The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-05
UTAH MEN AT MANILA
Majors Young and Grant Go to Chi
ma Lazy Life.


na-A Lazy Life.
Manila, Oct. 7-Our old trenches!
What thousands of visions float before
ones eyes as one wanders through the
| fields, now so peaceful and quiet, which
| but two short months ago were the
scenes of such carnage and strife. Inc
| old camping ground where Utahi
| troops first drove their tent Degs-the
same tent pegs they drove in the sandy
! soil of Camp Kent-is now field of
waving, half-grown rice. The deep
| bitches dug to draw away the water
are all that remain to mark the SPOT,
! so sacred to all of Utah's soldiers. Ihe
| old road, running between long lines
| of mango and bamboo trees, is no long
er axle deep with mud, as it was when
Lieutenant Naylor led a detachment
| Of the batteries uO to the relief or the
trenches on that awful 51st of August.
| Utah owns the old trenches by rlshL
of occupation. Her sons were the first
Americans to occupy them, and the
little band of only $50 men constructed
! over half of them. From Aug Is III
| Sent. 13 at least one-half of UJan
men were LAYING beside her guns, while
the other troops only did trench duty
| one dav out of each week. During the
| whole siege there was never bullet
whizzed or a shell shrieked that was
not heard by a detachment of Utah S
sons. The vicinity of her guns was
the hottest place in the lines, and after
the first night, cautious soldiers aNolu-
ed staying near them
After the first battle, all the deaths
to our side occurred in the close prox-
unity OF Utah's guns: the brains OF
some fellow being scattered over the
| gun crews. The influence which
protected the boys at the guns has won
many a convert to Christianity, and a
few to the predominatlnS reilglon ol
Utah. A Pennsylvania poy TOOK me py
the hand a short time ago, saying he
wanted TO shake hands with a Mormon,
because nothing short of divinity tod
kent ms from defamation during the
seven nights when the Spaniards made
targets OF us.
SCENE IS CHANGED.
The embrazures through which the
muzzles of the guns pointed when they
made their hostile shots are now
scarcely discernible Raging typhoons
F have feyeled the banks on both sldes,
! and over the whole q luxurious growth
of grass has sprung up The tnlckets
of bamboo trees, cut down Dy Mduser
balls, have been carted away Dy Pill
fering natives, who. no doupI, slllieu
with iov at the opportunity Of prOclr-
ing so much wood with so little labor.
The long burrows made by shells
through the fields in front have lost
their sharpness, and now resemble
gopher tunnels The bomb-Droof tun-
mel Utah's men dug for a powder maya
zine. which was later conlscated by
General Greene for a telegraph office,
is not caved in. But the forum of i'm
mortal Rome is not more sacred than
that little pile of ruins. All that re-
mains in its warlike garb Is the old
astery. Silent and mute it stands
a lasting tribute to American valor.
Not a square foot on its entire freni
is unDierced by Mauser balls; every
few feet a great hole stares out on the
peaceful fields. showing where soms
shell pursued its shrlelking course.
UTAH HONORED.
The mail received yesterday brings