The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-08-04

Especial to The Herald from a Staff Cor
respondent)
San Francisco, Aug. 3.-Sergeant II.
Dusenberry of battery b. Salt Lake
boy, has real fighting blood in his veins
and his pluck on the 25th of last March
is all that saved 100 Oregonans from
Filipino treachery. For two hours the
young hero stood his ground with a re-
volving Hotchkiss cannon and beat the
enemy back under calling fire from
three sides. Dusenberry was then a
corporal of battery B and his heroic
deed that day made him a sergeant be-
fore another week.
we were helpless" said Private
Smith of the OregOnians, from Port
lana. 1t was between Malabon and
Caloocan. and 100 men of the Second
Oregon with Wheatons brigade, We're
advancing along the road between two
swamp ponds when suddenly a ter
rife Volley came from three sides. We
could not see the enemy who were low
in trenches and protected by high
grass. But Dusenberry saw the dan
ger from an elevation back of us and
had his men, two Utah boys and three
or four Oregon men. pull the Hotchkiss
up the hill a little distance within plain
sight of the rebels.
THE next minute he began to pour
the lead into them and you should have
seen the 'nigs' scatter. They couldn't
stand the Hotchkiss very long, but Du-
senberry and his squad kept it going
for two hours, exposed to a return fire
from the east and west
Sick Soldiers Improving.
First Sergeant Buchi of battery b,
who was sc i'll when the Hancock
reached San Francisco that he had TO
be taken ashore in a litter. was dis
charged from the hospital today. He is
still far from being q well IMAM, but he
was able to walk around the camp to-
day with the aid of a cane. He hopes
to DE in condition to relieve Active
First Sergeant Fehi within a day or
two.
Ben Harbour was another of Utahs
invalids who visited the camp of the
batteries today. He was a good deal
more clipper than man in his con-
dition could be expected to seem. So
far as outward appearances go, Mr..
Harbour is in first-class condition. As
he said himself: 4 look too well for
sympathy but 1 am too sick for con-
CALCULATIONS"
Harbour talked cheerfully though and
expressed the belief that he would soon
be ali right IL is probable that his
ful. though not dangerous operation,
before it can heal permanently.
The boys are laughing over the mis-
takes many of them are making over
the currency of their country. For in
stance. one Of them asked the price of
suit of underwear down town today
The reply was: Five dollars" and the
volunteer promptly inquired: rs that
in gold or Mex"
Mex Money and Gold.
Now. Mex is short for Mexican. the
name by which me Philippine coin was
designated and there is a difference of
100 per cent over there between it and
gold. Many an Illustration is drawn
from the disparity between Mex" and
gold.
Sergeant Meredith, speaking of the
anxiety of the boys to get home, said:
I'VE enlisted for two years all right
enough, but il was two years Mex and
our time is up"
The Filipinos slain by the battery
men and other volunteers were ordered
buried not less than four feet deep.
After a time il was noticed that parts
Of the bodies stuck out above the
ground. When the attention of a bury
ing squad was called to this the reply
MAS. oh, we buried them four feet
Mex"
The exposure of bodies gave rise to
one of the grim jokes that soldiers
sometimes spring. A batteryman,
walking across a field one day where
a lot of Filipinos were buried, le-
marked 10 a chur:
This ought to be an awfully good
country for wandering Willies." When
asked why, ne said:
Why. wherever you look You see q
handout"
Are Remembered at Home.
Major Grant yesterday received two
communications which proved TO him !
that the artillerymen have not been
forgotten by the folks at home. One |
WIS from the Calder's park manage |
ment Offering To prepare suitable pro-
gramme and give all the receipts. for |
some day to be agreed on to the volun- (
teers. The other was from the Lagoon |
people, making a similar proposition. |
Major Grant viii send kilograms to- |
morrow in reply as follows:
The men and officers of the tUah /
artillery app eciate very much your |
kind offer but as we are in the hands I
of the governor and committee we /
respectfully refer you to them. to
whom we have sent your telegram"
The arrival OF Bramer on the hos /
pitai ship Relief yesterday recalled to !
Lieutenant Anderson's mind a story |
of Bramers gameness. The artillery /
man was shot through the knee by a |
Remington bullet The cap was shat
.ered and displaced and the wound |
made was a very ugly one. Bramer /
was sent to the general receiving hos
pital at once. A day or two later one |
of the surgeons met Lieutenant Ander- |
son.
Wouldn't Take Chlorofor1n.
II don't wonder" he said, that the |
Utah boys have won such a reputa- |
ticn for gallantry if Bramer is a fair |
sample. The young fellow would not |
take chloroform When his wound was
dressed. He simply lay back and al |
though the operation must have been |
excruciatingly painful, he never uttered /
6 sigh or a groan- 1t was one of the |
most wonderful exhibitions OF nerve l |
have ever SEEM
Lieutenant Anderson informed the
Decor that such men as Bramer, were