Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-11-16
FROM cAMIe.
George Duain Tails Of Fight and Possible
CITATIONS q s1usr Kfiui.


don't know how long Il has eeon
since I received your letter. but slime.
paper and stamps have been 50 scarce
thnt couldn't answer o. very well
before. The battery IL over IN Manila.
hut have been ovsr here ON guard Tor
week. guess will 90 back today
some time We'll I cans givo YOU much
news about Caw- Times are not az
GOOD here az they are In Manila: al
porson can see Is the wrecked battle
,hlp. and the ruins N the fori. hut In
Nsnr, there II moro business going on
iu an hour chan thcre lu 10 sAt Lake
/ In a week Bui li la the H1ldlefn ihat
make % lively When We hiHt went mo
Manila u was a. dell o. a9or ha,,.
but / never saw 10 many :. ole ih my
| no a. there are ihorc unW. nv ihHre
are AM kinds. BuggleH, WAGONS and
pr1pir rct tangled az w sac Hirrtis
umntimas and cant move one way ur
the other. The SAT- Lake jubilee can't
compare with the mlNup We nave mere
now. Well l spent the Fourth ut July
ON The deep blue ana We didnt hear
anything about the fall Of Santiago uu-
Nh NJ reached here on the iith " July.
4 hear Won had q "hot ilmo" 10 salt
Lake whom you got the news from sam
tIlrn. Well I enjoyed The trip nrni
tate across the water ] didn't get sea
lick at all. and they gave uH Tine re-
rsptlon In Honolulu. there wasn't any
thing too good fOr ua. but We were
parkrd In those ships like sardlnes. and
me grub for the soldiers was very poor,
once in q while they would set a couple
OF biscuits and some hash, hu. the regu-
lar meal was hard tack ana tat pork
l piaycd wise Tor once; ! got JOB IN
tho ofiiccrs dining room shooting biz.
ruita Tor my board. H0 YOU see ] got
along ALRIGHT. ana took good care nat
my brother rui 'hlnd-Uut' too. We
were oniy ihifty.iwu days on that good
old ship and when We g1i our rect on
land once more We tdlt ike dancing
We arrived IN the bay ON the i'ih ~
July. but We -iang land until the 2isi.
We couldn't land In Manila at the
docks. but had 90 lana on the beach
between Manila and Civite. We un-
loaded our stun from the steamship GO
native goats. ana ihgu We got a. close
30 the shore a. we could Win hen
30 that they wouldn't stick In me HAud,
and then We waded the rest ~ 'ho way.
| carrying our goods on our backs. ana
we krpf wadlng back Hud forth illl We
had everything unl0aded. Tho water
was 30 10 our waists and snmeilmQh inc
waves would mako o higher. but
| nobody was drowned. We pitched
4
| The spanish entertainments were about
"a mile s1u.h % Manila. and chcir foif
| the same. They had most of their
| cannona on the wall 81 the fJrt. The
I rnslvea' entertainments were abnH half
| a mile south Of she spanish, % that
made ~ about iwo and half miles
| from them. We laid around thlT camp
IN mud ard water for q week. ana then
On the aS,h We were ordered 10 cake
four 81 our guns up 20 The front; ana
! yell you u was no snap pulling these
guns. The mud was NJ o. cur knees
in sumo places. Tor u rahncd every day
from she time We landed tlll after We
Fat into Manila, and We had "a pull
them by hand, hnvinE ~ horses, II
would sake all Of the battery t1 pull
, gun through some places. and We had
| 60 wear fuHprruIra On our shoes ~
that We would rot lose them IN the
mud. After pulling a. our guns all
| day. We got up % fhc native enfrcnVh-
monts about u'cilck. The spanish
| couldn't SEQ ua fetch our guns up nr
bamboo aud brush. ana when We Elt
there We kept our guns oH " sight
! and sold the natives ~ 60 back; then
We took their places hl the entrcnyh-
mont 10 was .'Nfully dark that night
and the spanish couldn't see whag We
were d1lng, hut when they opened their
eyes ln The morning ! guess thoy were
l
irenchmenf huit about four feet and
/ half high. ak feet wids az the top and
| about twelve foct Wide al ghr b0tiom.
| And u was over q hundred yard. closer
70 them than We were before. OF
| course there was a battalion " lnfln.
cry M there with uH. but 10 was hard
old nights work. ana when relief came
/ M We were clad 10 ~ 20 camp Tor
| sleep ana rest The uoNi night We
| pulled our guns iu.l the new tutrcnch.
merits, but fhr spanish didn't know
| anything about 90 We Gun gaps
through the entr. Hchment - thag W.
could IRE our guns, and the gaps were
/ plenty wide enough % shat we could
shoot In any direction. Hug when We
! Elt through cutting the gips We sight
"a each gun on The fotg a. near as I'VE
could, and then we covered She gaps
| over with bamboo and then a lght
layer ~ ART on top ~ the bamboo.
When the Job was ne and % g1t day