The Hawaiian gazette., 1898-10-04
ment Immediately took possession and
raised the American flag.

While this was going on the Aston
Battery, guarded by the Twenty-Third
regulars and the Utah Artillery, made
a charge on the center entrance and
had quite a skirmish with the Span-
Iards. who came forward and seized
two Of their Acid pieces and started 10 4
re,reat with than into tho CITY II was
than thar tho bovs had n chance m /
d,s,insu,.b ,hansaives ana ,ha,, did an |
100 sor a.. soon as ,ha ra,,,lar. ana
h.t,ory hoca, 20 Arc ,hair s,,ns an, rs-
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,.i, "a - ,astnna oonnio h,,rdraa
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n, 49, , 49,
ie" "o'piueu' ANU. io' ~
ieit camp VIC eApe''." W iose
thousahd men as we 'no"sn. We wou,a
nave 10 MAKE charge over the wall
AS IL was our loss was nothing 10 what
1t would nave been hau the spahiarus
In the fort not surrendered
The Nebraska Regiment, with our
battalion. the first, in the lead made
its entrance along the beach and mad
to walk in water up to our waists until
we reached the city, when Company l.
was made advance guard going up al
rapid gait and with humps on our
backs like a camel TO Keep out OF sight
| OF the stray Spaniards concealed IN
houses and trying TO pop us on, until
we were in front OF the Spanish fort.
We were the second regiment In Ma
Mia city and the hrst IN 'front.' or the
| Spanish stronghold, place we would
not have been able to take Tor lew
months had Dewey not been there 10
shell them out II necessary. Inc walls
OF fort No. are In some places De-
tween fifty and sixty feet thick and on
the land side manned by all KINDS OF
guns, while along the beach they have
a couple OF ten-inch guns and wall
almost impossible to scale. All around
this fort is moat filled with all kinds
of traps and barbed wire FENCES, then
an intrenchment with nice port holes
covered up with grass. All OF this Is
outside the wall, which Is about hfteen
or twenty feet nigh. On, wouldn't we
have had a time trying to scale 1t with
lot of Spaniards on top to shoot as
we came over.
The men-of-war did not have much
shooting TO do. because from the time
the first shot which tore a hole in the
first fort the Standards bepan IN leave
and look for safer quarters in the
, houses where they could get even with
their infantry firing on our army. The
!, cnlao did most of the work She
steamed right under the very nose Of
the SPANISH battery. irving TO draw
their fire. The OLYMPIA fired a few
, eight and six-inch shells and the Mon
terey did the rest. which was 10 steam
, nm and down the harbor ready 10 blow
- ont of them in case of treachery
We were on the march from about
|, IN the morning untii ABOUT D. wheh W.
e In front of Gen Nerritt,s ouarters
E which we're in a swell hotel There W,
we're given time IN chew n few niece,
Of hard tack n niece oF canned roas
I beef and water n wash II down with
: After o1r swell French dinner we yer
I marched to the regiment headouarter,
a on the river front and we're allowed +,
e 90 10 sleep in the street on cohbl,
r stones with the mossy side nm II wa,
e all right IN IN ahout Q o'cIock whom I
J. began TO rain (harder than IL does /,
I Honolulu usually). we did NOT know
: II was raining until we we're aoatin,
$ round a while and humping into eaci
other. hut after we anchored we wen
5 off to sleep and woke up in the morn
= ing all stiff and tired and had to b,
o thawad out before we were fit for bus
s mess. On the evening of the 14th w
n moved to quarters in a large sion,
d store about a block away. We re
& NAMED there two DAYS, removing o,
e the 10th to the police station, wher
t we expect TO remain until furthe
p notice. All there is To do now is I,
/. stand guard and visit the citv ocros
e the canal.
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0haS' fLEASaNlS'
h MIR. EDITOR: of your read
k ers will remember Mr., Charles Pleas
a ants, who made a speech at the inauC
O uration of our Reception Committee O
h 100 to entertain the BOYS in Blue an,
Y of which Committee he was a membe,
). He succeeded in enlisting in the Tent
r PENNSYLVANIA and left here on the Zea
" landia. His company was in the figh
O before Manila and he writes a descrip
d ton of the battle. which will be of in
y terest to your readers, as follows:
d well, we, the Tenth, have been 4
/ 1t and no doubt you will have tn
newspaper account of it long befor
a you ,.eceiysa fhic I, occurraa Sunda