Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1900-05-31
Found in the Philippines
Co .tinued from Fifth Iare

almost epigrammatic. llullo! Yo1
hit? Stoop down here, man. DON
try to get perforated"
boy stopped quickly to hide the IRE
pressibe twitching about the muscle
of his lip. y Remington had rippet
from side to side, tearing a way through
the curly hair at the top of his heat
and almost scoring the scalp. To saw
his soul he could not quite suppress
the trembling of his knees; but, steady
ing himself by great effort he contin
| ued: "The colonel says to commenc,
firing by volley the moment our bugle,
sound the charge. Now ! must &c,
| back"
"All right, youngster. Tell the col
onel | savoy, and We'll do our level best
only, let us into it as quick as you
can"
But Gray heard only he first part OF
the sentence. lie was painting when
be reached his placid, graymustached
chief, and could only gasp out: "Ihe
captain understands, sir" And then
turned to the battalion leader, stand
ing silent at his left in a little clump OF
timber-anotherv veteran captain grown
gray as himself in long, long years of
service:
SHOWS our time, old man! Pitch in 1!
Gray, We'll go with him.
All along the line from right to left
there ran the cross-country road con.
Meeting the broader highway, from Ma
late to San Rafael and paranaque on
the west. and from Pace by way Of Sin.
gallon to Pasay. In front of the rlgn,
wing all was swamp, morass or rice
fields. In front of the left wing all was
close, dense bamboo and Jungle, save
where the broad, straight roadway led
on past Block House 10, or the narrow.
er cart track stretched southwark, over
arched in places by spreading branches,
and commanded at its narrowest path
by the swarm of duslty fighters in
Block House II. y year before the blu
shirts stormed these forest strongholds
from tire south, and took them from the
troops OF Spain. Now they were com
PEELED to turn and storm them from tn
north; for, just as Stanley Armstrong
said at San Francisco, the Filipinos had
turned upon their ally and would-b
friend. Aguinaldo had bearded Uncle
Sam.
And while the volunteers and regu
lars to the right could only remain in
fnJ1 40 Ia lot xf ~ III ~
wing of this brave brigade to assault il
almost impenetrablc position an enemy
armed with magazine rifles or breech
leaders, and entirely at home The
bueles rang the signal; the officers III
silence took their station, and, stepping
into the narrow pathways through the
jungle, crouching along the roadways
or crashing through the stiff bamboo
the blue shirts drove ahead. Two, three
minutes and their purpose seemed un.
discovered. Then suddenly Block Ilous.
IA blazed with fire and a storm of bul
let's swept the road. The earthworks in
the thickct to the ri CHIT and left seemed
tobecrowded with a running flame; and
down on their faces fell the foremos
soldiers, their gallant leader shot
through and through, plunging head.
lontv go. A. 'A7 "5on., dflIlS ms
surviving men TO get to cover. Nengs
fully now the "Kra2s' opened in reply
to Remington and Mauscr. The blue
shirts struggled inch by inch through
the network of bamboo. Still the
storm swept up the roadway, and no
man could hope to face it and live. Blu,
little by little, the low-aimed, steady
volleys, driven in by squad and section
through the canebreak, or by compan,
and platoon across the westward
swamps, told on the nerve and dsci.
pline of the little brown men in the
bamboo. Their shots flew swift, but
wild and higher. Then a daring lad, in
the rough field uniform of subaltern
of infantry, sprang like cat into tn
tire-tlashing lane, and, revolver in hand
and squad of devoted fellows at his
heels, dashed straight at the wooder
walls ahead. In frantic haste the &C
cupants ba2ed shot after shot upon
him and his heroic followers. One after
another three went down. but in an
other instant, the lieutenant leading
they reached the block house and dart.
ed through the open doorway, the last
of its garrison fleeing before such un.
heard-of- daring and determination.
And then came the rush of comrades
cheering down the lane, tumblng ovel
the earthWorlls and the luck less gang
that, still crouching there, held to theil
position, and all the southwark leading
road was ours.
But, over along the next lane, a
parallel track through the timber
there had been as stern check; and
the fury Of the fire from the trenches
in the thickets forced brave men to
cover and dropped others in their
trucks. by God, we must have it," al
most screamed Il tall captain, pointing
with his sword to the flashing block
house half hidden in the trees. "Hear
those fellows on the other road? Don't
let them beat us. Come on, lads" and
out he darted into the open, an instant
target for a score of Mausers. Out, too,
leaped half dozen men, one tall,
1.-the, superbly built young athlete,
with n face atlame with resolution and
rage of battle. Out leaped Billy Gray
from the corner of the crossroad, and,
cheering madly, called on Others to
follow Down went the captain, shot
through the knee. Down went the near
most man, the tall youth who was first
to follow. Down went a brawny ser.
geant, who had stopped to raise his
fallen captain; but on swept score ~
others while the bamboos blazed with |
the fierce volleying of the Krags. For.