El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-09-28
A NIGHT ATTACK.

NIGHT ATTACK.
Another Story Comes Direct From
Manila.
From letters of Lieutenant Franklin,
we'll known here, we make the follow
ing extracts:
From Frisco we sailed to Honolulu,
from there to an uninhsbited island
called Wakes Island. Then we sailed
for the ,Ladrone or Mariana Islands
which belong to Spain. Wakes Is
land Is very low. only about ten feet
above the water. 1t ts like circle and
" Water has inside and ,sfe OF brosa ssts
white beach all around. There is no
fresh water on it and only short brush.
The Ladrones are very different. They
have narrow sandy beach and then
rise suddenly to quite q height; they
are densely wooded SO there must be
plenty of water. expect they are very
pleasant places to live In, as the
climate must be delightful.
Do you remember Lieut.. LaZelle of
the 18th? He was stationed at Fort
Bliss and afterwards at Sam Houston,
q very tall, thin young man with =
small mOustache, Col. Lszelle's son.
Well, he is dead, and his body is lying
wrapped up in canvas and nailed up in
q coffin on top of our cabin. he got
seasick before we were over the Frisco
Bar and did not leave his bed until we
were nearly at Honolulu. He seemed
to be all right and we'll at Honolulu but
three days out he got sick again and
went to bed. In the meantime measles
had broken out in the ship and he got
1t. It was nothing in itself but it killed
him. He did not seem to want to live,
just eank into lethargic state and
died.
Our voyage has been delightful,
smooth, and the weather simply per-
feet. AS 1 write we are At anchor In
Manila bay. It is full of vessels, all
the American feet, the three trans
ports of the first expedition and the
four OF ours. four coiliers full Of coal,
and all around us, nearer the
shore, the burnt and blsckened
wrecks of the Spanish feet.
In front of the city and about two miles
off in the bay, is a line of foreign men
of-war observing the siege, and q fleet
of fifteen captured ships which Dewey
allowed the foreign residents of Manila
to occupy until the siege is over. Dart
ing here and there are the little armed
gunboats captured from the Spanish,
and now manned by American tars.
They are guard boats which see that
no communication takes place between
the Spanish and the foreign fleet. Sew
eral days ago the Germans protested
egainst Dewe US orders and he told the
German lieutenant who brought the
kick, that this was an American port,
that they were only here by sufferance,
and that if they did not comply with
his orders he would consider it an act
of war and open fire on them. The
German officer withdrew and said to
Dewey's aide, with much excitement,
"The admiral did not understand me"
The aide said, He understood every
word you said and meant every word
he said" That's the situation in q
nut shell. Dewey has this place at his
mercy.
Sunday morning I went over to the
camp across the bay. We got pass,
The three of US, Captains Pratt and
Clsgget and myself, and went out to
the fort. 1t was blowing such q gale
and the waves were running 80 high
that we could not get out to the boat.
We went back to the 18th's camp and
prepared to stay all night
At 11:3O l was wakened by q
furious rifle firing from our front 1
jumped up and ran out into the camp.
The bug'es we're raising Cain and the
@en were TSs fSsmi0f rDs io the eompsny
rife, cannon were now being
heard. 1 started at once for
the road and for the front. l soon met
some native women running through
the mud. They were almost naked.
Some had waists and no skirts and
some had skirts and no waists, but all
bore big bundles of their property.
They were scared 10 death.
They told me that the Spaniards were
-, oh oil iv,<O hot
Then met some men running back to
camp for reinforcements. They told
me thst the Spaniards had as
saulted our line and were
raising Cain. 1 soon met more
on the same errand. They added that
they were almost out of ammunition.
Then began to hear the bullets zipp
past with . vicious hiss. Then / met Q
wounded officer, shot through the alb
domen supported by two soldiers. He
was suffering terribly.
met some regulars who had been
stationed out in the brush and had
come out into the road at the firing.
got them to come with me rs soon as
they found out that belonged to the
regulars. In the middle of our lines is
an old church and we had two guns on
| each side. The Spauiards came in on
| our road between US and the insurgents.
At the place where the support had
been 1 found large
| number of regulars. who had been out
in the brush as pickets. l gathered
| them up and went on. The road in
| the mean time was q howlingihell'from
shot and shell. Here left the road
| and went across to the beach, but found
| that the firing was worse there,
| SO i headed for the church II
our lines and got there. The Spapiards
kept up Q terrific fight but our firing
forced them back to the works. saw
| two men killed and several wounded
and was in the fearful firing.
Shooting at the Smelter.
Last night about ten o'clock Hilsrio