The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-01-15
GETTING A FILIPINO.
An Incident of the Advance in Which
Major Logan Was Killed,

An incident Oh lfle Advance III WINCH
Major Logan Was Killed.
The Thirty-third, the regiment 'Wha
shoots" had been ordered to marcf
from San Fabian to Magdalen. On The
way it was to look in at San Jacint1
and report on what it found there.
Two miles and a half from the town
insurgents We're found intrenched in
the woods. Major Logan's battalion
had rushed forward and for few min
utes the fight was stubborn and hot
Then the insurgents began to fall back,
Five of the Americans lay dead on the
road in front of the trenches which the
insurgents had hastily thrown across it.
Major Logan was dying in the little
nipa shack which was used as field
! hospital The wave of the battle was
receding, but sharpshooters were still
potting the hospital.
A white flag bearing the Red Cross
signal was stuck UP in the yard where
the dead and wounded Americans lay.
A jocular insurgent shot the bamboo
staff squarely in two.
No troops had been left as hospital
guard and Major Lieberman stalked
among his wounded men with revolver
in one hand and first aid' package
in the other.
AS the stragglers, who had fallen out
of the column from exhaustion or be-
cause they had stuck fast in the mud,
came UP along the road Major Lieber-
man seized them. He impressed them
into service in provisional defence
regiment which he was forming as
rapidly as possible.
Here, you men," he would shout, eve
need you here worse than they do at the
front. Go over there in that bunch of
bamboo and see if you can get that
sharpehooter who is trying kill wounded
men. Shoot his head off and I'll have
you promoted
Every man who could stand on his
feet at all was put on the firing line,
which the Major was rapidly throwing
around the hospital. A man shot
through the ankle volunteered for duty
He crawled out in, the ward, and, with
his rifle thrown across an old tree trunk,
kept vigilant watch on the row of
bamboo off to the right
Capt. Shields who had been sent down
the road with part of his company to
see that the hospital was not being at
tackled in force, received the favorable
consideration of sharpshooter conceal
ed somewhere close to him. One bullet
brushed his hat. The next kicked up
the dust just In front of him, and the
third screamed past his ear. Captain
Shields paused. He was annoyed.
IF that fool doesn't quit that monkey
business he's liable to do me bodily in
jury said the Captain slowly. Nov,
here, you" he said to some of his men,
see if you can find that fellow. Don't
kill him. Throw bricks at him. I want
to catch him alive and have him stuff
ed"
Il know where he Is
1t was the quick-eyed alert Sherman
Grant Hayes, the ful-blooded Cherokee
soldier, who spoke.
We'll, get him." replied the Captain.
The Cherokees gun was aimed at the
top of high palm tree. Crack went
his gun and an insurrecto plunged for
ward in the mass of leaves at the top |
IF the tree and then fell forward a sheer |
'orty feet
II wish | could have got the scoun-
lrel alive" said the Captain sadly. |
He was actually the worst shot with a
life | ever saw.''-Chicago Tribune