The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-03

Grimes and Captain Capron from that posi-
ton into the outer Notifications of Santiago
before a response came. When it did come.
however, it came with unexpected accuracy,
the shots being from three and five-inch
rapid-fire rifles, evidently taken from Ad-
miral Cervera's war ships and mounted be-
hind the Notifications. The Spanish gun
ners raked the hill on which FL Paso stands.
and which, meantime, has been made the
headquarters of General Sumner and the
Cuban generals, Garcia, Castillo, Capote
| and Rabi. One shell struck large sugar
| storehouse, on the red corrugated roof of
which stodd ten Cubans viewing the fight.
| The roof fell and all the Cubans were
wounded and three of them will die.
| CHARGE OF THE ROUGH RIDERS"
| A detachment of two hundred Cubans
went forward from Ell Paso, and then Col.
| Wood with the Rough RIDERS" the First
! and Tenth Cavalry started down the hill
side straight for the enemys Notifications.
| Captain Grimess battery poured steady
| fire into the Spaniards to protect Colonel
| Woods advance The dsmounted cavalry
paused on their way through the tangled
| grass and underbrush, and half way down
the hillside selected a good spot to halt,
and from there opened and maintained for
| twenty minutes a hot fire. The opposing
batteries banged away, Captain Grimes
sending a storm of lead down into the outer
fortifcations, and the Spaniards pounding
away at the hilltop with vicious persistence
Most of the Spanish shells went over the
hilltop and fell in a ravine beyond Here
several attachments OF Cuban troops were
stationed as reserves, and before they could
be moved seven insurgents were seriously
wounded and several slightly hurt. At the
same time two Americans were killed and
nine were wounded. The Spaniards used
| smokeless powder and shot with much more
accuracy than during the previous engage
ment. The wonder is that many more lives
were not lost,e as the opposition batteries
were less than two miles apart.
Colonel Woods command behaved with
great bravery, firing steady and deadly
volleys, with the enemy's shells screening
and bursting over their heads. Twenty
minutes of fearfully hot work slenced the
Spanish batteries. Ten shots were sent into
them after they ceased firing, but there was
no response, and it is presumed that the
guns were dismounted or the gunners driven
off,
SPANISH RETIRED FROM CANEY.
Away to the left General Lawton's divi-
sion, with Chaffee's men and Capron's bat
terry, was meantime fighting fiercely with
the enemy entrenched in and about Caney.
The Spaniards contested every inch of
ground bitterly and fought with unexpected
GOODNESS and courage, but the irresistible
onward movement of the Americans slowly
forced them back upon and beyond Caney.
About IL o'clock the terrible fire from Cap
tain Capron's guns and the muskets of the
men broke the Spanish line and a retreat
began towards the line of outer fortifica-
TONS The enemy took the trail known as
the main Santiago road and Captain
ing shells in ahead of the retreating men.
while detachment of 1000 Cubans, headed
by Garcia were started to cut off the re-
treat. No report has yet been received
from them. A large detachment of Cen
eral Kents reserves was sent to aid Gen
eral Garcia in this work and it is probable
that fierce fighting occurred
All this time General Summer had COM
manded the center, owing to General
Wheeler's illness, but about 1870 General
Wheeler started on the two-mile journey
to the front in an ambulance. About half
way to the front he met q number of filters
bearing wounded. The veteran, under pro-
test by the surgeons, Immediately ordered
his horse, and after personally assisting the
wounded into the ambulance, mounted and
rode onward. The men burst into frantic
cheers which followed the general all along
the line. BY noon, although still very i'll,
General Wheeler had established head
quarters at the extreme front and center
of the line and still holds his position.
THE HARDEST FIGHTING.
The hardest fighting of the day seems to
have been on the right flank and heavy
casualties are reported from there. The adj
vance there was more rapid than at other
points on the line and General Chaffee's
brigade was the first to cross the little San
Juan river, close to the line of outer fortih-
cations. At o'clock Caney had Tot been
entered by the American troops, but they
had pushed on past it and it was theirs at
any time they choose to march into it. At
that hour General Shafter, whose headquar-
tiers for the day had been three miles to the
rear, went forward to assume personal COM
mand of the operations. Some surprise is
expressed that he did not wait for the siege
guns before beginning the final attack, as
the siege guns are still on the beach at
Baiquiri, but he decided yesterday that they
were unnecessary and determined to strike
at once
The only movement of the day which did
not meet with success was General Duff