Show GREAT OBSTACLES TO OVERCOME our soldiers enduring all kinds of hardships in cuba rained night and broiled with the sun by day cactus thorns pierce the flesh hidden foes do deadly work new york 1 private james carroll company M regiment who waa wounded in the battle near santiago on july 1 and who arrived here on the steamer kansas city said last night if the people here only knew what the boys have to suffer there would be no interest in any body else in this country with the awful rains that chill through the night and the sun that blisters all through the day they have not a minute of reet it is misery to live there I 1 only had a little of it after all and while ill have more as soon as im able to go to the front again it is only because it is my duty that I 1 will go one of the worst experiences I 1 had was when we were on outpost duty on june SO the day before the bombard ment we had been soaked through with rain and broiled with the sun a halt dozen times over and finally were bordered jor dered to return to the base of supplies to beet rations for the brigade incidentally we beard that we would get the order to start at 2 in the morning it hen was midnight we were told to turn in for a little sleep and did EO two hours was not long but we slept all stories about certain men not beine able to sleep except under certain conditions I 1 believe are yarns all of us slept and we had all aorta of conditions about us our destination was san joan about eight miles from where we were the march was one of the most difficult we had in the short time we were away it was through ground that was bogey with the rains and through cactus plants that jagged and caught us seemingly at every point on the way although our orders were to make all haste possible we found it all wo do to travel abree quarterma of a mile in fin hour the natural difficulties wera tho worst either our marching had been discovered by the spanish guerrillas and while we could not see them they made their presence felt they skulked through the ch apparel and kept up a fire which gave us not an instant of security every now and again some of the boys would be wounded the firing kept up all through the night which showed that we were pursued by those villainous bushwhackers bushwhack ers all the time we thought we baw their shadows as they skulked along in the beeh that made our march a hell but protected them their numbers we could not tell but judging from the way that the bullets came whenever we reached an opening they must have been considerable when we were not in the open the plan was to pick us off and unfortunately they succeeded in too many cabes we could boly do the best we could but that was not much now and again we could hear a follow the crack of one of our rifles that told as the bullet had done its duty but it was hard on ug the march would have been costly even it we had nothing but the difficulties of the way to fight when to those was added a fire from a joo that wag relentless you may imagine dur condition the progress was EO elow that it was light when we had made four ailee tho firing had got hotter by this time and the orders to fight bad come we were told to throw away everything not needed from that time on until 6 in the afternoon it was a case of fight all the time about 2 in the afternoon the seventy first charged the bill at san juan half way up we got a hot volley rom the spaniards that made us stop from the force of impact but the stop was only momentarily the boys kept on and won |