The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1898-08-27
DETAILS OF THE FIGHT
LIST OF KILLED AND WOUNDED
At the Manila Battle the Astor Bat
terry Led-Utnh Took Pnrt-Coio-
RADIO and California Troops Were
in the Front of the Conflict.

The hardest fighting at the capture of
Manila was done by the Astor battery,
which led the advance. Brigadier Cen
eral Macarthur, commanding the brigade
complimented the men in the highest
terms right in the midst of the battle,
for their valor and success.
The Astor battery led the column, sup
ported by the Minnesota volunteers and
the Twenty third regiment. The Utah
battery's guns were too heavy to move
through the swamps. The march was
along the Pasay road on the right of the
river Pasig, where the fleet could give
no assistance. At the junction with the
Cingalon road, the vanguard came with
out warning on a strong Spanish en-
trenchment. Suddenly the enemy rained
a deadly fire upon the Americans, killing
two men of the Aston battery, First Ser
geant Holmes and Second Sergeant Gre
Minis, and one Minnesota man, Private
Patterson, at the same time wounding
score of others. Sergeant Cremins, after
he was shot, started to his gun, fired it
and then the next moment fell dead be-
side the piece.
The Astor battery was forced to fall
back from the murderous fire, temporarily
leaving two guns. But the reserve under
Colonel Ovenshine came up promptly and
with their support the Astors charged the
enemy with only revolvers for weapons,
quickly regained their guns and put them
into action again with increased vigor.
The Spaniards were then shortly put to
...kt v,o fol1 ic bo lief of
alties in the Aston battery.
M. E. Holmes, first sergeant; ID. Gre
minis, second sergeant; p. II. Sillman, SER
geant; II. Vanhorne, G. Baker, c. Dunno.
T. j. Hayden, w. Ii. Seymour, G. E. Van
pelt, privates.
Private Dunn's wound is serious The
other wounded men will get well. The
losses were pretty evenly divided between
the two brigades.
The following are the names of the
killed and wounded soldiers outside of
the Astor battery.
Killed.
Samuel Howell. Fourteenth regiment;
William Lewis, Nebraska volunteers;
Robert Mccain, Fourteenth regulars; Ed
ward O'Neill, California volunteers; A. P.
Patterson, private Minnesota volunteers;
- Phoenix, private Colorado volun-
teers; August Thollen, private Twenty
third infantry.
wounded.
Bjornsted Bursen, captain Minnesota
volunteers, severely; o. Sebach, captain
Minnesota volunteers, seriously; e" Ba-
ker, private Twenty-third regulars; -
Carlson, private Minnesota volunteers;
John Dunmore, private California volun-
teers; Albert Hammerson. private Cali
fornia volunteers; - kahl, private
Minnesota volunteers; - Mccain, pri-
vate Twenty-third regulars; Private
Moore, Minnesota volunteers; Private
Morgan, Twenty-third regulars; Private
Newman, Twenty third regulars; Private
Parker, Twenty-third regulars; Private
Tetzoff Minnesota volunteers.
The Spanish loss is estimated at not less
than 200, including both the killed and
wounded, and in the neighborhood of 5000
captured. Vast stores of military and
naval supplies were seized.
The casualties on the American side
were confined to the land side. Not a
man on the fi9et was injured.
Through f'|ur miles OF Entertainments,
extending for two miles, the enemy was
driven in panic to the walled portion of
Manila. Then the Spaniards surrendered.
AS the Stars and Stripes were raised over
the official residence of the governor, Cap
tain General Jaudenez burst into tears
and his suite hid their faces in their
hands.
Olympia Opened Fire.
At 9:3O a. m, the Olympia opened fire
with her starboard fve-inch guns at d
range of 1000 yards. The troops cheered
and waved their hats The first shots fell
short, but again and again the guns
roared and the projectiles fell closer and
closer to the enemys stronghold The
Raleigh and Petrol, covered with national
colors, tried fve-inch and six inch guns
at $500 yards.
Shell after shell burst in the fort and
drove the Spaniards panic-stricken toward
Manila. Every shot was marked by debri:
hurled high in the air. Soon the enemy
deserted the trenches in front of General
Green but ran off to the right into the
bamboo swamps. Two shots from the bat
terry in the magazine was the only reply
given to the fleets fire. Both were 3OC
yards short. The gunboat Callao and the
launch Barcelo advanced within lOOC
yards and began sending a deadly hal
from rapid-fire and machine guns.
The Troons AGNnuce