The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-07-06
NIGHT ATTACK
LEFT ENTRENCHlLENTS
 TO FIGHT AMERICANS.

Brigade-Americans Turned the Gat-
 Iings on the Enemy With Terrible
 Exeeutton-Over 200 Additional Am-
 ericans Wounded Taken to the Rear Making Total Loss of 1,70O Killed and Wounded. [Copyrlght 1898, The Associated Press.] Santiago de Cuba, Sunday, July 3, 5:30 a.m., per Associated Press dispatch boat Dandy to Port Antonio, Jamaica, via Kingston, Monday, July 4, 11:3O p. | m.-The Spanish made a desperate night attack upon our left shortly be- | fore 10 o'clock Saturday night. The | assault was directed at the position that had been carried by General Rents men. The Spaniards left the trenches and charged across the open, striking heavily upon General Wykoffs s brigade, consisting of the Ninth, Thir-
 
 | They were reinforced by a heavy line all along the line of guns and batteries, l and succeeded in driving some of our men from the trenches, but the heavy | fire the Americans in turn poured in staggered the Spanish line and sent it reeling backward with heavy loss.
 The Americans had advanced from the trenches for the first time and while Nr our Gatlings on the extreme left did terrible execution. The casualties | among our men were not heavy. Gen.
 eral Hawkins was shot in the foot. | Over two hundred additional wounded | were taken to the rear during the night,
 one batch consisting of one hundred and twenty. Under General Shafter's orders the battle was reopened at five
 o'clock this morning along the whole line. At this writing the sound of rifles
 rattling is like the long roll of machine guns, punctuated by the heavy booms | of the Spanish batteries. The recruits
 were ordered to the front to-day. Our loss has now reached seventeen hun
 dred killed and wounded. Part of the | night attack was directly opposite the | station of the Third and the Sixth cav airy.
 Captain Bowden of the Third cavalry went with working party at a. m. to
 straighten the line of entrenchments
 between General Chaffee and General Rents division on the left. Whether
 there was an accident is unknown, but he clashed in the dark with the Span
 ish, who were advancing in front of the
 working party and was obliged to re-
 tire. Rolo of Troop F was killed and
 Poole of Troop F was wounded. The
 Spanish did not advance close enough
 to draw the fire of the American main
 line. The action lasted about eighteen
 minutes and went on simultaneously at
 other points on our front. The Spanish
 loss could not be ascertained.
 Copyright 1898. The Associated Press.l
 At General Wheeler's Headquarters,
 on the line, beyond Santiago, Sunday,
 July 3, 1 D. m., via Port Antonio Jamai-
 ca and Kingston, July 4, 9 p. m.-Short-
 ly before noon to-day orders were sent
 up and down our line to cease firing,
 and exactly at twelve o'clock a flag of
 truce was raised above the rifle trench
 es on San Juan Hill. The Spaniards
 observed the flag and a few moments
 later Colonel Dorst of General Shafter's staff conveyed across the disputed
 ground the following:
 To the Commanding General of the Spanish
 Forces in Santiago de Cuba:
 Sir-I have the honor to inform you that unless you surrender I shall be obliged to shell Santiago. Please instruct the citizens
 of all foreign countries and all women and children that they should leave the city before 10 o'clock tomorrow morning. : (Signed) W. R. Shafter, Major General Commanding. At first the men in the rifle pits on
 both sides showed themselves gingerly, but when they saw there was no danger } all climbed out of their narrow quar-
 ters stretched their legs and surveyed one another curiously across the inter- } vening valleys. Men who had been try } ing to pick each other off for three days examined each others positions and made mental notes for future use. Many of our officers examined the lines } of the enemy carefully for masked bat teries and trenches. A correspondent of the Associated Press secured with a glass an excellent view of the situa- tion. Our trenches and rifle pits extend
 on the ridge of high ground bearing in toward the city from the San Juan re- l doubt, and sweep northward and west s ward.