Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1903-10-29
H0N0RS WERE EVEN
An Exciting Pitched Battle Oc-
CURED at Fort Riley.
Almost Like Real War - a Battery
Was Captured with n Rush by
Cavalry. but Soon After Re-
taken by IA Brilliant Ne
gro Infantry Charge.

was pitched battle Friday seven
miles northeast of the maneuver
camp and it came about as close to
the real thing as Is possible with
blank cartridges. 1t was good to look
upon, better to be in and full of in
fantry dash and the touch and go of
cavalry work.
The Browns, under Gen. Barry,
represented a force advancing from
the north. The Blues, under Gen.
Bell having been pushed out on a
reconnaissance were attacked at once
by the Browns and the resultant mix
up co(tituted contact of opposing
forces of all arms" Gen. Barry's
fore which marched out Thursday
evening and endured a chilly bivouac.
was forbidden by the conditions of
the problem to march forward before
1920 a. IN. Gen. Bell left his camp
at 1890 a. m. and by the time Gen.
Barry was privileged to start was
close upon him and ready for opera
tions.
As soon as the Browns moved out
Col. Duncan, leading the Sixth infan-
try, the advance of Gen. Bells force,
charged home on their left flank, roll
ing it up and driving it back toward
y
were quickly put out of action by Col.
Duncan, who then swung in close up
on the rear of the Browns and cap
tured their entire baggage train. So
tar the battle was all for the Blues,
but Gen. Barry's turn was coming,
and his right came down on the Blue
left IN a fashion to make the latter
gentlemen wonder why they had ever
pOnp into the war Inn CinpGS
While his infantry poured in a
heavy fire from the ridges. Il squadron
Of the Tenth cavalry moved up ra-
vine close to the left of Gen. Bells
position and then, climbing a hill and
peering over the crest Capt. Johnson
beheld Gen. Bell and his entire staff
riding but short distance away.
Gen. Barry. who was close up, order
ed Capt. johnson to charge and cap
ture Gen. Bell, and if possible the
Twentieth field battery, which was
just in front. Johnson ordered the
charge and in an instant he and his
colored troopers were over the sum-
NIT of the battery. The guns turned
loose for few shots that would
have laid out many of Johnson's men
and then it was all over. On a dead
run Capt. Johnson with his troopers
was in among the guns, and the bat
terry was captured.
Without hating after dashing
through the battery Capt. johnson
tore on after Gen. Bell, but here he
failed and lost his life for the day.
Between him and the prize he sought
was a rank of men of the same color
as his own, the boys of the Twenty
fifth infantry. Just as johnson seem
ed to be swinging in on his prize,
line of dark faces rose in front and
volley after volley was poured almost
into him and his men.
The Twcnty-ffth then rushed for
ward to counter charge, recaptur-
ing the battery and then. coming
down on the far side of the crest, they
carried at the point of the bayonet
the Nineteenth battery of Gen. Bar
rvs force that had just come up. The
guns were wheeled like lightning on
the Twenty-tifth, but the colored men
with loud cheers and firing with Won
derful rapidity, charged along the
hill and there was nothing that could
stop them. The battery was theirs
and they held it. While this charge
was taking place Col. Lincoln's Fifty
first Iowa, which is in all things high
ly praised by the military critic, came
forward on ridge parallel to that
along which the Twenty-ffth was
charging and became hotly engaged
with the support of the battery that
had been taken by the Twenty-ifth.
There is grim earnestness in the
fighting of the Iowa regiment that
makes it an important factor no mat
ter what the opponent pitted against
it.
They came plunging down the hill,
crossed ravine and ascended the
hill on the farther side just in time
to meet an attack that Gen. Barry
was sending in upon the Blue center.
1t was hot enough for anybody and
the Iowa boys were given all they
could do. A part of the Twenty-ffth
came out to aid them, but Gen. Barry
made a vicious battle.
Iowa was soon overmatched al
though she still hung on and the Ne
braska and Missouri regiments sent
up aid. Gen Barry was not to be de-
MED, however, and his men came on
steadily, pouring in a fearful file ire
tnat would have been woefully de-
structve of life in an actual fight.
The fight was at it's hottest and the
men were pressing closer when Col.
Wagner, the senior umpire, sounded
the recall and the battle closed
A Battle I'm II Tunnel,
Wheeling, w. Va, Oct. 24.-One man
is dead, one is dying and three others
seriously wounded as the result of
clash between officers and mob of
angry negro laborers and foreigners
at Flushing, o. The battle took place
in the tunnel of the Baltimore g. Ohio
railroad at Flushing, shortly after 10
o'clock last night. Nrhe dead John
G. Elliott marshal of Flushing. Fa-
tally wounded: William Smith, col
Grad shot throuUb ban6 Seriously