The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, January 13, 1899, Image 6
DOOM OF FORT SAN JUAN
Dciugc of Eullctr, Then a Charging
Line.
HEROES TELL HOT7 HEROES FELL.
A Crlala nni! n Crnitli When Wlkoff'a
Ilriuntle Went In?DHnkln*' (irlttjr
l.lne and the t'nvnlry In the nioody
Rnee ? Another Hoy Hero. th? Sod
of iv Gallant Veternn.
[Copyright. 1S9S. by the Author.]
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If ever soldiers
<Z*$ Avq plunged unshak5T
'wit . f^P en through hell
^C\ ')! ''re to close with
JX^ the enemy, these
-A heroes did. Led
^fVhy vcterau geu1
*JW oral n,,d fiel<1 ?m"
/{y /l cers, tho Ninth,
u-. 1 JThirteenth and
The blneks didn't scan , however
.Jurl how 1 mp tin so r.u n halted at the |
bank is uncertain, lor tin ro was no rev- |
cation e f tiphtin::. and lapse of tune was |
not noted. It was Kra^ .lorprnseu !
npuittst Manser in the attempt to subduo
the Spanish lir f <r a charge. This stapo
of tlie infantry !:;?!it wa* about eeineidental
with the capture of "Kettle"
hill by the cavalry, wl ich lias already
been desert! i d. ; nil took place probably
between I'JdlO a::d 1 o'clock. Meanwhile
(1 rimes' Lattery, i:?> leapt r 1 anijiered
by tiin balloon, was vip rously
ehellinp tho hlockh msa and t r. tic In s, as
xvas also Parkhurst's battery, Second
artillery, which had taken position to
the left anil front of drums, near 101
i'oso. The Hieoe-s of the cavalry in
clearing "Kettle" lull, really an advanced
positn n of the Spanish line, had
allowed the HntchkKs pmisnnd Parker's I
t iatliiifts to eri.s-- San .1 r.mi river at tlm I
ford of t ho main mad and pet to hipli '
) roil ml in the sontbi in si ;eef the hill.
Parker's nd\ettr upon the mvi: matked
a crisis in tile attack. He had thr o
puns with liitn mid opened them all
upon the I !i elilietoe wl.ii h Captain
Ilouphtcu ct the Thud ea.valry pointed
out to him. (Jrimt s and I arkhnrst, be it
remembered, wtro pourinp in their
shed Is, but the Spanish fire did m t abate.
S'tartinp with a low rata of sped,
Purker gradually turned his puns up to
their hiphest capacity, and in the space
nf ton minutes, the inti/rles < f tin* pans |
sweeping prnhunliy nlonu tIm i'|t:i:i:.-!i j
trenches. sift..I 'JO, 1)00 bullets into tho |
crowded works. J'lfnr" the en. my r. a)izod
what tho horrid Ir.til meant tho
ominous found of the machine ki;ii- had
already terrified theni, and they t.< ym
to leave then pits, preferring ]..>s->sI !?>
death outs-id" to eertaiu slaughter within.
Then s'leuco fell upon tho hloekhouso,
upon its lot phoh d ehuuihi rs,
upon its batteries, upon its trenehes li! 1 ed
with men.
But all this; time neither the cavalry
oor tho iufautry bad ' food idle waiting
'."wenty-fonrth pushed their way along
the trnil blocked with halting volunteers.
First nu aid, running full speed
r.rul swinging his hat, signaled tho coluiuii
to hurry forward; next a staff i
officer galloped up with Kent's second ,
message to YVikolT to rush his command
to the field. Eager to do something,
even at tho risk of disobeying orders,
part of one battalion of the volunteers,
Mid UaPFerty, with F company of another
battalion, fi ll into line, anywhere,
anywhere, touching elbows with blacks
;:ud whites, so long as they conld bo "in
tho swim." Individual volunteers also
1 roke loose from tho stationary ranks
and elbowed to the front among regulars.
One of these independents was Austin
Pardee, a hoy of IT, sun of a former
nfileer ? f the Thirteenth, who had cried
to take his father's place aud fight for
the flag until his widowed mother
yielded.
Fording tho creek and giving their
burning heads a cooling dip as they
j assed. tho men of the brigade lined up
on tho bank, leaving WikofF dead and
Worth lying in his blood, tho last and
most shining sacrifices to the Moloch of
"Hell's Crossing." In the broad field
cn the left of Hawkins' two rogimcutg
TVikolY's column struck a zona ut pitiless
lire, nuil there the third commander
t f the brigade, gray haired Liscum of
tho Twenty fourth, went down. Staff
?/Hirer Tayntan of tho Twenty-fourth
told mo that liin eyes wtro riveted on
thonoldo leader, whoso fi rm could be
eon cutting 'Is way through \tho tab'
grass with giantstrides. Like flush of
lightning ho was seen, then disappeared.
In tho van of tho column tho Thirteenth
regiment, led by Colonel Worth
as far as "Hell's 1 'r casing, " climbed up
tho bank and went through tho wire
fence, where paps had already been
made. Major Lllis was at its head, but
was soon shot down. '1 her" was an open
f.eld stretching away up to the blockhomo.
This ri gimeiit had lost heavily
at tho crossing, f nrticul irly hy Spanish
shrapnel, bet moved resistless!}* uti until
a galling volley tiro compelled it to
tec It shelter utnit r a bank .some hundred
yards from the birr
Tho Ninth regiment, rn tho left of
tho Thirteenth. ] usse l tho ordeal at tho
crossing with but little. In climbing
tho lank it was struck bv a heavy
Mauser lite In m i-sin .lua:i heights and
from the I rets, lift, right and in front.
Pressing i n in liiicwith t he Thirteenth,
tho iiginieut baited at tin* l ank and delivered
its fro upon tho .^paniarda in
tho tienckrs at th. I In: khcusn
When tho Twt nty lor.rth regiment of
blacks appeared in view above the crest
?f liio rivi r l ank, tho Spaniards appari
ntly tnrui d all tin ir tire open them,
hoping, as sla y said aftcrwaid. to demorali/.o
lln 1:1 and p:ei ip.tato a panic.
for iha artillery to do their work. Tb8
cavalrymen. who had not been ordered
by .-'uniner to remain nu "Kettle" bill,
formed lines of troops and battalion.!
and plunged down tbo slopit, across tho
valley and up the furthest slope toward
the Spanish second position. When this
movement hegau. San Juan blockhouse
was still belching firo. and part of tho
Third cavalry, together with tho Sixth,
tinder Major Lebo, struck out in a diagonal
liuo for tho stubborn fortress.
Hawkins' mcu, nearest tbo cavalry at
that time and separated from Wikoff's
Km ?hMnkUn... 1
2 * pi III!" iil n CiJl lidUri > (UIM UlTH <121(1
tho elevatious of ground betvvveu. started
forward, tho Sixteenth apparently
fending and deflcctiug somewhat to tho
left. At tha very head of tho Sixteenth
regiment ran that stalwart negro, whoso
powerful machete had cut through tho
half dozen strands of barbed wiro with
cue blow. Frenzied with his hatred of
tho Spaniards and overjoyed that tho
American nrniv was at his back, he
plunged forward, howling likan demon.
As the line tieared the crest an ofiicer
of tlie cavalry warned Parker that lie
was in danger of shooting his own men.
"Not yet," raid Parker. "Tho range is
too high. I'll stop when they are well
up." Some e.ue in Parker's own regiment,
the Thirteenth, signaled him
with a vvhito handkerchief when to
stop. Likewise Grimes and Parkhurst,
over 2,000 yards in the rear, trained
their glasses on the blockhouse, watched
the advanciug infantry lines, and just
hi the uicttof time ceased tiring, for the
concussion t.f ace cf Grimes' shells,
which fell shc.rf, stunned and knocked
down Captain McFarland of tho Sixteenth
regiment. The Hotcbkiss battery.
from the same range as Parker?
that is. the slope of "Kettle" hill ?
poured 2 inch shell into the blockhouse
over the heads of the charging infantry.
The men .of the Sixth and Sixteenth
aimed for the trenches <111 the Spanish
tight and left of tho blockhouse, pull
nig meiustives up wurrj me ground
was mV:rtijit by grasping the thick, strong
grass. Under the very etest they were
safe from Spanish fire, Lot at the top
they encountered four strand barbed
wire tslices, which the i.ien of the Sixteenth
cut through, using their nippers.
The sr.rviiurs say that the trenches
were lined with dead and wounded
Spaniards, whom they had killed by
Krag-.lorgenson the, while halted,at tho
eiulauknict.t farther down the field.
They say also that Parker's guns did
good work, especially in their moral
effect upon the advancing infantry.
One of tho artillery shells had cut
down the Spanish Hag. which, tho men
of the Sixteenth say, was lying on the
roof whin they passed by the blockhouse,
ir through it. for Lieutenant
Carey of Company L did pass through.
Ten minutes later ho saw the Thirteenth
men taking the tlag from the root. The
men ol the Sixteenth say that when
they opened lire upon tho Spaniards retreating
from t lie blockhouses and
trenches eotko cno cried out, "They'r*
Culans!" The liro was stopped, l'or the
Spanish uniform and that worn by some
Cubans was similar; otherwise more
Spaniards could have bei n captured.
When tho Spaniards began running.
Major Aumau of the Thirteenth started
ahead shouting: "The Spaniards are
running, boys! Forward Thirteenth!"
This speech of Aumau's, it was declared
by odicers in tho brigade, was a general
bracer for them all. Auman was a v? r
eran. In the firing line of the Thirteenth
was a gallant boy soldier, the son and
namesake of General T. M. Audi t s, n.
who is with tho army in the Philip
pines. Young Anderson had won his
way from the ranks to a lieutenancy
As the line of tho Thirteenth start* d
forward for that last spurt Audi tson
called out to tho men nearest him, " Advance
rapidly!" and with about a dr um
others broke loose from tho line and
rushed < n to the Spanish ditch which
lay farthest down the slope. This ditch
had been ouo of the targets of the lirag
Jorgeusensof tho Thirteenth. Clamber
. * \ra \
LIKI'TKNAXT T. M. AMiKIMtV, .11;.
(Li'ailcr of a brave handful. 1
ing up, Anderson and his little liasif!
moved on at uind the blockhouse to g? t
within range of tho retreating Spaniard^.
As tliev parsed the hloekhouso they sa v
a Spaniard in the door, who quickly
vanished, and supposing there w*i re <.th
i rs also lcat:ng retri at. In pi d toeapture
tin in I y going around the f< it At 111i
time some of the Sixth cavalry i am up.
and one of Andersen's men. I'rivaie
Agnew if '.'oinpany II. climbed ip is
the re f and to< k the ting down. Whi!
the Thirtei nth men were slewing the
th.ig to the eavalryini 11 two i.f Audi r
si u's hand wire hit. AikUim :i say.- this
lire c nine fn in Spaniards w ho wi i<- tin
di r the lied <'rovs (lag in miiiic building
on the i uislmis of Santiago. The Thirtrenth
men thought that the raptured
11 ig was a .lonali, t< r.) it into hits and
c'.istr11 11?(1 the pieces. The gallant Ma
jar Auman was woundtd hi h ro he
riai hid the I h eklu use. and the mm .r
ollicir i ii the hill, ("sprain jMirnsnce,
was rut down at the hitekhonsn with a
wound which eao-ed his death next day.
The Twenty-fourth regiment was led
up the hill by (sptaiti Weigsnt, who
tool: command after l.iscum lell. Tho
charge of this regiment of negroes is
laudtd by all who witnessed it.
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Johnson, Mary McDonough.
Grant, Hannah Simpson,
llayes, Sophia Birchard.
Garfield, Eliza Ballou.
Arthur, Malviua Stone.
Cleveland, Aunie Ncal.
Benjamin Harrison, Elizabct
[rwin.
xt n ? i ? ? i
iuci\.miej, i>uncy Vyampueii ai ilon.
Thoro is much ado about Lieuren
int Ilohson's osculatorv proclivities
>ut nothing id said of the girls who
teek hitn out to be kissed. It is oip
>pin:oa that thee omplaiits coimVom
men, on the one hand, vts<
nvy Ilobson so much honey, and
rom women, on the other hand.
?ho have never hud a whack at the
lero of the Merrimac. For our
>art, if women want "bussing," let
;hem have it; and if Ilobson cau lil
heir "bills," we arc willing that he
ihould do it. The only danger we
leo about the whole matter is, if the
linking of one vessel will raise s<
nanv kisses, we need not be surnrix
y , " I
?(l if the entire navy of the next eno
ny who attempts to scrap with us is
:urned upside down.?Exchange!
CHAMBER OF CATS.
"Thcro's only one reason I hato to
have him couio," said Mrs. Blackstone.
"Only one, and that's enough, goodness
knows!"
"Tli? cats?" inquired Mr. Bluckstonc.
"Thi darned cats!" rejoined his wife,
wiili vindictive emphasis.
"I'll tell liini about the cats when 1
write," said Mr. Blackstouo. He did.
Here is the letter:
Df.au Rwiri.re?Of course we want you to
route, n*ul of course there Is plenty of room,
though *t isn't the best kind of room, the good
wife fears. You must know our flat is as narrow
ami Ions as the lane between your own
mansion nnd that where you house your eows.
Oe.r suest ehaml>er is the last room of all at
the r?ar. It is the biggest and the lightest, hut
we dt n't use it to sleep in because of the cots.
Tin- internationn1 cat dueling ?ground for the
borough of Manhattan is under tho windows.
Why don't we kill 'em? When one dibs, six
come and bewail his death. So wo evacuated
ihe room for night use and live in the place
the landlord calls Ihe guest chamber. Thcro
j.sn't time la-fore you ootne to take the bedstead.
down nnd transpose them. It tnkes ten
days to do that, including tho time spent in
hospital.
ii juii i-nn mnnu mo rnrs, come, and we
hope yea will win your rose. Wneorely,
WII.1.1 AM BUCKKTOM.
To tlu> lion. Ropulus McShnno, District Attorney
's Oflico, County, N. Y.
Tlio Hon. Rcgulus JMcShnno arrived
'Hi a Saturday evening, and was conducted
to liis room. Thero wcro windows
(>n two si Hon nf thn T-nnin Tim
bed run obliquely into the room between
tlii-m. On each of the uuwiudowed sides
wus a closet door. Cue closet ran through
to the bedroom of the Ulackstoues. It
continued n tlxed washstaud and the
fan:i ly medicine shelves. Tho shelves
of the other closet were piled high with
discarded shoes, empty mineral water
bottles and fragments of broken furniture.
"Th *re!" said Mr. Blackstone, as ho
opened the door of this closet and pointed
with prido to tho display on tho
shelves. "That is your only relief from
cats. That is the magazine. When they
begin to howl, bombard thetu. Use tho
Spanish method. Don't hit. If you do,
they'll only niako twice as much noise."
The district attorney smiled grimly.
"I rather think I'll stay awake for
fear I shouldn't wako up when they
begin to sing."
"Don't you think, my dear," iter
husband said, "don"t you think it is
time to let tho weary traveler within
our flat go to the chamber of cats? You
tint to bed and I'll take Itcgulus and
show him what beautiful decorations
there are inside the refrigerator."
Hho went her way and they went
I heirs. Ho well did the up country dignitary
appreciate the refrigerator that
it was n< ar midnight when ho parted
with his host at the door of the chamber
r?f cats. As they passed her door, Mrs.
Clackstono noticed that tbo district attorney's
feet seemed to drag a little.
"Poor thing," sho said to hersolf, as
she winked solemnly at her pillow.
"He is tired. Perhaps ho can't help
dragging his feet, the responsibility of
carrying tlioso lovely shoeB is heavy?
In avy"?
As sho dozed, sho heard hor husband
saying:
"if you can, old man, you hotter unrtn
ss in tho durk. The mosquitoes are
iv. tnl up here. Wo would have put in
-rriens, but if wo had you couldn't
[save got at tho eats."
[f W1K tu rltunu on Uamw 1 ? U~ ?
!'? a ..? J,r> WU UUUl latui WUCU
Mrs. Ulnckstone awoke. The night was
tary still. She wondered what had
waked her. In n moment sbo knew.
' r-r-ow-wow !M came the chal;
live from a half block away. "Pr-r-riw!"
"Kr wiiwu!" came the answer from
.tali r the back window.
"Will," said Mth. Illnckstonohonr.sey
t' i tin- next pillow, "Will, wnke up.
i in y'ro coining." She sat up uud clup,
(I la r hands softly in her glee.
"Lciunio know when they get here,"
nmabled Blnckstouo as ho dug his head
nto the pillow again. Mrs. BUokstone
ut up and listened,
"Pr-r-r-ow-wow!" The challenger
was draw in K nearer. Not one, bat three
voices answered him. For a moment,
as they converged, all was silent. Then
ii mnctnvl V Ko^ftn/?l*v Ti ttvna 11 Wa
vnmc 1 liiunwv A% n?D IIAU
that of a O-iucuths-old infant who has
swallowed his bib pin.
" Will," said Mrs. Blackstone, "wake
op! They've come." He eat up and
tabbed his eyes.
in the next room they heard the
bump and pounding of baro feet on the
floor. They beard a door open and the
clinking of glass.
"Goodness, Will," whispered Mr*.
Blackstone, "I'd forgotten that 70a
could hour things in thut room 60 clearly."
"It's a very still night," her husband
mumbled wisely.
The footsteps moved softly across the
room ngaiu. "Slum-chunk!" The fragments
of bottle tinkled on the hard surface
of the yard. This noise had not
died away beforo there arose the long
wail of the overtures to cat battle
"W-o-o-o-o-o-o, wow wow!"
Softly and cautiously the footsteps
crossed Iho room ugain. Again a bottle
DroKO aud scattered. Aguiu rose the
wail of war.
There was nothing cautious about the
footsteps this time. Instead of the olink
of buttles heavy boot soles clattered together.
The time consumed iu gathering
ammunition indicated that au armful
was being collected.
Swat?bang?biff?swat?boom 1
"T-f-f-t, wiokok!" yowled a victim.
"Thank tlio Lord !" shouted tho Hon.
Mr. McShano. "Whoop!" .<
Boom?slam?smash?slap?biff!
"There, by damn!" they heard Mr.
McShano mutter. Tho silence of Bundav
morning settled down again.
Tho Blackstones slept righteously into
daylight, but not so lato as they hod
intended. At about tho timo folks up
the state go out to feed tho stock before
preparing for church thero came a rapping
at their bedroom door.
"Bill! Say, Bill!" said a worried
voice.
"Wassermat?" asked Mr. Blackstone.
"Did you send anybody into my
room to take my shoes cut to clean
them?" asked Mr. McSliaue.
"No." responded Mr. Blackstone.
"What's up?"
"They're gone, that's all," was the
melancholy answer. ' Iput thorn in the
closet when 1 went to bed?theouo that
isn't the magazine, yon know?-so that
in the excitement of battle I wouldn't
get mixed up and throw them, aud now
they're gone."
Mrs. Blnckstono slipped out of bed
ami irincerlv nni'urd H?? dnnr lli?
uariow closet that connected the two
rooms.
"If ho put thrni in here," sho said,
peering iu tho darkness, "they certainly
must Lo here,"
tShc opened the door a littlo wider
&nd shrieked. Her husband was beside
her i:i an instant.
"Leek!" she cried, pointing into the
closet. "Look!"
"For goodness* sake, you people,"
paid a wondering vcico in tho nail,
"what's the matter?'*
Tho voice of Blackstono answered
him, enunciating rlctvly and solemnly
recounting a catalogue of things.
"One quart tr.ttlo of mucilage, one
quart bottle of red ink, one quart bottle
of green ink, one-half gallon jug of
vvhk.ky, mo bottle of Pond's extract,
ono bote of dry plates, two bottles of developer,
c no largo bottle of lime water"?
"Gue pair of russets, one pair bicycle
-hoes," Mrs. P.laekstono took up the
list. "The skirt frame. Your big shoes,
your patent leathers, your winter
shoes'
"Gone, all gene!" they said in chorus.
"Have you found my shoes, yet:'*
asked a vcico front tba hull.
"Your shoes!" bawled Mr Blackstone.
"Yon good for nothing hut shark
bait, steam snnvvplows. Oh, yon"?
"William!" said Mrs. Elnckstone.
Her husband strode out into the hall.
He took his guest by the scruff of the
neck and led him to the window. There
in the area they look<d down upon such
an ink bespattered gummy wreck as seldom
man is privileged to look upon.
On the stcuo steps lay one dead cat,
and by his side a huge, yellow, gore
stained Syracuse boot. The other rested
under the largest fragment of tho ink
bottle.
"I must have got iuto the wrong
clo:et, alter all," raid tho IIou. Mr.
I\J< Slime after awhile. "And they cost
|:8.50."
PTi:, case went against him by default
the i.t ?:t clay because ho had to wait for
Black, tone to go down town, his own
feet c lad in t< uuis shoes, and order a c
full assortment of shoes sent to the
house "for a gentleman with the bigft,
,11 " f..? IVf
n% > w v . II Minn. ii(U iUl. JJiUUJfc-t'.
i:c was unlet ling enough to say ho
Ii?lu't much tare.? New York Sun.
Hoi'Ki'lin?*li r.ldlni;.
Horseback exercise possesses, nctmling
to some physicians, the facul>y
of both increasing and reducing
weight. This is nil apparent contradiction,
but it is explained by the difference
of the time at which the riding
is done.
If meals are taken immediately after
riding, additional flesh Is gained,
but if a space of an hour and a half
is allowed to intervene between the
ride and the meal a decrease of flesh
results.
Care of ttir I'oor.
A regularly organized system of re
lievtng poverty has been in vogue in
China for more than 2,000 years. It Is
said that an orgunized system of charity
prevailed among the Egyptians 2,?
500 years B. C.
r Oar Ton Atcfenr.
A meteoric stone weighing four tons
fell on a warehouse in Flume, Austria,
and set it on fire. The stone crashed
through the house and was found burled
in the collar. _