Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-09-26

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u VIII not be today -nny0e tomorrow
or next day.
General Greene sends Tor ctpi,in
Grant and myself. together or Tor one
alone. several times a day. 20 consult
on artillery matipra This h. the worst
country 90 iight In ever saw or heard
or. Cant see anylhin- Tor trees! can't
- anywhere FOR rict fields and mud.
We d'n't know WHORE the cnomy's lines
are IN many Places. except approx.
imnicly But We are going 10 have
very lli;le lighting nothing ilkr fhe
severe battles chat are occurring In
Cuba. The worst Of these follows h
Never but onre have they made any.
thing like n serious attack In daylight
hours. This makes the dark hiNrs
af1ng our lniNn chmonis vcry gloomy
btst night I spent at the front. ain VI
my guns being In position now The
very best place to SLEEP chat I could
hni was In the second STORY OF M
monastery now 80 well known 10 oar
owing
Interruption by Colonel Mccoy. the
lieutenant colonel Of the Calnrad = who
u Nod officer u the day. and came 10
sec II there were any fruit stands In
our camp and % say that our sanitary
cosditlon II o. X. Now comes the first
Lieutenant 20 say that mall IL esine
over 10 Cavlto In a few mintEes nnd
asks N ! have time o. sign my nano an
a number OF letters.
To coniinue-1wlnE % the fact tha,
the building II n mlstribly shin s,ruc.
tnte, and hae been pulled and shot 10
pi,sess. - mat there Il little or nothing
lstt but the walls and the roof mn
down IN the trenches II SO sinking and
malhrial that would prefer h take
ine RISK OF shot than kha danger ~
malarh. "
a FALSE ALARM.
u would kH you all with laughter 10
see one 81 our monkeys out there iloit.
ing for boogies IN the baby monk.
We had nothing 10 sleep on hot the
hari nyor. but personally I got a very
good nlRht'a sleep. bafrirx on lnirr.
rupiion. ! used my go macintosh a. n
bed and coverict and found a spieniil
pillow In caniecn. and whom Lleutlm-
ant critchlow left and did not take his
chntcgn, ! put thom close together. and
the htele valley between made a Hplen.
ND substitute for down. OF cOurae,
rubber boots. a0pplnK feet and wet un-
dtrcloihlng. together with a heavy bel;
containing a big revolver and a cart
ridge pouch. all tended e. make things
more or les uncomfortable. but alngu-
AIRY enough l alcft, and sept almost
without waking. except on one occa-
sion. when the adJutant of the Cnlifor-
Mas. the regiments u Infantry along
che trenches with u. came into the
ldwer ki0ry and whispered. Oct up
quick. Get onto the brciigworks. The
Spnnlarda are coming" We ali bo,ted
uprlshi, crNohlow went out Of the
buck window onto n house below, occu-
pied by our boys. and Grant. Nayior.
and Hkcddadled down into safer
ground. but no Sranlnris came. Not
a shot was frcd. The boys turned out
and got things In readiness 80 fre n
desired. hut I told them 90 g. hack 20
bcd-h seemd improbable that any
thing would happen. This morning We
framped back through Hooded fieida 10
camp l shall 10 up again tonight and
nightly until the big nghi takes place
and DO there then.
place the greatest confidence In The
promise that | shall return. II assists
me In doing my full duty ~ man
should. Now ! must gct In a nap. 81
gO0d-byc Tor the present
ORDERS RECEIVED.
Saturday. $50 a. MI received orders
last night TO start at 9 this morning
with the men 10 take par, In the nnai
homb1rimcns on Manila. That WIN take
place NJ 10 n. m. Dewey opens from the
ga and we frJm the land. or course.
the city must surrender, but no ono
knows how much iigh,lng they viii do.
or course I have tau1 Nclson) NJ Of
your prayers and best wishes. ] have
little fear Of the Issue myself. This
evening will tell. Goodbye for the
present.
BATTLE ~ OVER.
Sunday. Aug. u, 1895,
You will rejoice In the fact that the
hattie IL over and neither ! nor any
Utah men has % much as been wound
ed. 80.
did not get very far with my letter
ycrterdny. Something came along 20 IN
terrupt me. Here I viii go again. Well.
We are now In Manila, or more properly.
In Malate, a suburb OF that city, rather
10 the lime when We shall ges Into pcr-
manent barracks. This r. now lmpoaal-
HE. aimee after conquerlng the Span
lardH, we Ind ourselves with the ma
tlven In a somewhat uEly mood-Shcy
have been considering themselves, as
indeed we have treated them IN some
respects, as our friends and allies-ghey
have been lighting Spnniards for years,
have pushed them right Into their capi-
tai and then. they say, We come along
and talk, ali the fruits u victory, and
quite naturally they ask where they
come In. So far as our present policy
IL concerned. they are not To be per-
mltted TO come Into Manila nj all. They
want 10 loot che city; We expect either
TO turn back to the Spanish or keep
me city. ana IN either event do not
want the city plllaged or burned.
The Flllppinos are frhilng for In
dependence, and VIII feel ugly at any
solution OF the dlfiioulty not recognize.
ing them IA independent
BATTLE DESCRIBED.
nut have not said a word abou,
the battle yet.
AtG O'clock / STARTED ou, from Camp
Dewey for the trenches about two
miles distant with 90 odd mon. Lieuton.
ant Webb having started earlier with
" to 10 to a position farther east. when
we had found portion OF a swamp for
our two "pupa. or sea guns. We had
not reached our position when a lively
chnnOnade started up In the right of
our lines We afterwards learned that
II was a scrap started by the Philippines,
which drew . good many shots from the
DDns. mostly directed al Lieutenant
Gfow'a gun, stlll farther 10 the right
than Webb We are fearful that they
would begin the ball before we got he
hind the trenches thls would have
been extremely dangerous 10 ua-neariy
an ~ those killed and wounded In our
other engagement were hit while coming
up behind the trenchcs-bul Fortunate
IL for us, ghe firing was confined TO the
right a. our line, about onc-half mile
away. Some Of the shells came some
what near US. We qulekenod our pace
and sneaked up through the brush into