The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-02
Required Some Hard Fighting to
Capture the City. {
GEN. ANDERSON'S REPORT
PART PLAYED BY TROOPS FROM
MOUNTAIN STATES.
The Utah Batteries, Colorado, Idaho
and Wyoming Volunteers All
Mentioned In the Account-Fight-
ing Continued After the White
Flag Had Been Raised.

Washington, Oct 1.-The reports of
General Thomas NJ. Anderson, COM
handing the Second division of the
Eighth army corps, and General Mac
Arthur, commanding the First brig
ade of that division, as to operations
about Manila, were made public at the
war department today. General An
derson had command of the first expe-.
dition. The following extracts are
taken from his report:
''On the first day OF July I had an
interview with the insurgent CHIEF,
AguinaIdo, and there learned from hi4lS
that The Spanish forces had withdrawn
driven back by his army, as ne claimed.
to the line of defense Immediately,
around the city and its suburbs. He
estimated the Spanish forces at about
$4,000 men, and his own at about the
same number. He did not seem pleased
at the incoming of our land forces,
hoping, as believe, that he could
take the city with his own army, with
the cooperation Of the American fleet
Believing that, however successful
the insurgents may have been in que
rilla warfare against the Spanish, they
could not carry their lines by assault
or reduce the city by siege, and sus-
pecting further that a hearty and eff
cuted, l had at once a series of recon-
noisSanceS made to exactly locate the
enemy's lines of defense and to ascer-
tain their strength
General Anderson thus describes the
attack on Manila, which was under
his immediate command subject to
orders from General Merritt whose
headquarters were on a dispatch boat:
THE fleet opened fire at $50 a. m
The first shots fell short, but the range
was soon found, and then the fire be-
came evidently effective. 1 at once tel
egraphed General Macarthur to open
on block house No. IA, and begin his
attack At the same time several of
the guns Of the Utah battery opened
ire on the enemy'S works in front of
the Second brigade, and two guns on
the right of this brigade opened an
oblique fire towards block house No !
IL Riding down to the beach l saw
two Of our lighter draft vessels ap-
proach and open on the PolYOrin with !
rapid-fire guns, and observed at the /
same time some men of the Second /
brigade start up the beach. 1 ordered |
the First California, which was the |
leading regiment of the service, to go !
forward and report to General Greene. |
Going to the reserve telegraph | re- /
ceived a message from Macarthur that |
his fire on the block house was effect |
i've, but that he was enfiladed from the |
right. 1 knew from this that he wished |
to push the insurgents aside, and put |
in the Aston battery. I then author
lied him to attack, which he did, and |
soon after the Twenty-Five infantry
and the Thirteenth Minnesota. carried |
the advance line of the enemy in the /
most gallant manner, the one gun of |
the Utah battery lending most effect
i've assistance.
ADVANCE TO MAIATH
TN the meantime the Colorado regi-
ment had charged and carried the right
OF the enemy's line, and the Eighteenth /
regiment of regular infantry and the
Third heavy Cegular) artillery, acting
as infantry, had advanced ard passed
over the enemy's works in their front
! without opposition. The reserve was
ordered forward to follow the Second
brigade, and a battery of Hotchkiss
guns was directed TO follow the Eigh-
teenths infantry. Going to the teIe-
graph station on the left of our line
on the beach, 1 found the operator
starting forward in the rear of the
First California, and L moved forward
until the instrument was established in
the first house in Malate. The first
ticking Of the sounder informed me
thas General Macarthur was heavily
engaged at second line of defense
near Singalong.
1t was evident that the best way to q
assist him was to press our success on
the left. I therefore directed General
Greene to connect, if possible, with
General Macarthur by sending a regi-
ment to the right. But the enemy
seemed determined for d time to give
US a street fight and the Colorado and
California regiments were the only
ones available. AT this juncture the
Eighteenth infantry and the Hotch-
rO Ia or /
a broken piece Of bridge, but the
company brought forward a ,
portable bridge, and in a few minutes
these organizations pressed through
the Malate-E rmita redoubts.
Soon the men from Nebraska and
Wyoming came on shouting, for the
white flag could be seen on the sea
front, yet the firing did not cease, and
the Spanish soldiers at the front did 4
not seem TO be notified of the surren-
der. In the meantime the reserve had
been ordered to follow, except one reg
iment, which was ordered to remain in 1
the Second brigade trenches The {
seven Utah guns were also ordered to /
the front, one infantry battalion being 7
directed to assist the men of the bat |
teries in hauling the guns by hand.
HARD FIGHTING.
The field telegraph wires, extending
in wide circuit TO the extreme right.
for a time gave discouraging reports. Y
The front was contracted and the r
enemy en1renched and the timber thick $
on both sides of the road. :
The Fourteenth infantry was 4
brought forward, but could not fire a a
shot. Under these circumstances L tel s
agraphed Macarthur to countermarch "
ana come 70 Malate by way of Greene's b
and the beach. This "
was at 1:25 =. m, but soon after I;
earned that Macarthur was too far d
committed to retire. The guns of the c
AStor battery had been dragged to the I
fro.1t only after the utmost exertions q
and were about being put in action. At q q
he same time received telegram ii
stating that the insurgents were O
TO cross the bamboo ridge t
on our right, and TO prevent this and n
guard our ammunition at Passaya, !
ordered an Idaho battalion to the point ~
It was evidently injudicious under a.
-bese circumstances, to withdraw the Il
First brigade, so the order was coun- Il
and a dispatch sent an lie
our success on the left In
In answer the report came that "
;iralong had been carried, and that O
he brigade was advancing on Pace. At c.
his point 1 was subsequently met by f.
ne Of my aides, and marched down to Il
ba Quartet de Malata by the Calzeda %
IL Paca. (,
Il had gone in the meantime to the Al
outh bridge Of the walled city, and &C
earning that the Second Oregon was bC
within the walls. and that Colonel
Whittier was in conference with the
spanish commandant. L directed Gen A