The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-05-29
Tells Of the Death of Assistant Sur
geOn Young.
KILLED AFTER CAPTURE
POWDERS STAINED BULLET HOLE
IN HIS HEAD.
Account of the Stirring Events That
Took Place In Manila Between the
Nights of February 4th and 9th
Evidence That Insurgents Could
Not Stand Charge.

Washington. May 2S.-The war de-
partment has made public report from
General Irving Hale, who commanded
the Second brigade. Second division OF
the Eighth army corps at Manila, upor
the stirring events between the nights
of Feb. and there. This division was
quartered in the vicinity of the water
works, and portion OF it. the Nebraska
regiment. fired the first shots that be-
gan the active fighting with the insur-
gents. General Hale tells the story OF
| the operations of his command with
great precision and military minute
ness.
He says he received his irst.informa-
ton of the outbreak along the front of
the Nebraska regiment through the
lucky hearing by one of his operators
of part of a telegraph dispatch that
was passing over the wires from Colo
mel Stotzenberg to division headquar-
tiers. His account of the beginning of
the difficulty with the insurgents agrees
in every respect with the stories of Col
onel Stotzenberg and General MacAr-
thur, and he adds that his own troops
did not begin firing until the insurgent
firing had been going on for some time.
Could Not Stand a Charge.
The first opportunity the United
States troops had to test the real quail
ity of the insurgents appears to have
been at the attacks on the blockhouses
near Sampoloo cemetery. Here, says
General Hale. the First Colorado regi-
ment made charge in fine style, rush.
ing and hating alternately in case the
enemy's fire became too strong. When
half way to the blockhouses the insur-
gents broke from the breastworks,
bushes and houses in surprising num-
bers and ran for the hills, the Amer
leans picking them off as they ran
Thirty-five We're gathered up in the
immediate vicinity, twenty-four dead
and eleven wounded.
This movement broke the insurgent
center and showed that they could not
stand charge. Therefore the tactics
We're repeated and other charges made
by other regiments of the command
with like gallantry and success, the
Tennessee and South Dakota troops be-
ing commended, among others.
General Hale speaks. in one portion
of the report. of finding the body of
Assistant Surgeon Young of the Utah
battery with a powder-stained bullet
hole in his head. indicating that he had
been captured and killed after his cap
ture.
The successful campaign against
to protect the waterworks
is afforded of what at the time ap-
peared to have been a check expert
enced by the advancing American
forces. General Hale tells how his
troops had been eXcellently placed and
stopped the advance because of the ap-
proach of darkness. this deciding them
to remain where they were until morn
ing. General Hale then says:
Was a False Alarm.
Lieutenant A p. Hayne, California |
heavy artillery, who had voluntarily !
accompanied Major Goodale as aide. |
expressing a desire to return to the |
city, was allowed to do so, and on his |
arrival went TO the department COM !
nander with a grossly exaggerated re-
port of the situation on the strength of |
which the department commander di- !
-ected the withdrawal of the battalion |
Captain Krayenbuhl and Lieutenant |
Perry of the brigade staff, with a
platoon of Oregon troops as escort, and
carrying two canteens of water per
nan. with a larger supply on a cart.
we're therefore dispatched to the relief |
If the Twenty third battalion. An
orderly was sent to the waterworks to
lOtify Colonel StotZenberg of the with
travail of this covering force on his
eft, so that he could take other means
or protection.
1t was found that the report was
groundless, that the posi-
ion was a strong one. that there was
10 firing and no apparent danger, and I
hat Major Goodale was reluctant to
especially at night. They
therefore, left the platoon there and re-
urned, Lieutenant Perry reporting the
acts to the department commander,
Who authorized me TO leave the bat
alton where it was and proceed accord
ng to my best judgment in the morn
ne. This was about $50 a. M, Feb. a."