Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1898-06-25
Twelve Americans Killed and
Fifty Wounded.
SPANISH LOSS UNKNOWN
United States Troops at ~ Disadvantage la
Position and Numbers, but by Glorious
Fighting Finally Sent the SranIars,s
Scattering Over the Mountains.


ON BOARD THE ASSOClA lated
PRESS DISPATCH BOAT WANDA.
OFF JURAGUA, Friday afternoon.
June "a, via Playa Del Este, Guantana-
mo Bay, June 24.-S Z. M.-This morn
ing (Friday) four troops of the First
cavalry. four troops of the Tenth cav
airy and eight troops of Roosevelt's
Rough Riders, less than a thousand
men in all. dismounted and attacked
1000 Spanish soldiers in the thickets
within five miles of Santiago de Cuba.
The Americans beat the enemy back
into the city. but they left the follow
ing dead upon the field:
ROUGH RIDERS.
Captain Allyn X. Capron, of Troop l..
Sergeant Hamilton Fish, il.
Prvltes Tilman and Dawson. both OF
Troop l..
Private Dougherty, of Troop A.
Private w. T. Irwin, of Troop E.
FIRST CAVALRY.
Privates Dixon, York, Bejork. Kobe,
Berlin and denmark.
TENTH CAyALRT.
Corporal White.
FIFTY WOUNDED.
At least fifty Americans We're wound
ed. including six officers. Several of.
the wounded will die.
Twelve dead Spaniards were found
in the bushes after the fight. but their
loss was doubtless far in excess OF that
number.
NIlI1n a NJ
dition and was With the regulars. white.
Colonel Wood directed the operations
of the Rough Riders, several miles
west. 1t. ..t. .-
Both parties struck the Spaniards
about the same time and the fight last
ed an hour. The Spaniards opened fire
from the thick brush and had every nd-
vantage of numbers and position, but
the troops drove them back from the
start, stormed the blockhouse, around
which they made the final stand ana
sent them scattering over the noun
tains.
The cavalrymen We're afterward re-
inforced by the Seventh. Twelfth and
seventeenth infantry part of the ninth
cavalry. the Second Massachusetts and
the SeVenty-hrst New York.
The Americans now hold the position
at the threshold Of Santiago dc Cuba.
With more troops going forward con-
stantly and they are preparing for a
hnal assault upon the city.
The following officers We're wounded.
Major Brodie, shot through the right
forearm: Captain McClintock, Troop 3,
shot through the right leg: Lieutenant,
j. r. Thomas, Troop L. shot through
laE lie ~ iE,,
All of the foregoing officers are
Rough Riders
Other officers wounded are: Captain
Knox. whose condition is serious: Ma
jor Bell and Lieutenant Bryan. These
officers are of the First cavalry
The following are among the soldiers
wounded: =0
Rough Riders-Troop R-Privates e.
NJ. HILL Shelley. F. Ishler. NJ. S. New
comb. Fred N. Beale and Corporal ],
D Rhodes
Troop E-Cornoral James f. Bean,
Prvates Frank y. Booth, Albert c.
Hartle, r. G. Bailey, Fl. Alvers. f. J.
Atherton. Clifford Reed and Sergeant
G.. w. Arringo.
Troop G-Sergeant Thomas F. Cava.
naugh Corporal l.. l.. Stewart. Pri-
Yates George Rowland. II. ]. Haefner,
Michael Coyle, r. NJ. Reid and NJ. RUS
sell. > 4
Troop L--Privates 7. r. Kean, John
p. Dernap, Thomas f. Meagher. Ed
ward Calborst and Nathaniel Poe.
Tenth Cavalry-Troop R--Iorivatss
Russell. Gaines, Miller, Cross, Efaxton
and Wheeler. l&
Troop I-Privates Ridd and Mayber-
ry.
Edward Marshall, correspondent Of
the New York Journal, was seriously
wounded in the small of the back.
1t is probable that at least ten in the
list of wounded will die.