The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-06-14
THE SPAN|ARDS OPENED FIRE
Ships Replied and Quickly Routed
the Dons.
REQUIREMENTS LANDED.
Skirmish Lines Kept Up Firing
All forming.
The Thirty Pickets Are Safe.
Neville and Shaw Returned to Camp
With Most OF the Men.
HAD TO FIGHT A SUPERIOR FORCE
The Top Of the Hill Has Been Wen
Fortified and the Camp flowed
to One Side.

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aid, London Times aud The Houston Post,
copyrighted, 1895. by James Gordon BEN
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On hoard the Hrrnlds Dispatch
bont soiners \. smith. OFF Guam
tnnnno hay, sunday. vita Mole ST.
Nicholas, June ia.--The 200 mn
rincs cncampcd here fought ali
Inst night hand tn hnnd with
three times their number Of
Spnniards.
The forces TINT attacked them
saturday. regular troops and
guerilins. were rcpuisc,i. ia WAS
cabied tn the Herald yesterday,
after thirteen hours of desperate
work at close quarters. They
fled into the brush, but remained
away only n few hours.
AZ - o'clock last ripht they
dashed In nRnin on the camp.
which scarcely Ind wnrni.su Of
their coming before II vicious
combat WINS ON Mt close quarters.
So near did the spaninrds np-
proach in their wild rns,s TINT
men In the front ranks found
their reyoIvers more useful than
rifles and their swords of great
service.
Lieutenant Colonel Huntington
placed his men 80 ns to protect
every part of the camp. The six
companies formed In n hollow
square. The enemy rushed /"
from all four sides of the camp.
The bodies 0f james McCoiRnn
of Stonchnm, Mass, and WILL
linn Dunphy of Gloucester,
Mass, two OF the marines who
were killed, ns ! cabied ycstcr-
day, while they were ON scout
Inn duty, were found after the
engagement. The bodies had
been friRhtfulIy mutiIntcd by
mnchetcs. The faces were source
Iy recognizable.
Lieutennnts Neville md shaw
and thirty men of Company ID.
who had gone out on scouting
duty and who were missing. at
the end of yesterdays fight are
safe. They retained to camp this
morning uninJurcd but greatly
exhausted.
They had not gone far from
camp when they found them.
selves In the center Of IL host of
Standards. Then began u desper-
ate battle. Not one of the ma
rines was Injured, although the
fighting was kept up for several
hours at close rnnEe.
Lieutenant Neville reports that AZ
least five Spaniards were killed. He
believes that their 1A1th list will be
much larger and that hey tooS away
many victims Of the good shooting by
his men.
While the fighting was going on the
Marblshead stood close In the bay and
sent shells into the woods from which
the spaniards were conducting their
operations.
Spanish troops from the shore fired
at the gunboat with Mausers and
Cuban pilot on board was shot through
one OF his legs. He is colonel in the
Cuban army.
short while before / left Guam
tanamo bay the b,ttleship Texas ar
rived and sent Ashore fifty marines
and two rapid-fire guns.
The Marblehcad also sent reinforce
ments to Lieutenant Colonel hunting
ton.
The marines fought like veterans Of
many wars as soon as the first Span
ish yolley had been fired. Although
the enemy's troops in the vicinity OF
Guantanamo bay outnumbers the ma
rines at least three TO one, the oso men
landed from the Panther successfully
held their, position on Crest Heights.
This brave band have been attacked