The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-07-20

guided the marines TO rne enemy and
fought with them shoulder 70 shoulder.
not very slzilHully In the matter OF shoot
ing but stiH WIKI courage and determin-
| atom
After this action al Guantanamo etao
After his action there ensued ar Guam
| tana mo long peace The Cubans bulk
themselves a permanent camp, and they
began 70 eat, ca, much. and 10 sleep long
day and night until now. behold! there
IS no more useless body of men anywhere
tr1fe less than half Of them are on
DR.. Edgar's sick list. and others are prac-
cScaliy insubordinate. So much food seems
to act upon them IKE drug.
Here with the army the decentralization
has occurred on a big scale. It IS dan
gerous. too, for the Cuban. II ne stupidity.
drowsiiy remains out OF these fights,
what weight is in his voice 70 have later
In the final adjustments? The offers and
men OF the army. if their feeling remains
the same. viii not be happy to see him
have any at ell. The situation needs
Gomez. 1t IS more serious than those
bestarred ulachete bearers know how 10
appreciate. and IS the worst thing for the
cause Of an independent Cuba that could
possibly exist.
AT San Juan the ID of July was q
smaller edition of the II The men deep
ened their intrenchments, SHOT slept and
ATE On the first every man had been put
into the fighting line. There was not q
reserve as big as your nat. If rhe enc
my broke through any part OF the line
there was nothing to stop them short OF
Siboney. On the ID however, some time
after the arrival of Lawton. the eth Mas
sachuetts and the 34th Michigan came
up.
Along the road from e. Paso they had
to pass some pretty grim sights. And
there were some pretty grim odors. but
the men were steady enough. How far
are they Off" they asked OF a passing
regular 20. not far; but its all right.
We think they may run out of ammuni-
ton in the course OF week or ten days"
The volunteers laughed. But the ptiful
the hands of the boys those terrible old
ching about this advance was to see in
rifles that smoke like brush fires and
and give the regimental line away TO the
enemy as plainly as an illuminated sign.
i remember that on the first day men
would try to Join one OF the regular regi-
ments but the regulars would have none
of them. Get out of here with that -
gum" the regulars would say. During the
battle just one shot from a Springfield
would call a volley, for the Spaniards
then knew just where 10 shoot. 1t was
was very hard on the list New York and
the % Massachusetts
At Caney about 200 prisoners were
taken Two big Squalls of them were SOL
diersof the regular Spanish Infantry in
the usual blue and white pajamas. The
others were the Misunderstanding set OF
men one could possibly imagine. They
were native born Cubans, reconcentradoes
traitors, guerillas of the kind that bush
wacked us so numerically. Some were
old men, shaking with the palsy
of their many years. Some were slim
dirty, bad-eyed boys. They were all of
the lower class than one could find in
any United States Jail.
At first they all expected to be butch
cred. In fact, to encourage them to fight
their officers had told them if they gave
in they need expect no mercy from the
dreadful Americans
Our great, good motferly old country
has nothing in her heart but mercy and
nothing in her pockets but beef, bareback
and coffee for all of m-lemon-colored
Santiago, wild eyed pris
oner from the trenches, Spanish guerilla
from out of the thckets. half naked in
surgents from the mountains-all of them.
STEPHEN CRANE