First Artillery Fight

New York, July 4.- A special dispatch to The Evening World by way of Playa del Este, July 1, says: The first artillery jht of the campaign has Just been ended by the silencing of a Spanish battery. The wounded are stül belng picked up as this dispateh Is hurried away. At 7 o'elock In the morning there was a sullen "boom." It was the first shot from Capron's battery, flred to avenge the killing of hís son. Promptly the Spaniards began to answer the challenge from their forts and trenches. At 7:15 Grimes' battery opened on the Spanish troops to the right of the San Juan blockhouse. The common powder used by our troops smoked, and was a fine target for the Spanish field battery, which probably was served by Admiral Cervera's marines, judging by the accuracy of the aim. While our smoke gave the enemy our range. Grimes could not lócate the enemy's guns, which used gmokeless powder, except approximateiy. But, satisfied as to the Spanish position, our men worked like mad. The Spanish flre gradually slackened and in less than an hour it ceased altogether. Battery A of the Second artillery deserves great credit for the victory, for it was a case of blindness against sight. The battery loss, the ofncers state, was as follows: Killed - Underwood, private; Heim, private. Wounded - George C. Heary, First sergeant; Veite, sergeant; Cornford, sergeant; Keene, corporal. The battery was supported by the rough riders, about 100 Cubana with a fíotehkiss gun, a detachment of the Tenth cavalry and a squad from company C of the Second cavalry. Most of the Spanish shells flew low over ;he crest of the battery's position and exploded. Through them the rough riders had about ten wounded, among ihem R. Champlain, whose left elbow was smashed. The Cuban leader, Gonzules, reports that the Cubans lost twenty killed and wounded. In the fighting at San Juan a Spanish shell 2% inches in diameter burst in the midst of Captain Puritier's battery n the First artillery, wounding several. Among those injured was Private Samuel Barr. Roosevelt's rough riders were also in this fisht and bore themselves with as much credit as In the last Friday's battle in the brush. Several of the rough riders were wounded, among them the following: S. G. Devore, sergeant, troop K; W. A. Armstrong, corporal, troop J; McSparron, corporal, troop G; Alvin C. Ach, private, troop G; W. Freeman, private, troop F; Benjamin A. Long-, private, troop K; Mason Mitchell, private, troop K. V. D. Horton, corporal, troop I, Third United States cavalry, was also wounded.