Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-03-13

with the center and together these two
came down the road between the nipa
shacks. The Nashyille's fire had soon
driven the insurgents from the trench
es, but some had taken shelter In the
shacks along this road while others
had crossed the lagoon into the palms
and all fired into our men as they ad-
vanced. But they were driven out and
their only avenue Of escape was across
the swamps and into the palm groves,
Here we killed ten as they ran and
swan over the lagoon. Advancing,
our men soon came TO the stone ware.
house of Legaspi, the big go downs
where hemp Is stored and here the
fighting was hotter and the losses OF the
Fllipinos greater.
During the advance down the beach
the Venus had come into 500 yard range
and the men on board were SPRAYING
on her decks and pouring steady rifle
fire into the town. Sometimes they
could see the enemy. sometimes II was
only a scared dog in the sand that
drew their FIRE. AS soon as our men
were seen TO be in town the fire from
the Venus was stopped and prepare
tons were made to land the soldiers
who were still on board.
In an open space about Is yards wide
and $50 yards deep running from the
beach back to a stone wall and fianked
on either side by stone warehouses rum
ming east and west. the insurgents had
constructed a N-shaped intrenchment,
the apex towards the sea, and the two
sides diverging towards enclosing ware
houses.
The road down which our men was
advancing into the town runs past the
inland, or western end Of this space.
The go down" at the northern side,
the side from which our landing party
approached is owned by an English
man; the warehouse at the other side
is owned by company. The ware
house extends towards the sea. Be
yOnd the apex OF the trench and the
southern end. the trench terminates
five yards from the corner of the COM
pany's warehouse.
SCENE OF HARDEST FIGHTING.
II WAS in this Enclosure we had our
hardest lighting. Our men coming
down the road had view Of the inside
OF the trench as soon as they passed
the corner Of the Englishman's ware
house. They saw the trench was filled
with Filipin0s, and TO escape their fire
they dodged behind the Englishman's
stone wall. Then part Of these men
went around the north side Of the
Englishman's warehouse and got on the
beach facing the apex OF the trench
Now, OF the south side Of the English
mans warehouse is an. open corridor
open toward the trenches and at the
sea end Of this house, jutting towards
the apex Of the trench, is a stone lum-
Der shed. behind which our men on the
beach. facing the trench, were partly
sheltered. This trench is higher to-
ward the sea than toward the land.
But from the land side II gives five
feet OF shlter In the open corridor
Of the Englishman's warehouse and be-
hind the extending lumber shed there
were refuged some thirty Filipinos.
From where they were to the nearest
part OF the trench was about 00feet our
men entered the Englishmans ware
house, broke open wooden door, open
ing into the corridor. and promptly en-
gagged the Filipinos at the far end Of
the corridor.
Here we got hot fire In reply at very
close range. and one Of our men was
wounded. But this move drove the
Fllipinos out Of their shelter and they
had TO run the hundred feet in the
open and dive into the shelter OF the
trench. To do this. they were exposed
to a cross-fire from our men at both
ends Of the Englishman's warehouse,
and II was like shooting rabbits. From
the Venus we could see the white
figures dart out from the side of the
lumber shed. we heard the shots from
our men and then saw the FIllplnos
drop. Some lay still, others crawled
into the trench, while the remainder
apparently were not hit. The soldiers
he trench fired upon our men when
ever they could. and at the angle OF the
west wall Capt. Bradley was wounded
In the hand. The Filipinos In the trench
soon saw their position was untenable
and they would have 10 yacate. They
began running out that end Of their
trench nearest the companys ware
house and farthest from our soldiers
and so around the western end Of this
building 10 the protection OF t. This
gave them an exposed course Of some
20 yards In plain sight Of our men at
the west end OF the Englishman's ware
house, only Is yards away. First,
they ran singly, then In pairs, and
many were killed.
AN OFFICERS ESCAPE.
The last man 10 go out Of the ware
house, only 70 yards away. was an Of
fcer. He glanced at the dead at his
feet as twenty OF our men fired at him
In vain. This was about the last OF
the fighting. At 1915 our men from
the north and south ends OF the Eng
lishman's warehouse ran across the
trenches and on up 10 the town. and at
i.25 the first party from the Venus
landed. In the V-shaped trench were
2s dead and wounded men, and there
we're hye In the open corridor Of the