Connecticut western news., 1898-06-16

LIEUT.. COL. HUNTINGTON. Commanding marines at Guantanamo. the regular army who fell in the Custer massacre. His home was at Richmond. but he had been practicing in New York and had entered the service since the war began. He was a very popular off, cer.
 The others killed are Sergeant Charles H. Smith of Smallwood. Md; Private William Dunphy of Gloucester. Mass, and Private James McColgan of Stone ham, Mass. Corporal Glass was acci- dentally wounded in the head.
 The Spanish loss is unknown, but 1t was probably considerable. The splashes of blood found at daylight at the posi- tions the Spaniards occupied indicate fatalities. but their comrades carried of the killed and wounded.
 The engagement began with desultory firing at the pickets 1000 yards inland from the camp. Captain Spicer's com- pany was doing guard duty and was driven in. finally rallying on the camp and repulsing the enemy at o'clock.
 The bodies of Privates McColgan and Dunphy were found. both shot in the head. The large cavities caused by the bullets, which inside a range of 500
 
 that the victims were killed at close range.
 Bodies Mangled With Machetes.
 The bodies were stripped of shoes, hats and cartridge belts and horribly mutiliated with machetes. When they were brought in, the whole battalion formed three sides of a hollow square about the camp on the hilltop.
 The akv was with cIo1Ida and when the sun set a gale was blow ing seaward. Night fell thick and im- penetrable. The Spanish squads con- cealed in the chaparral cover had the advantage. the Americans on the ridge furnishing fine targets against the sky and the white tents. The Spaniards fought from cover till midnight. diseov- erable only by flashes, at which the ma rines fired volleys. The repeaters sound ed like crackers in barrel.
 The Marblehead launch. a Colt ma chine gun in her bow. pushed up the bay and enfiladed the Spaniards. and 1t Is thought that many were killed.
 The ships threw their searchlights ashore. the powerful electric eyes sweeping the deep tropic foliage and disclosing occasionally skulking parties of Spaniards. It all resembled a trans formation scene at the theater. Each discovery of the enemy was greeted by the crackle of carbine fire along the edge of the camp ridge or by the long roll of the launch's machine gun, search ing the thickets with a leaden stream.
 Battle on the Hillside.
 Shortly after midnight came the main attack The Spaniards made a gallant charge up the southwest slope. but were met by repeated volleys from the main body and broke before they were one third of the way up the hill. but they came so close that at points there was almost a hand to hand struggle. The officers used their revolvers. Three Spaniards got through the open forma- tion to the edge of the camp. Colonel Jose Campina, the Cuban guide, dis charged his revolver. and they, turning and finding themselves without support, ran helterskelter down the reverse side of the hill. It was during this assault that Assistant Surgeon Gibbs was kill ed. He was shot in the head in front of his own tent. the farthest point of att tack. He fell into the arms of Private Sullivan. and both dropped. second bullet threw dust in theif faces. Surgeon Gibbs lived ten minutes, but did not re- gain consciousness.
 The surgeons of the hospital corps then removed their quarters to the | trenches about the old Spanish stock ade north of the camp. The attacks were continued at intervals throughout the rest of the night with firing from small squads in various directions.
 Toward morning the fire slackened. Dawn is the favorite time for attack. and as the east paled the marines lying Un their guns were aroused.
 shortly before o'clock Sunday morn- ing the firing was again renewed by the spaniards. who appeared of ths