and a
moment or two later was himself
wounded.
Sergeant Bell stood by the side of
Captain Capron when the latter was
mortally hit. lie had seen that he was
fighting against terrible odds, but never
fiinched. "Give me your gun a min
ute, he said to the sergeant, and kneel-
ing down, he deliberately aimed and
fired two shots in quick succession. At
each a Spaniard was seen to fall. Bell,
comrades gun and knclt beside his cap
tain and fired steadily.
When Captain Capron fell he gave
the sergeant a parting message to his
wife and father and babe the sergeant
good bye in a cheerful voice, and was
then borne away dying.
Sergeant Hamilton Fish. Jr., was the
first man killed by the Spanish fire. He
was lear the head of the column as it
turned from the wood road into the
range of the Spanish ambuscade. He
shot one Spaniard who was firing from
the cover of a dense patch of under
brush. When a bullet struck his breast
he sank at the foot Of a tree with his
back against it. Captain Capron stood
over him shooting, and others rallied
around him, covering the wounded man.
The ground this afternoon was thick
with empty shells where Fish lay.
He lived 20 minutes, He gave a small
lady's hunting case watch from his belt
to a messmate as a last souvenir.
Burial of the Dead.
With the exception of Captain Capron,
all the Trough Riders" killed in yester-
days fight were buried this morning on
the field of action. Their bodies were
laid in n long trench. Each was
wrapped in u blanket. Palm leaves
lined the trench and we're heaped in
p~rofusion over the dead heroes. Chap
lain Brown read the beautiful Episcopal
burial service for the dead, and as he
knelt in prayer every trooper, with
barred head, knelt around the trench.
When the chaplain announced the hymn
Nearer My God to Thee" the deep bass
voices of the men gave a most impressive
rendering of the music.
The dead Trough Riders rest right
on the summit of the hill where they fell.
The site is most beautiful. A growth of
rich, luxurious grass and flowers covers
the slopes, and from the top a far-reach-
ing view is had over the tropical forest.
Chaplain Brown has marked each grave
and has complete records for the benefit
of friends of the dead soldiers.
Captain Capron's body was brought
into Juragua this afternoon, but it was
deemed %inadvisable to send the remains
north at this season, and the interment
took place on a hillside near the sea-
shore, back of the provisional hospital.
After a brief service a parting volley
was fred over the grave of the dead
captain and the bugle sounded taps
as the sun sank over the mountain tops
havond SantinUo