Show WE ra WIN roosevelt rough riders eiders win praise from regulars sn troops troop nun linn into an kail and after severe righting charge the enemy and da rut put thorn them to night flight washington june 27 details of the ilia battle in front ol of santiago participated in by colonel woods rough riders and tour four troops each from the eighth and tenth cavalry have been received and sho show witto it to ha have been a desperate sperate ie engagement against fea fearful fl dadds in a strongly fortified forti fled position rhe american troops were drawn into tn in ambuscade and it is remarkable that the loss of life was not greater rhe fhe american troops acted nobly un facing the concentrated fire bre of the enemy the fight was opened by general young who set out parly early in the morn ing to dislodge a body of spaniards known tobe to be near quatina when he had bad proceeded about two miles cuban khouts rushed into camp and announced that the spaniards wore were strongly entrenched but a short distance ahead the rhe machine guns were brought to t the he front and placed in position while the tha men crouched in the road waiting impatiently to give Roosevel ts men who were tolling toiling over the little trail along the crest of 0 the ridge time to get up at 70 a in general young gave the command to the men at the hotchkiss guns to open fire the command was the beginning of a fight that for stubbornness has seldom been equalled equal led vie the instant the hotchkiss guns were fired bred the he hillsides hill sides commanding the road gave forth volley after volley from rom tile the mausert of the spanish dont shoot until you see something to shoot at yelled general young ioui ig and the men with set jaws kud ind gleaming eyes obeyed the order drawling crawling along the edge of the road nd and protecting themselves as much as 4 THEODORE ROOSEVELT who led the brave charge against the hidden foe possible from the fearful fire 0 of the spanish troops some of them stripped to the walet waist watched the base bas ot of the hill and when any part of a spaniard became visible they fired never for an instant did they falter 0 13 one husky warrior ot the tenth cavalry with a ragged wound wounding in his thigh coolly knelt behind a rock loading an and firing and when told by one of his hi comrades that be was wounded laughed and said oh all right been there for some time in the meantime away off to the left was heard the crack of the rifles of colonel woods men and the regular deeper beeper toned volley firing of the tile 1 spanish Bp anish over there the american losses were the greatest colonel woods men with an advance juard j well out to iu front and two cuban guides before them but apparently par parent antly ly no fl flankers aukers went squarely into the trap set for them by b y the spaniards and only the unfaltering courage of the men in the face of a fire that would even make a veteran quail prevented what might easily have been a disaster As it was troop L the advance guard u under the unfortunate capron was all surrounded and nd but for the reinforcements hur ridly sent forward every man would probably have been killed or wounded there must have been nearly 1500 spaniards in front and to the sides of ns said lieutenant rosevelt when discussing the fight they held the ridges with rifle pits aud and machine guns and had a body of men in ambush in the thick jungle at the tide sides of the road over which wo we were advancing our advance forward the men in ambush and drove them out but they lost captain capron lieutenant client thom thomas and about 15 men killed or wounded the spanish firing was accurate so go accurate indeed that it surprised me and nd their firing was tearfully fearfully heavy I 1 went want to say a word for our own men continued lieutenant roosevelt every officer and man did his duty up to the handle not flinched from another officer who took a prominent part in the lighting fighting more details were obtained when the firing began lieutenant colonel roosevelt Koo evelt took the twine nu I 1 with troops troop 0 and K under cap captains t ains llewellyn anti and jfe jenkins isa and d moved mored to the support of captain capron who wh was getting galling it t hard bard at the name time c colonel ol 01 onal wood and major brodlo brodie took th the e left wing and advanced in open order on the spanish right wing major brody was wounded before the troops had advanced yards colonel woo d then took his right wing und and shifted colonel roosevel Boose velb to the left in the meantime the fire from tha th span spaniards lards had increased I 1 in a volume but notwithstanding an order for a general charge was given and with a yell the men inen sprang forward colonel roosevelt in front of his men snatched a rifle and ammunition belt from a wounded soldiers nol dier and cheering and yelling with ilia his men led the advance ad ranee for a moment the bullets were singing like a swarm of bees all around them and every instant some poor fellow went want down on the right wing captain mcclintock had his bis leg broken by a bu bullet ilet from a machine gun while fouron four of his men went down atthe at the same time captain luna of troop F lost nine of his men then the reserves troops troop K and E were ordered up colonel wood with the right wing charged straight at a block house 80 yards away and colonel roosevelt on the left charged at the same time up the men went yelling like fiends and never stop stopping ping to return the fire of the S spaniards p a but kept on wit with h a grim determination nin addio abut te r m t to 0 ca capture pt ure t the h eb block 1 aki house 0 u s e that ebar charge g e was v a t the h 0 e end n d W when 1 i e n within soo yards of the coveted point the spaniards broke and ran and for the first time wo we had the pleasure which the spaniards had been experiencing all through the engagement of shooting rith the enemy in sight that tho the spaniards spa were thoroughly posted as to the route to be taken by the americans in their movements toward sevilla a was evident a as s shown by the careful preparation they had made the main body of the spaniards was posted on a hill on the heavily wooded slopes of which had been erected two block houses flanked by irregular in trench ments of stones and fallen trees at the bottom of these hills run two roads along which lieutenant colonel Roosevel ts men and eight troops troop of F first arst and tenth cavalry cavalry with a battery of four howitzers howit advanced these roads are but little more than gullies rough and narrow and at I 1 places almost impassable in these trails the fight occurred the dead number 17 with 35 wounded and 9 missing thirty seven dead spaniards were found in the brush and many more are thought to be there |