Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1898-07-01
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 Roosevelts Rough Riders,
less than thousand men in all, dis
mounted and attacked 1900 Spanish
soldiers in thickets within Ave miles
Of Santiago de Cuba. The Americans
beet the enemy back into the city, but
they left the following dead upon the
field:
Rough Riders Captain Allyn X.
Capron, Of troop L; Sergeant Hamil-
ton Fish, Jr.; Privates Tilman and
Dawson, both of troop l.; Private
Dougherty, Of troop A; Private w. T.
Erwin Of troop +.
First Carbohydrates Dix, York,
Bejork, Kobe, Berlin and Lenmock.
Tenth Cslvary--Corporal White.
At least fifty Americans were
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 OPP.
erations Of the Rough Riders several
miles west. Both parties struck the
lsSpaniards 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 de Cuba
with more troops going forward con-
stantly, and they are preparing for q
final assault upon the city.
The following officers were wound
ed: Major Brodie, shot through the
right forearm; Captain McClintock,
troop B, shot through the right leg;
Lieutenant j. r. Thomas, troop l., shot
through the right leg, his condition ia
serious. All the foregoing officers are
Rough Riders.
The other officers wounded are;
Captain Knox, whose condition Is So
rious, Major Bell, Lieutenant Bryan.
These officers are of the First cavalry.
The following are among the soldiers
wounded: '4f
Rough Riders, Troop B--Privates
e. M. Hill, Shelly F. Ishler, M. 8.
Newcomb, Fred N. Beale and Corporal
j. d. Rhodes.
Troop E. Corporal James F. Beane,
Privates Frank B. Booth, Albert
@. Hartle, r. G.. Bailey, II. AL,
vera, E. J. 'Atherton, Clifford Reed
and Sergeant @. w. Arrringo.
Troop G-Sergeant Thomas F. Cav
anaugh, Corporal L. L. Stewart, Pri
Yates George Rowland, H. J. Haefner
Michael Coyle. R. M: Reid aud M
Russell.
Troop L--Priyates J. r. Kean, p
Dernap, Thos. F. Meagher, Edward
Calborst and Nathaniel Poe.
Tenth Cavalry, Troop B--Private'
Russell, Gaines, Miller, Gross, Brax
ton and Wheeler.
Troop I--Privates Ridd aud May
berry.
Edward Marshall, correspondent o.
The New York Journal and Advertiser
was seriously wounded in the small o
the back.
II lis probable that at least ten in thu
list OF wounded will die.
Fish Prominent New Yorker.
! Anew York dispatch says:'' Hamilton
Fish, Jr., one of the killed, was one O
the young New Workers OF good position
and family who went TO the front wit
Roosevelt's Rough Riders. He was o
distinguished ancestry, his family beinl
one OF the oldest in the state. His ia
Their, Nicholas Fish, is the son Of tn
late Hamilton Fish, who was secretar,
OF state in Grants cabinet. He is
banker and lives in this city. Hamilton
Fish was over six feet tall, of Hercules