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

They were unprotected but they
soon threw up embrasures of stone
aud sacks of dirt. A bout four O'Clock
| went back to town after more am
munition and did not get back until
about 10 A. Nj. Coming back | heard
heavy firing agaiu Our ammunition
train was fired on from side streets
aud our guards shot two Filipinos of
them. We met a Minnesota guard,
city police WIN had been attacked
there by Filipino with bOlo (big
knife or short sword) and had his arm
chopped in bad shape, but the tilipi-
no paid with his life. When we got
back TO the station house we stoppe,
for little while as the bullets were
raining down the road and the officer
who bad charge of the ammunition
guard was cautious. They had a
hospital dressing station there and
Private Pratt OF Co. NJ. was brought
IN killed, and an old Filipino woman
who had a bullet through her knee.
Again 1 went TO town and got back
about one p. NJ. There had been
very little more firing. A bout two p.
m. an advance through the brush and
swamps and down the road was or
dered. The artillery went down the
road, the hosT ital corps and three OK
cart loads Of ammunition following
them. think f.. X. +. D. and G.. Co.'S
were deployed on the left of the road
and II. |. G.. NJ. and l.. on the right.
The cannon advanced to little old
stone church about half mile. On
both sides of the road were houses
and shops most Of them bamboo but
some of wood and stone. 1t was real
~ town or an eXtention of the Ton
TO district of Manila and is called
GaZalangin. 1t has since been burn
ed a. the insurgents got back there
and attacked our trains. Well we
came quietly along and were nearly
to the church when firing began be-
hind US. The skirmishers on either
side of the road had been
wading through brush and
through fences and had not had as
easy sailing "a we had. Then per
haps the bullets didn't rain. There
were insurgents in some Of the houses
too who were firing rig ht at us. The
ammunition guards lay down behind
bamboo fence that would not stop
a rab bit and / had to laugh. The
Lieutenant, q LeavenwOrth man, who
| nad charge of the guards tickled me
too. He is little fat man and every
time bullet came within mile he
would nearly jerk his head Off and
then look around as IL to watch the
bullet. | lay down behind u big tree
and the three Chinese OK drivers lay
down on top of me. But the bullets
came from every direction and the
tree would keep them Off from but one
side, and it got too hot for US and we
went back q couple of hundred yards
but were still I'm front of the line for
awhile. We lay down in the base
ment of stone building and waited
until the line was past. AT fret when
we heard the firing back OF us could
not make out what 1t meant. | thought
that the line was ahead of US and
that the insurgents had gotten in the
rear of us and it was relief when
they began to come for ammunition
after they got even with us. Soon
after the firing ceased and Lieutenant
| Hull came up on horse and sent me
| back to hurry up some more ammu.
ultion. Before 1 got back they had
another skirmish and drove the in.
surgents from their embrasures
which were across the road at two
different places where there were
| bridges across two little streams
| Their entertainments and breast.
works we're fine but only extended
across the road and did not last long
against long line of skirmishsrs
Then our regiment had to fall back to
the little stone church, about thou
sand yards, as we were that far ahead
of the regiments on our right and
were in danger of the shots from the
| fleet Four men were wounded thai
afternoon. The next morning we adj
vanced across these bridges as far as
we had been the night before and dug
entertainments. We were within
about one lun ired yards of the first
house on the outskiats of CaloOcan
This was Monday morning, Feb. 6
A little firing on our lines that day
night and the next day from the edges
of the timber aud houses in the out
skirts of the town. Brigadier Gen
Otis commanding our brigade staid
with the Kansas regiment all this
time. On Tuesday evening, February
/ !, Col. Funston concluded to rid the
brush of some OF the sharpshoOters
He took | b and & companies anG
charged through the woods. 1t wa,
terribly hot charge for about hal
an hour, or perhaps three-quarters be-
fore they were back in their trenches
! Lieutenant A ford of Co, h was kill
ed. Sergeant sheldon of Co. / died
that night of his wound. Private:
McGrew, Fritz, ofCO | wounded, and
three others whom | do not know.
think McGrew has been sent to Fris
co. He enlisted at lola with the re
cruits. Fritz from Pittsburg wa:
wounded in the leg but is now back
on duty. The Filipinos fought like
fiends and sixteen died fighting in
one small rifle pit. The wounded in,
surgents who were able sat up after
our boys had passed and shot at them
such ones were of course dispatched
Between thirty and forty dead were
counted there. During this charge |
nearly broke my back. We had two
caromettas hitched up and loaded
with ammunition. jumped into
| ono and a man IN drive tho 9th az