The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-07-01
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new 1OTh, june DIVA Special 10 ln6
Post from Port Antonio says:
There is one thing to be said wfthrefer-
ence 10 the heavy skirmish around Sevilla
on Friday, now called the battle of La
Quasina. Our troops were hurried into
hostilitias TOO soon. They had been nine
days on the cool ocean. Volunteers, Like
the Rough Riders. were put ashore in the
evening and ordered, without much break
fast, TO advance over the hill and take
Sevilla.
1t was an eight-mile march over a
shadeless plateau, through briery under
growth, like a path fenced with barbed
wire. They were disabled more by the
conditions than by the ambushed enemy.
When they were attacked they were hys-
teical and half out of their mind. All
courage would have been scorched out of
less Thoroughbred men. Their canHeens
soon were emptied. No water could be
had. Hell" said one of those whe re-
turned, Contains no terrors for me-"
Their tongues swelled in their mouths,
their threats were shriveled, and their
breath was drawn with effort The plain
for two miles was Uttered with abandoned
outfits, too heavy &c, carry.
liz A1id4NS Sbd4LIp C0CU Will OlllCGIS NuU-
age. Some of the officers had evening
clothes for possible use when Santiago
should be taken. The newspaper CORES
pondents, who had rough burden for two
or three miles. cast away even necessar-
les like food. All learned by a severe les
son that If they dress, eat and drink in
tropical fashion, and take things more
slowly than in New York, other dangers
are small.
Valuable as the insurgent allies have
been, their full servicea bleness cannot be
employed because they are not wholly
trusted. They are courageous, and they
know the dense manigua, which they en-
ter with the new shoes the navy gave
them sIung about their necks, as articles
too precious to use.
Our men suffer considerably from the
cacti. Contact with one of them burries
innumerable needles in ones flesh. But
to such pains as result. the 'Cubebs." as
the marines call the allies, are immune.
and they ruch into brushwood that causes
our men TO hesitate.
Much bushwhacking is evidently going 10
be necessary, and as we have only a few
western troops trained in that kind of
fighting. the insurgents could be of i'm
mense assistance but how can one be
sure" said an officer the other day, that
one OF chem is not Spaniard. and ready
to lea dus into trouble? We can't speak
this nigger-Castilian Of theirs; when they
guide US we have 10 go 1t blind. and we
should trust them completely or not at
ALL"
Smugglers are increasing, think. The
chances OF running provisions INFO Cuba
are many. smugglers are the modern
buccaneers o: these seas.
Nothing more has teon heard here IT
the Purissima Conception. She is sup
posed to have landed seventy to one hum
bred packages OF food at ManZanillo and
Bonita Estanger. She sailed from King
ston 10 Mantanzas with athousand bar
rels OF -four, ham. kerosene, rice. onions,
meal, bacon. FISH. beans and four hun
dred and eighty bags Of corn, puLzeased
by Ramon Pastora. a representative OF
IBlanco, who came from Adula to make
Jamaica the base Of Spanish purposes
The cargo will sent overland TO Havana
Further west than Manzanillo, around
Ctenfuegos. shipping masters report unin-
corrupted smuggling. Lawless taders mug
the shore. and sail without running lights
at night They drop their sails IN the day.
tina so as 20 be difficult to see.