The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-05-12

nights we were attacked by the in.
surgents aud one night fired about
$4,000 rounds OF ammunition at them.
One Of these nignts bullet came the
closest to me that 1 know of. Mitch
and ! were sleeping under cOronetta
when the insurgents were firing.
The bullets came pretty close and one
went through the cOronetta. hen
we Crawl9d behind pile Of ammuni-
ton Tor awhile. " hen firing ceased
! went back TO bed. A bout the time
| would get to sleep they would be-
gin again and would crawl out. At
last l was too sleepy and just sat up
under the coronetta when zip one
came between the wheel and my head
and kicked up the dust In front OF me
about fifteen feet off. / concluded
lying down was best so ! rolled
stone in front OF my head ana went
to sleep.
never have been excited enough
to want Or nave the least desire tor
bullet to strike me since the first
night.
Friday every thing was quiet. Just
after noon the Colonel Asked where
| Lieutenant Hun was. He was
IN town. Colonel turned to me and
said: "NelsOn DO you want to 90 to
tOwDW a bath and shave loOmed
up before me and SAID, "Ies !
would just az leave rs not" Well
take the Adjutant's horse and go to
the arsenal and bring 100000 rounds
Of ammunition out a. sUOn as YOU
can. Before | got started back /
heard the ships bUmbarding Calico
can. | left the ammunition at the
station house to he brought out on the
train and came on but the charge had
started and | never overlook them
until they were the other side Oi
| CalOocan.
Every house, you might say, had
been fired. Inc church, the priests
house. the postut1ice, the court house
and one residence was all that was
left standing of the city of Caloocan,
listed at $500 population. forgot
the machine shops OF the Dagupan
II. r., owned by an English syndi-
cate. The charge was Tor nearly two
miles through the town, which is long
aud narrow lying mostly along the
main road, aud ON through the open.
The FiliplnOs had good sntrenCh-
ments in different places and "a fine
stone wall to fight behind. Some of
/ lntlll Nldlil Ill the lltllCutS anu lDuR Ut
until death, some being killed with
bayonets. No prisoners were taken
and once or twice kneeling Filipinos,
with hands raised were shot under
orders. If they had been trained and
had held out the town could not have
been taken by our regiment, But
most of them became panic stricken
and fled. They ran train out Of the
| att HNvanaah xvhtsh a.
ed with food, goods, and women and
children. We lost one man, Private
Ricketts, of Co. "I' was killed. A bout
seven other men were wounded. The
next day over ninety insurgents were
buried. The insurgents did not have
long line of trenches. But here
, would be one ten or fifteen feet and
then about ten rods to the rear and
several rods to one side would be
another and so on.
AS you see ~" company has had
, a pretty hot time. The next morn
ing our lines had to draw back about
three fourths of a mile as they had
passed Malabou and were that tar
ahead of the other regiments. We
drew back until our line is just this
side of Malabon. But long, neck
of the town extends back past the
left end OF the line. Our lines have
been attacked quite often and seven
more of our men have been killed here
and good many wounded though
, we have fine trenches. But some OF
their sharp shooters are picking the
| men Off
| The Utah Artillery and Third Ar
, tillery have four guns on our lines
/ Three on hill which is fortified and
= called FIT. Macarthur. 1t Is located
to the left of the center Of our line
And one gun near the left of our line
Sometimes the canon IL fired at them
/ but they duck into holes and after
the shell bursts jump right up in the
smoke and wave their hats at US
They don't lack personal bravery
) but organization and simultaneous
p action.
One sharp shooter came i'm behind
our lines and was captured about two
hundred yards behind our Head
? quarters. He said he vas sent over
, there by his colonel to shoot officers
The transport Grant arrived here
| from New York some time ago and
one of the other two arrived yester
( day. The last had 20S0 soldiers on
board. The right of the line way over
by the river have ;been fighting fol-
the last week or two Ioosing quite q
good many men but | know but a
) very little about it, How soon we
| will move have no idea. News came
today that the Queen had signed the
treaty. The regulars who enlisted
for the Spanish war will be discharg-
J ed within sixty days. That will
, take a thousand or two from here.
: suppose no volunteers will be sent
home as long as they are needed
= here though the volunteers claim that
: morally speaking they enlisted only
for the Spanish war.
FRED NELSON.