Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-01-04

! AMeuty fourth pushed their way along
 the trail blocked with halting volun-
 teeTs. First an aid, running full speed
 and swinging his hat, signaled the col
 umn to hurry forward; next a staff
 officer galloped up with Rents second
 message to Wikoff to rush his command
 to the field. Eager to do something.
 even at the risk of disobeying orders
 part of one battalion of the volunteers
 and Rafferty. with F company of an
 other battalion, fell into line, anywhere
 anywhere, tCe,hing elbows with blacks
 and whites, SO long as they could be a'in
 the swlEl. Iaejyidual volunteers also
 broke loose from the stationary ranks and elbowed t9 the front among regu-
 lars. One of these independents was Ans
 tin Pardee, boy of 17, son of a former officer of the Thirteenth, who had cried
 10 take his fathers place and fight for
 the flag until his widowed another i yielded.
 Fording the creek and giving their burning heads cooling dip as they ' passed, the men of the brigade liued up on the bank, leaving WikoiT dead and Worth lying in his blood, the last and most shining sacrifices to the MoIoch of
 'Hell's Crossing. " In the broad field on the left of Hawkins two regiments Wikoff's column struck g zone of pitt less fire, and there the third commander of the brigade, gray haired Liscun of the Twenty-fo1rth, went down. Staff Officer Tayman of the Twenty fourth told ne that his eyes were TiFesed on the noble leader, whose form could be seen cutting its way through the tall grass with giant strides. Like flash of lightning be was seen, then disappeared.
 In the van of the column the Thir- teenth regiment, led by Colonel Worth as far as "Hell's Crossing, climbed up the bank and went through the wire fence, where gaps had already been made. Major Ellis was at it's head, but was soon shot down. There was an open field stretching away up to the block house. This regiment had lost heavily at the crossing, particularly by SpaElsh shrapnel, but moved resistlessly on un- 3fT a. fs.. 7Ifss.s s5Tly S'-.-- ie-4Ne- .@ VI seek shelter under bank some hundred yards from the fort.
 The Ninth regiment. on the left of the Thirteenth, passed the ordeal at the crossing with but little loss. In climb ing the bank it was struck by heavy Mauser fire from San Juan heights and from the trees, left, right and in front. Pressing on in line with the Thirteenth, the regiment halted at the bank and de- iivered its fire upon the SpaBiards in the trenches at the blOckhoUse.
 When the Twenty fourth regiment of blacks appeared in view above the crest of the river bank, the Spaniards ap- parently turned all their fire upon them, hoping, as they said afterward, to de moralize them and precipitate a panic The blacks didn't scare, however.
 Just how long these men halted at the bank is uncertain, for there was no ceS- sation of fighting, and lapse of time was not noted. It was Krag- -Jorgensen against Mauser in the attempt to subdue the Spanisk fire for charge. This stage of the infantry fight was about coinci- dental with the capture of Kettle hill by the cavalry, which has already been described, and took place probably between 12:S0 and l o'clock. Mean while Grimes battery, no longer ham, pered by the balloon, was vigorously shelling the blockhouse and trenches, as was also Parkhurst's battery, Second artillery, which had taken position to the left and front of Grimes near Fl zf kr f-- .r,l clearing Kettle hill, really an ad vanced position of the Spanish line, had allowed the Hotehkiss guns and PaTker's Gatlings to cross San Juan river at the ford of the main road and get to high ground on the southern slope of the hill Parkel 6 lGyent upon the scene marked a crisis ia the attack. He had three guns with him and opened them all upon the blockhouse which Captain Boughton of the Third cavalry pointed out to him. Grimes and Parkhurst, be it remembered, were pouring in their shells, but the Spanish fire did not abate.
 Starting with a low rate of speed, Parker gradually turned his guns up to their highest capacity, and in the space of ten minutes, the muzzles of the guns sweeping gradually along the Spanish trenches, sifted 20, GOO bullets into the crowded works Before the enemy real ized what the horrid hail meant the ominous sound of the machine guns had already terrified them. and they began to leave their pits, preferring possible death outside to certain slaughter with in. Then silence fell upon the block house, upon its loopholed chambers, upon its batteries, upon its trenches fill ed with men.
 But all this time neither the cavalry nor the infantry had stood idle waiting