The San Francisco call., 1898-08-18
BY SOL N. SHERIDAN.

the troops in the outworks, in a piti- less tropical rain. I found that there has been firing nightly. A man was killed in the breastworks on Mon day and another by shell from Malate Tuesday night. The Span iards since Tuesday have made no attempt to break through the American lines. The dogs feeding on the dead on Wednesday were prob ably eating the bodies of the Spanish slain in Sundays battle. Traces of these horrid feasts were found by the American troops on the field yester- day.
 The men are highly excited over Sun days events. The troops have per mitted their ardor for battle to out run discretion and have been firing. especially Tuesday night, largely at shadows.
 The trenches were held last night by the Second Battalion of the First Cali fornia. Major Slime commanding. and a battalion of the Third Artillery, Major O'Hara commanding. Both are cool officers and had orders not to nre shot until the Spaniards were coming over the earthWorks. Throughout the night I heard only two shots from Mausers, sharpshooters spottlng our pickets' right flank through loopholes. I saw moving shadows in the moonlight and dogs straying about the battle field, but not a sign of Spaniards. Not a shot was fired from the American lines, consequently the Malate guns were silent.
 Captain Richter succumbed to his wounds to-day.
 August 6.-The Spaniards renewed the attack on the American outworks To jorhf by a battalion each of the Fourteenth and Twenty third regulars and the Ne braSka volunteers. The latter, holding the extreme right, and the company or regulars on the extreme left, returned the Spanish fire, and hot firing lasted a half-hour. The American casualties were chiefly from shells. The killed were:
 Privates McCann, Company c, Four teenth Infantry.
 S. F. Howell, Company D, Fourteenth Infantry.
 c. saur, Company F, Twenty-third Infantry.
 Eleven were wounded, four seriously. They are: Privates D. J. O'Connor, Company D, thigh; Clinton Lambert, Company E, chest; Lucius Snow, Company D, Fourteenth, leg; Claus F. Head, Company G, abdomen.
 During a heavy artillery duel this
  with spirited fire to the Spanish guns, | finally landing shell near Pulverin. It must have disabled the guns, as the Spanish ceased immediately. Corporal Ernest DoZier of the Signal Corps has been promoted to sergeant by General Greene for distinguished gallantry on the field. During the heavy artillery fire last night the telegraph l line in the trenches was damaged. Do- zier repaired it under fire with great sangfroid, enabling communication to be maintained with headquarters at a critical moment.
 | August 9-Three deserterS from the Spanish army brought in from the l trenches by the First Colorado, report twenty Spaniards killed, including a | captain and two lieutenants, and six l teen wounded in the engagement on | July 31 Six were killed and ten wound l ed on August 2. An officer was killed and six men wounded on August 5. An English merchant refugee informs me that shells from the Utah battery entered the walled city on July 31. one exploded in the Malate magazine, kill l ing three officers, another exploded ID 1 an Englishman's residence near the l English Club, another entered the in | fantry barracks at Malate, exploding l in the midst of a company, Killing an officer and several men. He says no reliable statement of the Spanish losses are obtainable, but they were heavy l Deserters report the Spanish position l before Malate, Santa Ana and Paco greatly strengthened, additional guns l having been mounted.
 August 10-To-day Father William D.. McKinnon, chaplain of the Californ- | ians. walked along the beach from the | camp into Manila. About 50O yards | from Malate he was fired on by span | ish picket, but was uninJured. The priest walked bravely forward and was 1 met by two captains and escorted to l the Malate fortress. Father McKln- | non later was escorted to Archbishop | NoZaledas at the palace. where he was received cordially. The Archbishop stated he always had been anxious for a restoration of peace, and would do all | in his power to secure cessation Of hostilities. He did not think Manila would be surrendered without a fight. | The Spaniards in the city are starving, nevertheless. They expect Jaudemes 1 to make a last desperate effort.
 The Archbishop denied most emphat- | ically the authorship of the circular as cribed to him, exhorting the Span1ards | to resist Yankee invaders with their last drop of blood. As man of God, he said, he could not have given utter ance to such sentiments. He always | had been an apostle of peace. He bade | Father McKinnon cordial adieu, | placed a carriage at his disposal for the visit to Jaudemes, whom he described as small and of not imposing presence.
 The priest received cordial welcome, but the Governors conversation was less peaceable than the Archbishop S. Manila, Jaudemes said, would not be given up without a struggle. He had received General Merritt's and Admiral Dewey's notification that the city would be bombarded and the Spanish flag still flew. If the Americans wanted the city
 
 they must capture 1t.
 After this interview Father Mckin- non was driven in a carriage along the Luneta and escorted across the lines by Spanish officers. His courageous act, after having been fired on during a previous attempt, the bullet cutting his clothes, was one of the most re- markable of modern warfare.
 Private Edward A. O'Neill of Com pany H, First California. was acci- dentally killed to-day by Private John Lunsford of the same company.
 The Astor Battery is anxious to get to the front before the surrender of Ma nila. having now plenty of ammunition fit for service.
 Private Edwin L. Young of Astoria