The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-06-27

ward Sevilla was evident, as shown by
the careful preparations they had
made. The main body of the Spaniards
was posted on a hill. on the heavily
wooded slopes of which had been
erected two block houses, fianked by
Irregular intrenchments of stone and
fallen trees. At the bottom of these
hills run two roads, along which Lieu
tenant Colonel Roosevelt's men and
eight troops of the First and Tenth
cavalry, with a battery of four hoWit-
ZerS advanced. These roads are but
little more than gullies, rough and mar
row, and at places almost impossible.
In these trails the fight occurred.
Nearly half mile separated Roose-
velt's men from the regulars, and be-
tween them on both sides of the road,
in the thick underbrush, was concealed
force of Spaniards that must have
been large, judging from the terrific
and constant fire they poured in on the
Americans.
The fight was opened by the First
and Tenth cavalry, under General
Young. A force of Spaniards was
known to be in the vicinity of La
Lieutenant Colonel Roosevelt's men
started off UP the precipitous bluff
back of Siboney 10 attack the Span
iards on their right flank General
Young at the same time taking the
road at the foot of the hill About two
and a half miles out from Siboney
some Cubans, breathless and excited,
rushed into the camp with the an
nouncement that the Spaniards were
but little way in front and strongly
entrenched. Quickly the Hotchkiss
guns out in the front were brought to
the rear, while a strong scouting line
was thrown out. Then, cautiously and
in silence, the troops moved forward
until a bend in a road disclosed a hill
where the Spaniards were located.
The guns were again brought to the
front and placed in position, while the
men crouched in the road, waiting i'm
patiently to give Roosevelt's men, who
were toiling over the little trail along
the crest of the ridge, time to get up.
HOW AMERICANS FIGHT.
At 1880 am, General Young gave
the command TO the men at the Hotch-
kiss guns to open fire. The command
was the beginning of fight that for
stubbornness has seldom been equalled.
The instant the Hotchkiss guns were
fired, the hillsides commanding the
road gave forth volley after volley
from the Mausers of the Spanish.
Don't shoot until you see some
thing to shoot at" yelled General
Young, and the men, with set jaws and
cleaning eyes obeyed the order.
Crawling along the edge of the road
and protecting themselves as much as
possible from the fearful fire of the
Spanish troops, some of them stripped
to the waist, watched the base of the
hill and when any part Of Spaniard
became visible, they fired. Never for
an instant did they falter.
One husky warrior of the Tenth cav
airy, with a ragged wound in his thigh,
coolly knelt behind rock, loading and
firing, and when told by one of his
comrades that he was wounded,
laughed and said: "Oh, that's all right.
That's been there for some time"
In the meantime, away off to the left,
was heard the crack of the rifles of
Colonel Woods men and the regular,
deeper-t toned volley firing of the
Spanish. Over there the American
losses were the greatest.
WALKED INTO A TRAP.
Colonel Woods men, with an ad-
vance guard well out in front, and two
Cuban guides before them, but ap-
parently with no hankers, went square
~ into the trap set for them by the
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