The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1898-06-18
spANlARDS MAKE
SAVAGE ATTACK
on THE MARINES
Uncle Sans Tars Landed at Guam
tanamo Bay Have a Battle
With the Enemy.
FOUR AMERICANS ARE KILLED
n 80 N- ~ 80 ,HHN.A
FOUR AMERICANS ARE KILLED
Bodies Of the Dead Are Stripped
and Horribly MutiIated
With Machetes.
FIGHTING ALL SATURDAY NIGHT
Spanish Fought Under Cover but
Their Loss Musts Have Keen
Hcavy--Armeu Launch
Takes Part.

On Board the Associated Press Dis
patch Boat Dauntlcss, Off Guam
tanamo, Sunday, June 12, via Mole st.
Nicholas, June 12.-(Copyrighted, 1898.
by the Associated Press.)-Licutenant
Colonel r. w. H~untington's battalion
Of mnrincs, which landed from the
transport Panther on Friday and en-
campcd on the hill guarding the aban-
doned cable station ut the entrance of
the outer harbor ut Guantanamo, has
been engaged in heading off q rush at
tack by Spanish guerI.illas and regu-
lars since 3 o'clock Saturday after
noon. The lighting was almost con-
tinuous for thirteen hours, until 6
o'clock this morning, when reinforce
ments were landed from the Marble
head. Four Of our men were killed
and one wounded. The advance pick
cts under I~.ieutenants Neville and
Shaw are unuccounted for. Among
the killed is Assistant Surgeon John
Blair Gibbs. son of Major Gibbs, of
the regular army, who fell in the Gus
ter massacre. His home was at Rich
mond, Va, but he has been practicing
in New York, and he entered the serv-
ice since the war began. He was a very
popular officer. The others killed were:
Sergeant Charles Ii. Smith, of Small
wood, Md.
Private William Dumphy, of Gtouces-
ter, Mass.
Private james McColgan, of Stone
ham, Mass.
Corporal Glass was a~ccidcntly
wounded in the head.
The Spanish loss is unknown, but
was probably considerable. The
splashes of blood found at daylight at
the positions the Spanish occupied in
dicated fatalities, but their comrades
carried off the killed and wounded.
The engagement began with dcsul-
tory firing ut the pickets, 1000 yards
inland from the camp. Captain Spiccr's
company was doing guard duty and
was driven in, finally rallying the
camp and rcpulsing the enemy at 5
O'Clock. The bodies of McColgan and
Dunphy were found, both shot in the
Lead.
The large cavities caused by the bull
lets, which inside a range of 500 yards
have II rotary motion, indicate that the
victims were killed at close range.
Bodies Stripped and Mntilatcd.
The bodies We're stripped of shoes,
hats and cartridge belts and horribly
mutilated with machetes. When they
were brought in the whole battalion
formed in a hollow square about the
camp on the hilltop. Below in the bay
We're the warship ut anchor. Inland
from the hill camp is n deep ravine and
beyond this are high hills. The adj
jaccnt country is heavy with thick
growth. The sky was blankcted with
clouds and when the sun set n gale
was blowing seward. Night fell thick
and impenetrable. The Spanish squads
concealed in the chapparal cover had
the advantage, the Americans on The
ridge furnishing fine targets against
the sky and the white tents. The
Spaninrds fought from cover till mid
night, being discovered only at flashes,
at which the marines fired volleys. The
repeatcrs sounded like crackers in a
barrel.
The M~arb,chead's launch, with a ma.
chine gun in her bow, pushed up the
bay, enfladlng the Spaniards, and 1t is
thought that some were killed. The
marines trailed much blood to the wa
ter's edge and there lost it. Sharks
are numerous in the vicinity.
The ships threw their s%earchlights
ashore, the powerful electric ewes
sweeping the deep tropic foliage ana
disclosing occasionally skulling par
ties of Spaniards. 1t all represented
n transformation scene in the harbor.
Each discovery of the enemy was greet.
ed by the cracks OF carbines along the
edge of the camp ridge, or by the long
roll OF the launch's machine gun,
searching the thickets with a leaden
stream.
Main Attack OF Spaniards.
Shortly after midnight came the
main attack. The Spaniards made a
gallant charge up the southwest slonc
but were met by repeated volleys from
the main body and broke before thcy
We're one-tllird of the way up the hill,
but they came so close that at points
there was almost. n hand to hand
struggle. The officers used their re
v]olvers. Three Spaniards got through
the open formation to the edge of til.
camp. Colonel Jose Campina, the Gu.
bap guide, discharged his revolver and
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