The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-06-16
sPAN1ARDs DRIVEN BACK.
Another Attack By Guerillas Repealed
By the Marines.

Copyright, 1898, by the Associated Press.)
On Board the Associated Press Boat
! Dauntless, off Guantanamo Bay, Tues
/ day, June IA, noon (via Kingston. ia
maica, Wednesday, June 15).-There
was no renewal of the attack on the
/ marines last night. They slept in the
! trenches, with their rifles beside them,
! protected by a heavy picket line of in
| SurgentS and marines under the COM
mand of Lieutenants Lenore and Smith.
The pickets had strict orders not to
fire unless commanded to do so. There
were several alarms, but no firing
during the night. In consequence the
men awoke much refreshed after four
days and nights of continuous work
and fighting
1t was supposed the enemy had re-
tired to the windmill on the south
coast, the only remaining source of
water supply. The windmill was
shelled at intervals all day Yesterday,
by the Dolphin, but the Spaniards
were still there this morning. At 8
o'clock the enemy made an unexpected
sharp attack on the American rear and
left flank. When the pickets came in
for relief the Spanish guerillas crept
along behind them, and got within 100
yards when the accidental discharge of
rifle in the trenches led them to be-
opened fire with a volley, which wills
tied harmlessly overhead. They had
shot too high, as usual.
The marines then scrambled up from
their Steaming coffee and hard tack
back to the trenches and met the
guerillas with a Struggling but we'll
directed rife fire. In addition, five
field pieces mounted at angles in the
trenches and the machine guns poured
hon Of h11IIa
scattering the main battery of the
Spaniards in all directions. Shells were
dropped in their midst as they ran
A few Of the enemy stood their
ground desperately on the left flank,
and the crack of the Mauser rifles and
the 'Pings!" of the bullets were heard
rather than seen for an hour, as the
smokeless powder used by the Span
iards made their location in the dense
underbrush almost impossible to dis
cover. The Panther fired siX-pounders
into the Spaniards while the marines
were engaged in beating off the at
tack. Only one man was wounded, and
he sustained only a slight injury in his
hand.
The Cubans, who acted well last
night, were with difficulty forced out
Of the skirmish line this morning.
Some of them refused to be driven,
even when struck by their officers with
the fat of their machetes, but they
were not censured. They do good work,
out of their knowledge of the methods
of the Spanish guerillas n warfare
and in land service as guides they are
invaluable
Our men are at great disadvantage
with the guerillas, who are past grand
of their peculiar plan of cam
paign of savage rather than of civil
lied warfare. The men stink through
the tropical underground as noiseless-
ly as shadows, some with their naked
bodies concealed with palm leaves, so
that they are neither seen nor heard.
Our men are not familiar with these
tactics, and awkwardly crash through
the brush.
Captain Elliott says the enemy could
not stand minute in the open, but he |
admits that they are dangerous antag-
onists at this sort of work The ma
rines are seasoning rapidly. The hos
pital ship Solace is in Guantanamo bay
with the wounded on board.
As the Dauntless left the bay. the
smoke of two Spanish gunboats in the |
inner harbor could be seen. and the |
Dolphin stood up the channel to meet |
the attack, if the Spaniards had the
audacity to make one. When ten
miles off shore the booming of guns !
could be heard, and the harbor was |
yelled in smoke.