VOLUME XXVIII.
WILSON, 1 C., AUGUST 4, 1898.
NUMBER 31.
STANTON'S IDEA OF IT.
The Admiral's Views on the
Na val Bat lie Off Santiago.
QUE SAILOES WERE NOT NAPPD5G.
!., r rrhnac Not a Stopper, He Says.
Thinks Onr Ships Were Constantly Un
der Way llcfore the Fight Mistake That
Orvera Made How the Action Was Be
dim A Glorious Running Fight The
Vroper Way to Fight, Fight I Warm
1 raise For Lieutenant Wainwright.
, ,
, Roar .Admiral Oscar F. Stanton, U. ;
y: N.. retired, one of the best known. .;
and ablest tacticians and naval strute- j
uists in the United States, has given to ''
.the "Iew ioik worm me nrsc authentic
and authorized explanation of just what
occurred off Santiago de Cuba Sunday,
July ', when Commodoro Winfield Scott
,i hlcy, with the vessels under his eorii-
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stroyiiig all the Spanish vessels UDdi
Admiral Cervera's Command. , W
"That the Merrirnao did not block
til l channel' completely' is uudeit)(.dl.'
ktid-Adu;iral Stanton. " We knmvfrrtnr
r ports mado public somo time ago that
tluro was deep water at both bowaud
ft. ru oi me iuerriuiuc. inn Vesuvius, ir
v. ill l) remembered, succeeded in steam -ii
'j; clean arouiid .the wreck some nights
ao. We don't know as yet which side
t.f the channel was chosen by tho Sj-au-A
admiral in making his exit. Accord
ins to the reports printed, we aigiven
to understand that the Spanish . war
hips, after passing clear of 'Morro,
lu aded in a westerly direction at .-once.
I don't believe that this is correct. My
recollection is that the water, directly to
the-west of tho mouth ol the harbor is"
rather shallow. On the ether side (the
ilorro Hide) tho water is very deep. The
hifih bluff would explain that When I
was first oil &mtiago in 18u8, aboard
tlie "Constellation, wo hovo to outside
i.iid sent a Iniat inside. We did not en
ter the harbor proper at that time on ao-
cnant of sickness.. I mention this in or
iler to explain what I believe to be a
mistakn in the rciorts furnished thus
fur. Wo are given to understand that
the American" ships were anchored off
shore. I think tlie? water is entirely too
(h ep for anchorage; there. I bhould
think that our ships must have been
kept under way constantly.
"Tho reason why the Spanish admiral
fhii.se to make a dash for liberiy and
freedom on a Sunday' morning was be
cause ho believed ho would catch cur
an u napping. It was juat there that he
. .'made his mistake. lie knew that we al
ways hc;ld our musters nud inspections
on board ship- Sunday mornings. He
believed, no doubt, that wo did not
have siifrlcient steam up on our ships to
enable us to follow him at once. He.
ir.ithermore beliovcd and ho might
have had good reason for, such belief
that ho would 1 ab'lo to run away from
our ships on account of the superior
speed pv':Hed by tho vessels ttuder his
command.' Yon might say that there
was a difference in speed between the
American and Spanish warships averag
ing about f onr knots.
"Wo find-at tho time Cervera mado
his 'mad dash that the flagship New
York, flying tho flag of Rear Admiral
Sampson, -wad some distimco away, and
still proceeding in an easterly direction,
he was bound foiv the - landing place
where Admiral' Sampson intended to
' communicate with General Shatter of
the ari'ay. This mission of the admiral,
no doubt, Was a very important one.
He could not know beforehand that the
Spanish nhips would attempt to make
th.eir escape. But at tho Fame time it
rnust bo remembered that the other
American warships left behind to guard
the mouth of the harbor of Santiago
Wire. distributed as had. been arranged
for weeks probably. Wo' find the In
diamv Iowa, pregon and Texas, four of
the finest battleships of our glorious
JUtvy, together witly the Brooklyn, fly
inn the Dormant of Commodoro Schley1.
m a half circle around' the mouth of the
harbor. Tho Gloucester and the Ericsson
and maybe some minor boats were also
en guard. These vessels were, no doubt,
drifting leisurely about. Tho necessary
precautions had been 1 taken. The look-
iit men wero at the stations, and. the
mimth of tho harbor was being watched
xenthiuous-ly. Now comes the report
that tho Spanish -ships are trying to es
C'ipe. And hero wa come to the first pio
turn. Tho fleet of Spanish warships had
to lcavo the harbpr in single file. This
was necessary on account of .the narrow
ness of the channel, and also because of
tlie shallow vv-itor to hn found near the
entrance to tho harbor.
"Tho renorts. say that the Soanish
"hips tho m'oment they cleared the har
i:r projier took a course directly west.
I think this is truo Only, as concerned
the torpedo destroyers."' The bigger ships
ime t have headed southeast, for some
time at least. With that course they
werj practically heading for the center
i' tho, half circle of our ships.
Tho very first moment the American
h'kout men saw tho Spanish ships the
fci enc.s aboard our warships had changed.
1'Iiero was prompt action. It is here
.that the great training of both officers
m l l ien camo into play. Our men are
hit' indent men. They are noble men.
Tiny are tho tru sailors of the age.
WIpK,- tho Spunisli toriiedo.boat destroy
" head right off to tho westward, the
!,T;.i r i-hips of the enemy continue in a
'Uiherly.directiol. Our ships come on
t'lv. ud them, praictically closing in on
tlieev and pouring a fearful fire upon
theu '"'; '
'"You can see from this picture just
h
;W tho firi-hfr. nrn'orPocA Tt. miffht OTOD-
('ily Ik) called a running fight, and it
'a in flisifc ruBTiPpt: t.hnt nnr f-nmmaiid-
(Is
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howed tho greatest skill and abu
You must, not forget that the forts
itv.
vcr.i Ktill in existence. Our ships were
'MKilled not only to fight the ships of
O J3 1? H. I J. m"
Bnnri. ih -- Thfl Kind Ynu Havn Alwavs Rnnrrfit
SlEnature
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i 1i:iH hnr ttm ... ... . - I - I I , . " -. . ' . '- - ' :
Jpaiu, Due tno torts ox c pufi,- or ratner
to try to keep out of the way of the fire
or the forts while the sea light was in
progress. The most terrific execution
was doae while the Spanish ' fleet was
still within range df the guns of Morro.
That our ships succeeded in making such
short work of the Spanish ships was due
principally to the fact that our officers
and men are better gunners. There is no
douU about that. - And then, again, wo
must net forget that credit is duo to the
men in the engine rooms. Spain has
had considerable tremble with her en
gineers. Mostly Englishmen and Scotch
men have been employed as chief en
gineers of these big warships., I under
stand, however, that when hostilities
broke out most of the foreign engineers
abandoned the Spanish fleets. The run-
ning fight is continued. Our ships, after
the enemy's entire fleet has passed out
of Santiago harbor, steams abreast and
continues to firyhr. Tkpnnn wmm.
are trying to get. ahead of the ships of
mo cmj, m mis way wo- can see
where our ships are practically cutting
the Spanish ships off.
"This is the proper way to fight.
Push your enemy all you can. Try to
get him near the rocks and this, you
see, is just what ouiyrnen are doing. In
this way wo , soon Jave tho enemy's
ships at our mercy, except tho fleet Co
lon, which is steaming to the westward
at her highest rate of speed. Ah, but
look at our boats! Here aro tho ships of
Spain capable of steaming about 20
knots an hour. We find tho Oregon
after making a run of 17,000 miles as
compared with a run of 3,000 miles
made by tho armored cruisers of tho
Cape Verde fleet. The bottoms of our
ships are supposed to be more foul than
the bottoms of the Spanish ships. And
yet, with all these odds against us, we
keep abreast of the Colon. We do more
we steam ahead of her and capture
her. And look at tho Texas ! She travels
for two hours under forced draft at the
rate of over 10 miles. Wonderful!. Do
. you know what that means? Do you
realize how these brave Americans
work and work in the hot flrcroonis be-,
low? It is that kind of work that tells.
But I can realize how our nieu worked.
They wero fighting for the stars and
stripes, and they wercrremembering the
Maine. "
"In this way we find tho Vizcaya,
Oquendo, Maria Teresa and tho two tor
pedo boat destroyers disposed of in short
order. The Brooklyn succeeds in cut
ting the Colon off. Then the Oregon
comes up under her quarters, and finally
the Texas is cn hand. Can you wonder
that under such circumstances tho Span
ish admiral struck his colors? What has
happened is this: First we have suc
ceeded in getting the Spanish ships and
our ships at the same time outside of
the range of the forts, and then we have
kept up a fearful, deadly running fight
from the very start to the very end !
"Tho part the Gloucester played in
this sea fight cannot be estimated too
highly. Lieutenant Commander Richard
Wainwright, her- commander, deserves
all the praise that has been given to
him. I have the pleasure of knowing
Mr. Wainwright personally. Ho served
under me, and I want to stato that he
is a wonderful man, an excellent officer.
At the time I was the commanding offi
cer of the flagship Tennessee, when Ad
miral Jouott commanded tho north At
lantic squadron, Mr. Wainwright was
attached to the flagship as senior watch
officer. You remember there "was trouble
on tho isthmus of Panama A revolu
tion had broken out, aud'the American
ships were sent to Colon for the purpose
of seeing to it that there was an unin
terrupted transit from' one ocean to the
other across the isthmus. It became
necessary .to land our marines and sail
ors. Mr. Wainwright commanaeu me
first division of that landing party.
There was fire in his eye when ho was
assigned to that command, and he cer
tainly proved himself a most efficient
officer. Theu, later on, he was appoint
ed secrotary. to Admiral Jouett- He is
an author as -well as a fighter. He has
written several books. , His works are
being printed. But, notwithstanding
the fact that we havo had peace for so
lnnr .i time, our officers and men have
had opportunities at-times to land and
go into actual service. Suchexercise
kepes them in practice, of which they
avail themselves most fully.
"Yon ask me what difference there
was, if any, between the battle fought
at Manila and the battle at Santiago
last Sunday. These two battles are en
tirely different, although the glorious
results achieved may have been the
same. " The greatest difference between
these two fights was that at Manila the
Spaniards wero compelled to receive the
attack made upon them. At Santiago,
on the Cither side, tho enemy's ships
were free to make such use oi their
guns as they saw fit.' They could ma
neuver their ships. At Manila the an
chors were down, and at times no doubt
certain guns could not . bo brought to
bear upon our bhips. Then, again, there
was a difference iu tho ships themselves
at these- two points. At'Manila we had
no regular firsr class armored ships on
our side,, nor had we armored ships to
fight against. At Jlantiago I might say
that tho strength-of our ships lay in the
armor. Our urmor w as probably more
. powerful than the armor of the ships of
Admiral CVryera. But you 'must not
forget one other very important, factor
-r-tiiut is. that tho ships of Spain were
hiore - spusdy than oor; ships, a fact
Avir-Ich wc-Lt far to offset our advantage
in ur. v int iS
Ho 1 would give tho wqrld for you.
She-Is that . all? Why, you offered
that , much before the war raised prices.
allow ourscIf to be sl -wly tor
tured at fuj stake nf ili.sease ? Chills
and KtutT vviH underm'iu-. aivl eventu
ally 1 ri-a'k dm n the strfnst-st TonstV
in i. n ' ' li H K I ' U K A (S w c l ( hill
ro iic Vif trun) is inorc iTective than
Qninin- and h. ing com!)iiu;l with Iron
is an exit iieot Tonic and N rvinMed
ii:ntr.
li iple 'sar.t t t ik . is soui
un'i'cr -positive j-u.i iHu.it v ...
mon. y rcf.imk-d Acnpt iw substt,
tit'' es. The "just as good" kiiid don't
effect cures.'- Sold by.13. VV Har?rave.
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OUR ROUGH RIDERS.
EPISODES OF THEIR FIRST ACTION
BEFORE SANTIAGO.
How They
Were Snrprisfil Uv llta Rpr.n
lartlHOfllrors Warns I T.i.it ttn Cinf
o! Van Vm.! :ijv. i.:.t Kama Oac't
rvathJriwfU - n.n
-Writing under
irt -.f V.'ar.
the ilitA of Juno 1
from Siboney. Cuba, tho New Yor!:
Post's corresijoudeat.-;' ikseribc tub fir...
fight of the rough rider at I-a Quasinu
as follows:
It is now conipr.-hcndeiV tiiat':-yoKter-tlay'a
skirmish bet wea ambushed Sisin
iards and rough, riuer.4 was a mere mcr i
,upi due to wuut of thS inost ordinary
military pruden.-x). A fow ragged Cu
bans wero ahead, and-following, singlj
file, were a drnmmer, a corporal, a ser
geant, and so on -ho flanking force all
advancing along tho trail through tho
close growiu g bush, garrulous as a lot
of laborers g ing homeward after a day 'a
work. Abbe the tramping noises and
tho confnsio i of voices you could hear
Jim Smith, who used to keep the store
at Red Horse, I. T.i arguing with much
blasphemy about the -capabilit ies oi
Sheriff Sukes in -sobering up, though
nearly insensible with drink, to meet an
emergency, or you caught tho high rasp
ing accent of Led .linkson asserting,
"Now, - ' it. his name 'was
Green, 1 tell ye. . There was- another
sound, too, and correspenilents'who hud
.heard it during tho anxious nights at
'Camp MeCalla-felt exciting apprehen
sions. Itjwas tho soft too-coo-coo of the
wood dove in the chanarral.
In vnin rtirt thnv wnrn thn r-PHrfra thn
the cooing of the wood dove was for
somo one the knell of death. Theso
.troops were fresh from the transports,
having no acquaintance with tho Cuban
bush or Spanish warfare. It is difficult
at first to realize in war that human be
ings with guns are lying ' in wait for
you, and that they will shoot to kill.
On straggled the horseless troopers,, ex
ecrating tho sun which made them drop
out and sit by the wayside or throw oft
their blankets and half tents as deadly
burdensome or suffer pangs of thirst
with no relief in their canteens or fall
back to the hospital lino or tumble,
overcome, in the path. Forward the lino
came across the body of a Cuban. Tho
snoc that Killed him was not heard above
the clamor of marching and talking.
Immediately there was firing from
lef right and front But you know tho
story Mauser rifles and -machine gunn
from ambush played among our men
; with horrifying havoc. As is the Amer
ican impulse, oaths and imprecations
rose from the wounded -and their com
rades till Colonel Wood commanded,
"Don't swear;, fight 1" It was a relief
to swear, but it also was a relief to
fight, and with chins set grimly theTjx
asperated troops, at one time fiat on tho
ground, later in extended order, shot
blindly in the directions from which
bullets came. Overhead rtheso bulleta
cracked and snapped among tho twign
till it was thought they woro explod
ing Of course the men wero a bit do
moralized by the sudden attack and tho
stampede of the mules. The thing to
do. the infectious thought of the mo
ment, was to run. .1 . -
"Come to your senses, men 1" yelled
one of the officers, i and before long
Troops L and G were advancing, driv
ins: ahead the hidden enemy. Hero was
a Spanish soldier, in nis blue dungaree,
stretched on his back, amid American
dead, arms thrown out,' jaw fallen and
eyes staring at the sun and not blinking
ny more. To see' men bleed, to see
them thrash in agony and foam at the
mouth, is unsettling to the nerves. You
are not surprised when a friend, face
flaming with heat and excitement,
rushes up to, tell you something,- stops
still and can find only voice enough to
say a weak, choking, inconsequent
'Hello." What lie wants to say is that
Ham Fish is shot, as you learn after
ward, and that his bead is so i badly
shattered that only by a watch in the
dead boy's pocket can you bo assured
that it indeed is Fish. -
Several give their attentions to one
man, wounded in the spine, upon whose
brain tho hurt is pitiful. In a sane mo
ment (is it a sane moment?) he asks for
a cigarette, and on tho stretcher, para
lyzed below tho waist, he smokes in
seeming oomf or t. It is very kind of
them, ho says, to help him so much,
but aren't they missing the fight? He
swoons again; again ho revives and
asks for a cigarette. Then in a pleasant
baritone he sings "It Is Moonlight on
the Wabash, " going through every
6tanza, wondering perhaps that nobody
joins. "Boys," he asks, "will youbave
a hansom on the beach for me? I've got
to meet Mr. right away. " . Yes,
they tell .him, 'there will bo a hansom
on the beach for hiim It suceests New
York to them Madison square, upper
Broadway, with its rumble and life,
sidewalks filled with fine women going
to the matinee or to shop, where you
have but to raise your finger to send a
hurt man easily to hospital. It is night
before they get this one to the little
shed where the dead and wounded lie
together, candles making the place
weird by their little, bright, undiff used
specks of light.
Who were the dead? It was days be
fore it could be known. Looking for the
bodies the men found corpses without
faces. "Not vultures," explained the
Cubans, "but laud crabs. " There were
the ugly; -crawling things that had come
across the path at tho naino time the
wood doves cooed, frightened from their
holes in the bushy ground by Spaniards
Brieaking up to our unsuspecting line.
We did not read tho -signs, and the
crabs feasted. This may not look nice
in print, but think of Jooking upon the
thing itself and give up whatever illu
sions you may have that war is any
thing but helL -
To make your business pay, gfood
health is a prime factor. To secure
good health, the blood should be kept
pure and vigorous by the ust- of Avt'f's
Sarsaparilla. f Whm.lhe vital fluid is
impure and ;sluggish, thete'ean be
neith health, strength, rur ambition -
GENERAL CHARLES KING.
Ifovellat Who Haa Returned to the Army
to Take Fart In the War. -.
The war has made few men as happy
as Captain (now Brigadier General)
Charles King, tho novelist. It will in
terfere with his literary work, but, suc
cessful as he has been with the penhis
i:;e:ids say that his larger love is for
sword. In all the years of his retire
ment he has never:' ceased to bo tho sol
dier, and in that capacity has foroid as
much to do in his community as his
vrciLIng hours would allow him to.
Ho is a small man for a warrior, be
ing not more than 5 feet 4 inches in
height, but every inch a soldier. Ho is
as straight as tlie traditioual Indian
BniGADIEIi GENERAL CHAKLES KING.
and seems taller on that account, as all
men of military carriage do. A man
who was a pupil at the Washington and
Lee university when General. Lee was
in charge of it once said he asked a
dozen men known to be close observers
how tall they thought a certain soldier
was. The invariable answer was that
he was not less than 0 feet. Yet his real
height was only 5 feet 10 inches.
General King in private life has been in
pretty constant demand as the director
of parades, tho dnllmaster of military
companies and the like. His dress was
always either wholly er in part mili
tary, but even apart from this nobody
could take him for anything but a sol
dier. After his service as military in
structor at the University of Wisconsin
he put the Liight horse squadron, . a
swell company at Milwaukee, through
the regular army discipline and made it
as useful as its giddy uniform was or
namental, i " .-
The translation of Captain King's
novels into German brought hinvinto
-correspondence and iicquaiutanco with
a number of officers t of the German
army. Five years agolargely through
their invitation, he went to Germany
to study the forms otTjailitary life there.
This was not cn intri)ticH to-4ua
work, for ho kept up his regular work
ing hours even when he was tho guest
of German officers. The activity of tho
volunteer army, however, will not leave
much time for literary pursuits, but to
fight the Spaniards is the most pleasing
form his vacation could take. New
York Sun.
The destruction of the Spanish fleet
at Santiago has added immensely, to the
prestige of our navy in European eyes.
The Pall Mall Gazette says that since
this last achievement the United States
might, if need be,' "dictate terms to
Spain in the bay of Cadiz. "
Admiral Sampson was instructed to
permit Admiral Cervera and any of his
officers and men to cable any messages
home. Cervera cabled his wife that be
was a prisoner, not seriously wounded
and well treated; His -wife refused to
believe the message.
Don't Neglect Your Liver.
Liver troubles quickly result in scrioiu
..triplications, and the man who neglects his
iver has little regard for health. A bottle
if Browns' Iron Bitters taken now and then
will keep tlie liver in perfect order. If the
Hsease has developed, Browns' Iron Bitters
will jCure, it permanently. Strength am?
"vitality will always follow its nse.
Browns' Iron Bitters is sold by all dealers.
iTHE SPANISH BULLETS.
They Are Inclosed In Iira9 Ca&ingg,
.Which Civilized Nations Diacoanteaiinca.
Samples of the Mauser cartridges used
by the Spanish troops were received at
the navy department recently from
Guantanamo, where the Uuited States
marines, under Lieutenant Colonel
Huntington, held their own after sev
eral desperate encounters with " the
enemy. When the cartridges were, ex
amined by ordnance experts, they ex
pressed indignation and astonishment at
the character of- the projectiles. The
marines under Huntington believed that
the Spaniards were using, explosive
bullets. While tho samples, received
do not confirm this opinion it is un
doubtediy .true that the bullets have a
tendency to expand, thus causing the
jagged wound of exit which gave Ad
miral Sampson and other officers the
impression that the marines killed had
been mutilated.
But the thing that excited the indig
nation of the ordnance experts was the
discovery that the Spanish projectiles
were inclosed in a brass casing, which
is almost sure to cause blood poisoning
to the person wounded. Officers say that
the use of the brass casings is not coun
tenanced in warfare by civilized ua
tions, and it was not ' believed that the
Spanish had resorted to the practice,
which is considered nothing short of
barbarous, as it frequently results in
the death through poisoning of those
.only slightly wounded. New ' York
Sin i - '. - ;
)i r I i m t-?i 1 1 1 .
Permauoully ' tirt! by ihe tnater'v
pov rs , of "S ni h -Aiii'.'ricaii .v'. rviae
Poni;' Invalids neetl suiT --t ii'inter.
bet anst- this irrUJt rfii;e!i". tan 'iire
tliem a 1. It is "a curr f.-r tlx- whole
wr' -t r sionuch wt-akiii'ss a-:ld.,indi-
gt-stion." I ht. cur iH-irms wit n; the first
dse. The relit f it. brings is marvel-'
ltiiisan- surpjsing- t Hu.kt s m fail
ure ;. "-never . disapjHtints. N'o matter
how long vou have sutlVred, your ure
is certain under the- .iisc of jh-i . great
health giing..torc., . I'leHsan- and al
wjiys sflTt' " " . . -i -: -
Sold by E. Nadal, Druggist,
Wilson, N. C.
CAPTURE OF EL CAHEY.
Graphic Description of the Fight
ing by Mr. W. R. Hearst.
IIER0I0 ADVANCE OP INPAHTET.
Kkili J Coarage of America Oanners.
Spanish . Had the Exact Bsnee' of Onr
Batteries now Capron Battered the
- i - . . .
Fort ct Caney Last Great Charge When
tho Fort Was Taken Story Creelman
Dictated While Wounded and In Pain.
How General Chaffee Urged His Men to
Meet the Fpe. " '-. .' .
Mr. W. R. Hearst, editor of the New
York Journal, writing under the date of
July 1 from ' Siboney, - Cuba, sent the
following dispatch to his paper describ
ing the capture of El Caney by our
troops: -, . .
Tonight, as I write this, the am
bulance trains are bringing wounded
soldiers from the.battle around the little
inland village" of El Caney. Siboney,
the base, is a hospital- nothing more.
There is no saying Avhere it will cease.
The tents are crowded with the wound
ed. . Surgeons aro busy with their me
chanical work. There is an odor of an
aesthetics and a clatter of ambulances in
the one narrow street.
Under the fierce fire of artillery;
which it was scarcely supposed the
Spaniards had in store, the American
infantry and dismounted cavalry have
done their work. I have been at the ar
tillery positions all. day to see what our
guns could or could not do. There is no
question to . be raised of the skill or
courage of the American gunners.
Their work was as near perfectas gun
nery gets to be. But there was no artil
lery to speak of. I set out before day
break this morning on horseback with
Honore Laine, who is a colonel in the
Cuban army and has served for months
as a newspaper correspondent in Cuba.
We rode over the eight miles of difficult
country which intervenes between the
army base on the coast and the line
which is being driven forward toward
Santiago.
We arrived at the front, on the ridge
of El Pozo, where our batteries were
assailing the advance line of .the Santi
ago defenses. El Pozo was ill chosen as
the position of our batteries, for the
Spaniards had formerly 'occupied it as a
fort. - They knew, precisely the distance
to it from their'guns and began their
fight with : the advantage of perfect
knowledge of tho range. Upon a white
house back of the ridge their first shell
exploded in a -very . unpleasant way,
leaving its 'marks from foundation to
TorjfT3fthe Housed whoso doors we were
approaching. - .
We turned here to the right toward
our battery on the ridge. . When we
were half way between tho white house
and the battery the second shell which
the Spaniards fired burst above the
American battery, ten feet over the heads
of the men. Six of our fellows were
killed and 16 wounded. The men in the
battery wavered for a minute and then
returned to their guns," and the firing
went on. We passed from there to the
right again, where General Shaf ter's
war balloon was ascending. Six shells
fell in. this vicinity.- Theu . our battery
ceased firing. Smoke s clouds from our
guns Were forming altogether too plain
a target for the Spaniards. There was
no trace to be made out of the enemy's
fire, by reason of their use of smokeless
powder. . . .
Off far to the right of the line of for
mation Captain Capron 's -artillery.
which had come through from paiquiri
without rest could be heard banging
away at El Caney. We hadstarted with
a view to getting where we could ob
serve the, artillery operations, so we di
rected our courses thither. We found
Captain Capron blazing away with four
guns where.he should have had a dozen.
He had begun shelling El Caney at 4
o'clock in the morning. It was now
noon, and he was still firing. - He was
aiming to redrtce the large stone fort
which stood on the. hill above the town
and- commanded it. Since that time
dozens of shells had struck fhe fort, but
it was not yet reduced. It had been
much weakened, however. Through
glasses pur infantry cpuld be seen ad
vancing toward it, as the cannon at our
"side would bang, and a shell would
swish through the. air with its queru
lous, vicious, whining note. ' The In
fantry firing was ceaseless. Our men
were popping away continuously, as a
string of firecrackers pops," and the
Spaniards were firing in volleys when
ever our me;h came in bight in the open
spaces. Many times we heard this y6l-
ley fire and saw numbers cf " our brave,
fellows Ditch forward and lie still on
the turf, while the others hurried on to
the next protecting clump of bushes.
For hours the Spaniards poured their
fire from slits' in the stone fort, from
their deep trenches - and from the win
dows of the town. . For hours our men
answered back from trees and brush and
gulleys. For hours cannon at our doors
banged and shells screamed through the
air and fell upon the fort and town, and
always our infantry advanced, drawing
nearer and closing up ou the village,
till at last they formed under a tiroup of.
trees at the foot of - the very hill on
which the stone fort stood and with a
rush swept up the slope, and the stone
fort was ours.
Then you should have heard the yell
that went up from - the knoll on which
our battery stood. , Gunners, drivers,
Cubans and correspondents swung their
hats and gave a mighty cheer. . Immodi-
atelv our batteries stonnod firing for
fear we would hurt our own men, and.
dashing down into the valley, the bat
teries burneu across to taue up a posi
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tion near our own lniantry, who were
now firing cn El Caney from the block
house and. wero entering tlie struts of
the towm. The artillery had not sent a
half dozen shots from the new position
before the musketry firing ceursi and
te opaniards, broken Into small
bunches, fled .from El Caney in the di
rection of Santiago.
Laine and .myself hurried up to the
stone forts and found that Mr. Creel -man,
The Journal's correspondent with
the Infantry columns, had been serious
ly wounded and was lying in the
Twelfth infantry hospital. I found him
bloody and bandaged, lying on his back
on a blanket on the ground, but all the
care andrattention that kind and skill
ful surgeons could give him were shown
to him, and his first .words to me wero
that he was afraid he could not write
much of a story, as he was pretty well
dazed, but if I would write for him he
would dictate the best he could. I sat
down among the wounded, and . Mr.
Creelman told me his story of the fight
I think it is a good one. Here it is:
"The extraordinary thing in this
fight of all the fights I have seen is the
enormous amount of ammunition fired.
There was a continuous roar of mus
ketry from 4 o'clock in the morning
until 4 o'clock in the afternoon. Gen
eral A. R. Chaffee's brigade beoaa the
fight by moving along the extreme
right, Ludlow's command being down
in the low country, to the left of El
Caney. General Chaffee's brigade con
sisted of the Seventeenth, Seventh and
Twelfth infantry, and was without
artillery. It occupied the extreme right.
The formation was like the two sides of
an equilateral triangle. - Lieutenant
Colonel Ludlow was to the south and
General Chaffee to the east. Lieutenant
Colonel Ludlow began firing through
the brush and we could see through the
palm trees and tangle of bushes the
brown and blue figures of. our soldiers
in a line a mile long, stealing from tree
to tree and from bush to bush, firing as
they went up the heights.
"General Chaffee, facing El Caney,
moved his' troops very early in the
morning. The battle opened by Ludlow's
artillery firing on the fort and knocking
several holes in it. The artillery kept
up a steady fife on the fort and town
and finally.demolished the fort Several
times the Spaniards were driven from
it. Each time they returned before the
infantry could approach it."-. Our artil
lery had but four small guns, though
they fired with great accuracy. It was
ten hours before the artillery reduced
the stone fort on the hill and enabled
pur infantry to take possession. The
Twelfth infantry occupied the left, the
Seventeenth the right, and the Seventh,
made up of many recruits, occupied. the
center. The Spanish fired from loop
holes in the stone houseand, further
more, were cn tho east side of the lor
in trenches. They fought like devils.
From all the ridges round about the
Bcream-pf firing was kept up. General
Chaffee's men were wondering how
they were being wounded. "For a time
they thought that Ludlow's men were
on the opposite side of the fort and were
firing over it. The fact was that the
fire came from heavy breastworks on the
northwest corner of El Caney, where
the principal Spanish force lay with
their hats on sticks to deceive. The en
emy poured- in a fearful fire. The 1 7 regi
ments had to lie down flat. Even then
thefoys were killed. General Chaffee
dashed about with his hat on the back
of his head, like a magnificent cowboy,
urging the men and crying to them to
get in and help their country win a vic
tory. The smokeless powder made it
impossible to locate the enemy. You
wonder where the fire comes from.
When you stand up to see, you get a
bullet.
"We finally legated the- trenches.
The enemy was making a turning
movement to the right. To turn the left
of the Snanish nosition was necessary
to get the blockhouse. General Chaffee
detailed Captain Clarke, when the artil
lery had reduced the blockhouse, to ap
proach and occupy it. . Clarke and Cap
tain Haskell started up, I had been on
the ridge and knew the condition of
affairs and could show them the way.
Wo got the wire cutters Out to cut the
wire in front of the Spanish trench. I
jumped over the straiids and got in the
trench. It was a horrible, blood splashed
thing, an inferno of agony. Men lay
dead, while others with teeth gleaming
and hands clutched at their throat were
crawling1 there alive. I shouted to them
to surrender. They held, up their hands.
I ran into the fort and found there a
Spanish officer and four men alive.
Seven lay dead in one room. . Ihe whole
floor ran with blood. The walls were
splashed with blood. Three poor
wretches - put their hands together in
supplication. One had a white handker;
chief tied on a stick which ho lifted and
moved toward rue. It Was a perf ect hog
pen of butchery. - The orBcer held his
hands up. The others began to pray and
plead. I took' the guns from all and
threw them outside the fort. I called
somo cf our men to put them in charge
of the prisoners. I then got out of the
fort, ran around to the - other' side, se
cured the Spanish flag and displayed i
to our .troops, 'who cheered lustily. Just
as I turned to speak to Captain Haskell
I was struck with a bullet from the
trenches on the Spanish side. General
Chaffee moved eu the breastworks and
took them. El Caaiey was ours. Banks,
the color sergeant of the Twelfth in
fantry, raised the American flag."
The forts at Santiago have been si
lenced so often that they must now be
sorry they ever spoke. New Orleans
Picayune. m0m. - T
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ROOSEVELT IN EARNEST; '
He Wanted to Se the Spanish Flaf on a
Battlefield Jost One.
"Nothing could move Theodore Boose
relt from his purpose to go to Cuba"
said Mr. John R. Proctor of the drU
service commission recently. Mr. Roc
tor is ono of Lieutenant Colonel Boose
velt's close friends. He was. among
those who sought to dissuade the assist
ant secretary of the navy from resigning
his position in order to get to the front
" We were walking through Lafayette
square, in Washington, Just a tew
evenings before he left," said Mr. Proo'
tor, "and I took occasion to renew my v
protests against his abandoning a post,
which he was filling so much to the sat
isfaction of the country in order to take
a command with tho rough riders."
. " My friends havo been making mo
very miserable with their appeals dor- -ing
the last few weeks, he said.
' " 'Yes, and I supposo I have been the
worst of all, '-I answered. -
" 'Yea,' he-said. Then he stopped
right in tho pathway, put both handa
on my shoulders and, , looking ' into my S
face in a way I will never forget, said:
'Proctor, I am going to Cuba. I will
take all the chances of mwef deatti
by yellow fever, smallpox or bf a, Span
ish bullet just to see the Spanish
once on a battlefield.
' ' His earnestness was almost terribly.
Further argument I knew was useless ' -and
I made none. The wonderful energy .
of the man is shown - by the fact tha&
although his regiment was one of the
last of the volunteers under the first call
to get under way, it was the first to get
into the fight in Cuba. That he was able
to organize and equip it in such a man
ner that it was in shape to go with the .
first expedition aud form the vanguard
of the invading force shows the marvel
ous determination and resourcefulness
of the man. '-' Washington Dispatch to
St Louis Globe-Democrat
GOSSIP OF THE WAR.
The balloon sent up to make' observa
tions of the enemy's lines at Santiago '
was hit by shrapnel and had to be haul
ed down. x
islands belonging to Spain, was seized
by the cruiser Charleston on her way to -the
Philippines. .4. .
Spanish sharpshooters before Santiago
picked off surgeons and other members
of tho American hospital corps, besides t
killing soldiers .who were already -wounded.
-
Sampson allowed Lieutenant Com-
wouuu icicuuutjr uiiuu euuui wiui laio
Suwance's guns to tear down the Span
ish flag on the fort at Aguadores. Dele
iMMtty fi" ebr ttmra hole la tDff nag'
and the third broke the flagstaff. The
firing was at a range of 1,600 yards.
Lieutenant Commander ' Richard. .
guished himself in the destruction of
the Spanish fleet by defeating two tor
pedo boat destroyers while tho guns of "--all
of Cervera's ships and those of Mot
to Castle were firing on him.
Fifty of the 400 Spanish prisoners on
the Harvard secured guns and made
break for "liberty. The marine guard
shot and killed (I. woendinff 18. The'
mutiny was quickly ended.
An expedition of 350. Cubans, fitted
out by the United States, carried ta -General
Gomez , two dynamite guns,
4,000 Springfield rifles . and a large -quantity
of supplies, the first Gomea
has received since wo declared war with
Spain. 1 '.'
Every Chinese made uniform recently
inspected at San Francisco has been
condemned, me volunteers irom iowb,
Tennessee. Kansas and Montana will
probably have to be fitted out (again be
fore they start for Manila.
A Good Heathen.
The chief of the Philippine insur- ,
gents is generally set down as a heathen, -but
if he.is it must be admitted that he
'is an intelligent1" heathen and a good
fighter and knows how to appreciate the
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neip oi u rcui juruuiutxit itso iuai u
the United States. Cincinnati En
auirer. - - .
Catarrh is
Not Incurable
But it can not be cured by sprays,
braaVina AnH inVinlintr mixture Whiif.h
Tho HiaAMao U
fCOVii UIUJ MIV C" V. lm k. awv aw
s -- avAvT-aj
through the blood. S. S. S. is the only
remedy which can have any effect upon
Catarrh; it cures the disease perma
nently and forever rids the system of
every trace of the vile complaint.
Hiss Josie Owen, of Mnntprilor, Oak),
writrs: -I ws af
file ted front tniaaer
-with Catarrh, and no
one tin loov Itt
suffering H jpodoeea
better than 1. Cha
sprays and viijiei
prescribed by the doc
tors relieved me onljr
temporarily, sad
though I used them
constantly for . ten years, the disease bad a
firmer hold than eyer. I tried a number of
Mswwl nmiuIlM Knt tliir mlnnl InrredlentS
settled in my bones and gave me rheumatism.
I -was in a lamentable condition, and after e
haostinir all treatment, was declared Incurable.
Seelne 8. 8. 8. advertised a a cure for blood
diseases, I decided to try it. As soon as my
matmm o-aa nnilr th fflnf the medicine.
I began to Improve, and after taking tt for
two months I was. eurcd completely, the
dreadful disease was eradicated from my sys
tem, and I have had no return of it. "
Manv have been takintr local treat
An trv voaa anrl -ftrn tKomuklvAa
worse now than ever. A trial of '
will prove it
for Catarrh.
to be the tight remedy
It will cure the most ob-
. Rtinate case.
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