| Show BA BATTLE TILE WITH I I FORGES I American Scouts Took a Hand in Behalf of Insurgents and Gave Good Account of Themselves VASQUEZ WAS BEATEN BACK Gell Will the hc And AncI Attempt to Drive lUns time tho Lake Fob Feb took toucan nn an active part In the tho battle between Insurgents and tho forces at St Vincento and nt at least one wai badly They were under Capt Victor Gor Gordon Gordon don wIth Gen Gon Mona sona the contingent nt being known as time tho American The wounded man is III William Wil 11 knis who joined the tho front from Panama A steel bullet struck the clip across his hiM shoulder der near the and I the tho arm and leg Another scout G 0 T Bushby was bruised bemused when a stone from behind which ho he was firing was shattered b ba ba a cannon ball bail Bushby was thrown 20 O feet but hm h went back to timo tho tight fight lim In a dispatch that he has sent here herp Capt Gordon Cordon says s that the batt battle b be gao gan Oil on time the The insurgents reach reached ed on timo tho when after aCtor 10 hours of attacks and the tho enem enemy under G Gen n Vasques retired to mm a secondary position lion tion from where this morning tho opened a a desultory artillery Ore fire that ceased l at 10 According to Capt Gordon z was beaten although Ills hitS men immen out outnumbered outnumbered numbered the tho provisional forces two tf to toone one Vasquez can receIve no rein and when all men amen arrIve and ancI they are houri hourly Gen Mono Meno will assume the tho ag aggressive and will attempt to drIve Vas Vasquez Vasquez quez toward the lake Early In time tho mornIng or of the tho the tho guns demolished Monas left leU trenches drawing out his force torce In lag time the Americans Mona oena reform fl and recaptured the place Th The elf my then opened In front or of n mm now new hill hIlI hut but Meno Menn executed n a flanking causing time thc troops to 10 rm tire I great confusion They abandoned many rifles and savell savel a Some of ZI effects ero taken and the general elt got away only by n a close margin TIme Tho fierceness or of the tho battle is IB by the fact that two of Menas guns KUns were disabled Another was twIce dismounted but each time replanted doing effective execution Monas onas losa ns as twelve wounded Gordon thinks that the less was heavy a aim their assaults were delivered across op open n spaces In the race face of artillery When hen the enem enemy withdrew Frank Reynolds at al time the head of five Ove other Americans hotl hotly pursued them corn om omIng lag Ing wIthin 50 O yards or of capturing a when hIs men were cre compelled to desist At times time tho bullets shells an and shrapnel came so 50 thick that It was wai flit to lo see because of the dust Ono of oC the tho was captured by i assault this being the operation In which wn was wounded Ho was carried to the rear by comrades In inthe the midst of n a hall hail of Once time the Americans ran rail out ot of nm jim and amid before a new JUPp supply came the they were 1 to In n a fight Five additional Americans under Germ Gen Zeldon were placed In of If 40 with whom th the turn oil 11 the tho left lert In a movement that shortly act afterwards terminated In the complete These Theo Americans were Don 10 M Tur Turner ner of El EI PaO J II Herman of 1 Ill F H E Thomas recently of South Africa 1 Lewis wi Ross of Milwaukee and T D More of Dover Florida Ullon time the retirement cavalry gave chase but were weme to come up before Vasquez had harl taken aken shelter on a high hill rt It was from this that Vasquez bombarded today Apparently further fighting Is inevitable although prisoners taken h by bythe the provisional forces report that Vas moon men are deserting In squads |
