The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-09-26
The Gallant officer Describes Bonn
bardment of Manila.
UTAH'S FART in THE FRAY
TRIUMPHAL ENTRY OF AMERI-
CANS INTO THE CITY.
Trouble With the Insurgents Is
Feared-They Think They Are En-
titled to Complete Independence,
But Their Principal Purpose
Seems to Be to Loot and Murder.

been received from MAJOR X. W. Dung
by his wife, by whose courtesy The Her
aid is enabled to publish it, The letter
is from Manila and gives an account of
the conditions. existing there before the
bombardment. a very graphic descrip-
ton CT the bombardment and fall of the
city and the triumphal entry of the
American forces.
PLEASANT AUTHORIZATIONS.
The letter is as follows:
Camp Dewey, Near Manila. Aug. ), 1873.
We'll, i tell you L Will be glad when the
time comes when the | ,ah artillery VIII
roll into the Salt Lake depot Won't you
all? War is not a very pleasant thing.
There is so much TO worry and fret ABOUT,
so much responsibility, 50 much nlud ana
rain so much that you cannot do that
you would like to do, on account ot the
disagreeable disposition of the fellows on
the other side. Now, for instance here
we are cut in tents anu it ralns-9ours
doWn-seVeral times every day. There
are plenty OF fine barracks up IL Nd
Mia. but these Dons from the 1berlan
peninsula, not filled with the spirit Of
DrOLnerly Kindness, insist upon heSpl ing
us out here in the ram. AmG We ia tents
are much more pleasantly situated than
the men who go out in the trenches. The
regiments are changed every day, 50 that
the men go only every third or fourth
day, remaining IN camp the other days.
But up in the trenches they must stand
out in the rain and take it, that is, all
but the Utah artillery, and we have built
shelters for the boys, which keep them
quite dry. Eight nights have now passed
since the big attack and five nights since
then have these night-workers poured
Mauser bullets and shells into our en-
trenchments. They do not do much harm,
only killing one or two or three men a
night and wounding = few others our
boys are learning TO lie down behind the
bre&StWorks ana let them exhaust their
ammunition. We are not ready to attack
Yet and so our policy merely is to watch
them, keep them from surprising us. and
wait-untll goodness knows when--some
say until the arrival of the Monadnock
another rouclad-a bout two weeks
The third expedition, which arrived
here a week or two ago, is now ar anu-
ed. They have been much delaved by
the high winds, which piled up the
breakers along the beach nearby in a de-
StrOyinS way. We now nave 10,400 SOL
dierS in camp. Dewey has the Monterey,
and it looks 10 me as though the captain
general would be asked to surrender or
fight within a few days. ne Will probably
flGht-a little just enough to satisfy the
demands of his people, and then he snust
surrender.
BEGINNING OF THE END.
Later, Thursday, Aug. lit begins to
look though it was the beginning of
the end We have each had two guns up
in the entertainments. This morning am
sending up my other two We all under
stand that tomorrow the big fight will
he on. Admiral Dewey presents mis- com
plimentS to the front of the city and Will
assist US in attacking the south side. The
bail will open about noon and il viii seem
as though h itself h let loose. The
whole fleet will pour in a deadly rain of
shot and shell. We will contribute eight
or ten guns, the Astor battery SIX more
probably and then all of our infantry
and the Spanish big and little guns will
do their level best.
| will stay in the trenches tonight. We
will be glad to have the thing. settled.
IT is getting fearfully nlpnntonous ogt
here in the everlasting rain. The temper
AZURE is cool; l have slept every night
under blanket, but how it does rain.
Why, night before last the water was
four inches deep in the tents everywhere,
almost
| have a few souvenirs-some bullets,
shells. a table made from timber taken
out of the church around which we are
stationed. We shall be delighted to get
Dewey help, L can tell you. The DonS
have Sandbags piled mountain high and
l think TO keep us out and il would be a
Tong, weary task TO capture the city if
We had to do il alone. But with the adj
mIral help it will be a job soon finished.
The enemy has number of heavy guns
on the water front. which the fleet must
first silence; then it will devote its at
tention 10 the bombardment of the walled
city. South of the Pasta river there is
the old town, heavily walled and armed,
with moats around it and entanglements
of wire. fallen trees, etc. Here dwell the
chief functionaries, civil, military and
ecclesiastical, and here will the feet do
its worth work. There is d strong line OPP
posite Us. which the fleet will also help
US in taking care of.
l am now waiting for several caribou
or water buffalo 10 arrive to haul our
guns up to the front. These cattle are
splendid workers. They are usually
hitched TO d two-wheeled cart. We I'M
couple our guns from the front parts or
limberS and then attach the detached
parts to their carts, and away goes a
huge buffalo with one-haIf of one of our
guns Others are expected at once. You
should see the monkeys in camp. Nell
has which he "a nd
which he Will take care of until we ar
rive home. Would it not tickle the little
ones 10 have monkey or two? j am GO
ing 10 try TO take one or two home. What
q jolly day that will be that Will see these
batteries roll into the depot at Salt Lake
Nor VIII il be long delayed in my judg-
ment. But now long 1 do not know. Say
Thanksgiving dinner at home. How
would that do?
A SOLDIER OF FORTUNE.
Friday, Aug l2-Sinee writing the
above GATE, Colonel Anderson ana Il Mr.
McSomething, d newspaper correspond
ent. came IN, and later Lieutenant Nay
Tor, just III from the trenches.
Colonel Anderson is quite a picturesque
figure. He is. soldier OF fortune and mas
served in South America, in the Chinese
army, was an officer under Kalakauea
and Liliioukaiani, and now has just re-
signed from a position as chief of ordi-
nance of the Insurgents. He is an Amer
lean By birth ana feels certain that we
shall have trouble with AguinaIdo.
The general impression is that the most
difficult part Of the campaign Will be to
appease the insurgents They are very
DESTROYS on complete independence and
nave been Waglng a successful war
against the Spanish for TWO years. Now
quite naturally, they want the fruits of
their victory OF course, we cannot for
one molheHt concede that the insurgents
have any rights superior 10 ours or equal
We claim 10 have conquered the islands
and me right to dispose of them Just
how General Merritt viii be able TO solve
the problem remains to be seen. The main
difficulty viii arise at once. The insur-
gents will demand the right to enter the
city along with us. This we must not
permit since their chief aim is TO loot
They have been treated with such cruelty
and avarice by the Spaniards for so long
that they are in no mood to stop short
of murder, rapine and robbery TO avenge
their real wrongs. They are quick
bright people, much like the JaDS and
now have an ample supply of Mauser
guns and ammunition. We shall. see what
we viii see. In the meantime. the day
for the general miX-uD has been post
pOned. /; viii not be today-maybe to-
morrow or next day.
General Greene sends for Captain Grant
and myself. together or for oae alone,
several times day, to consult on artil-
lery matters. This is the worst country
to fight in ever i saw or heard Of Can't
see anything for trees; can't go anywhere
for rice fields and mud. We don't know
where the ene1nys lines are in many
places, except approximately. But we are
going to have very little fighting-noth-
ing like the severe battles that are oc-
curing in Cuba. The worst of these fell
lows is their disposition to fight at night.
Never but once have they made ANYTHING
This makes the dark hours along our in
trenchmentS very gloomy. Last night
spent at the front, all of my guns being
in position now The very best place to
eli Rnllid in he