The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-03

| eApSflelCG Ol WHAT the rest VI the De-llSI
les passed through. Webb started ou
about noon on Friday with 10 men pull
| ing each gun. Their course led along
narrow road knee deep IN mud But thi
road was luxurious travelling when com
pared with the country encountered Whel
nearing the lines.
FIND A WAY OR MAKE ONE.
They had to force their way through
swamp thickly grown with bamboo trees
! With the motto, Find a way or max
one they cut down trees, filled u
| chuck holes, cut through entertainments
and pressed onward. Often the wheel
sank above the hubs and the men wadeC
waist deep in the slime, but never gave VI
they could bark at the Spaniards, wht
could be plainly seen throwing up sand
| bags 100 yards in advance. Our work waS
not yet done, for the guns had to be pro
! tected, SO all set to work filling and pack
/ ing sandbags until nearly midnight wheI
| they returned to camp.
| Reveille at 5 a. m called them TO the
! front. The entire force of both batteries
| lined up and list of those chosen tC
serve the guns was read. Then occurred
a storm. Sergeant Ford Fisher had never
his name called for guard in camp, he
cried out: You can take off my stripes
If you want TO, but you can't make me
stay in camp today He was given COM
stay on guard.
Eight O'Clock found all who were chosen
! in the trenches waiting for the order to
open. Three of Battery BIS guns under
Captain Grant and Lieutenant Critchlow
and one of Battery AS guns under Lieu
tenant Naylor were strung out between
the monastery and the beach. Three OF
Battery AS guns under Captain Young
were strung between the monastery and
the road. One of Battery BIS guns was
opposite Spanish fortified blockhouSe
under Lieutenant Grow; the two pups
were on the extreme right under Lieu
tenant Webb. '4i
GUNS TURNED LOOSE.
Slowly that harmless looking mast and
smokestack called the Monterey steamed
into view, then came a few other ships.
All at once there was "a bang and a crash
and the water splashed 100 feet skyward
at the base of the Spanish fort. This was
the signal and all of our guns turned
loose. The gun under Lieutenant Naylor
shot best. The earth flew skyward from
the fort and trenches in front of it, Ma or
Bell, VINO was acting as range-fnder,
went into commissions of joy He shouted
congratulations to Lieutenant Naylor, and
asked what range he used. Ten hundred
and fifty yards, was the answer, and all
the guns were changed to this range.
Another salvo tore great holes through
the trenches and bridge. The major cried
Good; you nit them square in the face
Give them Shrapnel; therere all on the
run. can see them. through the holes
you made
We all got on the top of the trenches
running to beat time. The fleet belched
away with thousand different sounding
guns and we poured shrapnel into the
retreating foe.
OLD GLORY ROSE.
Then our infantry, who had not yet fired
a shot, went over the trenches A few
moments later Old Glory arose on the fort
A Utah man was among the troops-the
first Utah man to enter the city. He
was Or. Harry Young, who has won him
among all the troops. He carried a KNAPP
sack full of bandages and plasters, and
was ready to assist anyone who should
happen to fall. He simply saw the troops
going over our trenches and voluntarily
Joined them
The battery boys watched the advance
from the trenches, and nothing could have
been prettier in execution. We received
orders to advance an hour later and rushed
our guns by hand up along the beach,
fording the waist-deep river just this side
gruesome effects of a couple of shells from
Lieutenant MAYORS gun. Five dead
Spaniards, all torn to pieces, laying be-
side half-burned litter, told the story.
one shell had torn through the trench
killing three men behind it. Two others
had come to their relief with litter,
when another shell killed the would-be as
sistants. burning their litter.
The fort was no more of a, fort than
a clay bank. Dewey's shells had lifted
1t 100 feet in the air and dropped it down
again in heap of ruins. No wonder the
SDaniards fed. 1t was like an earth
quake had struck them. The block-house
at which Lieutenant Grow was firing was
completely honeycombed. but it told a
was covered with wine bottles, and as
Tar as the eye could see on each side,
the trenches were paved with empty bot
ties and expended cartridges. Behind was
man brands. If they were starving, 1
should like to starve while to regain
my appetite.
In the dusk of evening our heavy guns
over the streets of Manila, and
we sank to rest on the floor of a grass
house, with supper on bareback and
coffee. Thus fell Manila.
THE GREATEST BATTLE.
When this band of veteran fighters sit
holding their grandchildren in their arms
and the little ones ask grandpa. what bat
tie was the greatest in the world, we
will answer, ,'The battle of Espanol
Runnie Much" fought on the night of
July 30 and the morning of Aug. l. 1898.
fraternity say it was not a great battle,
because only ten Americans were killed
put II they had been in the trenches and
listened 10 the hundreds of thousands of
rlhe balls go WhiZZing not a foot over
head, and heard the hundreds of shells
bursting only a few feet away, they
would talk differently. That might Lieu
tenants gibbs ana Grow were in the
batteries to serve four guns, which had
been moved in only the day before. At
IO;z0 O'Clock they were awakened by the
biggest noise they ever heard. 1t was an
immense volley, extending from the sea
% the eastward. clear around the CITY,
They could clearly read the Spaniards'
hand. They thought that by Smelling the
'oad and bench they could prevent our
men from being reinforced and soon wipe
hem out But they did not count on the
presence OF three of our guns. Into the
me gun they had located they poured
shell after shell and perfect flood of
small bullets, Our battery boys turned
Dose as soon as orders could be OBJ
aimed, and the whole four guns blazed
distraction and fury into the Spanish
lordes.
WE'RE HUSHED UP.
Whole companies were hushed UP by
single shells and soon they began re-
reating. Lieutenant Grow proved him
elf TO be a genuine fighting tiger. In the
midst of the battle the Pennsylvania
FOODS on each side of his guns sent up
great cheer for hiln. Colonel Hawkins !
aid that he was as fine a fighter as ever
ook the field. And Colonel Hawkins |
erved through the rebellion. so he ought |
o know.
In battery A. Sergeant Nystrom and !
CORPORAL kneass divide honors as super |
isors of the fight. Young Kneass man
ged gun during the whole fight with |
ut receiving a single command. Ser !
cant Nystrom did likewise. These two |
Dung men proved themselves to be Won
ers.
FIXED BAYONETs
During the lull in the fight the gun