. The chicago Record's war stories : by staff correspondents in the field ; copiously illustrated. first shot from the Spanish battery struckthe old mill back of the hill and killed adozen Cubans. Another shell followed andstruck the earthworks just in front of thefirst gun of Grimes battery. It tore up theearth and then rose in the air over the gun,but did not explode. The shell was so wellplaced that had the range been a foot and ahalf higher it would have entered the muzzleof the American gun. Then came the shrap-nel that burst over the second gun. killingtwo men and wounding several more.
. The chicago Record's war stories : by staff correspondents in the field ; copiously illustrated. first shot from the Spanish battery struckthe old mill back of the hill and killed adozen Cubans. Another shell followed andstruck the earthworks just in front of thefirst gun of Grimes battery. It tore up theearth and then rose in the air over the gun,but did not explode. The shell was so wellplaced that had the range been a foot and ahalf higher it would have entered the muzzleof the American gun. Then came the shrap-nel that burst over the second gun. killingtwo men and wounding several more. Thiswas about the best battery which the Span-iards had at Santiago. However, the Spanishhad the range and did not have to find it. The blockhouse on San Juan hill shows thework done in return by the gunners ofGrimes battery. The battered roof and per-forated wall show where many shells around the rifle pits and the side of thehill are broken pieces of shells thrown byGrimes and Capron over the heads of theadvancing troops. These pieces of broken 212 THE CHICAGO RECORDS WAR STORIES. IRON DOOR IN STONE FORT—EL CANEY. iron will be picked up for years to come andwill be held as souvenirs of the shooting atSan Juan hill. The Spanish sharpshooters at first had aneasy time picking off our men. Every methodwas employed by them to conceal them-selves, and all their methods were new toour men. They would wrap themselves inbark and lie in the thick growth of mangotrees, which sometimes have masses of foli-age forty to sixty feet in diameter. Therea sharpshooter could pick off American sol-diers for hours, using smokeless powder, be-fore he could be found and brought high palm trees also made splendid hid-ing places for the sharpshooters, who would wrap the long, green leaves around them,making it very difficult to distinguish themfrom the bunchy tops of the trees. Theywould shoot at everybody, sparing no a man who was helping a woundedcomrade away from the
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