The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1899-12-01
SOLDIERS IN PERIL.
GAIL WATER TO KEEP THE SHIP
FROM SINKING.
Transport Manauenss Collapses ~ sea and
Pour Hundred Troops 81 the Thirty
Iirst Infantry Narrowly Escape
wstery Grave.

Manila, Nov 3O The transport Man.
auense, with Lieut. Col Webb Hayes
aud three companies Of the Thirty
6rst infantry on board, has arrived
here. She narrowly escaped disaster.
The officers and soldiers were for
twelve days bailing with buckets.
The steamer was unseaworthy. under.
manned. and short Of provisions. Her
engines broke down aud she rolled
three days In typhoon.
when tho Manauensc auchored Ia
Manila bay, thirty.three days from
San Francisco. there were several feet
Of water In her hold, aud four hun.
dred grimy, greasy hungry exhausted
officers, soldiers and sailors had
been passing buckets Of water since
November 18th. night aud day.
First Assistant Engineer DuBleavy
was under arrest, and according 10
Colonel Webb Hayes official report,
the ehief engineer would have been
under arrest also II there had been
any one TO replace him.
The colonel's report also declares
that the captain Of tho vessel told him
that the only thing which brought
them through was tho fact that the
men were greeuhorus and failed TO
realize their danger, while expert.
enced seAmen would have deserted the
ship aud taken to the boat, 10 mid.
ocean
The captain Of the transport on No.
vembcr II told Colonel Hayes that tho
weasel had sprung leak and an invcs.
tlgation resulted In finding several
feet Of water In her hold The steam
pumps were tried. but failed TO work
aud there were no hand pumps on
board.
However, forty.siT buckets were
found, others were improyIsed and tho
soldiers not employed In working the
ship were organized into dvs shift,
aud stripped aud forming lines they
began balling. tho officers working
with the men passing the buckets,
which were sent up 10 the deck by a
windlass
The longest time shift could stand
was two hours, aud often the period
was not longer than half m hour The
battling continued until the ship an.
chored here. The same day the leak
was discovered, the machinery col.
lApsed, aud the electric lighting plant
aud distilllng, evaporatinR aud refrig.
Grating plants failed To work. There
were no lamps aud the few candles
found were exhausted after few days
During the last week Of the passage
the Manauense was In utter darkness
at night She had been rolling In
heavy seas all tho way, ou, November
- she encountered typhoon and
pitched and tossed alarmingly.
The typhoon lasted two days and a
half aud In the midst Of II the engines
stopped. The officers then held a
council aud found that there were leC
persons on board, with llfeboat accom-,
modAtlons for 2i3.
la the meantime the men below, Tx.
norant OF their extreme peril. were
passing buckets and singing. "what
the He'll do We care9' while the ship
rolled helpless on the ocean with
matches closed
The officers aud soldiers were entire
ly exhausted when they reached Ma.
Mia. They declare that tho engineers
were grossly incompetent. The OIL
GERS say that the behavior OF the troops
was beyond praise. For days they
worked In the dark, suffocAting hold
with the water sometimes up to their
shoulders, and planks washing about
In manner dangerous to life The
officers took the lead In bAlling aud en-.
couraging the men
II IL asserted that during the last
week Of the voyage the men lived
almost entirely on whisky, beer and
bareback
The captain OF the ship promised tho
men rs cents day for bailiug, but he
now proposes to pay them dollar aud
half The soldiers talk OF attaching
the ship The regiment will proceed
To lamboanga ON the pekin to garri.
son several ports ON the island OF Min.
dano
FILlPlNos SURPRISED.
Driven From n Mouatain Top which they
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