The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-07-03
A BAPTISM OF FIRE.
Our Troops Behaved with Desperate
Courage and the Dash of Veterans.

| Courage md the Dash of Veterans.
Copyright 1898 by Associated Press.
At General Skaters Headquarters
Friday, July 1. p. m, by the associated
press dispatch boat Cynthia to Port
Antonio. July 2. s p. m. via Kingston,
July Z, 1880 D. m.-General Skaters
army had its baptism of fire with
desperate courage and the mad dash OF
veterans II has conquered the Spanish
works before Santiago. and his force is
driving the enemy into the streets of
the city. The victory was won at a
heavy cost i'm killed and wounded. IL
is impossible TO estimate the losses at
this writing, but 1t is believed they ap-
proach 500. The proportion of Officers
is large. A partial list OF the officers
killed or wounded follows:
CAPTAIN o'NEILL of the rough rid
ers, killed.
LIEUTENANT COLONEL LoBY-
KOFF. 22d infantry.
CAPTAIN w. p. MORRISON, 18th
infantry.
LIEUTENANT SCOTT. 18th infantry
wounded.
LIEUTENANT COLONEL PAT
TERSON, 22d infantry. wounded in the
groin.
LIEUTENANT ORD. 7th.
CAPTAIN TAYLOR, 9th cavalry.
wounded in the stomach.
LIEUTENANT COLONEL LISCUM.
24th.
CAPTAIN J. e. BRETT. oath. wound
ed In the arm.
CAPTAIN A. c. DUCAT. 24th.
wounded in the region OF the heart.
CAPTAIN CHARLES DODGE. 24th
SECOND LIEUTENANT j. H. AU-
GUSTIN. wounded in side and arm.
LIEUTENANT COLONEL CAREI,.
9th. wounded in hip.
LIEUTENANT MEYER, company III,
Sd cavalry. wounded in hip.
LIEUTENANT HERMAN. 9Th. spine
injured.
Lieutenant Gross. 9Th infantry.
wounded in the hip and left leg
Captain Walker, 9th infantry. wound
ed in right leg.
Lieutenant Robertson. Company G,
5th infantry. wounded in right leg.
Lieutenant Purdy. Company c, 9Th,
wounded in thigh.
Captain Morgan. Sd cavalry.
Captain Dodd. Sd cavalry, wounded I'm
head.
Captain Carpenter. 18th. wounded in
stomach.
Captain Kerr. 9Th cavalry. wounded in
arm.
Captain Torrey. shot in leg.
Lieutenant Besaro. 9Th infantry.
Major Corliss, 7th.
Lieutenant Charles T. Field. 7th. shot
the forehead. fatally.
IL is also reported that Colonel Emery
was killed. In some cases every officer
in company was lost. The Spanish
loss must have been heavy. The Span
ish opposing General Lawton's division
lost. in killed. wounded or taken pris-
oners. 1000 men. and the loss on the
center and west must be double that
number.
Most Of our troops took positions
during the night. although General |
Bates reserves did not come up until |
General Lawton's division on |
the extreme right. supported by Cap |
tain Capron's battery; General Kent's |
division in the center, and General /
division on the left. support /
FL by Captain Grimes battery, planted /
)n hill. formed a line stretched across
the whole width OF the basin In which /
Santiago lies. a distance OF fully five
miles. Immediately In front of General
Lawton lay Caney. surrounded by
and entertainments. and /
against this point were the operations
directed. Beyond the San Juan river.
200 yards before the center and lef,
ay line of entrenchments. a mile
vest Of the city. These divisions were
covered by a heavy tangle under
yrowth between the San Juan and the
Rio Guiana.
On the extreme left. on the heIehts
,eyond Captain Grimes battery. h.
lind which. in the shelter OF an old
ugar house. where the rear cavalry di-
'issOn was massed. were General Duff
ields Michigan volunteers. who moved
'ut at daylight over the line OF rail-
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