The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-24

wharf and boarded the transport Penn
sylvania, having been ordered to the
Philippines. The ship pulled out in
the stream and anchored until the fol-
lowing morning, the 10Th, when at 1880
o'clock it set sail for Manila. During
the preparations for departure second
member of the regiment, Private Frank
Camp of Company G, died cf disease.
The voyage was not a pleasant one
Sea sickness overcame many while the
ship was fearfully ovefcrowded. She
carried, in addition to the Montana
regiment, 200 California recruits. At
Honolulu part of this force was trans
ferred to another vessel.
The bright spot in the voyage was
the stop at Honolulu, which was reach
ed July %. The regiment remained
~ the whole by the people Of that city
August "a the transport reached Ma
Mia bay and anchored OFF Cavite.
There the news was received that the
war was over, the Spanish having sur
rendered August 10.
The first night ashore Captain An
drew Jensen was officer of the day and
men under his command had occasion
to shoot and kill some Filipino thieves
who We're rif1ing the wreck of the Don
Juan de Austria. 1t was the first blood
the regiment had tasted
Quarters were taken up in the old
stone Spanish barracks The bad smell
the poor food, the constant guard duty
and the annoyances put upon them
| by the insurgents who Jointly occupied
| Cavite made this first experience of
soldering in the Philippines anything
| but pleasant. The heat was frightful
and Frustrated many. while all were at
| fected more or less
| October "a, 1898, the first and second
battalions of the regiment We're moved
| to Manila, and November 81 the third
battalion followed The first battalion
made its home on Guano street-odor-
| ferrous name-and the other two We're
located at No. s. San Miguel street, in
dried cocoanut warehouse.
The regiment furnished the guard for
the Escolta, the chief street of Manila,
from November 10 to December s, and
also guarded Major General MacAr
thurs headquarters from the beginning
of January to the middle of July.
The unsanitary conditions of the bar
racks at Cavite, are recorded in the list
of those who died of disease there.
Here it is: Artificer John C. Adams,
Company A. typhoid fever, September
Q; Private Cary A. Sayler, company A.
typhoid fever, September 5; Private
William C. O'Leary, Company 1, spinal
meningitis, September 5: Private Dan
lei McElliott, Company A, dysentery.
October %; Private Walter J. Mclean,
Company L, dysentery, October 70.
Only one death was recorded dur
ing the stay in the more healthful quar-
tiers at Manila, that of Private Harry
Archibald of Company M, who sue
cumbed to typhoid January G.
In Camp Near Manila.
During it's stay on the island of Luz
zon the regiment was part of the
second division of the famous Sth
| army corps, the division commander
being Major General Macarthur,
U. S. V. The regiment was brigaded
with the goth Kansas the 10th Penn
sylvania and the Sd U. S. artillery,
which was fighting as infantry, and
the brigade commander was General
Harrison Gray Otis at the beginning of
the campaign.
The day before Christmas, 1898, the
regiment went on the line of Manila's
defenses, taking a position on the Du-
lumbayau road. the Pennsylvania on
the right and the Sd artillery on the
left, at a point about two miles from
the barracks. One company a day at
ilrst was assigned to the regiment s
llne.s but January Z this force was dou-
ed,Whlle,as the situation grew strain
ed, on February l, four companies were
ordered to remain in reserve constantly
at the barracks
Duty in the trenches was not ardu-
Gus, but unpleasant The insurgent
sentries, only a short distance away.
delighted in haunting the Montana SEN
tries and telling them all Americans,
and particularly the Montanans. were
"mueho malo,' no good. Orders We're,
however, to put up with every indig-
nifty from the insurgents save actual
| violence.
In January sentry from Company
accidentally discharged a rifle, NOR
tally wounding Filipino woman. Ex-
| element began to run high, but Major
Cook quieted it and Colonel yKessIer
paid the bereaved widower what he es-
| timated the wife to be worth, there
was gorgeous funeral and all was Sc
rene.
On the night of February the in
surgents fired two shots at the Mon
tana line, then occupied by Companies
G and B. The two companies were de-
ployed as skirmishers, but Major Dren-
nan, field officer of the day, would per-
nit no firing.
On the night of February 4 the long