The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1898-06-22

TROOPS SAIL FOR CUbAHGRTNG ON CUBAN SOIL VIII
SIN HUNDRED MARINES BATTLE
At GUANTANAMO.
Are in Dangerous Position. but are
Holding 1t Against the Spaniards-
Several Have Been Killed

OFF GUANTANAMO, June 12.-
| (via Mole st. Nicholas, June 12)-.
Lieutenant Colonel Il. w. Hunting
tons battalion of marines. which lam
ded from the transport Panther on
Friday and encamped on the hill guar
| ding the abandoned cable station at
the entrance to the outer harbor of
Guantanamo, has been engaged in
heading off an attack by Spanish
guerrillas and regulars since 3
o'clock Saturday afternoon The
! fighting was almost continuous for
thirteen hours. until 6 o'clock this
morning, when reinforcements were
landed from the Marhlehead. -Four
of our men were killed and one was
wounded. The advance pickets. under
| ILieutenants Neville and Shaw. are un-
accounted for.
THE KILLED.
Assistant Surgeon John Blair Gibbs
Sergeant Charles II. Smith.
| Private William Dunphy.
Private James NJ. Colgan.
| The wounded
Corporal Glass.
The Spanish loss is unknown, but
il was probably considerable.
The engagement began with desul-
tory firing at the picl<ets, 1000 yards
inland from the camp. Captain Spi-
GERS company was doing guard duty
| and was driven in, finally rallying and
repulsng the enemy The bodies of
Private McColgan and Dunphy were
| found, both shot in the head.
The bodies were stripped of shoes,
hats and cartridge belts and horribly
mutilated with machetes. When they
were brought in the whole battalion
formed three sides of a hollow square
about the camp on the hill top,
FIGHTING RENEWED.
/ GUANTANAMO BAY, June 12,
noon (via Kingston, jamaica, June 10,
1880 Il. m.)-At o'clock firing was
again renewed by the Spanards, who
appeared off the camp on the edge of
small island. about mile to the
northeast. 1t was promptly returned
by thirteen rifles and three inch
| field gun, and in Il short time all the
signs of the enemy had disappeared.
Lieutenants Neville and Shaw, with
thirty men of Company ID, returned
in good shape, but much exhausted
with eighteen hours of picket duty.
One man, Sergeant Smith of Company
II, had been shot through the abdo-
men and instantly killed. For most
of the day and night Lieutenants Ne
vile and Shaw had been surrounded
by much superior force.
Five Spaniards are known to have
been killed, and as Lieutenant Ne
ville's men kept up steady fire all
through the night and the enemy was
not at great distance. il is believed
that the Spanish casualties were hea-
w indeed.
FLAG STILL FLOATS.
GUANTANAMO, Monday, June 49,
noon (by the dispatch boat Wanda,
via Jamaica, June II, a. m.)-After
two nights of hard fighting the Ame-
rican flag floats over Cuban soil on
the encampment of the marine bat
talon and our boys say they will
keep it there until the belated troops
arrive, if it takes until winter.
Were it not for the guns of the
fleet the gallant little band would
be annihilated by the Spanish troops,
who are in overpowering numbers at
Santiago de Cuba. AS it is they prob
ably can hold their position, but they
cannot move forward until re-enforc-
ed.
The tents have been struck and
rolled into breastworks, supplement-
ed by trenches around the crest of
the hill.
1t is impossible to accurately esti-
mate the Spanish attacking force, but
it is numerous enough.
c. l..
night Colonel Huntington decided
that another attempt would be made
Sunday night, and he caused the in
trenchments to be thrown up on all
sides of the camp, and in the tren-
ches the main part of the battalion
last night waited for the attack. 1t
came within short time after dark,
and from that time until daybreak
the firing was incessant and at times
very heavy.
On the American side two men
were killed and four wounded. The
dead are:
Sergeant Major Henry Goode of
the marines, and Private Taumann.
The injured are: Private Wallace,
Private Martin, Private RoXbury, Pri-
vate Burke.
CuBANS COOPERATE.
The fight was the first of the war
in which the Cubans co-operated with
the American forces. and their coop
GRAFTON was not a brilliant success.
The men freely criticise policy
which compels them to hold posi-
tion that could be retaken, they say,
by half an hours shelling, but not
the faintest disposition is manifested
to do otherwise than to fight it out.
WASHINGTON, June 15.-The Ma
Wy Department today posted the fol
lowing bulletins
admiral Sampson reports that he
has been reinforced by several hun.