The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-02-02

tailed me to proceed the scouts, cut
the telegraph wires and blow up
section of railroad. | was fully six
hundred yards ahead of the point"
The natives had seen us while we
were crossing the lake and by the
time the column started into the town
the natives were leaving by the
thousands. was running as fast as
enc could and carry ones equipments
and thoroughly wet clothing and
every street passed l could look up
and down 1t and see them going by
the hundreds. On the west eide Of
the city saw a priest. He was not
fooling about 1t, he was making time.
1 finally overlook him and made him
understand that l was looking after
q telegraph line. Here is where the
joke turned on Col. Hewzs and my
self, or rather, on the United States,
As the maps furnished by the govern
ment shows Victoria 10 be on a rail-
read, when in fact 1t is not by four
teen miles. asked the priest why
he ran and he said: "Americanos
vamo0sse insurrectos, insurrectos
mucha inferno" He then showed
that four companies of insurrectos
had been in town that night and that
the people seeing the Americans COM
ing were escaping, showing that they
were in danger of stopping someone's
bullets. The insure ctos, however
followed the establish. d precedent
aud called out as we approached. For
fourteen days we drove their four
companies $500 meD) ahead of us, one
time being but five hours behind
til EN-. We crowded them so that they
buried their cannon Ia braes, six
pounder) but we failed to overtake
them. A portion of General Nc
Arthurs' command who had pre-
oeeded up the railroad crossed these
Same four companies and fought them
at Byambung, killing thirty.
Such a march f! And under such
conditions! We left A baga with three
days hslfrations on November 18th
and every bit Of IL was soaked In the
muddy, Shiny water of the Rio Cheko
and, OF course, ruined. From the 18th
30 the 27th we had neither bread OF
no
max ings", not a bit of salt meat, not
. grain of coffee, and worst of all no
salt save tesspoonful now and Then
til at we would take from the natives
who were few and far between in
those terrible swamps and jungles'
We lived on rice without eugar OF
salt. We were fourteen days on this
ration and every day OF the time II
rAined, and ralned in earnest. We
wAded and swan. We made no stops
for rivers, lakes or swamps, and al
night we took individual chances on
finding knot of swamp grass suf
I Dlkh W hpat CIV
shoulders out of water while we tried
to sleep. / am not eXaggerating con
ditions, because the monthly report
of this regiment has gone in and in
that report | wrote it and both Col
Howe and Col Kennon who Is A ct
ing Brigadier General signed it
/ faal OF lihnrtu In Of a a N a a fapia nnG
night IN particular we marched unit
10 O'Clock an finding no dry place We
took the swamps for nights sleep
| We cut swamp grass which grows, in
many instances, twenty-five feet high
and builded piles go as to keep out o
the water, hut 1t continued to rain
and the entire command resumed the
march long before daylight and made
three swims before reaching ground
upon which we could cook raw car,
ribeaun and rice. Such conditions al
these confronted us continually unit
we reached Cuyopo, from which place
to Buyambury, 1t was somewhat bet
|
place had no rations. Here, however
we crossed McArthnr's command
from whom we secured few hard
tack and coffee but no sugar or salt
This ration, however, gave out thu
first day after and until we reached
Dagupan we had no rations. A
Dsgupan this beng on the end of tn,
railroad) we were soon issued rahOn
and here Is where the trouble com
menced. For many days while in tn,
swamps the boys would eat thei
raw meat then (regret iD vomit
Hundreds of them did this, one o
whom / was. We had been so lonj
without rice or salt that our system
could not retain either rice or meat.
f. ghty-eight of our commanC