Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-26
Says If the Insurgents
Would Not Run
THE WAR WOULD SOON END
volunteer Are Doing the Fighting
WITH Very Inferior Guns
--H:at Intense.

j. Fl. Caddy Of Company ~ who is
now doing soldier duty in the Philippines
has written an interesting letter to his
mother, who resides on Utah avenue. The
epistle was framed at Malolos and j N sub
stance says:
we have been on the go since we left
our trenches at Caloocan at $50 a, M. on
March 20. Have had several engagement
with the insurgents. Just after leaving
the enche we had a very hard fight.
1t lasted a whole lay. We drove the
enemy back six miles. The Montana regi-
ment had six men killed. Our company
had one killed and two wounded. After
the first days march from Caloocan we
ala not nave very much hard fighting, but
we had a brush with the enemy almost
every day. They would not wait for us
to come up to them. They evidently did
not hke our company.
On the way to this place We had a hard
m The weather was very hot and a
great many men were overcome by the
heat. We had to leave them on the way.
Many others became footsore and had to
stop. Once l thought I would have to
quit, but l stuck it out. We took this
town without much fighting or the loss of
a man. The Montana regiment run up
the first American flag in Malolos. After
u arrival here, which was on March 81.
we mad one days rest; then our battalion
was sent out to locate the rye
We found them about five miles distant.
Killed four or five and got away without
having one OF our own men hurt. We
then rested another day and went out to
capture another town six miles from here.
On arriving at the place we had engaged
the enemy two days previous we found
the insurgents strongly entrenched lust
across a large river. There was only one
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road bridge which was being guarded by
thousands Of rebels; so we thought it lust
a little too big a job for our slim regiment
to handle n returned to Malolos. You
see, we have only about $50 men for duty
now. We have had 1O3 killed and wound
ed since the fighting began: besides. we
nave had many overcome by the heat.
Yesterday we had one killed. three wound
ed and twenty overcome by heat. IT is
aWful not here now and is getting worse
all the time. Just after we got here Err
nest was seized with one of those spells
ne used to have and was sent to the hos
pltal at Manila. ] have not heard of him
since, but l guess he will be out in a few
nays. He carnot stand this sort Of a life
there is TOO much excitement in it for
nm. l hope he will not be sent out On the
line again, for it is a hard life even if the
enemy does not get you.
.The volunteers are doing most of the
nghtlng. | 10 not know why. The rec,l-
lars are not kept on the firing ine-the
volunteers are always in front. II the
regulars did not ave the best guns we
would not care. CThe regulars use Krag-
Jorgenson rifles; the volunteers, Spring
felds). The insurgents have better guns
than We have. They can pick us off be-
fore we get within reach of them. It
would not be so bad if the United States
dld not have $4,000 good guns in a ware
house in Manila that we could he nsinp r.
looks bad to say the least.
The trouble here does not look so much
like ending just now as it did a month
ago. We have licked them good as far
as we have gone, but they can retreat
raster than we can advance. Their abil-
lty to sprint exceeds their fighting quail
ties If they would stand and fight it
would soon be ended"