The true Democrat., 1899-04-08
E9tas From Manila.
being part Of a letter written
'Eome" by Dan-T. Bowman.)

Twill endeayor to relate11 The man,
things That have happened SEce I2las
wrote. wrote oC. some days since
and we expected trouble thon, hut no
quite snrh rs it has beon.' Saturday eve
ning,FE Feb 4 at 6:30;o'clock. L. y. and
went for y walk around Manila and dur
ing the walk remarkcl,to him ,"thrt ]
thonght tronale was near at hand, II.
replied that hG felt sure we would see
bnt little fighting hero. Well, we return,
ed to our quarters, and it $50 that eve,
ming onr captain yelled ont. 'Gct 'youl
brown clothes onanA also your field APP
pnrtenanceS on, the Nebraska out-post
has been drivenn." )" II seems that at s
o'clock carmetta, driven by a Filipino
came towards Paco bridge without the
lamp being lit, which was against our
orders. The Nebraska sentry g haltel
him hnt he refused to stop, whereupon
he was shot dead by our man.
Not five minutes elapsed before IL ger-
eral lire commenced from the insurgent
side and they We're cndeavoring to to,nle
across the bridge this was general
alarm for All attack, and as the wires run
from headquarters to every outpost, in
Il icw! !noalents the entire city was on the
qul vive, and every regiment WAS order
Ell to its respective outpost. was like
I'LL the rest soon in readiness, and in less
t han, twenty minutes We were all on
the march. The outpost was two miles
flom o'ar quarters, aud VIC were marched
about II miles and then halted. Dur
ing our halt, WE heard Il general fire
s'tch as You can remember from experi-
encc. The ma jor of oar. battalion callt d
ont to u lieutenant, ''Solect fDnr men and
go ahead aud see the raad.". / came in
for one, and we crept and crawlea for
1 Of Il mile beng shot at. bit reached the
graveyard in salty. We .attcmpted to
send Il telegram back but the natives had
cut the wire, and mounted messenger
WAS sent to The .giment to inform them
t." advance. The oevrra! companies came
forward amidst general fire from luo in
5urgcnts.
The Utah Brttcry was there, ami the
ow commenced, | can nevpr describe TO
you the exciting scehc. We Were all
amazed, Of course We bad no trenches
prepared SO We lay DO vn on the gronni.
1t seems chat everything had been pre-
pared by thosn people and we were to be
attacked that night. Tho firing was
severe ali night, while we wero ,lying
Hat on our stomachs and firing vollcys
md tho Utah BATTERY piIiny into them
rs hrl rs ever they coHl l.
Early Sunday morning, tie 5th. the
filing WAS severe. Yon must know that
these savag"s only fight at night. They
won't tight during the day. They al
ways fought the S?aniar,ls ut night Eu
we forced tI!om out, commencing ut this
point the graveyar,t--we were to force
enr way forward into the interior. At
dAyhrcaI, Ne l;rcl volley after vul!cy in
t" these "Eiggers,' and can tall you
they returned them.
All the sllacks these people live in are
Quilt entirely of bamboo, We began to
burn these slackS, aud in this way, forced
them out. During this time, hundreds of
homes were hurae'l, womrns'youne. and
old, would rush from them into oil rice
fields, some,praying and some cursing in
their own tongue. At first did not like
this, bnt soon got used to the mnsic.
We have been out now sleeping behind
the trenches for two weeks, ON thogrount.
and under the snail tents, whlch,we car
ry on oar backs with email poles ana pins
to make tho outfit complete. The food il
awful, bat what W" must expect ut such
u time. Our line runs for % miles from
coast to coast, which means from Paco to
We are waiting for moro troops
to arrive, rs we have not enough To 90
any farther, as each day of Y,lvancc
would lcngtlien our lines. Wo have lost
nearly 60 men killed and over 300 wo1nd-
ed. Each day there has been some trenb-
Ie witch sharp shooters.
Bat must return % tho beginn pg of
the t.ouhle. and picture everything az
best | can. The graveyard spoke of is.
the walled and vanlted cemetery we took
rt'ugo in to protect ourselves from fire
Sunday morning when the work with
matches began every bamboo shack WAS
set aiire, amidst v"lley of shots rs they
'etreatcd. We took nothing from the
sLacks. Everything was de .ro oi
For nearly two miles tr I'M tn. ii st grave
gard, after passing a strip of about II
niles, is one continued mass of cpmoter-
eS. | never saw so many sifs hnddlod
'ogether in MI my life. They dig but 18
inches in the earth when they pnt the
,offin i'll the ground. The earth is then
mixed with cement and covered in the
usual monnd form, then the pure cement
8 pnt on and made into queerly shaped
solid white mound. Imagine thousands
If them These were what We were
over to gain an advance, and to
each tho Church of the Incarnation
where the natives were heavily massed.
Wo charged mp tho steep bill-ths
South Dakotas, the Pennsylvania boys
:. I'll !