The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-12-09
SURRENDER OF MANILA
A Letter From p. J. Healy Of the
q. g. 8. Olympus.
FORTS DID NOT REPLY
The Only Response to the Fire OF the
Americans Were Rins shots From
the Spaniards-Not Q Ghost
OF . Show.

A GOOD description Of the surrender Of
Manila is given by p. ]. Healy Of the
L. s. s. Olympia In a letter to a friend
in this city. He says:
II will tell you as best I can o we
bombarded the forts and took the city
and Old Glory floats over it now. Ma
Mia surrendered to US after we fred on
the Malate for about an hour and a
half. and they never fired a shot at one
of our ships except a few rife shots at
our captured tug Barcelo. Those were
all the shots tina were fired at US. u
the soldiers had a few volleys fred at
them before they took the Malate forts.
which is one Of the Spanish s~trongholds.
There is a big wall goes around Manila
about Is feet high and 20 feet thick and
there are forts all around these walls.
and they are pretty well protected. Our
I soldiers could not take Manila In a
thousand years without our men of
war helping them. Saturday, Aug. IL.
Manila surrendered to General Merritt
and Admiral Dewey. The morning was
rainy and misty. General Merritt n
his staf and about 800 soldiers on board
our ship Zafiro and a big side-wheel
steamer came out with about 500 SOL
diers on board from Cavite and headed
towards this ship. General Merritt re-
porting to Admiral Dewey that his men
were all ready to move at q moments
notice. This was about S:S a. m. We
cheered them as they passed. then
headed in towards Malate forts, but
Kept out OF range of their guns n
hove to. This ship made general signal
to all of our ships to get under way and
n .l-.- n a 49, oaaf&nAd
to them by the admiral. The monitor
Monterey was the first to get under way
and she moved towards the three big
1O-inch guns which are close to the
Paslg river and in front OF Manila. the
Petrol was the mex TO move and she
steamed right in front of the city OF
Manila with her guns trained on the
forts. This ship was the next to move.
Our battle flags are three n big
American flags, one at each masthead
and one at the peak. The other ships
followed our example and did the same.
Our ships looked formidable as we
headed for Manila n Malate forts.
This ship and the Raleigh, Calloa and
our tug Barcelo headed for the Maiate
forts. while the Charleston, Baltimore
and Boston laid off in the middle of the
bay to look out for the Dutchmen in
case they made any funny moves; the
Concord laid off The Pasig river.
keeping a lookout also for the
Dutchmen. This was about $3.50 a.. m.
The admiral was on the after bridge.
We opened fire with our ~tarboar bat
terry at a range of 400 yards, but the
shots were short. SO we teamed in
closer to within $500 yards and let go
again. This time we had the range down
| fine and you could see pieces OF the
forts flying in the air from our S-inch
guns. We used shrapnel on the Span
ish trenches and common shell on the
forts. Our shells went through the forts
and trenches like a snow pillow sweeping
everything in its way and driving the
Spanlards out OF their Forts ana
trenches. In the meantime the Aston
battery ashore opened fire on the Ma
late forts and did some fine work. h
ship, the Raleigh, Petrol, Calloa and
our tug Barcelo kept up for about an
hour and a half: the forts never fired a
shot, so we ceased firing. Our little cap
tured gunboat and tug Barcelo went in
close to the land n let go a few shots
into the forts. They fired on the Calloa
and Barcelo with Mauser rifles. but did
no harm and our boys paid no
to them. All this time our soldiers
ashore were advancing on the Spanish
and got within rife range of the forts
and trenches and made a charge on the
forts and trenches and drove the Span
iardS back into the city.
W. could see our brave soldier boys
charging on the Malate forts up to their
waists in water and mud. They had q
tough time OF IL. but as soon as they
| struck dry land they w a yell and
charged on the forts and took them ana
planted Old Glory there. All of our
ships cheered them as they novel
along. This was about IL o'clock. Our
soldiers kept right on agoing Into the
a. - ~ TaIIA. GA. nnrnnln liant
/ right along in line with them along the
water front and every once in a while
would send a shot from their rapid-hre
guns up the street to chase the fright
ened Spanisrds out OF sight. b
1880 a. m. there was a white 1aS run
up at one of the government buildings
and also a signal which meant that
they would like to have a conference.
The admiral at once sent for the Bel
GUM consul's launch. which was lying
a little ways Off. 1t came alongside and
took our flag lieutenant over to Gen
eral Merritt and reported the white flag
| and also the signal to him. He sent one
Of his aides in the launch with u nag
| lieutenant ashore in the launch flying
a White nag. They remained ashore for
quite a while, but finally they return
| ed to this ship and reported to the ad-
miral that Manila would surrender TO
General Merritt as SOC as he came
ashore, 20 the launch went over to Gen.
eral Merritt. The Zafiro and the SIDE
wheel steamer steamed up to Manila
and commenced to send the soldiers
ashore. II took quite a while for all OF
them to land. but when they all got
ashore they marched up to where the
governor general of the islands was
living and hauled down the Spanish nag
and hoisted the Stars and Stripes. The
ships gave three cheers and this ship
saluted with n guns; the rest OF our
ships did the same. This was at 5:45 p,
m. and Manila was ours.
Our soldiers ashore lost eight men
killed and about Is wounded. The Span
ish loss is something like $50 killed and
wounded. The Spaniards did not make
a fight at all. They simply fred a hall