The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-07-27
KANSAS NEWS.
4 Wichita Soldier Writes From
the Philippines.
He Tells of the Suffering Of the
Campaign.
is A GLOOMY TALE.
Sleeping in the Mud With Hard
tack and Pork RatiOns.
Water They Drink is Unfit to
Wash Dishes In.
Enemy StillActiVe Making Night
Enemy StillActfve Making Night
Sorties a Speciality.

Wichita. July GA E Hendryx, son
of Chancellor Hendryx of the former
Garfield university, is in the Philippines.
Yesterday a letter was received from
him at CatbolOgan, Samar. P. L, which
tells of the sunerings during a cam
paign and the illness of a comrade- His
letter reads:
Catbologan- Just a little while ago the
company was divided up into TWO or
three detachments garr1soning as many
different towns. You perhaps do not
know, not only yourself as well as 9TH
ers in the United States, what a little
handful Of soldiers are doing here On
this island there is perhaps 1000 inhab-
itantS, nearly all of which are in
state of uprising.
At CatboIogan the Second battery is
stationed; they have had % men killed
pital, so you see their forces are terri
bly, cut down. Our company has been
the most fortunate one in the regiment
AS yet not man killed, one hOpeleSSly
insane, three badly wounded ones One
boy was shot clear through the body
and had fourteen boIo cuts on his body.
One other one had the mussle of the
left arm cut IN such a manner thaI ne
will never use three fingers again Still
another was struck on top OF the head
as nearly in the middle as it could be,
besides the many other cuts For over
two months not q well man In this bat
talon has had over two nights in bed
Are We working Have we time TO
write letters? Oh, yes, plenty AS I sit
sweat pours off my face in a stream
On the floor lies T. c. deliriOus and out
of his head with dengue fever. Four or
five minutes ago in his wanderings he
lead a charge on the niggerS' trenches
The water that we drink you would hes
itate about washing your dishes in On
the march our ratiOns are pork and
bareback If we stop long enough we
IA
We sleep in the mud The dawn Of the
next day finds US well on our way
The trails are perilOus, besieged by
ambushing niggers. set with footballs
ar man-traps- Fights. when they do
take place, are as a general thing hand
to-hand ones, lasting but a few minutes
at time. but in that time plenty OF
damage is done So thick in places is
the underbruSh over these trails that
the light of Heaven has never rested
upon it.
of climbing TO ascend one side of
mountain You march all day and then
half the forces do guard one-half the
night, the other until morning Many
times in the still hours of the night
Call to arms" has sounded, and men
half asleep, with nothing but their I'M
derclothes on, cartridge belt and gun,
have lined up to meet an attack of on
coming niggers-
Twenty-one men on sick list report
this morning One sergeant. two cor
pOralS and eleven men mounted guard,
two men on kitchen detail four on spe-
cial duty four absent sick, sent from
here a few days ago on hospital relief
boat, making in all forty-four men on
duty or sick in one day. So you see
our berth is not bed of roses nor would
any of US have it such. We don't want
any feather bed soldering. When we
are ready for a rest we want to feel
that we have earned it 1t is only four
teen months at the most and then we
can come home and work in some fac
tory for 81 a week
For the present goodbye With love
and best wishes Son and brother,
SERGT. A f HENDRIX.
Forty-third Inf U. s. v.