The Crittenden record. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1904-1907, 1906-11-23

gadoes who were going out to bring the
dead and wounded. The soldiers bull
great fire on the hill of Dajo thai
night. 1t lit up the CHASTITY trenches
OF the dead 1t fiared among the great
trees of Dajo and reached towards the
heavens with a glow. The Moros or
hundreds of hills saw it, and they knew
at last, after centuries they were final.
ly to be conquered. When dawn broke
the soldiers were gathered around the
trenches taken the night before. A
half dozen Moro children played on the
blankets of the soldiers and one little
hungry fellow was shivering with cold
and hunger, there were two women
wounded and all around were the
bloody mouthed, frightful, rigid dead.
Within two feet Of the children were
the body of six American soldiers, GOV.
cred with tarpaulin. They we're fine
looking young boy s-most Of these sol.
diers were eighteen or twenty years
old, and many of them had never beer
in battle before, yet they had rushed
into hand-to-hand combat to meet as
certain death as soldier may know.
Long before the fog had drifted from
the summit Of Dajo that m ing,
March 9Th, Captain Lawton had begun
his advance on the Gotta on the north
side Of the crater, under orders Of
Colonel Duncan received about two
o'clock that morning. The first excite
ment was over nov, now it wa
business. This was the third and last
Gotta to be taken. The advance was 8
detachment Of company B Nineteenth
Infantry, commanded by Lieut.. Bissel
they took along Colts rapid fire CUR
and posted it up and started to shell
the Gotta at a very short distance
Now one man had brought rapid fir,
gun up the hill, and he was a voenteei
in the fighting Ensign cook. Of tn,
United States Steamer Pampanga
Ensign cook in taking the gun up wa.
shot in the foot, ard was relieved by
Cadet Hayward. The noise Of the rap
id fire gun was almost like that Of I
bunch Of fire crackers exploding. Their
the men already under fire advanced 81
close to the Moros that they charged
and many Of them fell back in tn,
trench. but they had reached lie edge
The trenches were full Of Moros. oc
casionally black hand would be seer
over the parapet and shooter woulC
snap at it.
A Moro boy apparently eleven oil
twelve years old. swift and supple. lin.
Der and lean As a deer, charged with
drawn bolo upon six Of our men. anc
fell within six feet Of them. A woman
made a charge and fell pierced with
bullets. The freing became interim.
tent
The morning sun began to bite anc
the sweat dripped from the mems face:
and fell on their khaki trousers. Still
fogers leaped like tiger. with knives
iourishing. Lieut.. Bissel and several
other men rushed to the charge Of the
Gotta and struck the parapet' and there
came a burst oil rihe hring. One mar
with BABY under his arm and pole
10 tne other hand' leaped over the cot
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