The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-08-18
MIDNIGHT BATTLE
Spaniards Attack Ameri-
can Troops in Trenches.
Stars and Stripes VIctOrious-Heavy
Spanish Loss - Nine
Americans.

NEW YORK, August "a copy
righted cablegram from Manila bay,
August 4th, via Hongkong, August 9th.
to the Evening World, gives the fol-
lowing particulars of the fighting near
Malate on the night of July 31st
General Greene's force numbering
1000 men, had been advancing and in
trenching. The arrival of the third ex-
petition filed the Spaniards with rage,
and they stood to give battle before
! Camp Dewey could be re-enforced. The
! trenches extended from the beach, 300
yards TO the left flank of the insur-
gents.
Sunday was the insurgent feast day,
and their left flank withdrew, leaving
/ the American right flank exposed.
! Companies A and Il Of the Tenth Penn
/ sylvania and the Utah battery were or
/ dered to re-enforce the right flank In
the midst of a raging typhOOn, with
( a tremendous dOwnpOur of rain, the
enemy's force, estimated at 5000 men,
attempted to surprise the camp. Our
pickets were driven in and the trenches
/ assaulted.
The brave Pennsylvania men never
a whitening fire. The Utah Battery,
the First California Regiment with
two companies Of the Third Artillery,
who fight with rifles, were sent up to
Te-enforce the Pennsylyanians. The
enemy were on top of the trenches
when these re-enfOrcements arrived,
and never was the discipline of the
regulars better demonstrated than by
the work of the Third Artillery under
Captain O'Hara. Nothing could be seen
but flashes of Mauser rifles. Men ran
right up to the attacking Spaniards and
moved them down with regular vol
legs.
The Utah battery, under Captain
Young, covered itself with glory. The
men pulled their guns through mud
axle deep. Two guns were sent around
on the flank and poured in a destruc
tive enflading fire. The enemy was re-
pulsed and retreated in disorder. Our
infantry had exhausted it's ammunition
and did not follow the enemy.
Not an inch of ground was lost, but
the scenes in the trenches was one new
err to be forgotten. During flashes Of
lightning, the dead and wounded could
be seen lying in blOOd-red water, but
neither the elements of heaven nor the
destructive power of man could wiring
a cry of protest from the wounded.
They encouraged their comrades to
fight and handed over their cartridge
belts.
During the night the Spanish scouts
were seen carrying off the dead and
wounded of the enemy. The American
dead were buried next day in the con-
vent of Maracab ban.
On the night of August LIST, the fight
in roOaWa6 the pnpmV had
been taught a lesson and made the at
tack at long range with heavy artillery.
The Utah battery replied and the ar
tillery duel lasted an hour. One man
was killed He was Fred Springstead
of the First Colorado, and two men
were wounded.
On the night of August I'd the artil-
lery duel was renewed. Two men were
badly wounded and are this morning
reported dead, which brings the total
dead to thirteen, with ten in the hos
pitaI mOrtally hurt.
The list of dead and wounded as re-
ported by General Merritt is as fol-
lows:
Tenth Pennsylvania-John Brady,
Walter Brown.
United States nfantry-Willfam e.
Brinton. Jacob Hull Jesse Moss, Will
liam StiIlwagOn.
First CalifOrnia-Maurice Just.
Third Artillery-Eli Dawson.
First Colorado-Fred. Springstead.
Seriously wounded: Tenth Pennsyl-
vania-Sergeant AIva Walter, Privates
Lee Snyder Victor Holmes, G. S. Car
ter, Arthur Johnson.
First Acknowledgment R. Richter,
Private J. G. Edwards.
Third ArtilIery-Privates Charles
Winfield and J. A McElrOth.
Thirty-eight were slightly wounded.
Secretary Alger regards the Malate
fight as the beginning of the general
attack on tE9 Philippine capital.