The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1898-10-19

fantry Tells Some Of His Experiences
on the TT p to Manila.
STEAMER CITY OF PUEBLO.
Aug. 18th, 1898.
On the Pacific, $500 miles from Hon
olulu, 1900 miles from San Francisco,
1900 miles from Manila and $500 miles |
from home, / will endeavor to write you.
We have not had a hard storm since we
left Honolulu. / think that there are
some letters on board our ship for me,
but the mail bags cannot be opened un-
til we get to Manila, as they contain
through mail.
1t is hot day but we have a good
ocean breeze. We have left the Peru and
the Pennsylvania; we are about IS hours
ahead Of them. We expect to arrive at
Manila in about a week from Sunday.
When the l4th United States Infantry
reaches there, look out, boom! bOoml
Saturday, 8 p. m. We are looking for
land this afternoon, as we are nearing
the Ladronps. We stop there to let off
some attached melf OF Company +. The
first expedition took these islands and
left three companies there. We have
about 1900 miles further to 60 after
reaching the islands, then we will be
with Dewey. The Peru is along side Of
us today. They are quite close and have
uncovered their guns, which are artill-
cry. We have two on each boat and one
good shot would wipe us off the earth.
August 15.-We have been looking for
land and at last saw what was once q
valcano, but 1t is now inactive. There
are three other islands that we can see,
which are also mountainous. About 500
Of the 1000 soldiers on this ship are from
Ohio; one Of the boys being from Nor
walk and another from New London and
a large number from Cleveland and Gin
cinnati.
August 18.--Well, we are now looking
for the north end Of the Philippines. AT
noon today we were 4, 100 miles from
Honolulu, so you see we are nearing oul
| destination. We will land at Cavite,
| about 10 miles from Manila, under the
protection Of Dewey's guns, unless Ma
!; nilla has surrendered, since we left thu
United States, We all have 200 rounds
Of ammunition, so we are ready to servC
the Stars and Stripes. The battle-cr!
will be Remember the Maine"
We had funny thing happen thi
morning at 200 o'clock. The bugl'
called Assembly to Arms" Every mai
was on deck, with his gun and arms, IL
less time than it takes me to write 1t
wondering what was going on. Thi
was the first time we ever had the call
and it was given to see what we wOul
, do. Major Robes praised us very highl
for getting out so quick, considering
was a new call, and said he knew h
could depend upon us where ever he pu
us. On the 10Th the Peru lay about I'll
teen miles north Of us, and about 20
o'clock there came the boom Of a canno
and we knew there was somethin
wrong, so we made our way toward he
, and could see she had her flag half-mast
and we knew somebody was dead. Whe
4 we arrived there something white wa
thrown into the air and splash, AMI
3 man was buried at sea. Our sigma
corps got out their flags and asked VIII
: it was and the reply came back that
was one of the crew, a Chinese. W
were glad that 1t was not one Of the sO
! diers. We have another inspection thi
afternoon and / must 60.
August 19.-We are almost to Ou
journeys end; we came in sight Of th
north end of Philippines at $3.50 this Al
ternOon. There were three ships
sight this forenoon; they turned out I
be German barges. There is any quar-
tity Of land in sight now and we hav
]. only 300 or 400 miles to 60 down tf
China sea to Manila, which we will a
be glad to reach.
August 21.-We are at last with Dew
ey. We arrived off Manila bay La
night at 1900 and entered the bay TIL
morning. We are in sight Of the cit,
and only quarter Of mile from Dev
eyS flagship. There are battleshipS
every description all around us, and thu
+ belong to Dewey's feet. The fagShi
has just pulled mp beside us and we +
ceive the news that Manila surrenderC
a week ago yesterday, but Cavite reman
= yet to be taken. Dewey started to bOI
bard the city, and Merritt on the Ian
l. and it took just fifteen minutes to NAL
4 them surrender. We land tomorrow.
= Manila, August 26.-We had quite
Ii time at the battle Of the Waterworh
d four miles from the city, with the |
surgents Tuesday and Wednesday nigt
They have an aggrayating way Of figl
ing. They get into the underbrush al