The record-union., 1898-07-03

fully convinced that the city will be
theirs by tomorrow night.
The battle began just at daylight at
a point about eight miles from Juragua
and four miles northeast of the outer
Notifications of Santiago. The general
order for an advance was issued by
General Shafter at dark last night, and
by midnight every man in the army
knew that a desperate struggle would
come with the dawn. The news put
the troops in a fever of excitement, and
the night was spent in cheering and
singing, the popular strain being
..Therell be a Hot Time in Santiago
To- morrow
At 4 o'clock this morning hundreds of
bugies rang out the reveille, and before
the sun had risen the great line was
complete. To the extreme left was Cen
eral Duffield, with the Thirty-third
Michigan, his command having reached
the Aguadores bridge by train. Next
to the northeast was General Kent's
division, a mile and a half from the sea,
and held a. a reserve force. The center
of the lii was held by a cavalry di-
vision, which, under General Wheeler,
arrived at noon, and was commanded
by General Summer.
Owing to General Young's illness,
Colonel Wood of the Rough Riders
commanded his brigade, which con-
sisted of the First Regulars, the First
Volunteers and the Tenth Regulars and
one battalion of the Ninth Regular
Cavalry, all dismounted with the ex-
ception of two troops on the extreme
right, under Generals Lawton and Chat
fee, fully five miles away from the sea-
1t had been arranged that General
Duffield should make feinit of attack
ing Aguadores, in order to draw atten-
ton from the main moveme nt, and at
5 o'clock General Lawton's troops
moved forward, led by a battery of the
First Artillery under command of Cap
tain Allyn Capron. Every man the
army carried three days rations and
ammunition to match, and every one
knew that he was not expected to re-
turn to camp until Santiago had fallen
General Lawton's division opened the
ball with a 13-pound shot, quickly fol-
lowed by others, the infantry opening
fire Immediately afterwards. At GAO
a. m. Garcia advanced rapidly through
the brush in the valley, meeting with no
opposition and General Laawton aG-
yanced along the north slope, the in
fantry and artillery firing heavily. Cap
tain Grimes guns had just galloped 10
the plateau in grand style and opened
fire. The telegraph line, Labrunelle
experimenting. kept up with the ad-
vance in fine style. The observation
balloon was inflated for the first time,
and made three successful experimental
ascensions, the car holding six men.
The first shot was fired from the bat
terry at $40 by Captain Capron, whose
son, Captain Allyn K. Capron Of the
Rough Riders, was killed in the battle
at Sevilla. The shot was directed at
Caney, where the Spaniards were in
force, and it fell in the heart Of the
town The firing continued twenty
minutes, without responses.
Meantime the cavalry division had
moved forward on the main Santiago
trail, headed by light battery OF the
Second Artillery, under Captain Crimes.
The movement of this battery was
heartbreaking task. owing to the mud
in the valley and a steep hill. Under
the musketry fire Of the cavairymen,
the Spaniards in the little town OF FL
Paso retreated and Captain Grimes
battery took a position there, and be-
gan a rapid firing into Caney. The
gums of the two batteries made the
place so hot that the enemy finally re-
tired, having no artillery. The town
was surrounded by earthworks and
lines of barbed wire.
After the enemy had been driven
from Ell Paso, twenty-one shots We're
fired by Captain Grimes and Captain
Capron from that position into the
outer Notifications of Santiago before
a response came. When it did come,
however, it came with unexcelled ac-
curacy, shots and shells from three
inch rifles, evidently taken from Ad-
miral Cervera's warships, and mounted
behind the Notifications. The Span
ish gunners raked the hill on which El
Paso stands, and which meantime had
been made the headquarters Of Cen
eral Sumner and General Garcia and
Captain Rabi. One shell struck
large sugar storehouse on the red cor
rugated roof of which stood the Gu
bans viewing the fight. The roof fell,
and all the Cubans We're wounded and
three of them will die.
A detachment Of 200 Cubans went
forward from Ell Paso, and then Colonel
Wood, with the Rough Riders, and the
First and Tenth Cavalry, started down
the hillside straight for the enemy's
Notifications.
Captain Grimes battery poured a
fire into the Spaniards to pro-
tect Colonel Woods advance The
dismounted cavalry paused on their
way through the tangled grass and TN
derbrush, and, half way down the hill.
selected q good spot to halt, and from
there opened and maintained for twen-
ty minutes a hot fire. Most of the
Spanish shells went over the hill tops
and fell in a ravine beyond. Here
several detachments of Cuban troous
We're stationed as reserves, and before
they could be moved seven insurgents
were seriously wounded and several
slightly hurt. At the same time two
Americans We're killed and nine wound
ed
The Spaniards used smokeless pow
der, and shot with much more accuracy
than during the previous engagement.
The wonder is that many more lives
were not lost, as the opposing batteries
We're less than two miles apart.
Colonel Woods command behaved
with great bravery, firing steady and
deadly volleys, with the enemy's shells
and bursting over their
heads Twenty minutes of fearfully
hot work silenced the Spanish batteries.
Ten shots were sent into them after
they ceased firing, but there was no