Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1898-06-14
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GUANTANAMO G
American Marines Engage q
Force Of Spanish Regulars
and Cuerrillas.
Four Of Our Men Killed and the
Advance PIckets Unac-
counted For.
FIGHTING WAS DEsuLToRY
BEGAN at Five in the Afternoon
and Continued Through.
out the Night.
Standards Removed Dead and
Wounded and Their Loss
ls Unknown.

ls Unknown.
Or GUANTANAMO, June 10, via Mole
81. Nicholas, June l3.-Ieutenant
Colonel Huntington's battalion OF
marines, which landed from the trans.
port Panther o. Friday and encampsd
on the hill guarding the abandoned
cable shtion ct tho entrance to tho
outer harbor Of Guantanamo, has been
engaged in heading of rush attack
BY Spanish guezzillas and regulars since
8 o'clock Saturday afternoon. The
fighting was almost contin uous for IL
hours until 6 o'clock in the morning,
when reinforcsmsuts were landed from
che Marblshead. -Four OF our men
were killed and one wounded. The
advance picksts under Leutenants
Neville and Shaw
Are Unsscountsd For.
Among tho killed 10 Assistant Sur.
ssop John Blair Gibbs. son Of Major
Gibbs Of The regular army, who fell in
the Custer massacre His home was at
Richmond, Va. but he has been prac.
tioing in Now York and he entered
the service since the war began. He
was = very popular officer. The others
killed are Sergeant Charles Smith Of
6mallwood, Private William Dunphy
Of Gloucester, Mass, and Private James
MoOolsan Of Stoneham, Mass. Corporal
Glass was accidentally wounded in tho
head. The Spanish loss is unknown
but it
Was Probably Considerable.
The splashes of blood found at day.
light at tho positions the Spaniards oo.
cupied indicate fatalities but their com.
radss carried of the killed and
wounded.
The engagement began with desul.
tory firing at the piokets, 1000 yards
inland from the camp. Captain
spicsr's company was doing guard
duty and was driven in, finally rally.
ing ON the camp and repulsing the
enemy ct 8 O'Clock. The bodies OF
Privates MoColgan and Dunphy we're
found, both shot in the head. The
large cavities caused by the bullets,
which iasids range Of 500 yards have
. rotary motion, indicate that the vic
tins were killed at close range. The
bodies were stripped Of shoes. hats and
cartridge belt and
Horribly Mutuatsd with Machstes.
Shortly after midnight came the main
attack. The Spaniards made gallant
charge up the southwest slope, but
were mot by repeated volleys from the
main body and broke before they were
eue'third Of tho way up to the hilltop.
but they came 10 close that at points
there was almost q hand to hand
struggle. It was during this assault
that Assistant Surgeon Gibbs was
killed. The attacks were continued at
intervals throughout the rest of tho
aight, with firing from small squads in
various directions. Towards morning
tho fire slaokened. Dawn 10 the favor.
Ito time for attack, and, a. the East
paled, the marines, lying on their
guns, were aroused. But no attacks
came Three new s-pound field guns,
which could not be used during the
night for fear Of hitting our own men,
shs,led Several Squads Of spainsrds
after daylight Tho marines, though
much exhausted, were eager for more
Aghting. promising to infliot heavy
punishment. They oomplime ntsd tho
daring Of tho spaniards with charao-
tesistic camp profanity.
Today the amplest precautions have
besn taken. Al the Dauntless was leAv.
ing rsinforcements were landing from
the Narblehead. A stormy time was
expected.
Estimates vary 40 to tho attacking
1orce. some cay 200 and the figures run
- high ~ 1000. Colonel Osmpina,
che Cuban guide, said the Spaniards
we're mostly irregulars, but tho reports
OF the discharge Of Mauser rifles would
indicate that they were regulars, a.
most Of the guerrillas carry Reming.
tona
CONTROLS THE CABLE.
oempsen WIN Soon Have Direct Commu.
.ieation With Washisston.
Orr GUANTANAMO BAY, June II, via
Kingston, Jamaica, juno l8.-1n con.
orolling the outer harbor Of Guanatana-
mo, where Lieutenant Colonel Hunting.
ton's battalion of marines landed on
Friday, Rear Admiral Sampson secures
possession Of tho Cuban terminus Of
che French cable to Hayti. The appar.