The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-07-03
OUR LOSSES AT SANTIAGO.
A Partial List of the Officers Killed and
Wounded in the Battle.

| copyrighted 1893 by Associated Press
At Gen Skaters headquarters Fri
| day, July /. t p. H.. by the Associated
| Press despatch boat Cynthia to Port
| Antonio, July ,, : p. m, via Kingston,
| July >, 80 p. m.-Gen. Skaters ar
| my has had its baptism of fire. With
| the desperate courage and magnificent
dash of veterans it has conquered the
| Spanish works before Santiago and ut
| this hour is driving the enemy into the
| streets of the city. The victory was
won at heavy cost in killed and wound
ed. 1t is impossible to estimate the loss
| mt this writing but it probably APP
proaches 800. The proportion of officers
| is large.
A partial list of the officers killed or
wounded is as follows:
Captain O'Neill, of the Rough Riders,
killed.
| Lieutenant Colonel Lobykoff, Twenty
second infantry.
Captain w. r. Morrison, Sixteenth in
| fantry.
Lieutenant Scott, Thirteenth infantry,
wounded.
| Lieutenant Colonel Patterson, Twenty
| second infantry, wounded i'll the groin.
| Lieutenant Orde Sixth.
/ Captain Taylor. Ninth cavalry, wound
| ed in the stomach
Lieutenant e. H. Liscum, Twenty
| fourth
Capt. ]. T.. Brett, Twenty fourth
wounded in the arm
Capt. \. c.. Ducat. Twenty fourth
wounded in region Of the heart.
Capt Charles Dodge Twenty-fourth
Second Lieutenant j. III. Augustine,
| wounded in the side and arm.
Lieut.. Myer Company III, Third cav
airy, wounded in hip.
Lieut.. Herman. 9th, spine injured.
Lieut.. Gross, 9th, wounded in the hip
| and left leg
Capt. Walker, 9th infantry, wounded
| in right leg.
| Lieut.. Robertson, Company @, 9th in
| fantry. wounded in right leg.
Lieut.. Purdy, Company G, 9th, wound
ed in thigh.
Capt. Morgan,> 3rd cavalry.
Capt. Dood, 3rd cavalry, wounded in
| head.
Capt. Varpenter, 18th, wounded in
stomach.
Capt Kerr, 9th cavalry, wounded in
| arm.
Capt. Torrey, shot in the leg.
Lieut.. Besaro, 9TH infantry.
Major Corliss, 18th.
Capt. Jackson, 18th.
Lieut.. Charles Il. Field. 18th, shot
| through the forehead, fatally.
| 1t is reported that Col. Emory was
| killed
In some cases every officer in q com
pany was lost.
The Spanish loss must have been
| heavy. The Spaniards opposing General
Lawton's division lost in killed. wounded
| or taken prisoners. 1000 men. The loss
| on the centre and left must have been
double that in number Our troops took
| position during the night although. Gen
Bates reserve did not come up until
| morning. General Lawton's division on
| the extreme right, supported by Captain
| Capron's battery; General Kent's |divis-
| ion in the centre and General Wheeler
| division on the left supported by
| Captain Grimes battery planted on Il
| hill, formed line which stretched
| across the whole width of the ravine in
which Santiago lies, behind which in the
| shelter of an old sugar house where the
rear cavalry division was massed. were
| General Duffield'S Michigan volunteers
| who moved out at daylight. over the
| line of railroad from Siboney.
Immediately in front of Gen
eral Lawton lay Caney, surround
| ed by blockhouses and entrench-
ments and against this point were the
operations directed. Beyond the San
Juan river. two thousand yards before
| the centre and left, lay a line of en-
| trenchments mile west of the city.
| These two divisions were covered by a
heavy tangled underground between the
San Juan and the Rio Guiana.
| The Americans had the advantage of the
sun in the morning. which shone directly
| in the enemy'S faces. The engagement
| opened when the fleet lying outside the
| entrance to the harbor began dropping
shells into the lower end of the
| Spanish earthworks. This firing which
was entirely by bearings was not
effective. At 7:20 the land engage
ment opened with firing from Capt.
| Capron's battery on the east and right
upon the blockhouses and entertainments
| before Caney This was followed quick
| ly by simultaneous attacks by Gen.
| Chaffee and Col. Ludlow, who occupied
IL thanking position to the north. The
| Spanish replied with great spirit and
nerve when our shells burst directly
| over their entertainments. A few min
| utes before s o'clock Capt. f. Grimes
| opened with his battery on the heights
| to the right of the main redoubt situated
| i'll the center of the Spanish line of
| entertainments directly before the city.
The Spanish reply was immediate and
wonderfully accurate. The second or
| third of their shells broke over on Capt
| Grimes guns, killing two men and
wounding four. Both the Spanish and
| American batteries used shrapnel. The
| next Spanish shell burst just beyond
| the battery and riddled a sugar house,
| behind which Col. Woods Rough Riders
were waiting a forward movement 1t
| was from this elevation that the Eng
| fish. German and Japanese military at
| taches viewed the engagement.
Capt Grimes shells, set for a range of
| $500 yards, slightly overshot the mark.
| II was difficult to locate the Spanish
| guns as they used smokeless powder,
and in this the first artillery duel we
| had the worst of it. Up TO this time
1 there had been no infantry fire except on