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IN THE PHILIPPINES.

a Fairfield BOY Describes a Fight With
Filipinos.
Cagayan, Mindano Island, Philip
pines, April IA wrote you while
we were camped on the [Euneta at
Manila and hope that it r.: ID you
We sailed from Manila &C. sebruary
14th on transports Salvadora and
Castebano and the 45lh regiment on
U. S. transport Tarar. The 1st bat
talon of our regiment was nnloaded
at Lagaspi and 2nd and 3rd battalions
with the 45th regiment were unloaded
at Neveya Caceres on extreme south
ern portion of Luzon Island. The. 1st
battalion had quite a fight Gagaspi:
,Gl1v-a.a '.-s.7a-z essi .loe-Sss.Viing OuV
great deal of heavy marching through
the mountains and captured from the
insurgents something over hundred
Spanish prisoners who were in an
aWfal physical condition. On March
23rd we were again loaded on the
sap transports leaving the 45th al
N :SSa Caceres to garrison the town
On VMarch 29th we landed at this
place, 5rd battalion consisting oi
companies / K G and N with colone.
and staff and band. The natives sur
rendered the town without any re-
sistance, with twelve Remington rifles
which they claimed were all. Nearly
all of the natives left the town on the
following day, and on the morning OF
April 9TH they attacked the town al
about 5 O'Clock, 1900 strong, with
spears and shields and about zoo
Remington, Springfield rifles, and
shotguns. was on guard at the time
and saw the attack from the start.
was corporal Of the guard at Major
Cases quarters, which consisted OF
three men and myself, with one on
post two hours at time. The guard
stood inside Of the front door in the
hallway and the sentry walked just
outside the door on the street, and
Major Case, with Lieut.. Flstcher and
Lieut.. Berchard, sleeping above
They made Major Cases their main
point of attack, as it was battalion
| headquarters. At 5 o'clock the sentry
called us and said that we had better
get up as he could hear a strange noise
some distance of. AS soon as
awoke and heard the noise l knew
what it was and started to load my
gun. AsIHent to the door and upon
reaching the street and looking doWn
at about 200 yards distance l could see
at least 100 coming in run and yell,
ing, finging their knives over theil
heads. We commenced to shoot by
volleys into them, which had no effect.
and they kept coming, and when with
in about 25 yards Of US we retreateo
back inside the door in the hallway
and they c8me in on us with thell
boloes and we used our guns as clubs
and shooting at the same time. The
first three that came in cut one Of tRt
guards all to pieces with their bolves
which only left three of US. They
were trying to make their way up th
stairs where the officers were sleeping
at the time, but we succeeded in keep
ing them down. They brought ladder
with them and put them 10 the win
dows and tried 10 60 up, but the OF
GERS shot them from above as fast a
they could start up. We guards hat
10 fight hand to hand with them unit
the companies could get out, whic!
took about fifteen minutes. eau
see how we guards got out with gu
lives, as The house was shot all L
pieces and the bolo men inside on u:
AS soon as The companies got out the
charged on them and drove them i
every direction, shooting them dow
every step. After everything ha
quieted down we found that we ha
a killed six and wounded one. The
took no prisoners, but killed every
thing III sight. When they went
hunt up the dead and wounded the
found two dead American soldieri
e who were boloed 10 death on the ou