Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-02-18

and Of the campaign Shafter says that
the two hours between d. and o'clock
% July were the most aaonixins 90 all
his existence, lie traliEed that the en-
tire force of Kent and Wheeler was be-
ing held on the slopes OF San Juan ridge
and that I.awton's division. instead OF
attacking fhfther up the same ridge M
a diversion. was out OF that fight for the
day. Failure 10 carry ana hold Fan Juan
ridge, once the issue had been Joined on
It's shot ridden slopes. meant the de-
slructlon ~ every battalion engaged
there. II would have been u rcpulsc aH
bloody and decisive MS that Of Pickett
nj Gettysburg. with u sequel ~ horrible
~ any battle stampede In history. The
deadly angie Mt Heirs Crossing" was
behind the rapidly thinning line. then
almost but not quite up 20 the crest. ana
the key To the field was atill In the
hands ~ the defiant spaniards.
/ suddenly. from colEn Of vantage far
| In advance % some OF the American
troops parker'H guns began Co play.
and In III" space Of eight minutes sifted
20 600 Krag .JorgenHen bullets along the
spanish trenches from the right 10 the
left and back again. An officer Of the
Thirteenth Infantry. which was hugglng
the ground at bench some hundred
yards down the slope from the fort.
waved his handkerchief 10 Parker Az a
signal that II was all over. Major Au-
man, brave gray haired leader ~ the
same regiment, Hnranf 90 his feet and
shouted. Boys, the spanlards are run.
nlng, forward. Thirteenth" This In.
spring hattlccry Of Auman was heard
throughout both PROSTATE brlgndea. and
La a. 10 a A.. a
abandoned trenches and blockhouAe.
There was but one answer TO quea.
lions about the condition ana conduct
| ~ the Spanlards when the line closed In,
, That was that no Spnninrds were seen
there EXCEPT tho dead and wounded In
. the trenches and those running away
, The trenches. II was said. were called
D with dead nnd wounded spanlards.'
q parkera doluRe OF bullets had done
4 fearful work, even giving full credit &c
e the Infantry IRE which had been poured
a In al an elevation from down the slop,
= 49, the iufnntfs advanced.
I Hatllugs were not new 10 the arm,
a when u set out TO smash the Spanish
4 power In Culu; neither was the totped,
3. a new weapon when Gushing downct
!. the uollathlkc Alhcmniie with on,
q small enough 10 remain hidden under
y meath hiH coat, II was tho new, boil,
a way ~ doing things which scored bi,
4 results IA each case. Nor was Parker
= battery mn ordinary appendagc OF tn
n army OUTFIT, supplied In the ROUTINE
II way, like so many other features, goo'
n or bad. merely because II existed AM
@ had u raunF In the military rrturns a
y 'on hand Tor service" Its creation wa
y due To rhrksr's individual enthusiasm
y and psrsittonee and It's adoption TO IN
n sound sense and unconventional meth
Y DDS Of the commander OF the aantlag
y expedition, only six years out Of Yves
y pulni the young lieutenant had elunl
" to HIS classroom theories and made
T. study of rapid IRE guns. urging upol
e HE elders and superiors their wider US
In warfare. IN other words, h. inslste
l. that they might be 80 handled na 1
IN force the lighting ana not simply I
y ward IN attacks, Swsrms OF savage