Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1898-06-17
THE ATTACK
ON MARINES.
Additional particulars of
the Guantanamo
Affairs.

United States Camp, Entrance OF Guam
tanamo Bay, Sunday, June 12, via
Kingston, Jamaica, Monday, June 13-
$40 A. M.-The Spaniards last night at
tackled the camp of the first battalion of
marines under Lieutenant r. w. Hunt
ington and were rcpulsed with heavy
loss. Four Americans were killed.
The firing began after midnight and
lasted until daybreak. At times there
was heavy fusilade on both sides.
Lieutenants Neville and Shaw, of Com
pany ID. with thirty men, were on picket
duty all night, and were attacked by
heavy force of Spaniards. All the men
killed were in this detachment except DR..
Gibbs, who was shot while in camp. The
pickets held the Spaniards off until re-
leved this morning
Reinforccments were landed from the
Texas and Marblehead this morning.
They consisted of 60 men and two rapid
ire guns.
Late this morning the Spaniar,ls open
ed fire from two guns placed on the west
side OF the harbor. The shots flew wild.
The Texas, Yankee aud torpedo boat
Porter, which were lying i'm the harbor,
opened fire and in n short time siIenced
the Spanish guns. The latter fired only
once alter the ships opened on them.
There were no casualties on the Ameri-
can side.
1t was decided by Colonel Huntingto on
this morning to abandon the position
first occupied as IA camp, as there was no
signs OF reinforcements OF troops, and it
was known that N force of Spaniards,
six times more numerous than the marine
battalion, was in the vicinity Therefore
the crest of the hill which the troops
held last night was given up to batteries
and rifles pits, and the tents were pitch
ed on the side of the hill near the harbor,
which is protected by the warships.
FIGHTING RESUMED.
Off United States Camp, Guantanamo
Bay, Sunday, Jane II, Noon, via Kings
ton, Jamaica, June 13, 1l:30 u. NJ
When the Associated Press Dispatch
boat Dauntless left Guantanamo Bay
early this morning after the thirteen
hour skirmisb between the United States
marines under Lieutenant-Colonel R. w.
Huntington and the Spanish guerillas
and regulars, it was expected that the
fighting would be renewed The Mar
blehead was landing reinforcements and
nothing had been heard from the advance
plckets under Lieutenant Wendell G.. Ne
vile and Lieutenant Melville C. Shaw.
At 9 o'clock the firing was again re-
newed by the Spaniards, who appeared
off the Camp on the edge of a small is
land about mile to the northeast. It
was promptly returned by thirteen rifles
and three-nch field gun, and in short
time all signs OF the enemy had disap-
peared.
SPANISH LOSSES.
At least five Spaniards are known TO
have been killed, and as Lieutenant Ne
ville's men kept up steady fire through
out the night and the enemy was not A.
great distance, it, liz believed that the
Spanish casualties were henvy.
The battleship Texas arrived this NOR
ming and sent ashore forty marines and
two automatic Colt guns as reinforce
ments. The Marblehead also sent an adj
ditiOnal small detachment.
Private Bartholomew Gowan, OF Com
pany ID, will lose his hand, which was
shattered by n bullet. Amputation will
be necessary.
The Marbehead's pilot, VINO was shot
through the left leg while guiding the
cruiser out of the harbor this morning.
holds the rank OF colonel in the Cuban
service.