The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1898-11-10
CREEEMA's CONFESSION.


the November Review of Reviews.
It seems that because of some con-
fusion, the smoke of the campaign,
or some oversight or intended slight,
the name of the real hero of FL Caney
has been suppressed. The cause of
the injustice might perhaps be traced
in the first place to the government
censors, but since the censorship has
been removed the silence of the lead
ers as to the name of the man who
planned and led the attack of the
American troops upon the Spanish
position can be accounted for only
on the theory that he is another vic
tim of military jealousy.
A careful reading of Mr.. Creel-
mans article in the Review of Re-
views will convince the most cynical
that the victory of FL Caney is due
altogether to Mr.. Creelman. Indeed,
while attempting to shield himself
from entire responsibility and to hide
his blushes, Mr.. Creelman admits this
to be the fact. 1t was Mr.. Creelman,
he acknowledges, who first discovered
the Spanish flag Haunting insolently
over the rude fort that capped the
now historic hill. "The thought came
into my mind," he says, "that per-
haps before night I might have that
flag in my possession With this
thought struggling against thousand
conflicting emotions to escape through
the crown of his hat, he determined
to approach the fort before the
troops arrived, and forming himself
into solid square he moved upon
the Spanish batteries, now wavering,
now ducking, but ever making steady
progress toward the goal he had in
view.
1t is unnecessary to say that Mr..
Creelman was practically In posses
sion of the fort when the main body
of the Yankee troops arrived. He
directed the movements of Captain
Walsh and offered suggestions to
Captain Haskell, which we're joyfully
and almost tearfully accepted. Even
when the latter had advanced, Mr..
Creelman's mad impetuosity carried
him ahead of the regular and volun-
teer forces and kept him ahead of
them at least two hundred feet dur
ing the hottest moments of the fight.
The Review Of Reviews article
contains picture showing Mr.. Creel.
man In the act of leading the main
assault upon Ell Caney. He is away
ahead of the assaulting line, and is
brandishing u couple of revolvers,
which he says were ''the finest in the
army, pair presented to me by Mr..
Hearst, who was at that moment un-
der fire in the center of the army
What Mr.. Hearst was doing under
fire, or how far he was under it, Mr..
Creelman unfortunately neglects to
say, being occupied more particular
ly with his own position. 1t was
about this time that Mr.. Creelman
stumbled upon the barbed-wire fence
strung in front of the Spanish trench.
After he regained his feet and his
presence of mind simultaneously, and
had resumed his hold on the finest
pair of revolvers in the army, "Cap-
tain Haskell he says, 'hurried for
ward two gallant fellows, who obeyed
my orders and cut the fence. ]
stepped through the fence and found
the trench filed with dead and dying
Spaniards and others unhurt." Mod
esty intervenes here and forbids Mr.
Creelman to mention how many OF
these Spaniards fell at his hands, but
he continues: 81 ordered the Span
iards to surrender presumably the
live ones) and they leaped up al
once and dropped their rifles. ]
jumped across the trench and ran