Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-09-11
BATTLE OF 4AsILA.
a Description u the En'E sEem.nt By .ros''
Mullek

Alulle4
"Tot" 1Muil,n, of Washington, Pa,
who participated in thief Engagement at
Manila, has written Very interesting
description Of the battl4 to his cousin,
MIR. E. P. Hughes, CT tAis city. Among
other things he said:
I'VE have been herei two weeks and
have had pretty hard time OF it.
You have probably reaN Of our battle.
1t was hard one, andl no mistake. 1
will endeavor to giv9 you an account
Of our landing and tile fight
When We got intd the bay we laid
On the boats three dak Is, and then went
ashore in fiat boats, When about a
| hundred yards from bhore we had to
| get cut and wade, Holding our guns
/ and knapsackS aboEI our heads. We
pitched camp about two miles south OF
| Manila ard were THERE about eight days
when our regiment WAS ordered to the
| entertainments, abdFlt a quarter of a
mile from the ethyl
| 1--WE went up Sunday morning and
| threw up entrencllents all day. The
! Spanish sharpshool4rs tried to pick US
off all day. If Han showed himself
above the bank LEI bullet would sing
over his head. VI did not have much
| trouble until aboi eleven o'clock that
, night. 1t was d5b | and rainy, and we
could not see ven lar, SO we threw out
pickets. | was eep on the ground
under my rubb rdblanket and was
| awakened to go ier on the other side
of the entrenchI to throw up dirt.
"a couple of lad just started over
when the Span { opened UP. First
| there was a 81 aie shot from one of
cur pickets, an(l then it seemed as if
a powder factory had broken loose.
There were about 400 of us. and about
! 1900 Spaniards. Their idea was to
drive us back and capture our cannon,
bat they never met with a greater sur
prise. At the first volley We were
ready with our guns, and we poured a
steady fire into them for about an hour.
Our cannon was doing its work all the
time, and SO was theirs. They did not
| have the range but after awhile they
get down to work. When the shells
hit the bank they would give groan
| like dying man and dirt would fly in
every direction. They had big 8inch
gun working ON us from the city, and
| one shell hurst right over our com
pany, but NIB one was hurt. The shells
cut the tope Of the trees off as clean
60 Well, a4st we had fred about an
hour, OH lunition began to run
| low fire never slackened 1t
v hail. Two fellows fell
he shot through the thigh
Ter through the face, but we
~ stop to attend to them then,
e fire was too heavy. One crawl
WAY and the other died.
1<NAt last our ammunition go to low
Y that we had to cease firing. We fixed
bayonets and those who had revolvers
pulled them out We awaited the
charge, but it did not come. l guess
they thought we had a trap for them,
and when our reinforcements came and
maybe we didn't NOW them down.
Il never shall forget waiting there
| for the charge, revolver in one hand
and gun in the other, with only five
| rounds of bullets. A cannon ball hit
! the earth near where | sat and Jared
me. 1t was a terrible sight, the dead
and wounded carried past us. Our loss
was seven killed and twenty-eight
wounded. None in cur company was
killed. | didn't get scratch, but was
expecting it all the time. Their loss
was 237 killed and about 400 wounded. :