Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-05-10
OUR AMERICAN HEROES.
Stories of Individual Bravery In the Wilds
Of the Philippines.

want to give you some stories OF
army life in the Philippines, The eoun-
trt IS full of them. Every soldier has
M adventures and there are thousands
III unknown heroes whose deeds de-
torye credit. In other wars the acts
M bravery are connected with great
engagements, when, under the enthusi-
assn melted by battle, men march TO
the lannon's mouth, In the Philippines
M man knows when hts life IL safe.
Day and night, week In and week out.
the year through, the soldiers who are
In the field are subject to ambush,
There is not q hundred acres In the
whole of LuzOn which has not a hiding
nlace for O murderous Filipino The
nickets are sometimes lassoed and
illed before they can speak. A party
with a bullock train Is always liable TO
he shot at and boloed, and terrible
uncertainty fills the air. Amid all this
o,lr men laugh and joke. They have
their sports, play ball and toss one an
other in blankets, going brayely on
with their lives In their hands. The
tension is too great for some and they
PROV insane, az you Will see from the
many such cases on the sick list, but
the great majority have fought their
way along, doing their duty with the
full knowledge that II they be so muir
dered they win be merely marked as
missing, and go down TO history UNI
honored and unsung.
A MARROW ESCAPE ON MOUNT
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Have you ever heard Of Sergeant Pc
terson and Private Norval of the
Twelfth United States regulars?
venture not. found these two men
at Angeles In cathedral which had
been turned into hospital, They had
been brought In by troops few days
before. having been rescued from the
FuIpinos on Mount Arayat. They were
Scared with bolos, their wounds were
vet unhealed and In them still were
about half dozen Filipino bullets. !
sat beside them on their couches as
they told me the story Of their ambush.
They had started out TO take bullock
train from Maboocat, and had been |
ambushed. A large band Of Filipinos |
had shot at them and then attacked |
them with bolos. Norval received five |
bolo cuts. He told me he did not feel |
me knives as they sank into his flesh, !
and II was only from the blood which |
flowed down his back and chest that he
knew he had been so badly chopped
up,
Wounded as they were the Filipinos
dragged them across the country TO |
Mount Arayat, There they found other
prisoners and large body Of Filiplnos.
They were half starved and prosecuted
during their stay, They were guarded
by men who thrust the guns into their
faces and threatened TO shoot them, and
at last when our soldiers appeared,
they were put on their knees between
them and the FilipInos, Said Sergt.
Peterson to me:
HE PRETENDED DEATH.
THE place where we were was almost
inaccessible. but Lieut.. Schenck led his
coored troops right up the mountains
under the fire Of the Filipino guns. He
fought his way stem by step, and at
last the Filipnos saw that they were
bound to be taken, and they decided to
flee.
cat this time their general detailed
nine men 10 shoot the prisoners. We
were placed on our knees and the gem
eral himself ordered the firing. We
all dropped, | was hit but not serl-
ously ! pretended TO be dead. how
ever not daring to raise my head for
fear they might know that was still
alive. They fired again and again and
] received another ball In my leg, but |
kept my head down,
After O while / heard the sound OF
and in about 90 minutes |
raised up and looked about me. The
enemy was not in sight. so ! rolled
along to another man who had been !
shot. He had been cut with a bolo I
over the right eye and had a bullet
through his lungs. He begged me 10 s
XII him, but could not do that and I {
AID beside him for a while and talked 5
With him. \
Later on rolled down into d
ne bushes and then / heard I
'oices. | called out and ne
no soldier came TO me. was J
leVer so glad In my life TO see anyone. Y
me soldier gave me some whisky and
arried me to Schenck's troops, who "
'rought me here Two Of our party
led that day and another few days I
alter" &
HOW LIEUT., scHENcK WAS
KILLED.
Lieut.. Schenck, who lei the assault on n
lount Arayat, was afterWard killed in ] "