The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-06-26
SPAN|hRDS BEATEN BACK
FROM BOTH SIDES.
Continued From Page I.

pep Of the Spanish RITES could be dls,sn-
guisaed easily from the heavier reports Il
ths American weapons. Sometimes the IRE
would come in vo!-ys. and again shots
would follow each other in rapid success
zson Tor several minutes.
tapron Fall. Fatally Wounded.
Capt capron stood behind his men re-
voiver IT, hand. using it whenever Span
lard exposed himself His aim was sure,
AID t|o of the enemy wage ssen 10 fall
u1sier his fire JUST as he was preparing
TO taks another shot and shouting mis-
orders 10 las men az the same time, his re-
volyer dropped from his grasp and he
fell TO tha groursi with bali through his
body. Ills troop vas badly disconnected
for a moment, but with all the strength he
could muster he cried:
Don't mind mo boys. 60 on and fight"
lie was carried from the field as soon a.
possible and lived only a few hours.
Lieut. Thomas. OF the same troop. re-
ce!ved a wound through the leg soon after.
and became deiir4ous from pain
TIE troops that were in the thicke, were
10. long Il getting into the midst OF the
agnt The Spaniards located them and
pressed them In hard. but they sent
deadly frs in return. even though mos. Of
the time they could not see the enemy.
After ten or fifteen minutes Of hot work.
the firing fell Off some. and Lieut. Col.
Roosevelt ordered his men back from the
thcke; into The trail. narrowly escaping a
bullet himself. ai4ch struck a tree along
side his head.
/: vas evident tia; the Spaniards were
falling back and changing their position.
but The FIRE continue. al Intervals. Then
the troops tore 10 tina front and into more
open country than where the eucEny's tire
VAS coming; from. About This time small
squads commenced 10 carry the wounded
from ths tficket ard lay them In a more
protected spot on the trail untll they could
be removed TO the field hospital.
HoichLiss Gun In Play.
Col wood also ordered his HotchkIss
gun into acton. but the troope. who roda
The mule upon which part Of the gan
vas packed, had been stampeded HIS
animal broke into TIE woods III the op-
posslta direction from the Spanish fire, and
thu gun consequently could not be used
Il was Just before tho change IN posi-
ton was made that Edward Marshall. the
correspondent Of the New York Journal
and Advertiser. was dangerously wounded.
lie was back OK the troops and ball
struck lin in the small u the back. The.
surgeons were unable to tell this afternoon
whether or not he would recover.
Dariua: tha fight in the th-caot several
o, thu troops did some wild shooting Into
the troops ahead OF them, ard part Of
no American lass IS due 70 this tact As
soon "a the position had been changed the
Americans poured a more terrific IRE than
ever into the slaaiac4s as they got them
Into more open country ami cou.d see them
better.
pI~fodEed From the Uiockhouse.
II vas not long before the enemy gave
Way and ran down tho steep hill ard up
another hin 80 a blockA7use With TIE evi-
den, intention Of making a fnaS stand
there.
Gel. Wood was AZ the front directing the
movement. and It VAS here that Maj,
rlro1e vas shot. Col Wood and Lieut.
&c, Roosevelt both le3 the troops In pur-
SUI. q to f!eeIax Spani@r3s. aoa bait
! ~ b4lltts was poured tuto the biockhoase,
By The tine tllo American advance SO.
w..aa eoe or 80 yards q tie h'oe'1aoDse
/ tt,. Spaffards abandoned =. ana scattered
among the brush up another hln IN the