The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-04-29

high by nearly 20 wide, built OF sand heaped
up bet ween retaining walls Of bamboo. From
the northwest corner Of the southern goodwin.
known as No. 2 to the middle OF this breast
work. a wide trench, four and a half feet deep.
had been dug. A similar one led from No. Z
TO the breastwork, the two forming a huge Y.
Runways were cut from these trenches to the
road. The north end OF the parapet was about
eight feet from the corner OF the woodshed,
leaving an open space. No. ? goodwin stood
slightly further from the road than No. 3 ana
was not surrounded by Il wall. From the corner
Of the wall around No, 3 TO the corner OF NO
2. where the trench began. was seventy-ii'ne
yards. and on across the west end OF NO :
TO the far corner was sixteen yards more All
this Is necessary TO understand what happened
The fre from the Nashville drove the lhs"r-
gents down behind this breastwork' but before
they could run across the road ana gel way
the advance came OF the landing party III
beach and road the Americans TOOK them III
front and rear at The same time linen
followed u remarkable exhibition. either Oh
courage or despair When all the resi- had r''her
run out to safety or been KILLED the i"S' man
OF the hundred or more VINO hao oeeh causn'
In this trap surrendered and he was tho oh'y
Running down the beath our men were
stopped as they came py 'he emu ! souum"
NO. 3 by a sharp burst oil hre through 'he "''e
open space between the "oousheu anu II NV
OF the parapet' running down 'he roau our
meh were stopped az .h'S s'N'eu o"' ron
behind The wall around NO by a shaip ours'
OF nre from the men III me '-shapeo ueh'"'
The men on the beach dueSed mo cover De-
nln0 lie KOnUNn he lntn III Int Tbuu lbOh
cover behind the wall. In The ht'ie covered
space between me TWO IL Oh NO . 'he'" "e'e
ABOUT twenty-five insurgents "hucr q ,Ie..
tenant ihey suddehly 'ouho' INA 'hey ou'u
seI out our men IN 'he street ana on TX
oeach kept up a h'eiy nre across "e ! .fencn
and the Insurgents lay low ihey returned
'he hre ny simply pn'uhs up 'heI guns anu
pulling The Triggers exposing only thelr hahos'
Inc N'p'hVlie' not De'ne ao'e 10 $40 u y
In the street, opened on the big paralet win
4-ihch shraphe'' Jus, pe'ore she hleo 'ap,'
Bradley, who was with the men IN The ROAD.
called on them TO charge the uehch ana s'"f'eo
out across the open He was wounded IN the
hand nj the instant he left his cover, and Kept
on until he discovered that only one man was
following him Then he went back. The
one man stopped behind a big tree, and before
iV NOuiu y tIu 't'fs
The men in the trench sat still and were un-
harmed by this shell fire, because their huge
parapet protected them. Our fellows ON the
beach seeing that nothing could be done until
the Nashville quit began 10 yell. The men
on the Venus. which was So close in that we
could see what was occurring on shore, took up
the yell with interest. That led the men in
the road 10 cheer simply because the others
4, rk~ N,al,,la h,arl apa ,aoaad
firing. But the last shell struck the corner
OF No. . near The roof and exploded, starting
a fire which ultimately destroy ed the goodwin
and the 5000 bales OF hemp stored in it.
The insurgents in the porch Of No. 2 thrust
wall. with only their hands exposed. fired
toward the beach and the road. One of our
men on the beach jumped across the open space
he, ween No. 4 and The yoodshed and got where
he could see the insurgents in the porch, but
could not use his rife. He howled directions
back TO his comrades and stuck close to the stone
wall Lien, Courder one OF the Fortv-,hird
sirhtseers took n detachment from the beach
over the wall around No. 8. through the back
yard and into the cook house. From there he
worked through the pitch-dark godown into the
room in the western I. at the end Of the porch.
The heavy wooden doors were held shut by a
great iron bolt which they couldn't remove.
but they could pull the doors far enough open
TO make n crack about an inch wide. Through
this they saw the bunch OF insurgents at the
other end The crack was wide enough for the
muzzle Of a rife. Some Of the men held the
doors open. and took aim through the crack
and dropped an insurgent. Then they all
Jumped back TO the walls. The insurgents
replied Immediately with a volley through the
doors. No one was hurt and presently the trick
was repeated. Some OF the men were searching
meanwhile for a bar with which to hammer
down the doors. They kept blazing away until
they had dropped Ave insurgents at the other
end Of the porch. and Lieut.. Courder had got a
bullet across the lip and a sergeant, one through
the arm. The insurgents had had enough
of the porch then and began to get away.
To reach their trench they had to cross that
eight-foot open space beyond the woodshed
in plain sight Of our men on the beach and
n the road. One at a time they made the
Jump. In the Venus we heard a yell and
saw a section OF our soldiers stand up on the
Presently a Filipino leaped out from behind
the woodshed. IL looked as II he had run
down a springboard, as they do in the circus,
and was trying a long Jump. While he was
in the air the section fred. He fell all In a
heap, We couldn't see from the ship that
the men behind the wall at the end Of the CO.
down fired at the same time, but they did