The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-02
BATTLE IN JUNGLE.
Clinton Boy Writes
About Filipino
Fighting.
THE MAUSERS SANG MERELY.
Leaden Pellets Whizzed by.
While American Troops
Awaited Orders.
THE MAUSERS SANG MERELY.

Clinton, Oct. 1-Thomas L. Cain has
Fernando, Philippine Islands, which
contadns a vivid description of one OF
the important battles of the Philip
pines. The letter says:
"On the morning of Tuesday, Aug. s,
we went on outpost, with the under
standing that the army would soon ad-
vance. The day went and night came;
at dark the enemy started to shoot, and
an odd shot was fired from their lines.
At o'clock Wednesday morning we got
word that we were going to make an
attack; every man was ready and no
one was better pleased than myself. We
had breakfast at O'Clock, and took
with us days rations which consisted
of one can of corned beef and hard
tack We went back to tire trenches and
waited eagerly for the battle to start.
At 10 minutes Of it began, the fight
which we had been expecting was now
at hand
'The Ttrirty-sixth and Twelfth started
tho bali rolling. THE. aru1ored car on the
railroad gave the signal to shoot; she
fired. and I'll never forget that morning.
The cannonading was something fine,
prayer or two WIS said by myself. and
now we were Warrington the command,
CHARGE
when the niggers were only about
800 yards away they let go. Down in our
trenches we got, and how the lead and
steel came over us! All the time was
only 10 or Is inmates, but it seemed an
hour for me. There were three dead and
seven wounded.
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1nand, and he is all right. He is our first
lieutenant, but is acting captain. When
he gave the command for Co. F, For
ward. march, out of the trenches we
went like shot out Of a gun, into mud
and water knee deep and the bullets
coming all GROUND us. The country. is
flooded with weter, but we did not stop
for that. The artillery roared and the
cannon made the earth shake. The in
fantry was firing and Uncle Sans boys
were on the move. Then we got the
order to 'Chargei'
THE niggers were charging, too, and
everything was on now like war in
earnest. How the mausers did sing; but
we put the fear of God in them before
night We made the charge over that
field under a heavy fire; it was some
thing worth seeing if one could only
hear. When I jumped over the trench,
WHICH WAS dDOuL IOuT l6Sl HlSnt my
first thought was of Pat Coyle to have
a big heart 1 said, I have a big heart,
so away went.
we chased the enemy from their
place and fought our way through jun
giles, mud and water, waist deep, until
o'clock, when we had the niggers on
the run, and we were after them. saw
one fellow get hit but Co. f did not
lose any and no one was hit. We We're
very lucky; our lines were 51a miles
long so we took everything that came
our way, through corn fields, rice pad
dies, water, mud, hell bent for election,
and stopped only when ordered to do
so.
Gen. Macarthur was In command of
the advance on the north. In the lines
were the Seventeenth infantry, Fifty
first Iowa volunteers, Twenty -second
infantry, Third artillery, Ninth infan-
try, IL armored cars and Bells outfit
on the left. So you see we had quite a
line, and every man going to the front.
'tWe drove the enemy back 10 miles
and camped in a town called Calutat,
which is one of Aggie's headquarters 1
saw a good many dead and wounded
niggers. They lay in field only few
feet from where our last fight took
place.
Here we crossed a stream and had
a rest as we were tired and wet. We
buried the dead and cared for the
wounded. This ends the days battle and
We are ready for a sleep. We had
mother earth for a bed and stars and
clouds for a covering l never thought
an American soldier could go through
so much. Thursday morning the report
on the American side was 30 wounded,
10 dead, in the Ninth infantry.