Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-09-23
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army, was crying like a baby as the
cavalrymen charged up San Juan hill.
He remembered that the British and
French forces had in turn been defeated
almost in that very same place by the
Spaniards years ago with great losses,
and he expected to see the Americans
all mown down and cut"to pieces. But
they were not, although many were
killed, and the place was soon captured.
The Spaniards were great hands to
haul off their dead which they laid to
one side of the trenches, and as the
Americans would capture these trenches
they piled the bodies into the same,
covered them over and dug new trenches
The stencil from the decaving bodies
was dreadful.
The charge up the San Juan hill was
no preconceived affair; it was done on
the spur of the moment. The boys
heard yell, and thinking it was the
call to make the charge they went
straight up that hill with only their
carbines. The 10th cavalry was lying
down fat in the heavy grass just ahead
of the 'Rough Riders, and as they saw
the latter starting mp the slope they
yelled out that they proposed to be
counted in, and up they went and
helped make that wonderful charge un-
der Roosevelts lead as well as his
own regiment, The men just got up
and went, and that was all there was to
it, and they would have gone straigh,
into Santiago had they not been stopped
by Colonel Roosevelt. who heard that
the roads to the city were mined. and
that there was imminent danger of all
his men being blown up. So he rushed
in ahead Of them: but they would not
have paid any attention only for his
stern command to come back, and this
they reluctantly did Two of the fore
most men in this rush for Santiago were
RYAN and Tom Roberts. Ryan thinks
that this action on the part of their
colonel saved a horrible massacre in
Santiago as the place was filled with
women and children, and in the hand
to hand fight that wound have resulted
from the entrance Of the troops into the
city, hundreds of innocent non-cOm-
batants would have been slaughtered.
The dynamite gun was used to good
effect. A shell from it was thrown into
Spanish masked battery, and immcdi-
attIy the entire battery. gunners, ad-
joining trees and all were sent sailing
into the air. utterly annihilated. AT
other times, shells sent into the Spanish
trenches pretty much destroyed a whole
quarter section Of Spaniards. Ryan
does not 50 much blame the quarter
masters department for the failure to
properly feed the men in the trenches
as the peculiar conditions obtaining at
the time. In the first place, the roads
were in horrible condition, and the
lines difficult of reaching, and then the
refugees and the Cubans all rushed in
for food, and they eat up good deal
that was intended for the soldiers
RYAN was wounded in the shoulder by
shell but it did not prove to be any
thing serious The failure to get the
siege guns out to the front was a scri-
Gus hindrance to the American forces.
Artillerymen were sent to hunt for these
guns. and SO earnest were the officers in
irving to locate them that court martial
was threatened in case they were not
found: but the search failed to reveal
their location which was not discovered
until it was too late. The New Workers
in the regiment fought nobly. One OF
them named Noblock. member of the
New York Stock exchange, was around
Montauk Point with the seat of his
breeches badly segregated, as free and
easy as any one. He got a sfurlough
and went to the Stock exchange where
he created furor. The result OF his
visit was car load after car load OF good
things sent out to the regiment, ana
two or three cars were turned over to
the 9th cavalry. The Point was pleas
ant place. and the men who were sick
there brought the seeds of disease from
other places.