Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1898-07-01
FLOWS
In This FIGHT
Thirteen Of Our
Men Killed.
SPAN|ARDS Driven BACK.
Six Of the Killed We're Rough
Riders-The Spaniards Left q
Number OF Dead In the
Dense Thicket.

An Associated Press dispatch sent
from Guantanamo bay. via Playa del
Este, states that on Friday morning
four troops OF the First cavalry, four
troops OF the Tenth cavalry and eight
troops OF Roosevelt's Rough Riders,
less than thousand men in all, dis
mounted and attacked 1000 Spanish
soldiers in thickets within five miles
Of Santiago dc Cuba. The Americans
beet the enemy back into the city. but
they left the following dead upon the
field:
Rough Riders-Captsin Allyn K.
Capron, Of troop L; Sergeant Hamil-
ton Fish, Jr.; Privates Tilman and
Dawson, both Of troop l.; Private
Dougherty, Of troop A; Private W. 7.
Erwin OF troop r.
First Calvary--Privates Dix, York,
Beiork, Kobe, Berlin and Lenmock.
Tenth Cslvary-Corporal White.
At least fifty Americans we're
wounded, including six officers. Sew
eral OF the wounded will die.
Twelve dead spaniards were found
in the bush after the fight, but their
loss Is doubtless far in excess OF that.
General Young commanded the ex-
petition and was with the regulars,
while Colonel Wood directed the op.
erations Of the Rough Riders several
miles west. Both parties struck the
about the same time and the
fight lasted an hour. The Spaniards
opened fire from the thick brush and
had every advantage Of numbers and
position, but the troops drove them
back from the start, stormed the block
house around which they made the
final stand and sent them scattering
over the mountains.
The cavalrymen were afterwards re-
enforced by the Seventh, Twelfth and
Seventeenth Infantry, part OF the
Ninth Cavalry, the Second Massachu-
sets and the Seventy first New York.
The Americans now hold the position
at the threshold Of Santiago dc Cuba
with more troops going forward con-
stantly, and they are preparing for
Anal assault upon the city.
2 The following officers were wound
ed: Major Brodie, shot through the
right forearm; Captain McClintock,
troop b, shot through the right leg;
Lieutenant ]. r. Thomas, troop l., shot
through the right leg, his condition is
serious. All the foregoing officers are
Rough Riders.
The other officers wounded are:
Captain Knox, whose condition IL So
rious, Major Bell, Lieutenant Bryan.
These officers are OF the First cavalry.
The following are among the soldiers
wounded:
Rough Riders. Troop B-Privates
E. M. Hill. Shelly +. Ishler, NJ. 8.
Newcomb, Fred N. Beale and Corporal
j. ID. Rhodes.
Troop E. Corporal James +. Beane,
Privates Frank B. Booth, Albert
O. Hartle, r. @. Bailey, II. Al
vers, Z. j. 'Atherton, Clifford Reed
and Sergeant q. w. Arrringo.
Troop G-Sergeant Thomas +. Cav
anaugh, Corporal l.. L. Stewart, Pri-
Yates George Rowland, H. J. Haefner.
Michael Coyle, r. NJ: Reid and NJ.
Russell.
Troop L--Privates J. r. Keau, P.
Dernap, Thos. f. Meagher, Edward
Calborst and Nathaniel Poo.
Tenth Cavalry, Troop B--Privates
Russell, Gaines, Miller, Cross, Brax-
ton and Wheeler.
Troop I-Privatss Ridd aud May
berry.
Edward Marshall, correspondent Of
The New York Journal and Advertiser,
was seriously wounded in the small Of
the back.
II Is probable that ct least ten in tho
list Of wounded will die.
rish Prominsat New Yorker.
Anew York dispatch says:.' Hamilton
Fish, Jr., one Of The killed. was one OF
the young New Workers. Of good position
aud family who went 10 the front with
Roosevelt's Rough Riders. He was OF
distinguished ancestry, his family being
one OF the oldest in the state. His ia
Their, Nicholas Fish. 10 the son Of the
late Hamilton Fish, who was secretary
OF state in Grants cabinet. He Is q
banker and lives in this city. Hamilton
Fish was over six feet tall. of Herculean