New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-04-29
A BRUSH WITH FTLIPNOS.
LETTER FROM A NEW-YORKER NOW IN
THE FORTY-THIRD INFANTRY.

Lieutenant William Il. Wilson. of Company II.
43d Infantry. L. s V, writes under date of Febru
AIRY % from Laguan, Isle OF Samar Philippine Isl
ands, TO his parents in this city letter from
which the following extracts kindly supplied to
The Tribune:
twelve picked men. pushing through to santa Mar
satIla ana Paales TO Najporo, eight miles distant,
IN by native from the latter place that one OF
Company Els men was there He was then and is is
very me, but beyond, 'mucho lodo'' (much mud.
Inc trails are very narrow and difficult to follow;
extreme caution is necessary; at places we
ma + 10 cross streams five, ten or twenty feet In
thing which offered TRANSPORTATION for the body
the way it impossible to see either SIDE We
4 n at Najporo about noon and had dinner.
p: m 70 return to Calbayog. About twenty min
SIDE, and bound by high hil about forty Yapds
from the trail. This is covered with dense un-
T9rG dee any one in it The opening about sixty
indian 4e VINE" nee o. OF US were in plain sight
greeted US, followed by another of equal Strength.
comnand to Te T doWh in IN the frail waiting my
h had one man Nolan shot in the left forearm. 1t
commanded Rdpd a re 1me on 4nf knee and
Maybe the bark and banana leaves didn't fly on
we're and he baIet5 a nR ' mud W ha1
twenty minutes Sbe pteIyE re "sgy AT me end Of
/ glad? One OF their men passed in his checks''
tree trying hs skin on me put eight Shots mo
The tree with my Colts and the twelve rifles pep pep
Of their wounded ''
LUCKY AMERICANS
=. can never tel you how It feels be under fire.
IL IS lndescron6le, simply put my trust in God
especially at first; .wo were in full sight. short
such pain that / forgot ali danger and %ant az
hm. nathed and dressed his wound while under
hre He fired only seven rounds before he got II
others fired about fifty each,
! gathered my flock. counted noses pushed on
Palales and broke into the open I sighted a bunch
Of fifteen crossing 10 a hin in front which we had
70 pass and very near I stood on no ceremony
but cut loose. chamber and magazine. Two dropped
ana the rest ran away: We caught more AT
fired, and he dropped. 7 them toss up to see
this So am Tin oder ma on m safefy after
or iaGt any one who comes out here and goes on
estimation. tin soldier. He has nerve
nI the ,, next mornng Company II, under Captain
miles we went over the same eTognd 7 had T pnI
SCRAPS the day before as far as Najporo There We
learned that out Of party Of thirty a lieutenant
afternoon ~ Bolon we learned tbsY ye . !tJl
running Tho half mile of the road was through
ple OF hiking out here. We crossed the Gan5aro
River and entered ST Louis. where we receivei
cordial welcome and found q committee OF three
from St Pelayo, sent by The president of the viz
lage, begging MS to mp to the town. The next
morning Captain ley and with twenty-five men
went up the river 70 the town Here poverty. war
and famine have left their terrible marks; not much
From here We journeyod down the river Santa
MarEarita. and then linked" II back to Cahayog
10 their homes; and the lieutenant 20 his NY
brushes must have combed their locks their
satisfaction We have been OUT for three days.
REGULAR POo-BAH.
have been made post quartermaster commits
sary ordnance officer, police officer and also am
in charge of the post bakery Am ] busy? Saw
weeks Is set as his limit Of absence OF course NO
next day after he went. In comes ship with two