Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-12-06
Tells Lieut. Gibbs About Happen
ings in Familiar Places.
HOW PEACE Is PROPOSED.
Then au Attack Made soon AOcr-
wards spsure OF . small Gun
boat In the niver


gson In the uuilcd states army In the
Philippine !, was dated Angeles. Z.
l.. Oct. -. 1892.
How wosid YOU like to be here and
have takon i.irt Ia aomo u the work We
have been doing IL latef No more
than | wish you had aud I hai.been
with you. even though It has not
amounted to 70 very much. Il, g. sun
day nlght and there are $50 sacks Of
track. have been talking over the
work out here and by the different or
Eanizationa. 1 will tell you what the
second division has been doing since
you let n.
when | went back to san Fernando
l found myself shaken up In a sack and
dumped out In the same place with the
Third artillery. My old quarters were
made headquarters. and We had very
delightful mcss-Capt Hobbs. Lieut..
England. LAURA and myself. Your old
chinese cook kept NC .sS,. longing for
the iicsh pots OF America. For about
the weeks we were In the midst ~
alarm. and for seven consecutive morn
ings We ate o'clock breakfasts, But
while there was almost daily skirmlsh.
ing We never went into action. Though
three timcs we made midnight runs out
to our Old corner on the Baoolor road.
Then came the s'.inch rain fall that
drowned Us all out. Insurgents and
Americans alike. Then the fiat country
back OF our quarters from the road In
front to the railroad was one biz lake.
Whole companies went out 10 outpost
without any trousers. san Fernando
was wet. wet ns a drowned rat The
river WAS up to the road In front u
Con. MacArthur'H quarters. From then
tln August 9TH everything was quiet.
The volunteer regiments were all gone.
and Bells regiment was IN as an extra
outit. All Of the ith aud sth 1t rained.
and at a. M. on the 9Th the ball start
/ ed.
You probably know how Bell took his
regiment without baggage tnot even
| tin cups TO ruttle) by dctour through
the flooded rice fields between two In
surgcnt outpusts In single HE and into
the town Of Bocoeor. We were In posi-.
| ton about 1000 yards 20 the right Of
the Bacolor road on the angle OF the
/ outpost line. As soon as BELL opened
! up on the aatonishcd ones at Bacolor
/ Capt Hobbs opened on the rebel works
and the armorcd car OF the works to
the right For about twenty minutes
/ there was the livelleHt Kind Of work for
our men. but We on the left Of the line
got but scattering IRE. The general
advance started the Iowa and seven
| tenth had few casualties and Mexico
was cleared out without much trouble.
| The plnn was for hell To Keep going and
| the right OF the Seventeenth To swing
| around and make a big crescent and
advance that way. Well, they made
the crescent all right. but u bowed The
| wrong way. Early In the advance the
artillery under llobbH got stuck In
auckland and had TO pull the guns and
| mules out under heavy firc, and be-
fore they got on firm ground the line
had got past, and dlslodgcd the rebels.
-Four guns Of the First artillery. under
| capt, Andrews. Kept ON up the railroad,
which was entirely torn M beyond the
lnsurgent line. From there q running
fight was kept up TO calullt about i've
miles. whore they made quite stand,
and knocked out a dozen or more " our
mon, also had tho ambulance corps
and I worked a big gang OF Mnrabehes
as hitter bearers from Calullt 10 the end
81 the track. where I had u car running
/ TO San Fernando. as IL was impossible
for ambulances 10 get over the road
then.
| IN n uNI or Two itfs hhtAiNuhf
moved his headquarters 60 Santa RITA
about four miles northwest of Bncnlor
where he took the Ninth infantry, two
bnttaiions OF the Twelfth, under Col
Smith, took Angeles and has held II
since. Everything pointed TO an early
move against Purac. eight milcs north
OF Santa Rita, Gen. Wheeler came out
and took command ~ the brigidc con-
slsting of the Ninth and Thirty-alxth
But everything settled back Into ths
old run TIL Sept. eSth, when Porac wal
taken after n short but sharp skirmish
We had some six casualties only, an
tho next day the entire division head
quarters were moved TO Angeles, AM
We nru here yet The insurgents ar
lust In front Of un. us they were nj saf
Fouly. the outposta are only about ~
yards apart nj two or three points, nnt
they have quite few guns, which they
IRE promlHcuOusly, day or night, ant
we are getting worry used 10 having she'll
nylng about over our heads.
A week ago tomorrow morning the,
made a very determined attack. begin
ming with an artillery iife for about hal
an hour. followed at $3.50 by an al
vance. ilrft at one point then another
an they were on three sides. aud ~
ESQ things were pretty lively. We ha,
two men killed md eight wounded an,
one OF my ambulance mules was hi
twice. Since then they have Hent II
| proposals. supposedly OF ptut't Ah4Akl
we know nothing OF the details.
San Fernando IL all changed: the hos
| pitnl moved and II IL headquarters 10
the Third and Fourth cavalry Con
Young has them and IA making a hyini
/, trip with them and the Twenty-fourtl
Infantry up around Aryat and Sfn lsi
dr0. which. n l ain not very much mis-
= takcn, will result In the First division
under Gen. Lawton taking the hghtlni
+ away from Gen. Macarthur. ~
! | makes the present insurgent position
! untrnnhie. md they viii have to ful
! back Hllll father To BayOngbong y
= Tarlnc, which viii leave the road opel
, for them 10 move against Tarlac alone
J or possibly let the two divisions co
? operate. Hut aH yet there Is abaolutal,
no sign 0f our moving.
Everything Is going along In tn
: same routine way you have seen y
, much o. 90 can tell you nothing Of u
Angeles IL In some respects n bette
town than San Fernando, though Il hn
/, not NO many lnrge, nne houses q
! course you can read with II great dea
+, of Interest what goes on out here an
= know of the peace committees tina
! come In and go out again. then have a
= attack all along from Iona to Calico
I, can Just q day Or two after. Gen. Law
/, ton and Schwnn win fresh laurelH ~
= themselves by rctNpturlng the cOuntr
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