The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-04-20

peculiar shaped graves made by fh
Chinese IN the Chinese cemetery
: You, who have seen the pictured repre-
sepfatione OF the graves in Egypt, ca
have solne idea what these grayes wer
like. Round on the top aud at tb
head n, rude immitafioB Of d head
stone, the whole making u spleDdi'
wall against the bullets that Nigh
come from ~ ordinary rifle. Their
were 4 great many Ut these mound
probably 1000 or 5000 10 be found IA
this cemetery. aud the cemetery itsel
being on \ rising bill, ii was easy II
see that our position for the time beine
was a precautions Que. We had the dis
advantage Of being Oh the open rics
field below, aud they. the added nd
vantage Of being on the up ground be
bind these stones, and with guile i
little forest behind them, III was Onl,
necessary for NJ 10 show ourselves IL
the open when the daGdly firing be-.
gaD, Their position, had they known
bow 10 hold ~ WA one that would
hHye been impossible tor Us to have
taken, but again The splendid bravery
OF the First Montana mspifesfed itself
through the clear oider given by Ifs
colonel, who, sending only three con-
pnDles 70 the rem on the left, under
tbe cover ~ me dense brush, were able
~ Ret above Che men that were behind
these grave stones and POM u deadly
FIRE from tho brush TINT wDs behind
them Immediately they discovered
they had been 1ADkod, and insteHd of
throwing themselves ppoB the ground
aud seeking further safety from The
fro lhAt Was only IN the rear and not on
The front, the whole column In u dis
organized crowd, broke aud rRu.
BDt Oh what n sight WAS there Oh
that field when wo wont IN hot pursuit
nftef them The depd and dying were
70 be found sirewed al over tho field,
remember having counted, myself, IN
my hurry lefoss 10 the church that WIS
inst ~ front of rs, IWentyrDiUp depd
md wounded Pilipiuos Amid the
horrors TINT We've here beginning
W manifest themselves 10 ~, humanity
likewise showed rs Willingness to be
Of service 10 ~ enemy, for so soon lis
tho wounded Of tile American army
were properly ppred for, first mid hand-
ages and MI tho appliances that had
been used Tor the mnolipration " thn
tferinR American soldier were i'm,
modiately called In reqnisition and
plnoed ~ Tho disposal NJ Tho wounded
md suffering men who were lying de-.
serted by lhoir fIionds and comrades Oh
M opnn field, and " WIS u sight to
make any one pl0nd ~ his country to
SEQ the humane oDdenynr Oh the part ~
physician and hospital corps men to be
helpful 10 these who were their
enemies md Ind been Shooting with
thn intent ~ klllng thpip friends
IN \ line with them,
Tho SIM LnSNr0 cemetery WIS soon
N our possession, and almost imfnadi.
ltely tho mon forgetting the horrors nf
var, wore engaged in the pleasing tnsk
y lookins for quarters for the night,
rhN trpllHpnl tAIion facilities were poor
" this time, mud our progress had boon
'poh thnl " wNS hardly possible tor thu
'nmmissary supplies w Inapll rs nnli
eyNrNl hours Inter, 80 Tint the mon,
nakllR 1850 ~ conditions TINT wore
lhont tham, einlply turned In, and
wherever thnTn was house TINT Was
onNbln Nv WI " wAs nnndSONlod tn
hoir nepds, rNmpmhpr tho hest Tint
70 oonld obtain wNs the hospital whore
md boon takNn tho sick md the dyilg
rom Tho oily thnt halnnged IN Tho
quarters, Infected with
llmnat epary kind ~ dispnAn, and also
With loplosy This hnspiipl was quite
lprRe building, oNpnhln of holding
l0hNhly fnnr W five hundred patients,
wn werp nNNpr Tho snpposition
yhon wn entered that wn were thnro
lone hnF lmNgine ON surprise whom
hp ohief surgeon Of tho division
ntprpd aud told rs tint Fhprp wprn
Nmp lfiy sick and disanspd minutes in
Nc NJ tho other wards, " wNs preh-
bly, Y o'nlnok In thp evening whom wp
,Nrnoa NJ this, and wN Wnrp toe Iirnl
\ phnnRn 0nr. quarters, and n |
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lpFhNp thnnglI ~ the enemy thal {
liHht ia anywhere npAI NJ, aud lla
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