Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1898-06-30

suache
..n. and Col. wood and
x.n walked Right INFO tt
....,y known That sixteen
..a e Killed, While
Are wounded or Missing
,,.p,.rd. Concealed in the on-
Pour a Terrific Fire
ITO the American Ranks.
|,,right, 1898, by Associated Press.)
Cuba, June 2S.-The initial
= col Woods rough riders and
troops of the First and Tenth caV-
III he known in history as the
h. If La Quiasina. That 1t did not
= tho complete slaughter of the
..o,s was not due to any miscar-
n the plans of the S~paniards,
nerfect an ambuscade as was
sormed in the brain of an Apache
,oymed. and Col. Wood and his
!, walked square into it. For an
!. and a half they held their ground
A. ! perfect storm Of bullets from
4 ,,ont and sides, and then Col.
IA Al the right and Lieut.. Col.
,saveIt at the left, led q charge
in turned the tide of battle and
n tbe enemy flying over the hills to-
"A Santiago. 1t is now definitely
avn that sixteen men on the Ameri-
l side were killed while sixty are
minded or are missing. 1t is impossi-
| 10 calculate the Spanish losses.
nsh II is known that they We're
ue6 larger than the American as re-
ma actual loss of life. AT present
ry.seyen have been
Recovered and Buried,
k.He others are undoubtedly lying in
! thick u%nderbrush on the side of the
Inv. or the slope Of the hill where
main body of the enemy was To-
(el. The injured were all removed.
lat the Spaniards YER thoroughly
ksted as to the route 10 be taken by
\ Americans in their movements to-
krd SeYilla Is evident as shown by
! careful preparations they had
Gde. The main body Of the Span
bis was posted on a hill on the heavi-
wooded slopes on which had been
keted two blockhouses hanked by
Regular Entertainments of stone and
|Ien trees. At the bottom Of these
|s run two roads along which Lieut..
Fl Rooseyelt's men and eight troops
the First and Tenth cavalry with n
Itery Of four HowitZers advanced.
hese roads r but little more than
plies, rough and narrow, and at
bees almost impossible. In these
pills the fight occurred. Nearly half
mile separated Roosevelt's men from
) regulars and between them and on
pa sides OF the road in the thick I'M
was concealed a force OF
Isniards that must have been large,
dging from the terrific and constant
they poured In on the Americans.
fHt Col. Roosevelt, in discussing the
'at afterward, said: ''There must
I've been
Nearly 1900 Spnniards
lront and to the sides of us. They
" the ridges with rifle pits and ma
me guns and had q body of men In
lOush In the thick jungle at the sides
Tue road over which we were adj
aeing. Our advance guard struck
men In ambush and drove them
I But they lost Capt. Capron, Lieut..
.onas and about fifteen men, killed
! wounded. The Spanish firing was
Sura'e, SO accurate, indeed, that it
Epflsed me; and their firing was
'liuiiy heavy. | won't say a word
our own men. Every officer aud
dia his duty UP to the handle. Not
ban finched."
rom another officer who took a
,ulnent part in the fighting more de-
y were obtained. He said: when
arlng began Lieut.. Col. Roosevelt
: 'ae right wing with Troops G and
unuer Captains Llewellyn and Jenk-
anu moved to the support Of Capt.
p'on' VINO was getting it hard. At
same time Col. Wood and Mai.
'use took the left wing and
advanced In Open Order
Tue Spanish right wing. Maj.
'Ve was wounded before the troops
auVanced 100 yards. Col. Wood
= LOOK the right wing and shifted
roosevelt to the left. In the mean
I 'ne nre from the Spaniards had
'.ased IN volume, but notwithstand-
sais the order for a general charge
. gwen, and with n yell the men
forward. Lieut.. Col. Roosevelt,
''Ont or his men, snmched a rifle
ammunition belt from a wounded
ea ana, cheering and yelling with
! ,Aeu' led the advance. Col. Wood.
ene right wing, charged at a
ouse 500 yards away, and Col.
t, with the left, charged at
,;s me time. Up the men went, yell
ass e nends. not stopping to return
VI the Spaniards, but with a
determination to capture the
a. 1ouse' That charge was the end.
tioa "i,hin 500 yards of the coveted
the Spaniards broke aud ran
Ut the first time we had the
prIa which the Spaniards had been
4 ICING all through the engage
Il. W shotting with the enemy in