The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-06-15

two nights. They saw visionso OF Spaniards
which did not m~aterialiEe. Some Of them
fell asleep with their eyes open and with
their guns in their hands.
The running fire into the woods at the
foot of the hill and mountain was kept up,
and from time to time the Colt machine
gun were turned on those spots where re-
ports OF flashes showed the enemy to be.
At about 1 A. M. to-day a too-certain
bullet picked of Sergeant.M Major Goode,
who was on top Of tho blockhouse on the
hill. Tho officers who were a few feet
from him at the time did not know that he
had been shot for some time afterward.
He was struck while standing q few feet
from the fagpole. He walked q little way
after being hit and then fell dead. "one
Of the finest soldiers 1 ever knew" Is the
expression of his fellow ofloers to-day.
Between 1 and 1880 o'clock the general
fire was hottest. Every fresh shot or vol
ley from the bush was followed by the rat.
thing clatter Of q Colt gun. which made the
rapid discharge of the rifles seem slow
shooting.
Private Frick, one of tho marines from
the Texas, under Lieut.. Radford, was on
the hill. He challenged a mar he saw
moving near q clump of bushes, between
him and the new camp quarters. For re-
ply tho sight was shot of his gun before
he could fire. A bayonet was shot from
another gun. The fire from the head of q
lagoon on the east was such at this time
that q request was sent to Commander Nc
Gala to shell the woods there. With the
Marblehead searohlight working constant
ly, she, the Panther, and the collier Aba
renda planted shot and shell all about the
Spaniards In that place.
AS it grew later the firing got hotter to
the westward Of the camp In the long
stretch of brush extending along the east
ern shore of the harbor. between the
mountain and the coast, from the neigh
borhood Of which the Spaniards first APP
peared, and from the burned site Of the
fishing village, where the first landing was
made, and near which some of the Ameri.
can supplies were stored.
Of the road to the defended hill are the
new camp quarters. Toward these and the
provisions the.enemy in the long stretch of
brush was making. Two bands of Cuban
scouts a been sent u early in the even
ing, one to skirt the eastward and south
ern approaches to the camp hill, round
ing up at the mountain, and the other to
beat outside the western brush to the
same point for the purpose of locat-
ing or starving the Spanish. Lieut..
Neville, with o scouting party, in
Guiding q few Cubans, had gone ahead to
q blockhouse on the harbor shore we'll to
the south and near the base of the noun.
tain. The officers in the camp think that
both bands stirred up some Of the
enemy. In any event. Lieut.. Neville,
who had been under fire both previous
nights, found himself between two bodies
of SpAnlards. When the Spaniards found
this out they signelled with the cuckoo
whistle, which the marines had learned to
know. Lieut.. Neville'S men realized that
they were practically ambushed.
Tho SpaniAEds to tho seaward on the
mountain side were the first to be turned
up. No sooner did Lieut.. Neville's Cubanl
hear them than they rushed for them
cursing, firing, and lodging quickly behind
trees. "These insurgents did not seem tc
know fear" Lieut.. Neville said, "but wert
wild to get at the Spanish"
When the Spaniards heard their own
tongue they knew the Cubans were aftel
them and turned tail, and could DO heard
running as fast as they could go through
the brush. This was not, however, unit
wounded and he had lost one man, Private
Tauman, who was wounded and fell over
cliff, being killed instantly.
While the shooting was going on ON botl
sides of the hill Lieut.. Neville's band de
vised an ambush. They hid themselves t.
catch the other body of Spaniards, bur
failed owing to the fact that the guerrilla
turned back to join the sortie that wa
being made for the American supplies anC
the new camp quarters.
The firing thereGbouts nj near the land
ing became fercest at about 4 O'Clock II
the morning. There was q call for a search
light, but when 1t was turned on 1t wa
complained from the new camp that 1t ex
posed its quarters to the enemy.
The Spanlards came down upon the cam
with a rush and bullets whistled about tn
guards heads. The guerrillas were gettinl