The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-05
IN TWIN BRIDGES.
Several Letters From Manila-Anxious
to Get Home.

| Special Correspondence of the Standard.
Twin Bridges, Aug. 3.-The WedneS-
| day mails brought several Manila let
| tiers TO anxious ones. Among those re-
ceived was one from Charley Edghill,
a Twin Bridges boy. to his schoolmatc
George Pritchett. Charley has a host
of friends here who will be pleased
to learn he has been so fortunate as
not to receive a scratch, although he
has been in several engagements. He
writes under date of June % and in
part says:
Dear George received your letter
of May 4 yesterday, and was very
glad to hear from you, but did not get
chance to read it, for the 'niggers
opened fire on the Outposts and we
were called out, but we did not fire
shot, as they did not come to our end
of the line. They stayed in front of
the 5lst lowas and the 18th regulars,
but we had to so out so as to be on
the safe side of the thing The insur-
gents got 1t up their neck that they
could recapture San Fernando, so on
the 10th day of this month about 4:3O
O'Clock a. m they opened up a hot fire
all around the town, a distance of
about six miles. but the Americans
soon showed them that they didn't
know much about fighting, as they
soon drove them back. The fight last
ed about an hour and half. There
was one man killed and three wounded
out of our regiment and | don't know
how the rest of the regiments came
out, but the niggers lost about 500
killed and wounded.
THE niggers have kept quiet ever
since until last night when they tried
1t again, but not with such a large
force. l think that they will find out
pretty soon that the Americans can't
be whipped, and they will lay down
their arms and throw up the sponge.
You bet they amt much afraid yet.
The day they made the attack they
brought their bull trains and each man
had clean change of clothes with
him. and even the priests had their
Bibles open in their hands, Chat is.
the three that we found dead), so you
see they were pretty sure they were
going to enter the town. Well, about
300 of them did enter but they were
hauled in in government transport
wagon, piled up like so much wood
Each wagon had four mules hitched to
1t, so you see it was quite a load.
well. George, l guess the Montana
and Kansas regiments have got a
great reputation in the states; they
sure have here. One of the officers in
the Utah light artillery said that he
would sooner have an honorable dis
charge from the Montana or Kansas
regiments than be a colonel in any
other regiment on the island.
THE boys are all well and happy;
those who We're wounded are getting
along as nicely as can be expected
On about the 10th of this month there
were % out of our company and II of
Company l., with about 80 Kansas men
went out accommodating about four
miles from here into the Insurgents
lines under General Funston, formerly
colonel of the Goth Kansas. After
passing through Bacalor about a mile
and a half we ran into a bunch of
what we thought about so niGgers.
The general saw them with his glasses
and told Lieutenant Gainan, who was
in command of the Montana Compan-
les, to deploy his men as skirmishers
and give them a touch of high life.
Well we deplOyed out and got in the
first volley and then a line of insur-
gents about three-quarters of a mile
long opened up on us. The ones in
front We're about 400 yards, while those
at our left were about 500 yards away.
They had us nearly surrounded; that
is, they were in a half circle. So you