The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-04-03
SOM E SIDE LIGHTS
On The Pac;ficasion Of the Philip.
plno Islands.
HUNTING THE FlLlPlNos.
How Our Soldiers Kill and Are
Killed. An American OIL.
csr's Marrow Escape
from Amigo Bullets.

from Amigo Bullets.
An officer Of one Of the New York
volunteer regiments in the Spanish
American war, who is now first lieu.
tenant in the yweaty-siZth United
States Volunteer Infantry in the Phil
ippines, tells, in letter to his former
colonel, now an officer on Gov. Odells
staG, Of the tactics pursued in hunting
the Filipino band on the Island Of
PsDay. His account, under the date
Of January 29, throws . remarkable
sidelight on the Manila cable dis.
patches, which announce that the is
land Of Panay has been paciied. The
writer was stationed, at the time the
letter was written, near the town Of
Zsrraga, and he states that active
operations were being pushed against
the natives.
''With the exception Of the first two
weeks after landing at lloilo," the leu
tenant writes, II have been almost
constantly in the field, 30 much that I
have not been able to say what shack
or casa was mine to call home. Field.
work began on November 10, 1899,
| when, in command Of my company, I
| was sent to drive in the eneny's out
posts, before the advance Of the Eigh-
teenth UIited States Infantry. This
We not only accomplished, but had the
brunt Of ell the fighting that day.
But with all my experience since then
I believe today I have as mortal fear
Of a bullet, at the beginning Of Q
scrap, as any man in or out Of the
service. After the frst few rounds,
however, one gets ones blood up and
does not mind it. I have had many
tight shave, and in some Of them [ am
not ready to believe it was no lluck,
but rather Providence.
son one occasion rscentlyJI had
| charge Of several small pueblos, and
was sleeping in convent at one Of
| them. Near my bed on . shelf was Q
picture Of my wife and the boys. At
| night about 300 Of my 'mucho amigos
(Fllipinos) got through the outposts
and past patrol to within 200 yards Of
the convent. Knowing, perhaps, the e1-
set location Of my room, about half
dozen of them climbed mango tree
and took . few shots at my room be-
fore the general shooting began. One
Mauser bullet went through the pic
ture Of my wife and the BOYS, four
more struck my bed, and one pune
tured . pocket. in my trousers, which
were under my pillow.
'Then began as good Scrap ss
ever I got into. I only had forty men,
and it was very dark, but We had them
On the run in less than three.quarters
Of an hour. When it was ever I found
that I had one man killed and two
wounded. Their loss, I was .iold,
amounted to thirty. None Of them
could be found when daylight came,
not even an empty she'll. Both Of my
lieutsnants, Fsrnal and Wagner, have
since lost their lives, one Of them
drowned and the other killed in am.
bush. I have also lost eleven enlisted
men, which is the highest company
loss in the regiment.
''Sincs the election Of Mckinley, We
have been pushing the insurgents hard
and fast. Orders are very open now,
SO that you are not afraid Of being re-
called from scrap before you could
get into one, a5 was many times the
case before election. I have been in
the field since election day, and until
recently I could run into as many as
three OF four scraps dsy, but now
dry weather is coming or, and together
| with McKinleg's election, and our hit
ting them hard all around, things are
more quiet. You have to hunt for .
scrap now. ! baVs been given dis
tricS to clean up, and have desach-
ment Of forty-fve men together with
some native scouts. Workhere is quite
hard from the nasure Of the ground,
and the fact that you begin your days
Werk in most cases at ! .. NJ, and cover
from eighteen to twenty.six miles
day; Jet when you fad ''strike" you
forget that you aEe tired until it is oil
over. That was pretty good hike
ne had together down in Virginia,
from Camp Alger to the Gap, but this
is Of different color. We are not
troubled with stragglers here. They
keep up without warning, for they
know their fate if they drop behind,
and fall Into the hands Of the bolo-
men.
"Men out here in the volunteer ser
vice who are anxious to get 8 commits
sion in the regular army, think it is
hard lines to be compelled 10 stay
right on here two more years without
going homs. A person staying here
two years without a chsnge cannot
stand it without serious results. I haye
got along pretty Well-native fever
twice and dysentery once-losing about
one month in the hospital.
THE other day I ran downa chief Of
notorious gang called the Polahans,
whom I had been after for more than
three months. I surrounded his barri.
cade with ten men at 2 q. NJ, and
waited for daylight. Whenit came, it
took US half az hour to force our way
inside, and then We could not find our
man. We were about to give up, when
We saw pile Of bamboo, and upon in
7estigation it was found to cover
bole in the ground which led to an IN.
dergreund hut, out of (which We smoked
the chief, also forty-three members Of
his gang. He fought hard, and two Of
his men were killed before he surfer
dered. New York Evening Post.
An Unstable Jury.