The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-05-19
THOUSANDS OF NATIVES
WILL SOON STARVE
Utah Officers Graphic Description
of Scenes Near Manila.
Dead and Dying Men, MangIed
Bodies and Charred and Ruined
Towns - One American Soldier
Worth Whole City Full of Ma
tives-Hundreds of Filipinos Are
Killed, But Hundreds of Thous-
ands Are Left.

/ Inc arrival OF tne transport Port
land made a number of the friends OF
| Utah batterymen happy. Several let
ters were received on this mail by peo-
/ pie whose dear ones are impatiently
waiting for the order 10 return home.
Mrs. r. W. Young had news from
| Major Young as well as from her
nephew, Captain Nelson Margetts
! Major Young writes under date of
| April Is, as follows:
This is one of my busy days
have been completing my report for
March TO General Macarthur. Captain
Wedgewood has just arrived with two
guns, giving us now six of our regular
| guns here 1.-TWO of Critchlows, two OF
Fleming's and two of Wedgewood's)
There is some sort of a forward
movement on foot up to Calumpit, a
town five or six miles in advance. In
asmuch as there are two rivers to cross
or go along. we expect considerable
resistance, and so the general has or
dered up two more guns.
Our beds are not all roses. Eihp1noS
came IN behind us two nights ago and
ran away with four or five miles of
telegraph wire. killed five men and
wounded nineteen. General Wheaton
went after them with a couple of regi-
ments and a couple of our guns under
Fleming and burned a town or two
for them. The plucky little wretches
surrounded some of our detached out
posts and nearly cleaned them out
we have had two night attacks
here. One a few nights since and quite
a determined one last night.
This country is full of rivers. and
deep ones. too. full of tide water. and
we are thus hampered in our move
ments. About 4 this morning they
came up to within 400 or 800 yards OF
our Third artillery friends and fired.
day. / sent one of CritchlOwS gunS
down TO the nearest bank OF the river,
and he was able to give them some
parting shots at long range. Lieuten-
ant LAMA was wounded in the leg, and
five men We're shot, two in the head.
one of whom (pOor wretch. l saw him
breathing his LAST has since died We
whip them every time-they run and
never stop running as a rule. but there
is not so. very much satisfaction in
this. They always kill and wound Il
few of our men. every one of whom is
worth whole city full of them Gen
eral Lawton went out on the big lake
the other day and played polo with one
OF their big cities-Santa Cruz. He
killed over 300 of them. They can spare
several hundred thousand or several
million more. If they all sympathize
with them. They still have formidable
hands, but very little in the way of
arms and ammunition, and they must
eventually get out entirely.
A Cruel War.
1T is a cruel war We start out
every few days trying to save their
towns and houses-that is. such as the
do not burn, and we vven
invite the supposed amigos Griends)
to come back to their homes. Then our
troops are fired on from these same
nipa nuts by these same amigos. or
some poor fellows skull is split open
by an amigo and we get mad and
burn everything in sight.
As a result hundreds of thousands
of people will be- are, homeless, and
will soon be starving. The country is
desolate, and it will require years TO
restore il to its former condition. And
all this on account of the ambition of
'Aggie,' and his ambitious companions.
The Filipinos are not prepared to gov
ern themselves. An independent govern
ment with them would mean the rule
Of a few, a very few. of the chief con-
spiratorS-and eventually. perhaps, an
in the meantime their fabric
Of government did not fall from inter
nal disorder or foreign interference
Fools to resist the benign sway of our
great republic. whose only object would
be TO enlighten them. to educate and
them. and eventually 10
make them Independent.
Desolation Everywhere.
1.-The surroundings are nothing but
fire and flame, every home
.enantless. every town charred and
day the sight of dead and
lying men. shot and mangled horribly
might alarms and the midnight tramp
If armed men-an occasional death
hat comes home to one-some friend.
rhe Internal ping of the Mauser and
1urr of the RemingtOn-the uncertain
md of it all.
But we console ourselves with the
hought that patience will bring the
md. One week passes and another-sO
month slips away-and April will go.
Ind May will slip away. and June VIII
'ome. and we shall be sailing home
ward.
Writes About Fisher
Miss Margie Young has received a let
er from Corporal Nelson Margetts
with Captain WedsewoOd), under date
# April Is, in which he speaks of hav-
ng been out shooting chickens the day
,efore with Sergeant Fisher. He says:
We went out about two miles from
amp and when the natives saw us
oming they would fly before us. In
hort time the plain was covered with
latives flying toward the hills We got
light chickens. so you see We sometimes
ave a good meal
The young soldier is a nephew of Ma
or Young and has seen some service
With his uncle. He was with the major
rhen the waterworkS we're taken soon
fter the battle of Manila.
PROVO BOYS LETTER