Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-09-12
THE BATTLE OF MANILA
spAsIAaDs MADE MATTERS INTERESTING
Bu, Were Defeated on r,sry slde-uospi.
tai Corps "Rossted''-rho fight
In Detail.

Tho following very Interesting iHttNi
nnent the battle Of Manila 10 which
the Utah boys participated, comes from
a former employo Of The COOPERATIVE
Wagon aud Machine company In ms
ci.y.
August T. 1895.
Dear FELLOW Employees and Frltnds'
when I'm fhe city NJ the Saints. n
ponr. unaonhlsHcated uitie link deal
or" had formed on idea that all We
had % 90 was 10 Rr. 90 Manila, anu
we wOuil be at Manila. Wen. We are
at Manila and yni we are not az
Manila. ! thought all We had 90 %
was 10 walk lnin the town and bum
for u few mUniht aud ihen come BACK
home hfr0ts A. usual. ! was "1ut on
limb" and rIi called. The bnuu-
fui 90 city Of Manila " 81 miles from
here, but tha sand around the gates
Frurchcs your fees ~ we d1nt Ike SO
~ In. The spanish are vcry hospli-
able. and freely invite us NJ. bu, iha
food they have Tor us g largely COM
posed . hot mgr dienia. and na many
OF Va camf from a country somewhat
cooler Than this We are afr1il che
arorsAlld food may Fomewhat impair
our Indigestion.
When ! lef my STA and IA some
Y
me the spanish were c0wlriH. c0uidn't
nrht and would surrender Just 1a soon
a. ! asked them %.
You can put u down a. being
straight that they can hfhti are mol
cnwards. ana would not surrender n
asked them too. We had iiiiio thrft-
round cSuttat thg other nighl. You
may hear Of Il before you sel ihis
letter.
INFRINGEMENT Drecnturn
The wall around Manila Il 20 or %
feet high and 20 or % feet mix. The
Spanish trenches are about 800 yard
nom the wall ana can evidently be
easily entered from the city BY tun-
ncla under she wall, The trenches are
not as hiFh ~ ours. The wall, trenches.
and lnsurgenis trenches extend an
Our trenches are about 700 yards back
or the spanish trenches ari extend
from the coast u ihe road q dlst,nce Of
30 yards Tho insurgents are supposed
20 have control 81 the trenches extend.
Ing from the rad on the riEhi clean
around the city. There were no innur.
gems around ur ct all the night % the
night
PART UTAH GUNS PLAYED.
our trenches arr about q feet high. 3
Mt thick AZ the top and about " feei
thick az the bottom. one hundred
ynrds back Of our lntrcnchmcntn are q
portion OF trenches which were turned
over % ~ by the insurgents az q basis
OF operations. Here On thu old trcnrhl
II whsrv the first American artillery
was planted on the held. This WAS On
july 2tth. and the flrst two guns wors
fhr firNt ana second section guns "
Batfpry A. The firat gun OF American
ARTILLERY fired In this war was the KUN
belongnE 20 my section, G. v, variar
on the nirht " the sisi.
On the morning OF the 3iat. ahou
2iso a. M. Lieut.. Nayior had the w,
guns brought IN Into the now intreuth
mentn. The Colorado boya btfit tha In
uenchmcnt on the night of July 9th.
DECEIVED THE sPANfARDs
one Of Battery iis guns was brough
~ on the new lntrenchncnt on Jul
aoth. The Spaniards must have aCoi
this gun brought 10 a. Il was done Il
the day time. but | do not think thel
knew about our other three guns. A.
Nfubrauure about three feet Wide nnt
made In four places IN the lnirenchmen
and aomc % III mating made of BAN
boo BY ihe natives vas laid over IN.
ffonL These mats wcru then covered
with about Inches OF loose earth thu
making the in,rcnrhmunt appear IN
broieh. This no douhs deceived IN
Spanish.
on ths night Of July aiai our fore
was NJ fonowsl -Four companies of m
Tenth Pennsylvania and nfteon mel
from each Of umha batteries inoludlnI
officers. our lieutenant was Clubs an
rs Grow. 10 happened 60 be- my turl
50 20 up-nr not exactly my furn hu
she regular order NJ men went w frun
the battery, A. was ranking sergeant
went and runuera Nhrian aud knran
were u handle The guns. Hlch gums
had i've mon under him, and ouf cX
ara man Tor tho twn dniachm1uia
The men In VarRn'a dctaohmcn
were. No. 1. Phvatoa Dunn, o., n,
:. Jacobsen. No 3. Peters. No 4. Leay
or. No. 9. Nielsen. In Kncaas. y,
I, Privatcs Robinson, No, 2, Ryai
No, ,, Doty. No 4. Jensen. No, 0, MoI
KAN, extra Private Robinson. 4
no, know who the men were In batter
n, but they are all heroes.
Two COMPANIES " tho Tenth Penn
nylvnnla were back mile from IN
entertainments as a reserve, and Nv
companies Of the same regiment Wei
out making our proposed entrcnch
ment extensions About twenty
the Pennsylvania men were out az oul
posts directly In front Of where the
men were working. This makes III
force IN the entertainments four con
panies ~ sixty men each, $40. nftoo
battery n, ilfteen battery A, wei
thirty men; total, go,
There may have been more tina
sixty men 20 their companies hut
don't think No. Understand, the Penn
Hylvanla regiment was In the trenuhs
above. No other command II wa
their turn They were armed wit
the a. caiiber Springfield rife. the sam
hs the ". q. a. has
A little heXagonhi building was %,
fuplcd by some spanish sharpshO1tor
aud also contained n rapid IRE Gun
We wanted 60 blow this up during M
day time on tho aist. hut tho order
forbid our artillery nring unless con
PEELED 90 do 10 90 resist an attack.
square building directly on our IL
trcnchmenta was "A monastery orlgif
ally occupied by the Spanish before "
came The spanish had been drive
out by the Insurgents, who took Dol
session, until they, In turn. wei
driven out by the Spanish arillierl
M the time we took possession Il wa
vncated and completely riddled wit
shot and shell. Two OF our guns, "a
were on the right Of IL. and ms" tw
guns on the left. Tho gun numhere
1 was run by Gunner Knoaas aud N
by Gunner Varan,
PLOTTING COMMENCED
Up 20 noon on the sist We had occai
slonal shots from Spanish sharpshO0tei
but after that time an was qulct-io
quiet IN fact. Tor their complete silonl
was onlnous The spanlards were
Maso an day, and az night had vcsper
~ about 1880 am. une OF the ou
posts dlseerncd what he thought was