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Show Xt: COALVILLE TIMES OAIVILU UTAH. UTAH NEWS. Governor Well delivered the Tnrit of July oration at Logan. . Tbe Utah artillery reemlu arrived ia 8an Francisco Thursday. Bprin grille baa produced about M,o0 quart of strawberries thia aeaaon. H. M. Edward of Pennsylvania baa been ehoaen Conductor of Abe cob lag Eisteddfod. Insurance adjusters hare fixed tbe amount to be paid on account of tbe Park Cityflre at 115,539. herder, was ran o rar ni Thistle Junction by a Eh Orande traia June 37th and instantly Ole Madsen, a abeep kllki The erops throughout tbe state neree looked better than at the present Alme and a bounteous harrest la now an aa su red fact lira. B. A; Krans, who has bass a resident of Lehi since 18M, died last week, aged' 77 years. She same to Utah in 1350. Senator J. L. Rawlins earn home from Washington last week. Re does not beliere there wilt be another eaU - . fer volunteer. . A eon has been born to Captain and Mrs. J. E. Caine and the news wired te ' the proud father, who is on dnty with I L BRA VERY Tkuoik IkrtiHul; III Ha lasts tad an to tba Front. fkbouey, curred in Brave Men Mowed Down in an Unequal Fight With an Entrenched hoe. M July S. An incident oe i Santiag tbe advance charge mm J2S2 fI FLEET DESTROYED Imprisdned Fleet Sought to Break Through Sampsons Lines and Was Destroyed. When the battle began,! Wheeler was very ill, and Genera siumoer ini given command of Wheeldivision. After hard fighting had ers Braved American Troop the Hail iNot a Vessel of the Entire Fleet Escaped Destruotlon-Spaniar- ds Fought Butthn Battle Fever was on and the been going on for some hours, ths Defenses rom F Their Spaniards the Drove Enemy and .Of Death Until Their Ships Were Sinking Under Them. When They Headed dying slid wounded, coming in streams Fought With Desperation. Leaving Hundreds of Dead Straight for the Shore Hereto Fight of tho Spaniards to the rear where Wheeler was being Trenchea-Kent'a Gallant In the and Wounded Complimented by Americans Spanish Killed cared for. tbe fighting fever seized tbs Charge-- 2. 200 Prisoners Captured. Prisoners. and Wounded 5.000-1.0- 00 general and he alerted to the front is an ambulance. About half way to the front he met a number of litters bearCaney, July 5. Shelter's army in practice was good. Playa del Este, July 6. Cervera's ground tbeir hulls to pleoca as they on their breasts and ing wounded. The veteran, undei Kent s mm Uy front of Santiago has been adding new of his surgeons, Immediately pquadron, which has been tbe object rolled or pitched forward or sideways luster to American arms. As details poured volley after volley into them protest pf the movement upon Hantago, is at with every ware that washed upon of the uneven engagement ar gath- at a range so close that the opposing Ithe bottom of the sea. Of the entire them from the open sea. ered, greater credit U bestowed upon lines could see the 'wjrtte of each Admiral Carvers escaped to the shore flotilla, which cost Spain tl5.U00.000, to the. our troops. Id an unfarmlisr country, ether s eyes, only the torpedo boat Terror, which in a boat sent by the Gloucester Maria Taresa, unused to the extreme heat flghtmg.un Captain Grimes thM fipencd with of the Infanta is at San Juan, alone escaped. Adm- assistance entrenched enenay numerically a his battery, and in the second duel iral Cervera and seventy other officers and as soon as he touched the beach the artillerists did with mueh Spanish as afer almost, outpost strong itself, and 1,600 men are prisoners. About he aurreaderd himself and his comlietter shell held execution, and after has been planting taken Step mand to Lieutenant Morton, and asked 350 were killed or drowned arid 160 inoutpost by step, fighting heroically and des- shell in the first main redoubt and on side The the latter Spanish jured two guns. The Spanish are being oared for on the American perately, the Spanish have been forced turned their then attention to to withdraw into the citv, .uttering gunners hospital ship Solaee. American loss 1 Kents division and began droppiog is one man killed and one wounded heavy losses in dead and wounded an captured. Predictions uf Cubans who, snclls in the advance guard, Cervara made a dashing tint heroic left the elty before the advance lgan. axsT etLLAXT charge. At 9:30 a. m. , Juy 3, at the fight. that the Spaniards would either sur-- , A few moments after Clark's brigade hour least expected, the Spanish fleet render or evacuate after the first he ivy an() the right of Kent's division made which had been hemmed in for six eegagtanent have not been fulfilled, a gaant charge to the knoll to the weeks, made a dash for the open sea, , and with marked hero- - north of the extreme left of the Kpan-iavin an endeavor to break through Sara)-- ' they have defended their positions i,h i)Da and took possession of the bods lines. Five and a half hours later GEN. JOE WHEELER. and inflicted terrible losses upon art hacienda in the shelter of an orange the Cristobal Colon, the last of the advancing army. Fridays killed and grove This marked the beginning of ordered his horse, and, after personally flest, was beached six miles west of U wounded on the American side will a magnifieentcharge through the first agisting tbe wounded into the ambu. Vri'Xj0- V ill harlior. She was the fastest Santiago Vl' ' Xf approximate tflOO, while the Spanish ;ne 0f intreochments. The cavalry lance, mounted his horse and rode t of the Spanish ships and soon gniued a loss, in epite of entrenehiffhnts and division and General Hawkin' brigade the front, where he took part in the lead and steamed away from tha shots troches, was almost as much, in addi- - vhagrd up ftie slope against a storm thickest of the fray. The men burst that destroyed the other ships, with - TatoTrSuftc ctieefs, w hlcK followed the timi to e large number raptured The Qf Jeat. fw'r ,v ts 4X . ,t "?T the Oregon, New York, llrooklvn and an fleet all line. the important became part played retreat The a almost Spanish root. general along several smaller ships in pursuit They In the engagement, dropping shell j and ltMS Spanish retired from tber were constantly firing at her and reafter shell in front of advancing r outer defense It was a splendid vie ceiving her fire in return. She was so boats. Sarapaoa'a fleet joined in, but tory , but dearly earned. badly injured that she soon went to Ha Bring was from bearings and wiisj It was in this awful charge that our pieces after being beached. The fleet N The Spanish men were ao ADMIRAL ckrvera. generally ineffective. badly eut up that they consisted of the Armored Crosiers (Caps VrtSs Flest.) fought bravely and effectively started on a double quick, but no artillery Cristobal Colon, Vizcaya, Almirante i and proved better marksmen than troops could face such a terrible fire Oquendo, Iofauta Maria Teresa and to be taken aboard the Gloucester, heretofore. without annihilation. Our men stagtwo torpedo boat destroyers, 1lutou which was the only American vessel At 7;20 Captain Capon's battery gered, throwing themselves on the and Furor. near him at the lime, with several of opened oa the Spanish, who fought ground. Again they started, again In the face of overwhelming odds, his officers, including the captain of the, with spirit and nerva when our sheila they prostrated themaelvea, bnt on with nothing before him but inevitable flagship. The Spanish admiral, whe (brigade. j i rrP'5i j Dvaf-erataly- .; bis cavalry troop at San FranoUco. The. XtaU. mioeral txIviUt at . tba exposition isattraot-In- g ths attention of all rial tors. It is ...conceded to be J.b inoat com plate ex-- , bibit in the mining building. "Andrew ITeudrickwin, A pious r Ur-Ing at Levan, died last week, aged IS. He was identified with the growth ef tho southern pert of the state, having lived there more than thirty years. ' A large number of women, who at tended the federate, club meeting at Denver last week visited Salt Ldk lad the Mothers Congress, They were drive utertalned at Saltalr about the city. ' Salt Lake's curfew ordinance la ia operation. It ia unlawful for ahlUreu under I year of aga to be oa the streets between tbe hour of 0 p, na and t a. u., unless accompaaled by X. paraat or guardian. Henry Scott, colored,' of Salt "Lake, , who cut an eve out o John O. Oathard K Trans-Miaslaalp- pl WHEELERS - 4 -- or ! a4 . ' 4 ,i. .. ! , a Wi J A. rr r- m& wan tinging Don't Lika a Nigger, Nohow," baa been sentenced to ten yearn in the penitentiary. , r m J , Delegates to the Miulag Congress will be treated to a visit to Merenr and Gate mllL It tho great East Gold will be a treat for moat of tho delegates, who hsvt nevor oean the elaaa of oro that abounds at Mercur. Richfield and vicinity bava furnished volunteers, some be lag in , forty-tbre- a each of tbo threo organisations whiek bavogono from Utah tha batteries, cavalry and rough riders. Thirteen of this Dumber havejust been recruited and will bo forwarded an aeon aa aooeptad. Attornsy Whlteootton ef Provo la movlag for a trlhl of Harry Daee, an dsrgoing sentenoe for tho Pelican Point murders," on one of tho ladUtmeata now pending against hint. Ths object la to tatrodnee nsw evidanoe whlah has been discovered, with n view to aeeuf ing a pardon, na there is a doubt ef , Bayes guilt. Ed. X. Eirby, a prominent Balt Lake miaing man, aommitted sulotde at Lee Angeles last Friday by taking polaen. ' Ha left tha employ of the Station Ire Works at San Francisco Marek 1st sad went into the mountains for a times and was thought to havu bean killed. He has neglected to wrlto to bit family and U Other ways acted ao etraugely as to leave little doubt that he was Insane. x Jobs Barring, the man thought te be Butch Caaaady, who wan killed with Joe Walker by tbe Price posse at Rook Cliff some time ago, was in posses leu l twenty-tw- o bend of horses whtrh were captured by the sheriff and acid to pap funeral expenaea of Herring and Walker. . Schultx and Thompson, tbe men wbo were captured, say the horses belonged to Herring, wbo was aa bea-a- at young man temporarily la bad company. Tha father of Barring will aas to reoover tha valuo of tba horses Jin Thomas, a tramp, who was re- eeatly hurt at P. T, JustUa, Uee languishing in tha aonnty jail la a very , precarious condition. - There wUl bo su operation performed a pea bias. Tho spin in affected and death is aapeeted A At any time. j: sod oa are tha market Early peaohes sailing at 5 cents per pound at Bi S sorgo. The peach crop in B V George aod vieinity will ho ranch lighter tills . aeaaon tbnn foe many yeses pant, swing to a into front which did aaoeh damage - . ' MRSPECTIVI or THE CtTT OF BANT1AOO D CUBA. THOM THE WEST. I MsrriUa vetnt Bo saps bat- Mrro ssstle. Estrella battery, t-- Santa Catalina castta. La -- Ss)daSea paint. Can ones point Smith. ay Gsrla. 1- 1- Nupsrs bap. IS Llmata pslat. tary. IS M 14 16 Cota. Fuata Sa RatHM. traders bay. Jultaa. Tarsy polivt. H Fsrrea bav IS Csjtima bav. fl Den .Thomas harbor, v V-- TIfi lifklhsus. - , to the crop President Christopher Lay tea, whs eras operated upon at Kanrllle for tha removal of stones from the Vladder, ta getting along better than at any time sine his lines began, eighteen dtootha aga Ths doctors have reasons to hops for his early recovery. 1 . CRISTOBAL t-- ayo nla 'srilTfS COLON. U-C- lP-P- atnt ware bursting over their htada The Spanish reply waa Immediate aad wonderfully accurata. Tha second er third of their shell broke over one of Captain Grime s guns, killing two men tend wbnndlng four. Theext Bpaalak shall burat ust Wyoadohe battery aad riddled a sugar house, which Colonel Wood's roegk rider were waiting a forward move- - festruction if ha remained any longer was wounded in the arm, was taken to In the ' trap in which the American the Gloacester, and was received at her meu ont of the entlrn only twenty-siBeat held him, Cervera made a bold gangway by her commander, Lieutenregiment were uninjured. While the flash from the harbor and fighting ant Commander Richard Wainwrlght, once dlacredited rumor waa lta aad up they wenL until, with a cheer, they sprang over the trenehes dividat ing the side of the hill checked with by their fallen comrades absurdity, yet it indicated that the There waa band to hand fightiag regiment had been in the thick of the here, in which an officer of the fight, and a great many of the 1,000 was naclieted, but tbe killed and wounded might belong to Spaniards could not resist the onset of the regiment. The officers wives werq our troops, and they scrambled oat almost distracted when definite newt of hg tcc iches and broke oTer tbe waa reeaived of the casualties. The line ef knolls on which they nsre first reports did not distinguish besituated. Hundreds of tha enemy lay tween those killed and wounded. The de4. or wounded in the trenches first enoouraging news received waa a The main redoubt was than carried telegram from Senator Cannon whieh with brush. The two remaining ba- stated, from best Information, that tteries "Were then ordered up, and with none of the officers were killed on th a rattle aad a clash Capt. Hate's bat- battlefield. Thia inspired hop and tery went tearing up the road, cum- relieved the strain. bered as it. was with a stream of Tha casualties in the regiment are wounded going to the rear. aa follow: Lieutenant Colonel E. H. Tbehat'ry got in position to the Liscum, shot in the arm; Captain James right of the uilMiuSpanlsh redoubt at E. Brett; Second Lieutenant Lyman 3 o.clock aad at 3:30 Capt. Hates seot Welsh, sunstroke; Captain H. E. Ducat, tba first shell, Whiob went whlzziag hot near tbe heart; Captain J. J. down ths lina of intrench ments. ei fi- Breretou, wounded in left leg; J. H. al Twea-ty-four- th Tree Fought Fast Canej Retreat. nil Cat Off Sibony, July greatest loatss to American arms ,were sustained on the seoond day of the battle. Tha tret- day's engagement was engaged W Vy sos tie ring parties. however, the American were dnVn up in battle line reaching from Aqa dors on the sea to Caney. opposite Santiago, a distance of rfive mile or more. Advances were made all alaag the line. The only failure was a Aguadores, which General DuflMdwe unable to reach on account of the burning of a bridge by the Spaniards. , . Kent, Wheeler. Lawton, Chaffee, all advanced. The heaviest fighting waa probably done by Kent and W'hcelsra divisions and by the batteries under Capron. The Spanish loss in killed aad wounded waa not far from ours, while in captured they lost about 3,3oo men. Our troops fought up to and past Canty, cutting off retreat before they stormed the place. It was one of the stroagtat outposts the Spanish maintained, sad most of the 3,300 prisoner of war wre captured here. General Shatter, when Canej waa taken, had moved his to the treat end took pers charge of the operations The-secon- JACOB T. HBHT. BRIO.-QECeanasanStag tha 1st division of MaJ. Oaa. Sbaftar army at Invaalon.) ley followed volley, the daring officer made a rocennolesance and got down safety, having obtained complete details of the disposition of the enemy. Tho advance of the cavalry and General Kent's division immediately began along the line of the main road to Santiago. It was about two hours later before our advance began breaking through tlia covering of the Spanish trenches. They met with a hail from the Mauser rifles, which temporarily stayed the forward movement The Spaniard bed the rang aad their i ; x ahella, ssl for n Captala Grime of M()0 rang yard, allgbtly Overshot the mark. It was difficult i .locate the Bpsulah guns, aa they used awake-le- e powder, and in this, the Firdi'snr-tiller- y duel, w had the worst ef it time there had besa a Into this Dp fantry fir except oa the extreme right. Where the Spaniards war being bard pressed by General Chaffee aad Goa-SeLawton. About 1:10 oeloek n balloon was sent np ia front of the eeyalry division. This drew tbe first volley from tbe Spanish latrenchmsnts. Though vol- - nding the enemy murderously. The 'American advance line remained behind the Orest of the hlll until CapL Hate had driven terror into the lv ready beaten and discouraged enemy. 2,200 SPANIARDS CAPTURED, -- -- j T " " bsd-quarte- rs vary inch of his way, evan w hen his hip was ablaze and sinking, he tried to eaeapa from impending doom upon his vessels. The Americans saw him the moment he left and commenced the work of deatruotion Immediately. For an hour or two they followed the flying Spaniards to the westward along the shore line, tending shot after shot into their h ills, tearing great holes in their steel tides and covering their deck with the blood of the killed and wounded. At no time did the Spaniards show any indication that they intended to do otherwise than fight to the last They showed no signals to surrender even when their ships commenced te sink and the great clouds of smoke ' pouring from their sides showed that they were aa fire. Hut they timed their heeds toward the shore, less than ' rall ti,eB 0,1 the ,ad second sine lieuteuant, died; k Augustin, where their destrucand beach rocks, Lieutenant Henry Lyons; Captain soon completed. was tion Second Lieutenant J. H. Dolge; The officers and men on board then Hughe. to the shore as well as they escaped Twenty-foThe following privates of the are either killed ori wounded: could, with the assistance of boats urth Alex Higgins, wounded In thigh; 0. L. sent from the. American and then threw themselves upon the PojJe, ia thigh; II. W. Robinson, in left of their raptors, who not only ssercy Alfred bursthurt Thompson, hip; by to them the gracious hand of extended ing shell; Fred J. Williams, in left leg; American ehivalry, but sent them a Jame Crums, in left arm; Pat Key, to protect them from the murguard Mason in . Robinson, thighs; through derous bands of Cuban soldiers, hiding Sergeant Allis, in right foot; R. in the brush on the hillside, eager to Keaderaou, right foot down and attack the naarmed, rush Foliar details are awaited with but valerou foe. defeated, Mrs. is not at tha Augustin anxiety. One after another of the Spanish fort, baring left for a visit with her parcati In Kansas when the regiment ships became the victims of the awful left. Captain Ducat is reported dead, rein of shells which the American bathut the report has not been confirmed. tleships, crosiers and gunboats peered upon them, and two hours after the o ret of the fleet had started out ef eroisers two and three harbor, A Uvwly latwrvat Is ManUsatad Welfare. torpedo boat destroyers were lying on Salt Lake, July 8. Lively intereet ia the shore ten to fifteen, miles west of taken in all new concerning the Six- Morroeastle.ponnding to pieces, smoke teenth infantry, which for nine year, and flam pouriag from every part of waa stationed at Fort Douglas and on them, and covering the entire coast leaving going to Fort Sherman and line with a mist which could be sec a Boise barralks, Idaho. Boy a from all tor miles. Heavy explosions of amover the two state are members of tit munition occurred every few minute, regiment Captain Morriaon was killed. The sending curls of dense whit smoke a following are among the wounded; hundred feet ia the air, and causing a Captain E. C. Woodbury; Second Lieu-te- e ihowjtr of broken iron and steel to fall ant K, E. L. Spencer; Philo Leak, Geo, J . Beech, Paul Bartindo, serious; ha tha tohteg on every side. M. J. Lang, serious; Walter, Taynaoa,! . The bluffs oa the coast fin echoed A. Darcu tt, Clarence IC Leedy, John with the roar of and every explosion, H. F. Charles Tennant Jefrard, Paraa, C, W. Enteman, Henry Master, Gea tha Spanish vessel sank deeper end B. Hey, J. C. Duo nerd, Michael deeper into the sand, or else tha rocks Koeh. ; who grasped the hand of the I admiral, and said, to him: congratulate you, sir, upon having made as gallant a fiht as was ever witnessed on the sea. Lieutenant Commander Wainwrlght then placed his cabin at the disposal ef the Spanish officer. Tha Spaniards, when they found they would be permitted to live, adapted themselves comfortably to the situation, rolled their cigarettes and began playing cards amon'gthemselves. gray-beard- SAMPSON'S letdi God Cher fr a Fourth of CcUhretioo. j rn REPORT. Washington, any details Jlf July 5 Long before battle had arrived. of the Commodore Sampson sent the. follow- Ing message e Sc ary Long, dated Sibooey, 3 15 a. m , July 4: "Tha fleet under my command effers the Nation as a Fourth of July present the destruction of the whole of Cervera's fleet. No ene escaped. It attempted to escape at 9:36 a. m. and men-of-wa- r, CAPT. SAMPSON. 8aa-tlag- at I p. at. the last, the Cristobal Colon, had ran ashore six miles mil west of Santiago, and had let down her color.' "The Iafauta Marie Teresa, Oquendo, aad Vizcaya were forced ashore, burn-- ; d and blown up within twenty tuilea of Santiago, the Furor und Plutoa, were destroyed within four miletT of the port Loss, one killed and two, wounded. Enemy's lost probably aev- Fal hundred from gunfire explosion ' and drowning. 1300 "About prisoner, including Admiral Cervsra. i "Tha man killed was Georg chief yeoman ef the Brooklyn. (Signed) - "SAMFSOX. i i |