The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-06-27

Private John Damatt, Troop l., First Vol
unteer cavalry.
Captain James Il. McCllntock, First Vol
Private Il, W. Virgins, Troop B, First
Volunteer cavalry.
Private Robert z. Bailey, Troop +, First
Volunteer cavalry.
Private r. w. Reed, Troop G, First volun-
teer cavalry.
Private Reilly, Troop B, First cavalry.
The Missing.
Private Merrlman Camp, Troop G, First
Sergeant B. ". Bell, First volunteer
cavalry.
Trumpeter Il. r.. Mcdonald, First volun-
teer cavalry.
Private N. II. Hesname, First Volunteer
cavalry.
Private Fred Childing, First Volunteer
cavalry.
Private ]. s. Miller, First volunteer
Private W. s. Sharp, First Volunteer
| cavalry.
Private ]. E. stedman, First Volunteer
Private D. @. Denniss, First Volunteer
cavalry.
Captain Mccormick and Captain
Luna, of the First volunteer cavalry,
who We're reported yesterday as
among tn dead or wounded, were UNI
harmd, as was also Col Wood, whom
Adjutant Hall reported as mortally
wounded. That the Spaniards were
thoroughly posted as to the route to be
taken by the Americans in their move
ment towards Savilla was evident, as
shown by the careful preparations they
had made. The main body of the Span
iards was posted on a HILL on the heav-
lily wood slopes of which could be
erected two blockhouses f1anked by ir-
1 ant y,,1,r mo fc nf cfnr o1,I
fallen trees. At the bottom of these hills
run two roads along which Lieut. Col.
Roosevelt's men and eight troops of the
First and Tenth cavalry, with bat
terry of four Howitzers advanced. These
roads are little more than gullys, rough
and narrow and at places almost i'm
passable. In these trails the fight oc-
| CURED. Nearly half a mile separated
Roosevelt's men from the regulars, and
on both sides of the road in the thick
| underbrush was concealed a force of
| Spaniards that must have been large
judging from the terrific and constant
fire they poured in on the Americans.
| Opening of the Fight.
The fight was opened by the First
| and Tenth cavalry under Gen. Young.
A force of spaniards was known to be
/ in the vicinity of La Quasina and early
in the morning Lieut.-Col. Roosevelt's
men started off up the precipitous bluff
back of Siboney to attack the Span
iards on their right flank. Gen. Young
at the same time took the road at the
foot of the hill. About 2 IL miles out
| from Siboney, some Cubans, breathless
and excited rushed into camp with the
| Nd,
but little way in front and We're
strongly entrenched. Quickly the
Hotchkiss guns out in the front were
brought to the rear, while strong
scouting line was thrown out. Then
cautiously and in silence the troops
mosnd forward until bend in the road
disclosed a hill where the Spaniards
were located. The guns were again
brought to the front and placed in po-
sition, while the men crouched down in
the road waiting impatiently to give
| Roosevelt's men, who were toiling over
the little trail along the crest or the
ridge time to get up. At 1880 a. m.
4 Gen. Young gave the command to the
men at the Hotchkiss guns to open fire.
That command was the signal for a
fight that for stubbornness has seldom
| been equalled. The instant the Hotch-
kiss guns were fired from the hillside
4 commanding the road came volley af-
ter volley from the Mausers Of the
Spaniards
General Young's injunction.
Don't shoot until you see something
to shoot at" yelled General Young.
and the men, with set jaws and gleam-
ing eyes, obeyed the order. Crawling
along the edge of the road they pro-
tected themselvs as much as possible
from the fearful fire of the Spaniards,
the troopers, some of them stripped to
the waist, watched the base of the hill,
and when any part of a Spaniard be-
came visible they fired. Never for an
instant did they falter. One dusky
| warrior of the Tenth calavry, with a
ragged wound in his thigh, coolly knelt
behind rock, loading and firing, and
when told by one of his comrades that
he was wounded laughed and said:
ooh, that's all right; that's been there
for some time" In the meantime away
off to the left could be heard the crack
of the rifles of Colonel Woods men and
the regular deeper toned volley
of the firing of the Spaniards. Colonel
Woods men with an advance guard
well out in front and two Cuban guides
before them, but apparently with NO
flanlSers, went squarely into the trap
set for them by the Spaniards and only
the unfaltering courage of the men In
the face of a fire than would even
make a veteran quail prevented what
might easily have been disaster. AS
it was troop l., the advance guard UNI
der the unfortunate Captain Capron
was almost surrounded and but for the
re-inforcements hurriedly sent for.
ward every man would probably have
been killed or wounded.
There must have been nearly 15O(
Spaniards in front arid to the sides Oh
u.s." said Lieutenant Colonel Roosevelt
to-day, when discussing the fight
"They held the ridges with rifle pits
and machine guns and hid body n
men in ambush in the thick jungle al
the sides of the road over which we
were advancing. Our advance guard
struck the men in ambush and drove
them out. But they lost Captain Cap.
ron, Lieutenant Thomas and about
fifteen men killed or wounded. The
Spanish firing was accurate, so accu.
rate indeed, that it surprised me; ant
their firing was fearrully heavy.
want to say q word for our own men,