The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-07-03


This marked the beginning of a mag
innocent charge through the first line
Oh entertainments. The cavalry division
and General Hawkins brigade charged
up the slope against a storm OF death.
1t was in this awful charge that our
men were so badly cut UP that they
started on a double-quick, but no
troops could face such terrible fire
without humiliation. Our men stag
gered, throwing themselves on the
ground. Again they started, again they
Frustrated themselves, but on and up
they went, until, with a cheer, they
sprang over the trenches dividing the
sides of the hill checkered with their
Ialien comrades. There was hand-to-
nand lighting here, in which an officer
OF the Twenty-fourth was macheted,
out the Spaniards could not resist the
onset Of our troops, and they scrambled
out OF the trenches and broke over the
line of knobs on which they were sit
Eated
wounded in the trenches. The main re-
DOUBT was then carried with a rush. The
TWO remaining batteries were then or
dereo up: and with a rattle and clash,
captain Bates battery went tearing up
the road, numbered as it was with a
stream OF wounded going to the rear.
The battery got in position to the right of
the main Spanish redoubt at o'clock and
at 800 Captain Bates sent the first shell,
which went whizzing down the line of en-
trencnments, en1ilading the enemy muir
The American advance line remained be-
hlnd the crest of the hills until Captain
iBates had driven terror into the already
beaten and discouraged enemy.
a SPANISH ROUT.
At this time our feet was also at work.
Shortly before this dispatch was written,
our lire again moved forward and the
Spanish began to retreat into the town.
The retreat soon became a rOut and at 5
O'Clock an officer just from the front says
the enemy are hopeleSsly beaten, for the
city viii fall tomorrow.
General Shafter, at his headquarters at
he second crossing of the Rio Guiana, is
front
Our most critical time was after the
trenches mad been taken, when the am
munition ran low. Two pack trains load
ed with shells were gotten 10 the front
o'clock.
The wounded are streaming in.
The summit is now in our hands All
the reserves have been hurried into po-
sition tonight and fresh ammunition is
being taken TO the front as rapidly as pos
sible. It is probable that every available
man will be in the line Of battle.
Early this morning General Shafter said
he did not believe there was any consid-
cradle entertainments between our new
position and the city. The Cuban officers,
however, including General Garcia, who
was interviewed on this subject, hold a
different opinion.
The general belief is that we will enter
the city tomorrow, but after hard fight
ing.
Il cannot be said with certainty wheth-
er General Pando with his 5000 men from
Manzanillo has yet arrived at Santiago,
but il Is probable that they have, and
that 70 them Will fall the chief share in the
defense today. Another 5000 men had
been thought to be in the movement from
HolSUin, but il is doubtful if the concen-
tratiOn has yet been completed.
Admiral Sampson tonight sent a dis
patch TO General Shafter over the army
telephone wire which has been strung
from the base 70 the headquarters in the
field stating that he had thrown a certain
number Of shells into the harbor of San
tiago today by way of cooperation with
The land movement, and was ready to
continue the dose tomorrow if it was
thought to be desirable.
Until today the American invasion of
Cuba has not looked like real war. but
his negative impression is now abso- !
iutely disDelled. While there have been !
some errors of detail, the forward move |
ment. as z whole. was well planned and |
has been admirably executed. The chief |
error was in placing the infantry behind /
the artillery, in position to receive all the /
shells Of the enemy which failed to hit /
the mark at which they were aimed. /
Many needless casualties were thus !
caused.