Show I 1 BOYS IN TIIE THE TRENCHES I 1 CLOSING ON THE 8 SPANIARDS i I 1 tho the diya D iya of waiting after the great nbattle j battle in front of Sant santiago AEo striking incidents jo in the trenches on san juan hill before santiago auy 5 between the I 1 ilde file pits ot of the elie opposing al aima dinv inv white al hag la in cutting culling front from a start staff planted ili li the middle ot it the road over which I 1 r troops will pass pans berate many days luicir it Is just yards irom from this line of 0 thrown thron up last laet night by tho the men of 0 the ellith infantry to the spanish lien on the opposite hilt hill at least that Is the killing range ranee to which the sharpshooters ot ac the crack yinth ninth i adjust their nights hundreds of 0 men me 1 are a re lying lal on oil their faces in iho i bottom of 0 the trench trying to I 1 a little although the hot f un on pending its stinging rax raia lit ht down on them others are hatchl watching 11 9 Isome I 1 aaroe spanish officers walking around bade baciz ot of the spanish m white hite flag ag for there la is it a I 1 lull u 11 in the iho fighting while the foretell foreign consuls in santiago aro are trying irving to alove piove to the commandant the utter litter tully fully of holding out longer the truce Is not a military one in the I 1 strict sense of tile the word wo we havo have no white bile lag flag flying and the spank spaniards I 1 I 1 can a 11 tak take ce theirs down an any minute and nil open fire immediately it if they desire so our men tire arc wary the commanding officers have bained togi mental commanders to keep their men inside the rifle pits pita or back under cover of ithe the lull hill for or fear oar the spaniards may open opel up on us u unexpectedly but not IL a shot allot ima has been llred fired today on either sloe side except a lew few irom from some bush wh ackors on tilt the road a mile back TALK WITH A SPANISH OFFICER yesterday it a couple of our bands played patriotic airs afro because it was the Ol Gl orous bourth and every note was heard by the spanish soldiers I 1 had tile the pleason plea sun ot of chairing xyth a h officer this morning marnina mor nina ore ono Iwho who spoke engligh we stood inear near the lag daf of truce and he borrowed one of 0 my pi precious 0 c IOUs ot of matches I 1 hail had a coy copy y of 0 tho the record in my pocket and lie he grasped it eagerly reading it mid and lating it aloud to hits his fellow ellow I 1 I asked him it if the army mould w surrender no said lie he we cannot unless we set got permission biorn I ladrid but your fleet Is dos destroyed troyed vcra cra la is a prisoner there lonser hinger is no deed 1 c ed a of f our killing each other oilier ito io lie ho rt replied plied but lit we have boon be ii ordered to tight to 10 the last I 1 lather would old his be shot by the americans than hy by it a rifle of spaniards Span lards then ne shook liana hands cordially limit ana he can led my matches tobacco and record back to his hi own line AUE niCAN LINE OP OF our men have built a strong nir practically impregnable line of works it la Is said the amerlean Ameil Amet can lean mento are seven miles long they ore are deep enough to permit a a man to stand aland dt almost imort erect nihon w hen shooting ns without exposing more than the top ot of his head und wide enough tor for a soldier to ile he dunn down cros crosswise sile when Nilly koffs ts and hankinsn HaNkin ss carried this hill last friday they found rifle hilo pits around the blockhouse ani and to elie right in ml ad I 1 to these defenses the natural formation for matlon ot of of 0 the hll hit and three lines of barbed bai bed wire entangle ment meals made the spanish position exceedingly cee strong almost as soon as the spaniards hid had ruri rud down da n tile tha hill the americans chiew ur im hasty in trench re chiments menta etli bayonets hayo nets tilt cups n aws aas pans and bare hands that cupsi night some picks a and vid shovels were sent to the front and men who ito tall had marched I 1 all the night before and had fought all i day walked until dawn davon dl ging rill pits then the spanish batteries opened on oil them and for nearly thirty six houri shrapnel and alid eight inch slit shrill 11 buist over our boys in ili the he trenches and not a man budged gen cien kent eisent sent word to the brigade comman deja I 1 to hold their lines and the brigade commanders passed doii down n tile line saying we are ordered to hold our lines and wo iro are going gains to hold them we m will ill hold them replied the moll men in fit the trenches today one regiment hailed another altti ILI arc ape you holdina our line fellows hy 1 kiick ick earn came tile the reply you bet v we e are wherever a little spur I 1 juts ats out florn tho the baki backbone inne of tile thi ridge an has been theroun up and woo woe to any body of spaniards who attempt to carry ruth works for they mill all find themselves cross fired a and nd raked fore and aft and on each flank NIGHT IN THE TRENCHES ivory every night tho the men sleep in tile the trenches with pickets thrown out from to yards and send ne is posted in the pits bits just when afi I 1 he e cant begins to lo show a nt bit of officers and men are au awakened wakened und and soon tile the pickets t ta are called in ivry every ce deeds a sharp lookout until the day clay is tar fax enough houi h advanced to enable us to see plainly the ciha of the enemy then a dozen or more nien are sent tam low it tit the e slope back of our works to ill fill tin all teens and make coffea until the maiks were completed tile tho men built homb bomb proofs aletto huts hills tn irk tile side of 0 the elie hill covered with eal aith ill up to form it conical oaf loot I 1 three iffet feet thick and dug nelles tit nt night flight ithe but that work Is abo about t over ile now tin and the boys are arc devoutly thankful while under file tho the white while haff 11 19 of 0 tiace was raised the trien linen in the trenches lived KB its thy they could they pleat on the damp earth carth without blankets nibbled hardtack hard lark for breakfast chewed hardtack tot for dinner and bit into it ft for cor supper basics thu ration by swallowing smail oming tencil water dut they the bore their piha pi tiona cheerfully nn and tile blessed sense of humor ciuch aich enables Aniel leans to I 1 aull ull through a tough proposition littlon came bravely bra vly to tit thi front arid and the built bui guyed guy etl tile hie buist ins ing slit aronel and tho the wasted maisei adaus ei bullet and sent alt all sorta of american isina iams toward the with every craik of 0 the krag SERGE SHOT of f I 1 1 company ninth infantry it flaa as peeping over the edge cisro of tile trench saturday mo morning rnino near hint him stood his lieutenant tho the ninth had received aders from it Us colonel not to fire unless so oo ordered I said the sergeant sere carit theres a spaniard or oh white hoj horse se with start staff orli cers him I 1 lies hes a general ol officer licer tho the distance la is I 1 1000 yard can I 1 pick bm ii ol 01 the weird mord was vaa passed along find permission came back kinerney tolled rolled his ca cartridge ri over ills his tongue a eold scold ler lee s ou au and loaded his bu ajac then treating his hi rifle on the tha edge of the pit he be aimed and pred fred 1 I undershot just coq yards said he it drawing dr alving another cartridge from bj his 8 mouth but it t scare hirl hin when rifle cracked afafala lie ho cried 1 I pot got him fund the oilier agaibi on the whito horae tell fell over nit alth a 21 I 1 phot in ahli shoulder it was gen I 1 linares the commandant I 1 berbee ney could st git gi t under I 1 coar it i clipp edithe adly datt t an inch I 1 front from his ear A little too ton far to tile the dight ile he crim it hta his right arm I 1 RS as though b it lii wert a L atalic L inar i on 00 I 1 a I 1 ille rin I 1 WITH frt aft th I 1 lulu a jn 1 1 laier I I 1 wb iv b it 1 b 11 I 1 ii milogh hij aln h hat a t oud and im vo ro A i r ii hi I 1 t H it onu 1 lynll another iier spanish alv yell 1 d a another not N w lie hen I 1 lie heard the ih I 1 serm bertam bert am of it 1 shrapnel ka IN P off tile thi grat era shouted it a burly burl I 1 c doted trooper of the N ninth indi cavalry I 1 when 1 n ile ho shot hot into a mass masis of retreat lug ing spaniard at I 1 abl xio vi hoop throwing stoves at 1 us a was the remark 0 of to a 0 o r n or of I 1 the e sixteenth when an u idd inch shell dug it a great holk hob not DOE ten feet from him I 1 hrar hear the yellow canaries sill bins meant th that 4 spanish punish bullets were coming thick ond and taut fant ilov how do you like our coffee gr ader was waa the derisive inquiry shouted after the hying flying Span lardi when then the getting gun section litter after a jrush rush up the hill un limbered and turned a stream of bullets loose on the retreating enemy even when the men were falling on aall all sides hides in the bloody angle soldiers solak rs handled bandied jokes and exchanged the rough repartee of ill the r ramp A man mail I 1 would let fly a side re remark I 1 to he funny while his lips alp were while and his alg chin quivering alth fright I 1 EVERYBODY WAS SCARED I 1 baic love asked probably mm men it t they lilly ia ere frightened when they found themselves under lire fire and each on one e me in emphatic language 9 gar ar with classical profanity that ile ho was never so seared scared lit in ills his life aa ho he was last friday moi met ding nang they gen generally closed by paying tayl ng and the man who says lie h scared la Is a blank blank liar I 1 walter R kitchell well known As ai a young society man in ill Eva evanston evanton Ev anton nAon atio w ho for or years was a leading spirit in the I 1 kvarnlon Evarn EVIl litton lon boat club being stroke of 0 a four oared gig and known as bob i I 1 bitchell Ci enlisted in the sixteenth infantry f AD I 1 ry a and A d ho he was ono one of I 1 the he first four soldiers to reach the crest of ofsan san juan hill bill I 1 a bcd boll bob to I scribe big hi sensations when linen ho he found himself ia a mark tor for thousand of span spanish bullets 1 I was waa bood still seared ho he replied I 1 iris iris captain tad bad just juat sald cald to me III kitchen t hell 13 one of our best men ile he li Is it a brave fe fellow just so ito ions iong as ime we lay in the road w with ath iho fcc shrapnel hr bursting over us and the bullets coro 0 ing don domn on us from some place we see tho the mental agony ft as awful there wo we lay iny without out filing a shot without knowing dhere to shoot roen inen being struck on all sides wo were fr 0 helpless then our captain I 1 ata C coni om I 1 men come this way and wo OT moved donn the lie side of the road in column of twos the sense of relief relict when hen I 1 know no lie were moving was ivas la in although wo we were passing through a very hell of alre re then we 1 suddenly sud deoly came out oi of the underbrush antol tile the open and we looked up and inow abw the line of 0 bli fire and when iwo wo wele told to go up that hill I 1 simply kept running forward tor ward not even stopping in 1 load anil and lie he until wo we were on oil top looking at the backs of running spaniard in ahat flat seemed to lo be it a minute the atop top of ilia iho hill hall was waa jammed with sixth sixteenth thirteenth I 1 and tenth regulars and seventy kimt new men all of 0 us ila pouring bullets into the yellow it all 11 I 1 can remember except I 1 1 w as S so thirsty th that n m W was a a covered oo 00 with lust dual it and li d I 1 dian didn t have it a drop oc water in my canteen comradeship IN THE TRENCHES matches are few imd and pie clous lous lit in the tha trenches anti and it Is not uncommon lor for an officer or or it a man mail with mith an officers to slip out of the pit walk 1 ion I I 1 tile the hill silt feet or more light ills tillie bips or cigarette arid and bring back I 1 the fire to ills his comra comrades com deg officers ani and toen men lie together in the trenches share each others othern canteens hardtack hard tack toi bacco and lights the relationship between superior and subordinate becomes very close w nhen hen men face death jn ill a military post an officer oll by reason of years tit ot precedent find and earlton larl ton Is widely popai aced front from his men binen as all personal relations go but herft her befumo beffie santiago Sunt lago in this the deot trenches il al op under the pup tents at the base of tho hilt hill an officer Is more of a I 1 bf big brother than a commander most of the post etiquette la Is ill regarded disregarded nevertheless erth eless tho the soldier never falls to show that chat bis officer it is ills his commander alie officer does not mix up with his men lie may sleep on the ground with ith them find and take his turn to light I 1 his pipe fiam a glowing brand the men anent to have unbounded unbound d personal confidence in their officers ont cers and they are continually bragging of the pro ees and courage arid and dash of my captain or my lieuten lieutenant a t or our colonel on the thi other ha hand n d the lie officers never weary of pi alsing the sturdy courage and bravery of their men say sav the sold dielo lem we go with fill our officers oni cers I 1 say the officers dalri enough men to drive our boys 0 out u t of these I 1 I 1 trenches arid and thui thug mutual butil A 1 esteem and app appreciation performed perform td ali I 1 most moist a mil lacle last F friday r ida v morning i m when hell san juan hill was waa cara can led bv in the I 1 I 1 americans it ALCOLM SI if DOWELL DOUELL |