Show VED BATTLE NEAR LF SEVILLA IV 0 gen shatter shafter reports ten americans t killed and forty wounded enemy retreated I 1 toward santiago I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 cwashington washington june 23 25 the th first dispatch ash front from gen shatter concerning t abe engagement between tho the spaniards ond and ithe tho american forces reached tho the wit war i department at noon today and was as follows 8 playa del este june 25 adjutant general united states army washington Eal Bal quirl juno 24 further news from gen wheeler places our loss in this mornings faring about ten killed and tony forty wounded capt campron first united states volunteer cavalry killed run ded maj brodie capt mcclintock and thomas thomai ire received liere here thomas and supposed to be abbreviation first volunteer cavalry major dell capt knox and by lam iani first united states ca capt knox bously capt wainwright formerly reported wounded Is uninjured the names of the others killed and wounded are not yet known the spaniards occupied a very strong and In trenched position on a high hill the pring lasted an hour and the anomy Y was driven from his bis position which il now occupied by our troops about a mile and a halt from sevilla Sc llla tile the enemy has retired santiago do cuba SHAFTER tho the war department has received the following dispatch from gen shatter received after though apparently written before his bis dispatch given out earlier carlier in the day playa del este june 25 adjutant general washington juno june 2 14 in an pushing out to occupy a bood I 1 I 1 po position g ill on ri near e a r sevilla to wait and tr e n i until i n t I 1 supplies and artillery could bo be I 1 landed side d fourteenth and tenth cavalry fourteenth apparently a mistake and woods regiment had a skirmish enemy n as driven from ills his position and gen wheeler reports he now occupies their ground wounded capt dell bell capt caal knox capt byram first cavalry cn valry and a number or of men above ntine only riven given lighters and steam gleam tugs bilked for this morning should be sent at one 0 I 1 gen shatters report aas as received receive dI about aboul noon and gave the officials tile the hrit c A d data d t of 0 f tho the engagement 3 yesterday C st er d a y ti the i e ge generals n e ralls reference to further news nevis and to former report could not be explained as this was I 1 the he first dispatch 0 of any kind received rec elved veil from him there was tho the possibility that an early report had been relayed Jel ayed en route but the accepted belief mas that con gr n shatters references were verc to the early pi in ess cos repel ent n bich he doubtless knew pre ire being forwarded the only other dispatch received way was I 1 thai hat from C col 0 1 allen alien ai to the telegraph teleR raph lines ul if ch incidentally no mentioned on tj asked the press reports of our casualties casu alilea capt Wain wrights name appears in I 1 tho he office official al dispatch for the first time As gen shatter shafter reports him uninjured all concerti concern about him is re removed movel con Sn dispatch throws considerable anew new light on the general contal situation of 0 the advance forces it makes it evident eviden t th that at I 1 maj aj gen cen wheeler IVIl ocler commander of the cavalry division is with tin the advance forces the rough frough riders anil and the ilio cavalry forces participated yesterday being a part of gen command it Is felt to bo be characteristic of the dash and empet bority of wheeler heeler that he should bo be leading the advancer advance and it Is taken aa answering nc ring some of the comments made upon the age of some of the volun volunteer t car leaders gen shatters report that our troops are now about a mile and an a halt half from sevilla shown how rapidly the tb amerlean american soldiers are pushing fo forward rard they have already passed juraco Jura gwi leaving it three tareo miles in the I 1 loar car so sevilla sevilia is in the ho point where villere tile tho spaniards cial claim in they As will III make a desperate deppe rare stand and N with ith our forces only a mile and a half away it Is apparent that a decisive fight Is at land hand it la Is ovo five miles from sevilla se villa to Agi adores the interior 0 o town own nol the port and two miles ru further rr it to k santiago this athla shows our troops to be about eight elijht slid and a halt half miles from santiago according to gen con S shatters ii arters import army officials say the name mcclintock to contained in gen shatters Shat torB depoi t ask as nell as in the asa associated del a led press aress dispatches Is undoubtedly edly wrong due no douht doubt to ml mistakes stakes tit in telegraphing they say the name should be b capt L S 1110 ho beloni belong ti to the first cavalry to alch ho he was assigned at ills own request from the seventh cavalry recently ly stationed in th the a sent southwest there Is no office on icer r it in th the e i ocular regular or volunteer army by the ninio name of mcclintock capt mccormick McCorm lck la Is fro from ni ohio and wits was graduated from the military 11 academy in th the capt referred to in ran Sh Sha flers dispatch belenk to the first cavalry ilia full name la Is rob oft ci t F P R wainwright lie ile was waa born in n and appointed to tho the Milli military tary academy from new york secretary alger aleer and gen miles look for desperate very soon tile tho main attention Is in riven given to forward reinforcements find and stores to gen shatter |