Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1898-06-16

Copyright. 1898, by Associated Press.l
Mole ST. Nicholas, June Ia. Lieut..
Col. II. w. H~untington's battalion OF
marines, which landed from the trans
port Panther on Friday and encamped
III the hill guarding the abandoned
cable station at the entrance 10 the
outer harbor of Guantanamo, has been
engaged in heading off a rush attack
by Spanish guerillaS and regulars since
3 O'Clock Saturday afternoon. The
fighting was almost continuous for
thirteen hours, until 6 o'clocy Sunday
morning, when reinforcements were
landed from the Marblehead. Four OF
our men were killed and one wounded.
The advance pickets under Lieutenants
Neville and Shaw are u~naccounted for.
Among the killed is Assistant Surgeon
John Blair Gibbs, son of Maj. Gibbs.
of the regular army, who fell in the
Custer massacre. His home was at
Richmond, Va, but he has been prac-
ticing in New York, and he entered the
service since the war began. The 9TH
ers killed are Sergeant Charles Smith
of Smallwood, Private William
Dumphy of Gloucester, Mass, and Pri-
Ndlt JdLitS NINSoiSdh VI
Mass. Corporal Glass was accidental
ly wounded in the head. The Spanish
loss is unknown, but il is probably con-
siderable. The splashes of blood found
at daylight at the positions the Span
iards occupied indicate fatalities, but
they carried off the killed and woun-
ded. The engagement began with des-
ultory firing at the pickets, a thousand
yards inland from the camp. Capt.
Spicer's company was doing guard
duty and was driven in. finally rallying
on the camp and repulsing the enemy
at 5 o'clock. The bodies of Privates
McColgan and Dumphy were found,
both shot in the head. The large cav
tiles caused by the bullets, which in
side a range Of 500 yards, have a ro-
tary motion, indicate that the victims
were killed at close range. The bodies
were stripped of shoes, hats and cart
ridge belts and horribly mutilated with
machetes.
From Another Source
New York, June 14.-The Herald has
the following from Kingston, jam:
One of the Herald's dispatch boats
/ which has reached Port Antonio re-
ports that a fight has taken place at
Guantanamo between the United
States marines and the Spanish troops.
The Spaiards advanced on the camp
the marines had established on the
crest of the heights through the thick
tropical underground. Sergeant Smith,
who was on the extreme outpost re-
lieving the guard. fell at the first fire.
Some marines who were missing have
since been found. The outposts did not
wait to attack the Spaniards. but re-
treated, and later the firing began
again, half a mile to the right In the
woods. There was a short skirmish,
and the Spaniards retired. Command
err McCalla sent a detachment of the
MarbIehead's marines ashore in a
launch within a few yards of the shore,
hoping to draw the enemy's fire, but by
the time they arrived there was no
signs of the Spaniards. Nothing Is
definitely known of the strength of the
Spanish forces, but it is reported that
there are 5000 Spanish troops In the
vicinity of Caimanero and Guantana-
mo. Three hundred Cubans are ex-
pected tomorrow to occupy a point on
the other side of the bay from the
camp of the marines.