The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-09-26

| To cOntinue-owng to the fact that
the building is a miserably thin struo.
| ture. and has been pulled and shot &c
j -teces, so that there is little or nothing
! lett bat the walls and the roof. But dowI
in the trenches is so sinking and ma
llarial that would prefer to take tile
risk of shot than the danger of ma
/ laria.
A FALSE ALARM
1t would kill you all with laughter to
see one of our monkeys out there looking
! Tor boogieS in the baby monk
We had nothing to sleep on but the
| hard floor, but personally l got a very
good nights sleep, barring one interrupt
! ton. i used my S24 macintosh as a bed
and coverlet and found a splendid pillow
| in a canteen, and when Lieutenant
Critchl0w left and did 1t take his can
Teen 4 put them close eogefher, ana the
1 little valley. between made a splendid sub
stitute for down. OF course, rubber boots,
sopping feet and wet underclothing. to-
gether with a heavy belt containing a big
revolver and cartridge pouch, all tend
ed to make things more or less uncom-
! Portable. but Singularly enough ] slept,
and slept almost without waking, except
on one occasion, when the adjntant of
| the CALIFORNIA; the regiments of in
fantry along the trenches with us, came
! into the lower story and whispered: Get
/ up quick. Get onto the breastworks. The
Spaniards are coming We All boiled :
right Critchlow went out of the Dack
window onto a house below, occupied by
cur boys, and Grant, Naylor and | sked-
/ SDaniards came. Not a shot was fired.
/ The boys turned out and got things in
readiness to fire if desired, but | told
them to go back to bed-it seemed inn
/ probable that anything would happen.
! This morning we traDsed back through
flooded fields to camp. shall go up again
tonight and nightly until The big fight
takes place and be there then.
place the greatest confidence in the
promise that / shall return. IL assists
me in doing my full duty as a man
: I oct in, CO
goodbye for the present
ORDERS RECEIVED.
Saturday, A3O AMI received orders
last night to start at G this morning
with the men to take part in the final
bombardment of Manila. That will take
place at 10 am. Dewey opens from the
sea and we from the land. OF course,
1.-The city must surrender, but no one
knows how much fighting they will do.
Of course ] have (and Nelson) all OF your
prayers and best Wishes / have, little
fear of the issue myself. This evening
will tell. Good-by for the present.
BATTLE Is OVER.
Sunday, Aug. IA, 1898.
You will rejoice in, the fact that the
battle is over and neither l nor any Utah
men mas SO much as as been wounded. ,Soo
did not get very far with my letter
yesterday. Something came along TO in
uerrupt me. Here L will go again. Well,
in Malate, suburb of that city, rather
miserably situated. but looking forward
10 the time when we shall get into perma-
nent barracks. This is now Impossible
since after conquering the Spaniards We
find ourselves with the natives in a some
what ugly mood-they have been consid-
erlng themselves, as indeed we have treat
ed them IL some respects. as our friends
and allieS-theJ have been fighting Span
iards for years. have pushed them right
into their capital and then, they say, we
B a a Ea a 10 nj
tory. and quite naturally they ask where
they come in. So far as our present
policy is concerned. they are not to be
permitted to come into Manila at all.
They want to loot the city; We expect
either to turn back to the Spanish or keep
the city, and in either event do not want
the city pillaged or burned.
The f1HppinoS are lighting for in
dependence, and will feel ugly at any So
luton of the difficulty not recognizing
them as independent.
r. BATTLE DESCRIBED.
But l have not said a word about the
bat rle YET.
At o'clock 1 started out from Camp
Dewey Tor lne trenches about two miles
distant with 60 odd men, Lieutenant Webb
having started earlier with L to go to a
position farther east. when we had found
q portion of swamp for our two pups, "
or sea guns. We had not reached our DO
sition when a lively cannonade started up
in the right of our lines. We afterwards
learned that it was asScrap started by the
fIDpplnOS. WHICH drew a SOOQ many SHOlS
from the DonS, mostly directed at Lieu
tenant Grows gun still farther to the
right than Webb. We were fearful that
they would begin the ball before we got
behind the trenches-this would have been
extremely dangerous TO us-nearly all of
those killed and wounded in our other
engagement were hit while coming up be-
hfnd the tTencheS-but fortunately for u.s.
the firing was confined to the right of our
line, about one-haIf mile away. Some of
the shells came somewhat near us. We
arat- md bod IN
through the brush into the trenches. the
first troops of the battle detail to arrive
ON the line.
l Immediately set to work to strengthen
the breastworks where necessary and also
conceived the idea of protecting the gun
nerS by putting two .sandbags on each
side of the gun on seats provided for the
cannoneers. We got our gun detach-
ments all told off so that every man knew
his place L gotathe serSeants and gun
nerS together and gave them some in
structionS about elevations on their sights,
windage drift, ETC.. and impressed them
with the idea that we were there to make
a reputation. Pretty soon the Colorado
regiment came filing in from camp and
relieved the Pennsylvania boys who had
been on guard the previous day. We are
thoroughly in love with Hale'S regiment
it is splendid lot of fellows--brave will
ing to work and well disciplined. We were
delighted to have them around US.
General Greene soon. came with his staff
and took up his position in the now cele-
brated church as headquarters.
About o'clock. we saw the ships of
Deweys fleet begin to move out from their
bay.
BOOM OF THE FIRST GUN.
The Spaniards fired few Mausers down
our way. but hurt no one. About half
past We heard the boom of one of the
fleets guns, soon followed by others. |
was at General Greene'S side and he told
me to let them have few rounds, and
sent the same word to Captain Grant,
farther to our west L fired the first shot
from my No. piece with sight set at
1850 yards. The estimate was exact The
shell sped with the wings of light over
to the Spanish bTeastWOrks on top OF
Malate fort, and knocked the sandbags
galley-west. showing that our aim and
elezation was exact. | Immediately fol-
lowed with other guns, and Captain
Grant opened out below. Nearly every
shot struck the paTapet-one from Lieu
tenant MAYORS piece struck a shed or
sop2ething of the sort, and made the
planks and beams mount into the sky in
great shape. One of1the other guns of my
battery, at one round. got such a fine OPP
portunity on the breaStworks that it lifted
one sandbag at least 80 feet in the air
and others almost as high. There were
other guns just below the fort and one
across a bridge near by at which / direct
ed few shots, and each time we could
see the sand mount skyward Oh thes~
guns we have are daisiesl If the Spanish
had had any nearly so powerful we could
not have held our position at the church
as we did after nights of bombardmeE.-
In the meantime the navy were pouring
il into the Spanish fort and along their
trenches. which they had a splendid
chance to do from the bay. The navy
did not shoot nearly so accurately as we
did but it was caution to see how their
hdg eight-inch and other guns did rip
things up when they did strike.
After shelling for about an hour the in
fantry which had not fired shot, were
thrown forward of our lines by bat
talions in skirmish lines. Even after they
We're out we fired right over their heads,