The herald., 1898-06-25
A DESPERATE BATTLE
Continued from Page one.)
Wood directed the operations Of the rough
riders several miles west.
Sent Them Scattering


riders several miles west.
Sent Them Scattering
Both parties struck the Spaniards about
the same time, and the fight lasted an hour.
The Spaniards opened fire from the thick
cts, and had every advantage of numbers
and position, but the troops drove them
back from their station, stormed the block
house around which they made final stand
and sent them scattering over the noun
| tains.
At Santiago's Gates
The cavalrymen were afterwards REIN
forced by the Seventh, Twelfth and Seven
teenth infantry, part of the Ninth cavalry
and the Second Massachusetts and Seventy
first New York.
The Americans now hold the position at
the threshold of Santiago de Cuba, with
more troops going forward constantly, and
they are preparing for a final assault upon
the city.
News Reaches Alger
| WASHINGTON, June 25.-Up to o'clock
this morning neither the president nor Sec
| rotary Alger had received news concerning
the land engagement near Santiago which
| occurred yesterday morning. When the
first Associated Press bulletin relative to
the engagement was shown to Secretary
Alger at o'clock. he expressed the deepest
concern and requested that he be given fur
| Their particulars as soon as received. Shortly
before o'clock the story of the engagement
was read to the secretary through tele-
phone AS the names Of the killed and
woundeG were read the secretary counted
the numbers aloud, apparently making note
of them as they reached him.
While the secretary expressed the deep
est regret for the loss of the officers and
men, he was greatly gratified to learn that
the American forces had achieved what APP
pears to be decisive victory. So great
was the interest Secretary Alger manifested
in the battle that he requested that, not
withstanding the lateness of the hour, he be
given any further particulars received. No
further information concerning the officers
and men killed in the engagement could be
obtained at the war department, as no Off
cial having charge of the muster rolls was
on duty.
Captain Allyn X. Capron of Troop L of
Roosevelt's rough riders, who is among the
killed, was son of Captain Allyn Capron
of the First artillery, and was well known
in Washington. He was second lieuten-
ant of the Seventh cavalry and was re-
Gently promoted to be captain in the vol
unteer service and was given command of
Troop L of the rough riders. He was
Young and dashing officer and was regarded
by his superior as one of the most promising
cavalry officers in the service.
A Brave Bankers Son
NEW YORK, June 24-Hamilton Fish,
~ of It'll
Yorker of good position and family, who
went to the front with Roosevelts rough
riders. He was of distinguished ancestry,
his family being one Of the Oldest In this
state His father, Nicholas Fish, is the son
of the late Hamilton Fish, 'who was secre-
tary of state in Grants cabinet. He is
banker and lives in this city. Hamilton
Fish was over six feet tall, of herculean
build and rowed as No. of the Columbia
college crew in its winning race of 1894 over
the Poughkeepse course
Brave Byram
DENVER, June 2.-First Lieut.. George
L. Byram of the First cavalry, who was
wounded at the battle near Santiago, was
for four years and until about a year ago,
| military adviser on the staff of the governor
of Colorado. His wife and little son are
now residing in this city.
The New Mexico Boys
ALBUQUERQUE, N. M, June 24.-Pri-
vate Frank Booth, one of the men wounded
at the battle of Santiago, is son of w. A.
Booth, wholesale liquor dealer. High AL
bers, another of the wounded, is son of
well known daryman of this city. w. T.
Erwin, reported killed, is believed here to
be l. R. Irwin, who enlisted here in troop
+. Sergeant G. w. Arringo, who was
wounded, is thought to be Armijo, son of
an influential Mexican of this city.
The Texas Wounded
| SAN ANTONIO, Tex, June A.-Maj. N.
| A. Brodie, who was wounded In today's
battle near Santiago, is graduate of West
Point and noted Indian fighter.
Lieut.. J. H. Thomas of Indian territory
is son of Federal Judge Thomas.
| Capt. J. H. McClintock of Phoenix Arz.,
is a newspaper man, formerly of the Asso-
cated Press for several western states.
Corporal Rhodes is a noted scout and
| trailer of Arizona.
Spanish Orders Captured
OFF JURAGUA, Thursday, June %. by
Associated Press Dispatch Boat, Filed
Kingston, Friday, June "a, ii p. m.--(Copy-
righted, 1898, by the Associated Press.)
Juragua, though less than five miles by
coast from Baiquiri, the original landing
of General Skaters troops, is twelve miles
distant by road, the worst road imaginable.
| The town or village lies in the throat of a
ravine opening between the coast range of
hills and the ocean. 1t had good railway
| station with 300 ore cars on the track and
a large commissary supply of flour. The
village itself is inconsiderable, consisting Of
| few houses near a picturesque palm
| shaded beach.
The Americans have captured orders
which show that the Spanish planned, in
| the event of the American troops attempt
ing to land there, to repulse them from the
shore, and if this was not sufficient, to
charge the landing parties with machetes.
All this, however was to be done, the
orders stated, strictly without loss to the
| Spanish" In case loss was inevitable a
retreat wassordered westward.
The Spanish Run
| The latter instructions were obeyed most
Implicitly since the Spanish burned Bal
quiri and retreated on the approach Of the
American troops without firing shot. APP
parently judging the American methods by
| their own, they seemed wholly unprepared
for General Lawton's advance on Juragua
| by way of Demajaya. General Lawton, on
after hostile Apaches on the warpath. Day.
| light saw the first move of the Americans
from Demajya, the Twenty-second infantry