Dead Mutilated

Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, June 14. - The enemy has been conducting a constant guerrilla warfare upon the líttle forcé Ín Camp McCalla since Saturday afternoon. Four members of the United States marine corps were killed during Saturday night. It is not known whether enemy suffered any loss. The öead are: Dr. John Blair Gibbs, assistant surgeon, killed by minie ball in temple as he was leaving hospital tent at midnight; Sergeant Charles H. Smith f Smallwood, Md., instantly killed on patrol duty; James MacDogan, Company D, Stoneham, Mass., shot while on picket duty late ín the afternoon; William Dunphy, private Company D, Gloucester, Mass., shot on picket duty. Dr. Gibbs has a mother living in Richmond, Va., and is a member of the University club of New York, where he practiced until he volunteered for service three weeks ago. Mangled with Machetes. McDogan's and Dunphy's bodies were frightfully mang'ed with machetes and were almost entirely stripped of clothing. There was desultory flring from the enemy's outposts above on the mountains into Camp McCalla all during the day. About 3 o'clock their scouts descended into a ravine and from byways known well to them began sharpshooting from bush at the pickets. Company D, Captain "W. F. Spinea, was then detailed for ou.tpost duty in two detachments, commanded by First Lieutenant W. C. Neville and Lieutenant M. J. Shaw. In the bush, where they were stationed as cossack pickets, covering the main paths leading inland, it was impossible for inexperienced men to see more than thirty to forty feet away. The enemy following the tactics of guerrilla warfare kept in hiding. In this way they first brought down Privates MacDogan and Dunphy. Eniraeement Becomes General. At 5 o'clock the engagement became general all along the lone, guerrilla bullets passing thick as insects about the ears of the men on duty and over the main body in camp. Lieutenant Colonel Huntington, with an artlllery company, had just landed from the Panther and his men, with a six-pounder, were hrown across the rear of the camp. Captain Elliott led half of Company C at double-quick time into the bush to support the picket line. He found Lieu:enant Neville and his men standing ast by thelr posts on the inner picket Ine, and there they stood and continued Ighting with extraordinary determinaion and bravery throughout all the night, although for a good part of the time he was completely enveloped by he enemy's guerrillas. As darkness came on the flre of the enemy ceased and the men in camp went to mess. Dut with guns in their hands. At 8 o'clock the firing was resumed by the enemy from a more advanced position. Volley upon volley was turned in his direction, but apparently without avail. Killing of Smith and Gibbs. Toward midnight, when the men were lying down for the first sleep of the night, the firing was suddenly resumed from all sldes of the camp, sometimes at remarkably short range. There was a ccnstant chorus of whistling bullets about the camp. At this time Sergeant Smith and Lieutenant Gibbs were killed. Both died almost instantly, but the marine corps, true to lts reputation as a flghting organization, stood firmly by its ground in defense of lts camp. After the first few assaults at midnight they held their fire with wonderful coolness, awaiting the enemy to show himself. At daybreak an assault was expected, but beyond a few random shots from the retreating figures taking to cover in the mountains behind the camp nothing was done. The men took coffee and hardtack on thelr arms and at the first opportunity took relief to gallant Lieutenant Neville two miles away on the picket line.