The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1898-07-08

that they should leave the city before 10
o'clock tomorrow morning"
The enemy observed the flag of truce
and not shot was fired until Colonel
Dorst returned. At first the men in
the rifle pits on both sides showed them
selves gingerly; but when they saw
there was no danger all climbed out of
their narrow quarters, stretched their
legs and surveyed one another curiously
across the intervening valleys. Men
who had been trying to pick each other
off for three days examined each others
persons and made mental notes for fu-
ture use.
The fighting Friday and Saturday cost
the American army 100 men, This es-
innate is made by the surgeons at di-
vision headquarters after careful figur-
ing by the surgeons at the hospitals.
The list of wounded, as made up at the
division headquarters, is very large in
proportion to the list of those killed out
right. Probably less than 100 all told
of the number of wounded have died,
making the total number of deaths in
the neighborhood of $50. The remainder
of the wounded will probably recover.
Considering the fact that not over IL, 600
men were engaged on our side, and that
not all of these were actually under fire,
the percent of loss is very heavy. The
slaughter was brought about mainly
by the gallantry with which our troops
advanced into the open ground in the
face of a very heavy fire from the Span
ish entertainments and rifle pits. Our
men generally had the opinion that the
Spanards could not shoot, and many,
it must be confessed, thought they
would not fight. Both impressions
were erroneous, particularly the latter.
The Spanish have fought with great
determination and bravery. The re-
turns show that a number of regiments
suffered very heavily, the Seventy-first
New York being the worst cut up of the
volunteer regiments and the Thirteenth
and Sixth regular infantry suffering
most among the regulars, with the
Seventh and Sixteenth infantry close in
the race for glory.
Pur uit of the Colon.
Kingston, jam, July 16.-After chase
of 60 miles to the westward the Brook
Ign, closely followed by the oregon,
overhauled the Cristobal Colon after she
had run ashore and had hauled down her
flag. Captain Cook of the Brooklyn
went on board of her, and the COM
mander of the Spanish cruiser came
forward to surrender and was taken on
board the New York, which came up an
hour after the Brooklyn and Oregon had
completed the capture of the Cristobal
Colon. The latter was not seriously
damaged, though she was struck sew
eral times by shots from the Brooklyn
and Oregon.
During the chase a clever maneuvre
of Commodore Schley's in heading due
west to Cape Caney, while the Cristobal
Colon had taken a more southerly di-
rection with a much greater distance
to cover rendered the Spaniards escape
impossible.
There seems to be no doubt that the
Cristobal Colon, and perhaps the other
three Spanish armored cruisers, would
have escaped had it not been for the
prompt action of Commodore Schley.
The Brooklyn, his flagship, alone was in
a position to attack the Spanish vessels
as they left the harbor, and the commo-
dore steamed directly towards them and
engaged all four cruisers, infiicting great
damage upon them.