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BEST 1DVERTISI1IG IED1UB.
VOLUME XXVIII.
WI LSOK N, 0., AUGUST 1 8, 1 898.
NUMBER 33.
ABOUT CUBAN SOLDIERS
Stephen Crane's Description ol
the Rank and File.
i ni(l you come from?" To our questions
THEIR EMOTIONLESS OTmOIBB. lt?"Z5lZ
So CheerlngWhen Shafter' Forces land
ed at Daiquiri, He Says They Are Good
Scouts, but American Troops Do Not Re
gard Them Favorably For the Fighting
Line Rough Riders a Revelation A
Long Climb to See Santiago Man eo Fed
Cubans Revolt.
Writing under the date of Juno 27
from Siboney, Cuba, Stephen Crane,
special correspondent of tho New York
World, writes as follows about tho Cu
ban soldiers: "
Tiio clay is hot and lazy, endless Cu
ban infantry straggling past the door of
our shack scud the yellow dust in
clouds. Tho Thirty-third Michigan is !
landing in dri bbles upon . the teach.
Four Red Cross nurses the first .Amer
ican wpmeu to set foot on Cuban soil
since the beginning 'of the war came
'ashore" from the State of Texas a few
minutes ago, and the soldiers, dishevel
ed, dirtj-, bronzed, gazed at them with
all their eyes. They were a revelatiou.
i their cool white dresses. Life occa
sionally moves slowly at the seat of
war. mis maiiestwoaaysoi tranquilli
ty. The Spaniards, when they fled from
the conflict with Roosevelt's men and
the First and Tenth -regular cavalry,
took occasion to flee a considerable dis
tance; in fact, they went nearly into
Santiago de Cuba.
Tho attitude of the American soldier
toward thi insurgent is interesting. So
also is tho attitude of the insurgent to
ward the American soldier One must
not suppose that there was any cheering
enthusiasm at. the lauding of our army
at Baiquiri.- The American soldiers
looked with silent eu'riosity upon tho
ragged brown insurgents and the insur
gents looked stolidly, almost, indiffer
ently, at the Americans. " .
The Cuban sdldier, indeed,, has turn
edlinto an absolutely: emotionless char
acter save, when he -is-maddened by. bat
tle. He starves and, he makes no com
plaint. Wo feed him and he expresses
no joy. ' When you come to think of it,
one follows tho other naturally. ' If he
had retained the emotional ability to
mako a fuss over nearly starving to
death, he would also have retained tha
emotional ability to faint with joy at
night of tho festive canned beef, hard
tack and coffee. But ho exists with the
impenetrable indifference or ignorance
of the greater part of -the people in an
ordinary slum.
Everybody knows that the kind of
sympathetic charity which loves to be
thanked is often grievously disappoint
ed and wounded iu tenement districts,
whero people often accept gifts as if
their own property had turned up after
a short absence. The Cubans accept our
stores in Eomethina of this way. If
there are any thanks,, it is because of
custom. Of course, I mean the rank and
file. Tho officers are mannered both
p,.njKA dUlA tX . CUAll UlCOUUUliUjt
Cffrt r I Vn-T f vnA r v rl liofnwi
like ordinary people. But there is no
specious intercourse between the Cubans
and tho Americans. Each hold largely
to their own people and go their own
ways. The American does not regard
his ally as a good man for the fighting
line, and tho Cuban is aware that his
knowledge of the country makes his
woodcraft superior to that of tho Amer
ican. Ho regards himself also as con
siderable of a veteran and there has not
yet been enough fighting to let him
know what immensely formidable per
sons are your Uncle Samuel's regulars.
Tho fighting of the rough riders, by
the way; surmised him greatly. He is
not educated in that kind of warfare.
The way orr troops kept going, going,
never giving back a foot despite the
losses, hanging on as if every battle was
! a life or death' struggle this seemed
extraordinary to tho Cuban. The scene
of the fight on tho 24th is now far with
iu our lines. The Spanish position was
perfect They must have been badly rat
tied to have so easily given it up at the
attack of less than .2,000 men. . Here
now the vultures wheel slowly over the
woods.
Scovel and I swam two Jamaica
.horses ashore from the Triton, found
sorne insurgents and took a journey into
tho hills. Colonel Cebreco's little force
we found encamped under the palms In
thatched huts with sapling uprights
The ragged sominaked men lay about in
clirty hammocks, but their rifles were
JJpringfields, 1873, and their belts were
full of cartridges. The tali guinea grass
nad been trodden nat ty tneir Dare reet,
We asked for a guide, and the colonel
gave us an escort, of five men for our
ride over the mountains.
JThe first ridge we rode up was a sim
pie illumination as to why the insur
gents if they had food and ammunition
could hold out for ' years. There is no
getting men out. of such hills if they
choose to stay in them. The path, rocky
as the bed of a stream, zigzagged higher
and higher until tho American fleet
blockading Santiago was merely a col
lection of tinv. shapeless shadows on
- r a
the steel bosom of an immense sea.
At the summit we looked upon a new
- series of ridges and peaks, near and iar,
all green. A strong breeze rustled tho
foliago. It was the kind" of country in
which commercial physician's love to
establish sanitariums. Then down we
went, down and down, sitting on the
pommels of our Kiddles, with our
1 stirrups near the ears of the horses.
Then came a brawling! noisy brook like
an Adirondack trout stream. Then an
other ascension ,to another Cuban camp,
where just at dusk the pickets in
bunches of three were coming in to re
port to the captain', lazily as wing. One
barefooted negro private paused in his
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cf
report rrom time to tituo to piucrf van-
rns thistle and cactus sours from' his
rolea Scovel asked him in Spanish,
"Where are your shoes?' '
The tattered soldier coolly replied in
English, 'I lose dem in de woods. "
We cheered. " Why. hello thm-a f Whom
My name Joe Riley. " There he stood,
bearded, black, a ; perfect type of West
Indian negro, speaking tho soft, broad
dialect of theso islands, and-r-harp of
Ireland his numo was JtilcjL I have
heard of a tall Guatemalan savage who I
somehow accumulated the illustrious '
name of Duffy, but Riley
As we swung and smoked in our
mucus tue vuDan soldiers crooned mar
velous songs in the darkness, while the
firelight covered with crimson glare
some naked limb or made tragic some
dark, patient face. The hills were softly
limned against a sky strewn with big
stars. ' ' , .. - .
' ' We were up in
just before dawn.
the cold of the dark
With-15 men as es
cort, we moved again up the hills. In
time we arrived on a path that curved
around the top of a ridge. Here we
found Cuban posts. They, having no
tools With which to die trenches, nat
urally turn to the machete. They can't
dig down, so they build up. These Cu
ban posts were each fronted with acuri-
ousstructure,'a mere rack made of sap
lings, tied fast with, sinowy vines and
then filled With stones. They were
about six feet high, one foot thick and
long enough to accommodate from five
to eight riflemen. These structures par
alleled the pathlat strategic points. -
boon we came to a point where upon
looking across a narrow but very deep
valley we could see in the blue dawn
the shine of Spanish campflres. They
were within rifle range, but we slunk
along unseen. Our horses had now been
left behind. Then came a dive into the
dark, deep valley into Spain. The hill
side was the steepest thing in hillsides
which could well be imagined.1 We slid
practically from tree to tree, our escort
moving noiselessly below and above us.
By the time we reached the bottom of
this hill the day had broken wide and
clear. A stream was forded; and then
came, a creep of 500 yards through tall
grass. There was a Spanish 'post upon
either hand -100 men in . one, 50 men
in the other. The Cubans had notongues
and their feet made no- sound. '. ' - y
To make a long story: short, there
were some nine miles of this, sort of
dodging and badgering and botheration
nine infernal miles, during which
those Cubans did some of the best scout
ing and covering in the world. At last
we were atj the foot of a certain moun
tain. Olympus, what a mountain! Our
weary minds argued that to this one the
other hills were as the arched backs of
kittens. We ascended it no matter
how It took us years. At the top we
lay on the ground and breathed while
the Cubans chopped a hole in the foli
age with their machetes. Then we got
up and peered through this hole and saw
what? Santiago de Cuba and the har
bor,, with Gervera'8 'fleet in it and tho
whole show.
The escort ony behaved badly once
It 'seems they had had nothing to eat
but mangoes for three weeks, barring a
favorite mare which some stern patriot
had sacrificed to the general appetite.
We were within two miles of the insur
gent lines and passing through a thick
wood when the escort sighted a tree
laden with mangoes and with luscious !
ripe ones crowding the ground. The
captain raved m whispers and gestured
sublimely, but it was of no benefit.
That escort broke formation and scat
tered, flitting noiselessly and grabbing.
In one pi tne camps we Bcoppeq to
lunch upon one can of beef. It was a
mango camp. " Our. niahgo escort 'was
still with us. That orange colored fruit
seemed to look reproachfully at us from
the stomach of every man present. They
gathered sadly around to see us eat the
beef. It was too much for us. We divid
ed a pound of beef among about 80 men,
including ourselves. We told our 15
men; loyal save for the incident of the
laden mango tree, that as they had only
done 25 miles over impossible moun
tains since daylight they had better
come six more miles over more impossi
ble mountains to our rendezvous with
the Three Friends on the coast, where
upon we would generously give them
two good rations per man from the ship.
We mounted and rode away, while
they paddled along behind us. As we
breasted the last hillock near the coast
we beheld the Three Friends standing
out to sea,' the black smoke rolling from
her. "We were about one half hour late.
There is nothing in any agony of an or
dinary host which could measure our
suffering.; A faithful escort 31 miles
mangoes three weeks Three . Friends
promises pledges oh, horrors.
Scovel " rode like mad through the
guinea grass to the beach to make des
perate signals. The escort ran headlong
after us. I could hear the captain
screaming to his men, "Run, run, run,
run !" "I can't run any more. I'm dy
ing,1' cried a hoarse and windless pri
vate.. "Run, run, run, run!" "If I take
another step, I will die of it, " cried an
other hoarse an 3 windless private.
"Ah, " shrieked the captain wildly,
' if .you have to eat mangoes for another
three weeks you'll wish' you had run."
Brothers In 'Arms.
. ' .
In
Battery L First Heavy artillery,
Massachusetts volunteers, now at Fort
Warren, from the shoe town of Brock
ton, there ara five pairs of brothers, the
Aliens, Churchiiis, Foyes,-Holmes and
Marshalls. Boston Journal.
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tution "FKI'RI-CURA" (Sweet Chill
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Quinine and 'being- combined with iron
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under positive guarantee 1 to cure or
money , refunded. - Accept ' no substi
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RED CROSS LABORS.
REPORT
ON WHAT HAS BEEN DONE
AT SANTIAGO.
Norses Did Their FirKt Work In a Hos
pital Filled With Sick and Wounded
(pubxns Provisions . Sri. t to Ouautanamo.
Lot of Thing to Re Done. '
The following letter was received" re
cently by the chairman of the e:ccutiv
committee of the American National
Red Cross from Treasurer C, H. II. Cot
trell at Port Antonio,? Jamaica:
"My Dkau Sut I noted in your mes-
sage to Miss Barton that you are anx
ious to hear from us, and as I know
Miss Barton has all of her time from
early morning to late night so fully oc
cupied as not to spare a moment from
present duties I will endeavor to givo
you a brief sketch of what has been
done since we left Key West'on June
20. The good ship Texas lay in tropical
waters so long that her bottom became
a coral 1 reef , and when she finally got
under way she was only able to mako
seven or eight miles an hour, and wo
used up five days in makingr an S00
mile journey. -
"On our arrival off the bay of Santi
ago de Cuba Miss Barton reported to
Admiral Sampson, who advised us to
proceed to Guantanamo bay, 30 miles
farther east, to await developments.
which we did, arriving there on the.
evening of June 25. At Guantanamo we
found a good landlocked harbor whero
our ship could lie ' still and give us a
much needed night's rest, which we all
enjoyed. There was a camp of 700 or
800 marines at this point, also a camp
of insurgents. That evening several na
val officers came aboard to pay their re
spects to Miss .Barton and were very
cordial, as indeed the naval men are at
all times. By invitation of Commander
Dunlap all hands visited the hospital
ship Solace the next morning and were
greatly pleased with the boat and the
attention paid them by the officers and
medical staff.
"As there seemed to be nothing we
could do at Guantanamo it was decided
we had better return to Siboney, where
the largest number of troops were, and
offer our services to the hospitals. This
was done oh Sunday, June 26. All the
arjny officers received our advances po
litely, but rather stiffly, at first declin
ing any aid,' but eventually confessing
that they had nothing but army rations
of hog meat, hard tack and coffee with
which to feed their sick and that they
would accept a few things to help them
out until their own supplies arrived.
Hut they declined all offers of nurses
and doctors.
''Refused by our own people, wo next
called on General Garcia of the CuBan
army and were most cordially received,
his medical men being only too glad to
accept all we had to offer. So tho next
morning our four Red Cross nurses and
Sister Bettina went over to the Cuban
hospital, which was as repulsive and
forbidding a place as can be imagined,
and began to work. The house and pa
tients were astounded and transformed
with such a baptism of soap and water
as never was heard of before in this be
nighted region, and by afternoon that
little hospital was one clean spot in the
town. t
"That little' bit Of practical work
spread through rank and file like the
proverbial wildfire, and before nightfal
our poor 'boys in blue, ' who had been
lying on the floors, many of them with
out even a blanket, were asking each
other and their slovenly male nurses
how it was that the Red Cross came
down here and gave them the go by and
put the Cubans on beds .with soft pil
lows and blankets and clean sheeta Of
course such vigorous kicking and the
terrible contrast between the Cuban
and our army hospitals could have but
one result, and the army surgeons are
now willing and eager to have us on
any terms we may suggest and are con
stantly asking for more than we are
prepared to give. We have opened a
Red Cross hospital here and have 24
beds, which is the capacity of the hos
pital. "Commander McCalla of Guantana
mo sent us word the other day that
there were a number of poor Cubans at
his camp who were in need of help
and asked us to bring him 5,000 rations.
We steamed up there, the same day and
issued 7,500 pounds of substantials to
those people and returned to Siboney at
once. We have received another requi
sition from the same officer for 25,000
rations, and yesterday we returned to
Guantanamo prepared to deliver 50,-
000, but Commander McCalla said that
he had no place to store so large an
amount, and he therefore requested us
to leave only 10,000 rations, which we
did. ' y, , ' -
"There has been hard herhtina in
front of Santiago de Cuba for several
days past and a large number of wound
ed men have come into Siboney, proba
bly 400 or 500. The United States au
thorities were entirely unprepared in
medicine, food or services to ' handle
them, and the Bed Cross has proved a
perfect godsend,' and as you will have
seen by the telegrams that have been
sent you we are now in full accord with
the military surgeons at this end. . -
"Kennau and Egan wont to the front
last Saturday and f onnd a deplorable
condition of suffering there. The next
day Miss Barton, Dr. Hubbell, Dr. and
Mrs. Gardner and , McDowell joined
them, riding in an ambulance which
General Shafter sent' for them. They
took, along two six horse wagon loads of
supplies, and bunday nignt iiuopeii re
turned to the ship and got as nmch
mora Our. people began work the mo
ment they arrived on the field, and they
will remain there as long as there is
need for them. Lesser and the nurses
have been doing fine .work here in the
To make your business pay, good
health is a prime factor. 1 o secure
good health, the blood should be kept
pure and vigorous by the use of Acer's
Sarsaparilla. When the vital fluid is
imnnre : and slusrish. : there can be
- w or
-fe-tth "health, strerth, nor ambition
army hospit&is, tlwugli . they have had
to work day and uight under most ad
verse conditions. v Sunday night, when
they were coming to the ship for rest,
they were asked to board the . Harvard
l ud attend a lot of Spaniards who were
on the . fleet when it was . annihilated,
r.nd they spent the entire night there.
returning to the ship in an exhausted
condition. After .four hours' rest they-
all returned to shore again.
"We have run over to Port Antonio,
Jamaica, for ice and some other things
that we need and return to Siboney to
night.- Everything down here has come
cur way, and the only regret we, have is
that onr force is not larger and that we
have not; certain ' things in our cargo
which would be useful just now. 1 All
our potatoes have .rotted, and we may
lose some meal and codfish, but the re-
mainder of the cargo is all right, so far
as we know. We hope that the end of I
the war. is near at hand and that we
shall be able to unload this ship within
a few days." $?ev York Sun.
SURRENDER OF SANTIAGO,
What It Has Cost the United States to
, Take the City.,
Tho United States have appropriated
on account of the war $292,000,000,
and the actual expenditures thus far ag
grega to $123, 000,000. Most of this haa
been spent' in the operations resulting in
the surrender of Santiago. Other note
worthy expenditures are coal and am
munition used by Dewey, by the block
ading squadron and in Sampson s inef
fective bombardment of San Juan.
In detail the war has cost, as nearly
as can be stated iu round, figures gath
ered from official sources in Washing
ton, as follows:
KILLED AND WOUNDED IN BATTLE.
Total officers, privates and marines killed 247
Total . officers, privates .And marines '
wounded 1,323
Total reported missing . 81
HOW THE MONEY HAS BEEN SPENT.
Transportation, mobilizing .soldiers
and for troopships. 7 17,0P0,00G
Subsistence Shaft er's army 23 days. sOO.tXX!
Belief expedition for Cubans. l.SOO.OW
Additions to increase naval strength gO.OOO.OOtl
Expenditures for ammunition ... 5,000,000
Expenditures for ordnance and arms 8,000,003
Commissary supplies for mobilized
army. 10,000,000
Tents, clothing and camp equipment 9,000,000
- Horses and mules.:....;..... 4.000.0OC
Coal for; warship..... 4,000,00(1
Pay for officers and men, army...... 17,000,000
Pay for officers and sailors.. " 3,000,00(1
Strengthening seacoast defenses . 8,000,0CC
Laying harbor mines. ....... l,5C0,0Ui
Increased cable and telegraph tolls. 2,500,000
Increased force clerks, special
agents, expenses and 'salaries. ..... 1,000,000
Increased secret service and earing -
for Spanish prisoners. .... ,. 600,000
Ammunition bombarding Santiago
fortifications. ........ ..' 4.000.00U
Miscellaneous expenses, prepariirg s
for war.... ....... A. .. .... 6,T00,OCa1
Total appropriation:; for war. ... 202,OiX),0CJ
Total actual cxpendii uros 12ll,000,0CJ
"New York World.
Watching Hot ii t -i.
Having peered slyly tii rt
of the Suez canal and u-;i n ..
approaching, Admiral , Ca:i:ara (
back to peep out of the othrr ai-.d
there is any sign of ; Comniod-it!
on. Buffalo Enquirer.
V;;t
Where Safety Dwells.
It would be entirely proper to include
American war vessels in any list of
acted health resorts. No other phi:es
can boast such low death rates Utica
Press. . '
An Uncertain tiisen.se.
There is no disease more uncertain in its
iuture than dyspepsia. Physicians say that
he symptoms of ho two cases agree. It is
herefore most difficult to make a correct
Haguosis. No matter how severe, or under
vhatdisguisedyspepsia attacks you. Browns
fron Bitters will cure it. Invaluable in all
diseases of the stomach, Wood and nerves,
ilrowns' Iron Bitters is sold by all dealers.
The Maine Speaks.
For all the glory of my pride and strength,
For all the famo I've known, tho seas I've
sailed,
Only the blackened iron's shattered length
Bears witness for the promise that haa
failed.
No more for mo the. thunders of the fight,
No more for me to feel the great guns rear.
And yet, though shorn of all my hope and
might, .
My day of triumph's near, my triumph's
near.
Perforce deserted for a little time,
I bear the mocking of the foe alone
These braggarts, gloating o'er a futile crime,
Who soon must reap the. harvest they have
sown!
I watch the city's fortresses prepare,
And in their haste I see their lurking fear.
For all their boasts there's panic in the air.
My day of triumph's near, my triumph's
near.
The open sea ie hidden from my Bight, .
But yet I know the fleet is gathering there,
My comrades, stripped and eager for the fight,
The great republic s . sleuthhounds from
their lair,
And when the ships come fighting up the bay
They'll find me waiting. Hark! Is
. that a cheer? ,;',-V:-
siey ve comei my comrades or tue old sea
way! . .'' ' '
: My day of triumph's here,' my triumph's
here!
-F. P. in Hartford Courant.
Major De Granpre, military attache
of the French embassy, who recently
returned from Santiago, says the fight
ing qualities of the United States forces
are not matched by thoso any other
country in the world.
Lieutenant Usher of tho Ericsson,
who was alongside Admiral Sampson's
flagship when the. battle of July 8 be
gan, says that the Hew York was ten
miles from the scene of battle, and that
her forward pair of engines were, un
coupled, so that she could not go fast,
end that she was at . no time closer to
he combatants than when she started
. tutil the batter was over. -
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Druggist,
Efl ROUTE TO SANTIAGO
Terrible Strain on the Men Who
Fought at El Caney. v
LITTLE SLEEP TOE THE TBOOPS.
Many Commands Lost Their Way, and Um
.Men Were Ordered Back-'aad Forth.
' Difficulties In Caring For the Wounded.
Sad Pils'ht of the Injured Oravedlc
Kers Ordered to the Front Fortitude of
the Wounded. -.
. Writing under the date of July 2
from the headquarters of the Fifth
army corps, near Guama river, east of
Santiago, the New York Tribune corre
spondent describes the fighting before
Santiago as follows: ,
The taking of El Caney yesterday, al
though at terrible cost, made it possible
today to concentrate all the fighting on
the breastworks east of Santiago. Gen
eral Jacob F. Kent's division, the First,
accomplished an important forward
movement yesterday, and the night was
spent in intrenching tho positions gain
ed in the day. Shovels and picks were
sent to the front after dark, and the sol
diers dug industriously until -dawn.
Their pits were usually about three feet
deep. The commissary worked hard,
and by means of packand wagon trains
managed to get large quantities of beef,
bacon, hard tack and coffee to the front.
About 12:80 o'clock, this morning the
artillery that yesterday was stationed
on a hill to the left' was moved to the
valley road and forward. It had been
thought that sufficient headway had
been made by the infantry to warrant
placing the cannon well to the front. .
At daybreak it was found that a. seri
ous miscalculation had been made. The
Spanish intrenchments were only 500 or
600 yards away, and the rifle fire was
so effective that tb position of the ar
tillerymen was untenabie. Several men
were killed and wounded, and there
was nothing to do but to bitch up the
horses and retire. This was done under
a constant rattle of musketry. The tired
GSXERA.L JACOB F- KENT.
horses were started back for the heights
from which the cannonading had been
conducted yesterday. On the indifferent
road this was a hard task, and little
was heard from the American artillery
all day. The Spaniards were more active
with their field pieces, but apparently
not so effective as on the day before.
The men in the trenches were in poor
shape for the almost continuous firing
that they had to keep up. Thursday
night they had little sleep, last night
none at all. Even worse wasthe condi
tion of the regiments which took part
in the battle of El Caney yesterday and
were ordered to march back six or seven
miles to the road on which the divisions
of Generals Wheel erVmd Kent had mov
ed yesterday and then forward. Thurs
day night most of the regiments in the
' Second division had tramped until after
dark, only to be set going again at 8:80
o'clock inx the morning. They had no
hot food, not being allowed to light
fires. Then came the long battle, the
fighting through the woods, in the heat,
and, in many cases, without water fox
hours. ' -
By dark the men felt that they were
entitled to a night's rest at least, but
they were not to have it General Kent
and General Wheeler- were in a situa
tion where it was of prime importance
that they be re-enforced before the next
day's fighting should begin. So there
could be nd delay, and the pitiless
march began. . The afternoon rain had
left the roads in a horrible state,' mud
ankle deep. To make matters . worse
some commands lost their way, and
after eight or nine hours of tramping,
with brief Intervals of rest, found that
they were only a few miles from the
point where they had started at 'dusk.
Fortunately a rood many came upon
wagon an cj pac& trams loaded with pro
visions and thus got rations ;
The First and Eighth infantry, with
Captain Capron's battery, had moved
toward Santiago on the El Caney road
last night. About 8 o'clock they were
warned by some Cubans that they wero
within ' half a mile of the Spanish
trenches. The Cubans had moved for
ward until they were fired on. This was
no place for two regiments of infantry
and one battery, so in the night the
forces moved back. . This morning they
got to the scene of yesterday's battle.
to the east of Santiago. It had been
planned that an attack be made on the
city from the direction of El Caney by.
General La wton's division yesterday.
The idea was that-by U o'clock his nine
regiments and Captain Capron's battery
would have polished off El Caney and
would bo ready for a movement of some
kind on Santiago proper. The Casa Du
crot, north of the city, was to be the
rendezvous. But the battle was far more
"serious than had been imagined possible
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and took; mucn more tima mis, to
gether with the unexpected strength of
the fortifications on that side of Santi
ago, . led to the concentration of the
forces on tho San Juan side.
The march to the firing line was full
'of interest to the Ninth Massachusetts
and the Thirty-fourth Michigan, 'which
reached Siboney only last night on the
Harvard, . They marched oat in the early
boors of morning. .The road had dried
fairly well a few hours after the sun
came up, and the marching was not
bad.' There was a constant stream of
the wounded returning - to the rear.
These had had their hurts dressed at the
first aid station and were going to the
hospitals in the rear. Some had only
slight wounds and were able to walk
alone. Some were carried on the shoul
ders of two men. Big army wagons
with four or ' six mules were used to
transport some. ' On the occasional rough
parts of the road the jolting : in the
great, "rude wagons was terrible. A few
Bed Cross wagons were in use, but not
manyv. Some, officers were carried on
litters. This was the most comfortable
method, but it was exceedingly hard on
ihe litter bearers. Half a . dozen field
hospitals or dressing stations were scat
tered along the road, but the chief hos
pital was Jour or five miles from the in
trenchments. The number of litter bear
ers was far too few. In addition to the
regular divisional corps the musicians
were called- into service. Even for four
bearers it was a hard' task to carry a
wounded man in the hot sun for several
miles. Every soldier whose injuries did
not positively forbid it was made to
walk to the rear. In some instances this
was cruel, especially when the wound
was 24 hours old and serious if not
mortal. But It was a choice of evils,
and the litters and wagons were kept
for those shot in the legs or in some
Tital part
One man rode on a-horse, curiously
wounded. Both his feet were bandaged
and bleeding. Doublees a shell had ex
ploded near him. Another, also on
horseback, was wounded in the head.
He seemed barely conscious. . One man
led the horse and another supported the
wounded man as well as he oould. But
most distressing of all "was an artillery
man whose face had been struck by a
piece of shell from the side. The center
of his face Was merely a gireat hola He
had no medical attention yet ' In spite
of the terrible appearance of his wound
he walked alone, a comrade on either
side of him. There was a grim interest
in studying the uninjured part of his
face. - His brow was smooth and calm.
He looked from side to side as if actual
ly concerned In what he saw. Two sol
diers thought they knew the man, al
though so little of his features were left
that they could not be sure. Finally
they, agreed it must be Gates.
Just beyond - & ford of the San Juan
river, a few hundred yards from the
blockhouses captured yesterday, lay
four corpses.1 . A grave had been begun
for them in the rocky soil and was un
finished. A pick lay near by. Evidently
the gravediggers had been ordered to
the firing line. Along the bank of the
river the chaplain of the First volun
teer cavalry buried Captain O'Neill,
with the help of two privates. The ford
of the river at this point seemed to be
the especial mark of the enemy's fire,
although it was" a distance behind tho
"trenches. The Seventh Massachusetts
had gone a hundred yards beyond when
a shrapnel shell came whizzing by.
There was scattering and dodging be
hind banks until the order came to ad
vance. L
Apparently the sharpshooters in tho
trees knew 'that this place would be a
common halting place for soldiers who
wanted to fill their canteens and there
fore took perches that would command
a view of it The result was that the
bullets sped by there regularly, clipping
the foliage with a nasty "zip. " Some
of the shots struck the water near tho
ford, and within about an nour zour oi
them hit a live mark. A physician who
was accompanying a wounded man was
killed, and so was a soldier. The pnysi
dan - was Dr. Danforth of the Ninth
cavalry", and bis brains were blown out
He had previously been in Cuba in the
service of the United States government
Two other privates were shot One was
sitting on the bank of the river with a
friend, chatting. Both heard the bullet
strike near by and thought it just aa
well to move on. One of them walked
lame, .and his companion asked him
what the trouble was.
"I don t know, was the answer,
"but my lea feels weak. " He looked
dowA and saw blood streaming from it
He Had been shot without knowing it
Instances of this kind, where a bullet
was not discovered until the blood was
seen, were not unusual. Indeed a re
markable feature of the battles around
Santiago has been the stolidity and
pluck of the wounded. The writer saw
perhaps 200 of them and heard not a
groan. At times, in moments of agony,
same would utter a sound of pain, but
it was. rare.
One incident of the sort was touch
ing. JFoox litter bearers were carrying a
soldier who had been snot in tne oacz.
For some reason he was lying face up.
Halting to rest they, without noticing
it set the litter on a stone, which just
happened to press in on his hurt He
uttered a cry and said, "For God's sake,
boys, move me a little ; there's a stone
under ma " With heartiest expressions
of regret they lifted him up and put
him in a more comfortable place. In his
death struggle one cavalryman, a boy of
19, shrieked, "Mother, oh, my mother I"
but that was the end of the poor young
fellow.
The S nanlsh sharpshooters had no re-
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spoct for tho Ked Cross Sag.- They nrca
continually on litter bearers and from
time to time on hospitals. Of course in
some cases this was not intentional, but
in others it certainly was. It became
dangerous to carry the wounded out of
the trenches, and for this reason soma
were left there until night Another
reason for not removing the injured was
that it took so many men. There was
great risk in returning to tho trenches
after the wounded man had been taken
to a field hospital. Often the soldiers
who had borne away a comrade remain
ed in the rear until nightfall, so the
Regiments would have been unduly
weakened had all who wero struck been
surriod away at once.
OUR REGULAR SOLDIERS. :
At
Leat Eighty Per Cent of Oar Army
'Said to Be American Dorn.
In examining the lists cf soldiers kill
ed and wounded before Santiago one is
struck by the great proportion of what
may be termed ' distinctively American
names which appear. It has been a com
mon belief that the majority of our
regular soldiers were foreigners, and
the hasty deduction was mado that they
were of the floating . population, fight
ing simply for their pay and dldtfeotl
inferior mentally, morally and physic-"
ally. In one list of 170 wouudoA rS9
bore American nooefl faWy T8 per
cent and we think it justifiable to .
claim that fully one-half of those hay
ing Irish names were born in the Unit
ed States. . - '
Consequently, if this list is a type of
all, at least 80 per cent of . our army
must be American born. This is very
gratifying to know. All reports from
correspondents and disinterested people
unite in praising the fine physique, gen- ,
oral intelligence and good conduct of -our
enlisted men. Of their conduct in J
battle the losses they sustained at San
tiago is the best proof , and it is gratify
ing to our pride to now know that they
are practically, all Americans. Army
and Navy Journal. - .
Bonds to Keep the Teaee. .-
Spain is probably the only country
on earth whose bonds . are worth more
after the nation is whipped than before.
St Louis Globe-Democrat.- '
Treatment of Cervera and His Men. '
The navy department is showing ev
ery reasonable courtesy to Admiral Cer
vera aud his fellow prisoners, even go-'
ing so far as to make a money allow
ance for the officers. When they eeoap- -ed
from their ships, most of them were
forced to jump into the sra. They con
sequently had little clothing and no
money when captured, s They found
their penniless condition embarrassing
when they reached Portsmouth, N. H.,
and undertook to cable to their families
in Spain. Secretary Long issued an or
der giving the Spanish officers the priv
ilege of communicating freely with
their relatives and friends in Spain so
long as they do not send contraband in
formation. The navy department is also
answering many inquiries from Spain
about the fate of men who were on
board the Spanish vessels. Frederick
Benzinger in Chicago Times-Herald.. ,
Von Diederlch,
Admiral von Diederichs,
Ton't you try tome scaly tricks.
You vill findt you in a fix.
Admiral von Diederichs.
Admiral von Diederichs, .
Mit Chorge Dewey do net mlxi
You vill get some awful licks,
Admiral von Diederichs.
Admiral von Diederichs,
It's half a dozen against six
Dot you'll feels some awful kicks, . .
Admiral von Diederichs.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The defeat of Cervera's "fleet at San
tiago has wrought up the Spaniards of
Mexico to a high pitch of excitement
and has added to tho . intensity of ' their
feeling against Americans in Mexico.
The news of the defeat was at first not
believed by the Spaniards, and one en
thusiastic Spaniard of Mexico lost $1,
600 which he bet with an American on
the result of the fight after the first re
ports that it had taken place. New.
York Sun. '
Having remembered the Maine for
some time, Americans are quite willing
to remember I the Gloucester. Chicago
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