The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-08-27

\ his battle he Is pretty well worn out. They all
agreed that Il had been just hot they wanted
| 10 see it, and that they had had a-plenty For
| the rest, they wanted water and chance to lie
down and rest They didn't even want grub
| LIEUT.. DoNovANs SERIOUS WOUND
Only those men had come back who had been
| detailed to bring the wounded, OF whom there
were about dozen, including Lieut. Donovan,
| who was at one time lieutenant colonel OF the
| Sixty ninth New York. lie had taken a de
| tachment OF about fifty men OF his company in
on the lett OF thel line when the insurgents had been
met at first in the morning They were concealed
| a little by some bamboos, but still in a mighty
| hot place. The rest Of the reconnaissance had
| come to their support. but did not have any cover
The position was about fifty yards from the beach,
back toward the road. 1t was too hot to be ten
able Tor 80 small a force, and Lawton took them
| back to the beach. Donovan had been hit in the
| lett leg, almost at the beginning OF the scrap
| IL was an ugly wound, made by one OF the big
Remington bullets, but Donovan stuck to his
work and refused TO be taken to the rear Finally
| when the whole command moved back to the
| beach. he tried to walk supported by one OF his
men, The bone had been fractured slightly by
| the bullet, but the wound had been fixed up with
ono OF the first. aid packages carried by all the
men. and Donovan thought he could use the leg.
He found out that he wrong however Tor
|
and completed the fracture OF the bone with the
result that now he will lose the leg When they
got him to the beach two men detailed to get
banca and take him in it up 10 Las PinaS
FRESH TROOPS GET INTO ACTION
After sending the surgeon back to help with the
wounded, Gen. Lawton lay down in the shade OF
some bamboos to rest bit while the troops for
which he had sent came up from the village They
came as fast as they could when they did finally
get started, some OF them being sent out the
| run. piece OF ineHperience which soon began to
knock them out and resulted promptly in their
| being held back to a more sensible and greater
distance covering walk Our men can run here
al midday and they will II they get the chance
but II must be at the enemy when he is in front
OF them so close that they can see him They
charge on the gallop, and the excitement tides
them over the tremendous exertion in the awful
heat, but when It is Just case Of hiking, even
though II is with the purpose Of ultimately going
into action, they cannot go faster than walk
When the men got up Lawton S rest was quickly
ended He sent a battalion OF the Ninth under
Capt Palmer, in on the right to relieve the two
companies OF the Twenty first, and battalion OF
the Fourteenth with two companies OF the Twelfth
under Gen. Ovenshne. went straight down tho
road the men OF the Twelfth going in on the left
In general way II was known that the Zapote
River was somewhere ahead and that the road
would lead to IT, But nobody knew exactly where
II was Lawton would have found out in the
morning II the insurgents had not objected so
forciby Our men, however are not afraid of
going ahead, through over anything to get at
the enemy, and they started out, joking and feel
ing good
| Our outpost was on the main road rom Las
Pnas 10 Bakor, little moro than a mile south
OF Las Pinas The road runs little to the west
OF south for about mile and half from the vii
lage, and then swings to the westward and
crosses tho Zapote The bridge was originally
Of stone and very solidly built, but In their fight
with the Spanards the insurgents destroyed
the eastern end Of 1t and il had been repaired
with planking.
| Our outpost was at tho southern limit of tho
village Beyond it the road led through rico
fields A line OF bamboos fringed the right OF
the road, the left clear Our line formed in
the fields on the left OF the road, with end
on tho road and the other in the open fields A
few hundred yards 10 the left there was a patch
OF thick woods with fringe OF bamboo al the
edge The line extended nearly to these woods
Kenly took his four mountain guns straight
down tho road
| For two hundred yards, or perhaps little more
the line advanced, and nobody said word 10 it,
Then. Just where the trail branches off that leads
10 San Nicolas the rebels opened up. At that
point our line represented the north side Of square
with the guns at the right corner In front Of
us the field was open, except at the right where
there wero half a dozen nipa shacks scattered
about among a few trees. Directly across the
fields in our front there a row of bamboos
not so heavy as those at either side. Not rebel
was In sight but their bullets were singing down
tho fields at a very lively rate After our line
was formed il was kept waiting for what seemed
an awful time 10 give the Ninth opportunity to
get into position the beach at the right In
the course Of this whit two three of our men
were FRUSTRATED by the heat and two of them were
hit, one through the chest.
KENLy KEEPS In THE FIGHTING
Some Jay told me that the artillery was q
good thing 10 tie TO in advance because 1t kept
well TO the rear and did its fighting AT long range,
but was still near enough TO all thai went on
and 10 take a hand whenever II was necessary.
So fell in with kcnly. He had a nice place
when joined in the shade of some cinaguela
bushes and behind a small rice dixie Kcnly
and Koehlet, of the battery, and Doctors John
| stone and Smith were lying there and pretty soon
they brought in a sergeant Of infantry who had
, been knocked out by the heat It was real
r nice place Over ct our left the insurgents were
taking a crack at our fellows about every other
8 | second. Once In while the boys would get
tired OF II, and give them volley two 10 think
r about There beggar in q bush or up a
tree or behind npa hut in some other nice
Q place where he could see but VIC couldn't see
@ | him, who was pottinS away al us with Rem
ington and having the time OF his life He fired
high all the time but 1t only a very little high
the bullets striking in the field behind plenty
close TO insure our keeping heads pretty well
: | down; all except kenly. He ambled about the
. | place every few minutes and ordered his men to
take shot al this bush that tree or the other
shack, wherever one OF them reported he had seen
= the Niger thief who was trying 10 do for us
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