The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-07-20

There were many other instances of the
same kind furnishing Splin's vauntyd
chivalry and proving tho justice of her
Punishment from The Western hemisphere
The correspondent of the New York
Times gives this description of the Span
ash guerrilla's style of fighting:
The guerrillerO or guerrona, fighter. has
done much deadly work in the last two
days. Up to the lighting al El Caney We
heard nothing of these bushwackers IL
was and is the Spanish policy TO wait for
us 10 begin. They did not fire a gun until
we had pounded them severely; then they
fought in every way known TO war and
murder. Many of these guerrilleros re-
manned in the wood TO our left and right
when We marched from Sidney TO FL
Cahey. When the firing of our guns at
the latter place renewed the fighting these
sharpshOOtcrs began picking off men along
all the roads Several of our soldiers have
been killed between the headquarters at
the Rio Seco and Siboney, and several
more have been shot close 10 The general
camp. These bushwackers respect moth
ing, To-day they have fired a number
of times upon our hospitals and have kill
ed several doctors and litter bearers
As | passed along the road about sun
rise this morning, walking across from
the field of FL Caney. four miles away. /
heard the sharpshooters firing at us from
me now and then, and increased in fire.
quency as 1 approached the San Juan
river. Just ahead of me four gucrrilerOs
were shot dead in some cocoanut palms.
squad of our soldiers discovered one
OF them as he had discharged his gun.
A dozen fired at him at the same time,
and his rifle fell through the leaves. Then
there was a struggle In the cluster of
leaves. a clutching az the soft, yielding.
ueacherous branches and the spaniard
tumbled headlong forty feet to the ground.
AT FL Caney, the evening before, as the
soldiers were firing from a sunken roads.
they noticed that a sharpshooier was pick
inf of their men, They looked everywhere,
but could not fipd the secret foe, The fir
ing continued at regular intervals, and a
soldier fell at about every shot The
sharpshooter had killed or wounded four
or five of our men before he was dlscov-
cred. Sergt. John T. Moore of the Twenty
ntth saw him aud shol MN
The bushWackers along El Paso road
We're even more daring and successful
They fired upon us necessarily and shot
down soldiers al along the line or four
miles of the tortuous route. ! saw wound
ed men lying on the side of the muddy
road, ana, in reply TO my questions. the
almost invariabe reply was "sharpshoot-
ers. They diGnt shoot accurately, nut
they Kept at II. If they had been good
maj hStiltil AiitN NOulN nave l'lChth OlA mum
dredS where they Killed dozen.
When the action at San Juan was re-
newed carly this morning l pressed on to
the 'front.' crossed the san Juan river ana
went up TO the 1rihg hne, where the seven
ty-irst New York was still holding the line
OF torthcdtlons II mad won. Inc boys
were acung magnlhcently. Shrapnel from
the Spanish guns screamed ana snarled
above and around them, ana rile bullets
WDlStie0 AnG1llN over the low line OF CAItn-
works, but the volunteer kept steadlV
at has work. lie, TOO, as much as the reg
ular soldier, had come there TO win or
die. and many died, Dut all won.
/ sat down, uIed out py a cong harass-
ing march ana seVerat nlghts without
sleep and began writing. suddenly real
ized that was IN the range OF a NUMBER
OF sharpshooters' VINO Were picking away
at every head visible. A doctor was killed
by my side, shot through the BRAIN ana
three other men were padly MT. rms
method of killing demoralizes the soldiers
far more than the greater but more open
slaughter of the battlefield. They face the
roar Of artillery and the deadly hiss Of
the Mauser bullets without hlnching, but
they shrink from the shot from ambush
and Immediately enter upon discussion
of the articles Of war, the Geneva conVen-
ton, with pertinent suggestions about
hanging the murderers as they call them
lneSe SuSfflIeIOS nave TWO very leClhHh
advantages over our men, in addition 20
the superlative one of knowing the woods
They have a uniform made of a light blu
ish-gray seersucker kind of cloth that Is
almost invisible in the grass In the thick
et and on the open hil,sides, while our
dark blue uniform is as conspicuous as a
fire al night | could see with unaided eye
every one of our soldiers as they passed
out of cover and made that mad dash to
the fort at El Caney. ! could count them
one bv one. though they were 1000 yards
distant. The Spaniards I could not see
AZ All save when one of them got on a
skyline ar AGAINST some dark object. Even
nowerful field glass made them scarcely
more visible The officers had great DIFF
fcrltv in distinpuiablug even moving col
inns of the enemy at a distance of 1900
Yards
r.ba etean,ar Olfvctte arrived at New
wounded from cuba. Here are the expo
T Bsfer Of a9 co@oany % nS RESI-