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BULLETS SANG "DEATH" Though San Juan Fort Had Fall en, the Battle Wc t On. fSESE WE ASE f HEBE WE STAY!" Sow the Victors Faced Spanish Re? serve?--Short Range For the Cav? alry on San Juan Crest-Pearson's Infantry Carried the Line Forward Beyond All Others. ICopyright. 1S9S; by the Author.] XL ?A1T J (TAN blockhouse had is J len, bat the killing of Amer? icans did not stop. Less than SOO yards beyond it, npon high elevations, to the right and to the left, the Span? iards still held A BF?y ?? I ^H*007 A* this time VJ T^TU ' part of the Third, pf . T?A Ninth and Tenth IL ? r&?Or cava^7 ana* Z** ?/ ron g h riders 8?- ' * * ? were on the ridge doe north of the blockhouse, Where ""there was a house with outbuildings and trenches, all used by the Spaniards for cover. The cavalrymen say that sometime after they reached this point, which, was known to them as San Juan House, they heard heavy firing at the blockhouse. This led fehem to suppose that the blockhouse had not yet fallen when they reached the crest of the ??ge. However, the infantry said that ~4hey fired from the captured blockhouse ;i?d vicinity upon the retreating Span? iards and at their second line. Many "gallant feMows. of Wikoff's and Haw? kins' brigades fell after the blockhouse was in the possession of the Americans. .Among these was Lieutenant Ord of Hawkins' staff, who broke away from . his leader in order tc go in with the men of his own regiment, the Sixteenth. Ord's conduct that day was heroic, his : death most tragic. W hen the brigade vas itt the creek, deploying for the at? tack, he had said by vray of encourage? ment, " You can take fi; in 80 minutes. ' ' Major Forse cf the. First cavalry, who went forward with his battalion after the capture o2 "Kettle" hill, was also killel . The infantry reformed lines at the blockhouse and took position to resist a counter attack, which a little later was *s threatened: from the Spaniards in front s3%e blockhouse was a brick building, loopholed, with trenches on each flank and in front. West of it, toward Santi? ago, the ground falls into a deep depres? sion. Six hundred yards westward, on both sides of the main road to Santiago, the Spanish had strong works. On the American right and left of this depres? sion the heights sro abrupt, and pos? session of these was essential to the holding of the blockhouse as well as of "Kettle" hill, because the heights on the American right of the blockhouse itself are higher than "Kettle" hill. As soon as the cavalry took possession of "Kettle" bill, as already described, many of the soldiers had rushed for? ward to the west crest and opened with their carbines upon the Spaniards around the heights in front. Majors and captains got their battalions and troops together and with a cheer charged forward. Two troops of the Third cav? alry, led by Major Wessels, Captains Moiton, Hunter and Morgan, dashed straight for the building known as the Sari Juan House. The Ninth and Tenth cavalry, with part of the rough riders, seemed to strike for the house, but owing to obstructions the line became mixed. On this char ge there weie some casualties. Captain Bigelow and Lieu? tenant Roberts of tue Tenth were wound? ed in charging down from "Kettle" hill into the swale, and Captain McCoy was wounded in ascending the ridge. Captain O'Neil, of the rough riders, was killed. Soon after reaching the house Major Wessels and Captain Hunter of the Third were hit. The fall of Major Wessels left the command of the regi? ment in the hands of Captain Morton. Troops I and B, under Boughton and Dugan, coming up from San Juan block? house, joined, and Morton pushed for? ward 265 yards to the crest of the ridge. The Ninth and part of thet rough riders were off to the righi; of that point, and ! Captain Galbraith, with Lieutenant Berkeley and two troops of the First j cavalry, was also there. The Sixth cavalry had kept in touch wiith the infantry all the way up the hill to San Juan blockhouse, and, reach? ing the crest, was on the left of the Tenth. Thu3 t?e cavalry had a stmng line upon the highest part of the ridge extending from the Santiago road north? ward toward the El Caney road, ready to form connection with Lawton's left, according to plan. Tnese troops imme? diately began intrenching, some using tin plates and fingers, and others, es? pecially the Tenth cavalry, tools brought along on their backs. The right of the line was under fire from a blockhouse off toward the El Caney road. Parker took his guns up the hill, and, under the direction of cavalry officers, used them with good efi.'ect. It was believed at the time that the Spaniards were ready for a count?: attack. The Ninth cavalry on the right of the line, being only one battalion strong, asked for help from the infantry, and finally Kent sent to its assistance some of the blockhouse victors-namely, the Thirteenth infan? try. As San Juan blockhouse was situated on the crest of the bridge no advance was made by Wikoff's and Hawkins' troop?. They intrenched the line from the San Jnan road, tha Sixth cavalry position, southward, using for this work the Krag-Jorgensen bayonet, which is simply a very heavy knife with a blade I bout an inch and a half wide. Haw? kins' brigade, which had lost the heavi? est of any in climbing the hill and was also weakened by the defection of some hundreds of volunteers, had been strengthened early m the day by the Twenty-first infantry from Pearson's Second brigade. This regiment had been detached by General Kent to assist Hawkins, but owing to the crowded road had not got into position in time to charge with the Sixth and Sixteenth. However, it lost under the fire at the creek and also in ascending the hill close npon the heels of the other regi? ments. Meanwhile what of the crest south? west of the blockhouse, the region which seems to have been most easy for attack by the Spaniards? Kent's Second brigade, under Pearson, as before stated, had orders to rest its left upon a green knoll on the same ridge with a block? house 600 yards south. With that Pear? son's orders stopped. When this bri? gade, consisting of the Second and Tenth, crossed the creek, the fire had somewhat abated. Still the battle was roaring on the right and men were drop? ping all around. Wikoff was lying dead in the bed of the stream. In order to advance it was necessary to break the line into columns of fours. The water was two to three feet deep aed the banks lined with thick brush. Entering the field, the column was struck by a heavy fire, but it swept on, passing San Juan blockhouse on the left of Wikoff*s and Hawkins' troops, driving the Span? iards from hill to hill to their trenches over the crest. Taking position on the crest at a distance varying form 400 to 1,000 yards from the advanced Spanish trenches and batteries, the brigade held out against a terrible fire. The men lay down under the shelter of the crest and fired steadily, not having time to in? trench. The experience of Pearson is an ex? ample of the complications that may impel a subordinate to anticipate his chief. After the brigade had established itself on the front line, to the left of ti e captured blockhouse, one of Kent's aids came up with an oqler to Pearson to make the very move he had already carried out During /the day Kent had modified his original orders to Pearson. If is of course impossible to depict the condition of the troops in the line when night closed in. Words fail to ex? press it The heat was awful ; the men were soaked through and through; they had had no food since morning and no prepared meal then and had none that night, excepting in a few cases where packs were brought up from the bed of the creek on the shoulders of already wornout soldiers. The ground was very hard, being composed in some places of calcareous rock.. There was no grum fe -;-??-._.-Steg_ SAX J??X BATTLEFIELD. bling, no depression of spirits, only de? termination to hold on, and a wish fox support, although, while they did not know it, there was none to give them. All the infantry and cavalry were on the front line and the only help tobe looked fer was She coming of Lawton down the El Caney road, to threaten the Spaniards on the unprotected side ol Santiago Lawton moved up, it's true, but not until after midnight and then unseen bj the Spaniards, until he reached theis pickets, about 600 yards from the right of the cavalry line on the crest, as be? fore stated. There he halted, and sent back to Shafter for renewal of orders. Calls for support for the troops in? trenched on the San Juan ridge had, oi course, reached Shafter at various times during the afternoon and evening of thc 1st, and he told Lawton that as thing! stood the quickest way to get in positior in aid of Wheeler's line was to counter? march to the crossroads southwest of EJ Caney and come back to El Poso, thence to San Juan ridge. Nothing definite has yet been mad? known as to the strength of the Span iards on San Juan ridge. The garrisor of Santiago is placed at 10,000 befon the much talked of Pando's columr reached there. It would have been pos si ble to have sent half the garrison oi more from the main trenches to Sar Juan, ridge after it was apparent thal the Americans were to attack there ir force. Why it was not done only th( Spanish generals can explain. A Frene! officer in the Spanish service told one ol his countrymen in the Third cavalry that the Spaniards were 'amazed at th( persistency of the Americans in push ing forward against San Juan ridge ir tho face of the pitiless fire which wat poured at tbem at the crossing anc while ascending the slopes. He also saic that when the Spanish troops wen driven over the cresc of the ridge thu men in their second line had to hole their fire for fear of killing friends, anc that that resulted in demoralizing then: quite as much as those driven out of the front trenches were demoralized by be ing compelled to beat a retreat ; hence there could be no attempt at a coun ter charge, just at the time when il would be more effective-that is, at th( very moment of American success. It ii well known to fighting men that th? very moment of snccess and high exul? tation is the most dangerous for the as saulting column. Strength is exhausted in the effort to take a position, but once the victors have time to get breath anc come to a fuJl realization that the posi tion is theirs they will die in theil tracks before giving it up. Every mo ment that the Spaniards delayed coun ter attack on San Juan ridge made th( Americans so much stronger. OEORGE L. KILMER. Good Sewing Machines from $10.00 up a Randie's. There isn't a weak point anywhere abon he White Sewing Machine-M. B. Randi .ells theo. SOUTH CAROLINA AND GEORGIA^. B. CO. PASSENGER DEPARTMENT. TIME TABLE, NO. 15. ID effect 12 Ol a. m., Sunday, Oct. 2, 1898. STANDARD EASTERN TIME? Daily Daily Except Except Sunday. Sunday. Going East. No 78 No. 74 L? 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