Mexico weekly ledger., 1900-01-11
WHERE HAErEY MET DEATH.
Fell in Attacking the Strongest Posi-,
tioniin Our Eastern Possessions
Called the Gibraltar Of
the Philippines

In ending up letter dated Cebu,
P. / ost. 27, John W. Stanford,
writing TO bis paper, the Globe Demo-
crat, Gays:
"The Gibraltar OF the Philippines
has fallen aud in the place of the saw
age emblem waves the starry banner
of the free, over peaks never before
trodden by the white man,
1t was while helping TO accomplish
this that William Morrison Hanley, OF
this city, gave his life for his Gag. He
was member of Co. A, 9Th U q. Inf.
The Globe said:
The enemy as usual had
the exact range on this gap, but the
sharpshooters of the second section,
from their position ON the ridge, we're
"6ring at will,n and sending steady
bail Of bullets into the enemy's works,
preventing them from taking deliber-
ate aim at the men passing through
the gap. Nevertheless they succeed
ed in sending great many bullets
into the gap through which the first
section passed, one man at time, on
run. The 9Th Infantry then ascend.
ed the ridge, while the Tennesseeans
proceeded up the ravine. Having
gained the crest of the ridge, the 9Th
Infantry, Company A 10 advance, lay
down. The fortified ridge lowered
high above them, but little over 400
yards away, so that they were almost
under one OF the largest OF the Fill |
pino ports, while at intervals along |
the ridge were rife pits and trenches, |
occupied BY the sharpshooters While
the eth Infantry was lying on the
ridge, the cannon threw ahrapnel into
the grove of cocoanut trees over ON 1
Fortified Ridge, almost oppoeite to
where they were lying, scattering fly.
ing FiIipinos.
After a great deal of running past
gaps, always In the direction OF the
enemy, the Americana finally came to
the first rifle pit on the ridge. The
enemy fed. Company O took posses-
sion and Company A pressed up the
ridge After passing another gap
they found themselves in the most
perfect death trap imaginable. One
hundred yards to the left, away up on
Fortified Ridge, was a fort. Two
hundred yards ahead on the same
ridge that they were on was a rife
pit; 500 yards away on the mountain
Was another rife pit. and the enemy
opened fire on them from all three
places. There was no protection ex-
cept what the grass could afford,
which only served to mislead the
enemy as to location. The only chance ,
lor the soldiers lay in rapid firing,
and they sent volley after volley into ,
he rife pits, and finally succeeded in |
them, and after about two
aonrs fell back TO the captured rifle
'it. A fort was captured finally, the
'ther sections doing splendid sharp
Ihooting. After ten and half hours
II continuous weary fighting under
he hot sun the Americans had got
ialf way to the coveted peak, the q
Gibraltar Of the Philippines. .
The men slept soundly, although {
hey frequently awoke to find that !
hey had rolled so to 90 feet down the .
teep mountain side, and at dawn Of
he next day they were ready to be-
in again, as the peak must be taken.
Company A, 9th Infantry, which 7
Iad been In the thiekest of the fiRhtI
he day before, had been detailed to 4
AXE the dead and wounded back to
jebu. The dead was William M. Han
ey, 90. A, 9th Infantry, and the 7
rounded: John H. Norton and James :
)onwsy, privates, 90. A, 9th Inf. I
'rivate Arthur, 90. A, 9th Inf, and
Iergt. Oovey, %. x, 10th Inf.