The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 31, 1899, Page 1

MONDAY, JULY 31 SAN FRANCISCO, PRICE KIVE CENTS. BRAVE FIGHTERS OF UTAH AND NEBRASKA warworn Men ARE READY FOR THEIR WELL-EARNED REST. Will Land To- | Day. DA ¥ [Hon. H. E. Cary and Lieutenant Grow, who returnied to Salt Lake four months ¥ | azo to get well of a wound received In @ ok ok ok ko ok ek ok ok ok ko ek 5T T T T T P e e R MR T T I T kk ok ok kK ko kA Ak ok kA Ak | action. All told 1136 men came in on_the Han- cock—the two batteries of the Utah _.rtil- lery, under command of Major Grant. and the Nebraskans, under command of Colo- LT W T R SO000000000000000 [ ) Ta o S MOVEMENTS OF o o THE TRANSPORTS g‘ g ship Relief g = d wounded = d been aground 2 4 g e Saratoga Spit and was g 2 = ahama July 12. h 4 Senator with ©|F [ o o R o o5 o A < [ DA o S R o Ol e o R (=) < o o [+] bl [ o € (] o o B nces to be along troops has include Light Heay being hom mil 0 Nebr g A8 EE seems easy, de and gazed t drew s| 1 plainly trial of home- individual Hectiv - boa that the cnd so rest at W- hardest > whe d It did hoth help. The ng and as | 3 20 e 0 A 20 R gl Governor Poynter 1 Mulfc ined the situation to Colonel Mul- ford and together they di ed what was to be done. The experience of the Or m reg nt suggested the plan of keeping the men on the vessel where they ould at least be warm, so Colo- | nel Muiford requested leave from Gen- eral Shafter to keep his men aboard til this morning. His request was granted at once, and orders were issued liberty be given man or officer. \en on the Hancock have had perience and they have re- d anything but expansionists insion, but )t one who thinks the Phil- ippines will ever pay for the time and the mon they have cost so far, nor far the blood that has been spilied in v juagies and ticsferas I ing t m the men think, and it will cost much more before the end is even in sight. Having gone so far the soldiers see no way but to go on, but They are not all against ex n there is 1 if yuld be found an honorable the war—a way that will country to withdraw its leave the islands to them- not sacrificing any of its dignity as a nation, “then let m go” s tl of the voluntee judgment of the officers of the the » in the Philippines may in a month and it may keep twenty vea It will not be and hold aboard but it will take sub- the interior. It is not the difficulty tting the troops through the for a s ish line can go whe mar quec through, ir supply tra the vears to hard toy ands can p up th 2 T ER The s 13 are happy. D fl"r\fl'!z\fl'\';‘nfl-" bl T Bl B “WE'RE ALL GLAD TO GET HOME. lst is not a large one, [ | | LG G TN G Y4 z il z rank by conspicuous bravery Major Grant succeeded Major Young command of the battalion when the latter was made a Justice of the Supreme Court of the Isiand of Luzon. succeeded was shot down at Calumpit. are immensely and are as glad as-the men that the fight- {ing in the Philippines the officers declined to talk for quotation, although they were nearly unanimous in the opinion that the game is not worth the candle. “The whole “has alr 2 T e e T T P T R X rel Mulford. Both commanders won their in action. in “olonel Mulford Stotzenburg when he Both officers their men, Colonel popular with over. Concerning the administration of affairs » money that o is not worth ti id a prom- rchipe been expended 86l R0 ™ GC G T GG T G0 Y GC OR A PATTERY B.UTAM CAPTAIN f E A WEDGWOOD | BATTERY A ox 1 HE men are all glad to get home again,” said Lieutenant Colonel Frank E: of the Nebraska regi speaking of the men who came in on the troopship. he nd worn out, but they did the thev have earned a rest. They are in very good condition} they are comfortable, and now that we are at and a good many of the men on it do not belong to th PROTO'S BY XXXk ko Ak ok e T T e I e e W e P T Ik k ok ok Aok Kk AKX KKK XXX X @ | SOME OF THE MEN WHO HAVE WON FAME ON THE FIELD. EEEEERE RS EET XXX F | comfo ey es front had not had | Jtah' Artilery 2 owing re, but m to be any desire on the part of the men to re-enlist; there, was only one man from this re ir whistles | mained 1e islands for that purp nd T do not think there will be any more who will enlist £ hot wat 'hot think the regiment has much to complain of in the treatment it has received while in serv S ird and the duty arduous, but the men obeyed like true s <. They never lost a battle, and they never d > g | \ch of ground. They were in a charge once, and General Halc an orderly have them stop. : | B gorly came on the line and, running up to an officer, -he asked: ‘Where e Nebraskans? they | I Adjutant General the officer, pointing to the boys running over a big ield and driving the Filipinos before them; they X ‘ n Stark from | 1 hell can’t stop them! I do knowt before 1 made fa id the * Kk ke kk ok ok I FIGHTING RECORD OF NEBRASKA’S HEROES red on a Soon on by e enemy from Juan del Mc rof pr ine 1mb the Filipino » killed and four- 1 th fifteen wounded. hich advanced rgent a loss of %k and doubled g a large nu 1t of the attack char; ing the enemy rem, before losing Bell's command, who were engaged near sued Colonel Stotsenberg o Lieuten- killed and twenty-seven wounded. column in the ce from the C River at from their works. forde e f lat 3 miles of ground between ter place, with a loss of two Fough Tomas, wounded regiment at the front 15) were on the sick list, leaving fit for duty, and they were soon after ordered back to Ma- - remained until thelr departure for home, getting a and well-earned rest. capt led ok ok B T O T O R T e P xrr:rxt*n“**: @XRAR XX XXX R KK Kk T 0 70 F0 0 By By Moy e 6 SO0 B 00 0 B ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok okok ok kg : B T AR AKRAAK@ x| FORNNN XXX XXX ¥ GE 5B G G Wl Bl O O G GC G G RN X XN Y X YAk the | | T S N T R S S ey respects to | | | will-o0'-the-wisp. | way “That's a story they tell on the truth. General O The trip home has been on th shore. Exw>x without building roads, and the coun- try is not a good one for road building. And chasing the nimble Filipino in his native haunts is much like chasing the it .is generally too, that even should Agui- de to surrender there would in his place in a day, and thought naldo dec be another they would probably kill him. are the sentiments of the men who have just come home. As for the service, the men are tired | of it, though they say so in a dignified gether with a note of | 4 not alto e They will re-enlist, however, for they have d their fill. Three men of the Ne- Regiment stayed behind in the s, two because they had Govern- ment positions and wished to hold them, and the other to go back into the service. And there are nearly 1000 men in the regiment. The men will be mustered out here an Franecisco. An effort will be regret over their enlistment. not h in | made to get the Nebraska men to come together after they arrive home and then the State will give them a recep- | tion worthy of them, but it i3 feared | that if the organization once breaks up | there will be no chance of it coming | together again. What the men want is home. Tt shows on every line of their faces; it ines from their eves: it crops out in their walk and in their stooped shoui- ders and their listless bearing. They are tired of a life in the trenches, in the camps, on the transports and under a tropical sun; they want ‘home and they want their friends, and the nation can do them no greater service than to let them go as soon as possible. They are sick of the Philippines and sick of the war, and thev are content to let others talk of holding the islands, while still others chase the little brown men deep into their jungles. and wrest from them their malarial homes. “Glad,” echoed Captain Talbot of the Nebraskas. “fust go out there on the bridge and shout that question to the men on the deck. the boy gave us permis whole | | | | | plank and while 1 don’t know how true it is on to stop at Nagasaki and Yo u pleasant one—and I tell you we ven the announcement that they would | not go ashare u morning did not | stop onc rin # »r quench bub- bling enth SIm were home, and | if they had to wait one long day be: e they could go inside it made no differer they were willing to put in looking over | the fence and eating the fruit and grasp- ing the flowers the lad of the, ned| B O nite mitrenderitd Hisahen |coss and the hosts of friends whd lined These | the long dock sent up to them. Home means much to the heroes of Utah and of Nebraska. More than to many of the volunteers will return. There has not_bee ement throughout the half ve ing in_which there has not_been c east of the guns of the artillery jon. That brave little band has been broken up into all sorts of quaer and unusual detachments, and it been no uncommon thing for the low- est ranking sergeant in the command to be sent off fisty or_a hundred miles frem the main body in full charge of his gun | and its crew. The Utah boys went over with cight picces—they have come back having twenty-two and with not a man among them who cannot 2o out into the thick of the fighting and handle a squad. With the Nebraska boys. they have been v in longer on the firing line and longer in the trenches than has an regiment; and more of both commands have been carried from the trenches to the hospitals with the sicknesses that are bred in fetld swamps under a vertical sun. It was Nebraska that opened the fighting, and her boys staved with it until | the orders came to go home. Governor Poynter of Nebrasl party went aboard as soon as the gang was let down and called upon Colo- nel Mulford and the officers of his staif. They were followed by the big delegation that has come out from Salt Lake to greet the battery boys. There were the Wives of officers, mothers, friends and | politi~al representatives, and In a minute they were in the hands of the homesick | lads on the deck, being wildly cheered | and warmly embraced. Among the Utah party were Colonel W. G. Nebeker, Hon. L and his C. 8. Varian and_wife, Charles 'Read. Hon. Richard Mackintosh and Miss Blanche Mackintosh, W. 8. McCarnick . Mrs. Wiiliam Neison Mrs. James A. Miner, | F. A, Grant, | and Miss MeCornic and Miss Nelson, Mrs. Lindsey Hudson, Mrs wife of Major Frank A. Grant: Mrs. R. W. Young, wife of Major Young: Mr Wedgwood, wife of Captain Wedgwoo Miss Ednia Cohn, Henry J. Faust Jr.. Mr Etta Ellenbruck and “Miss Ellenbruc] »hama and to allow wre all glad to get her 2 o We s WAl e gt oAl S e A | inent officer of the Nebr ns. “and b officers and men on th side feel th way about it. Howev they say w have started in to fight for them, and they will stick with it until the Govern- ment changes its mind.” Down on th the ranks only same opinion could be found. Tt right at first when the fighting was hot and the sensa- tion a new one, but after they had had time to think it over: after they had seen their comrades go down before Tagal bul- lets, or carried sick to the hospitals, and tried to figure out the compensation for it, they changed their minds, and only a longing to get out of it and get home and forget all about it was left The unloading of the transport was be- gun almost as soon as she had docked, and continued throughout the day. Box | after box was hoisted from the uold and let down to the customs inspectors on the | dock. to be afterward hustled away by Li decks, where the men of the of battery men under The boys have come back kinds of h a | hoard of curios and all light clothing, b st the more rigorous climate of o they are not protected. Only a few of the artillerymen have overcoats and blue flannels. The Nebr: forms from cold. A men have only and are aiready They were informed by thel officers. however, that there was every thing they needed, including two months' pay, to be had as soon as they get out to the Presidio. heir khaki uni flering sevy - HOW SOME HEROES WON THEIR STARS POTTED him all right enough,” said Private W. W. G n of Company D of the Nebraskas, “but I didn't know when 1 did it it was going to start the fun going.” It was Private Grayson who fired the first shot of the present -unpleasantness, and of this oc- | currence which has made him famous he tells a modest, plain tale. “We were detailed at outpost No. 2 in | front of Santa Mesa.” sald he, “and when we went down there on the morning of | the 4th of February we went out to re- connofter and see what we had in front of | us in the way of Filipinos. We bumped right into a Tagal licutenant and a couple | of men, and they ordered us to keep off | XXX ¥ X G GC BE G GC W Tl e W G G0 G G0 GC N T G B BC ¥ ¥ ¥ XX XKX | the towns of Sexmoan and G - ‘Held on Board > (2 “Until Ty their lines. We ordered them away from | ours, and they told us that ‘to-night the | Americanos would move back or the Fili- That lieutenant Clad. pinos would know why." i 2075 was a particularly aggravating cuss and e all gos after that, and Lawton's junction he bothered us day, cursing us in Spanish and choice Tagallo. “That night Private Miller and I heard with Kobbe was rendered easy. Lieutenant Webb was also with the de- a signal to our left and an answer to our | tachment which discovered and wrested right, and then a red light flashed in the Tr‘;m‘ llh‘i \"le‘\:rs‘fibohb?‘d.\]‘im‘ fssass : v *khouse ¢ ¢ | natea Dr. Young, attalion surgeon, foweriof the Biltoluo m","."“‘“:;“"“" “¢| who was caught outside the lines and knew there was something doing. A |murdered by the Tagals. In the reports which came to this country the body of Surgeon Young was said to have been frightfully mutilated, but this impres- sion_it Lieutenant Webb's desire to correct. “The first indic: thing was wrong minute later the Filipino lieutenant raised | up in the brush ahead of us and inside | our line. T calied twice upon him to halt, but he wouldn’t do it and I pulled the trigger. A little later we caught two more of them inside and Miller got one tion we had that any- with him was when we and I the other: then the rifles began to l'--thh one -\vf h:' rr!m? luhflw road.” ‘rack all around us and the fight was on.” | Said he. “A mile or so farther on e crack all around us A R0 O e boat be- | found the body of his horse with a bix : = sidip biood stain on the saddle blanket. Two sides Grayson. Every other man on the | mijes farther on we found his body. He roster has got either a wound or a rec- | had been shot and wounded and then ord, and neither the one nor the other tched with a knife, which had been as ained e 3 ome conspicuous t in near his art.' il i o b Lieutenant Barron of Company D of the Hct of bpaveryd of battle that|x hiackas had the unique experience of afforded ample opportunity for Individ- | commanding an entire eompany through ual daring. Major Frank Grant, com- | one of the hottest fights of the cam- mander of the now famous little fleet of | paign. His experienc s unusual in that at that time he was piain corporal, but he made a hard and winning fight for I his modest rank, and he earned his -lads” which made “good niggers' of zon's rivers, tir so many Filipinos along Li arned the title of “D by his dash | (poylder straps because of it. Every and fearlessness in action; and action was | commissioned officer and “non-com” of a thing he had plenty of. It was he who | the company had either been shot down took his flagship, the Laguna de Bai, up | or prostrated by the terrific heat while the Pasig and with Lieutenant Frank | :":Tf‘“ -‘;gh;m\;:fi”rfl: o I;?irrtli;t l‘\;“f:rr;fl( al- Hirles as his second in command captured | UWPIt, 807 CoTpOTal Barvon. Wi veique. gua, with ! j mped into the command. He fought his that two’ full gun not many more men f company all through the engagement and Crews. There isn't a man in all the Utah | was afferward recommended for - gal- battery who does not nonor him with the | lantry in action and for promotion. = “After that battle at Calumpit” saiu title of “Dewey’” when he heaves in sight, M =1 = = ; ¥ when. | Major Killian. who likes to tell of young and Lieutcnant Hines is just as much ad- | Barron's heroism, oty o e e mired. | thirteen officers and 1 of all the Lieutenant W. C. Webb of Battery A of | regiment who were to report for duty.” the U s won more honors than he can | Q!T‘HOSE z Y | Major Killian himself won promotion en the other side by his excellent work in the field. When he left Camp Merritt a vear ago he was the captain commandi Company K. He has returned fourth i rank in his regiment. el WHO ARE SICK IN HOSPITAL Ambulances from the general hospital at the Presidio were in waiting when the transport docked, and they took the help- | less sick away at once. The list is as fol- Jows: ebraska—Company A. Frank Stevens; Company B, Albert S. Hisey, Second Lieu. tenant Albert Wadsworth, Baron Chev- rout:: Company C. John W. Pillsbury, ¥ | william Bowling: Company F. Charles K. | Porter; Company M, Alvin H. Browning, George Merquin. Utah Artillerv—Troop A. Hans son. First Lieutenant George W. Ralph Kidder: Troop B, Sergeant Jol | Buchi. Marshal Quick, A. Bender (m sician), Private Bjarensen; Troop E, Har- ¥ Soren- Gibbs, 1 Kerr Thirteenth “harles Beli Minnesota—Company .. Chauncey Jacobson. First Montana—Company D. Ray Z q ler; Company C. John McLaughlin. Private Richard Ralph. Battery A, | Artillery, died at Nagasaki of typho ver. His body was left there. 1 AWRITING THEIR - - Yy LOYAL SOLDIERS B! omaHA. July The welcome news that the First Nebraska had arrived at § | San Francisco was received in Omaha to- = it Tejoicing. Company L. the B ton Rifles, is from this cit A SROUP Y| and Colonel H. B. Mulford went away OF HERCES from Omaha in May, 1898, as major. ns HODSON. P | are about completed to give the company a great send-off upon their return to Y | Oman dem- t Neb., and July Coisy vful celebrations lowed the ne the arrival of the Fir braska to-day at San Francisco. In Lincoln and other Nebraska towns cannon istles were tooted and bells onstrations rtably take back to Salt Lake with | were fired, w] : him, and also his commission in the regu- | Were Tung. The soldiers are expected to 25 i 2 e San Francisco for home in about o na of another of the | {hree weeks, and an elaborate reception tinclads.” the Covagonda. When Gen- | {o the regiment is being arranged eral Lawton was attempting to lead his | CHICAGO. July 30, committee -of on down through the province of | prominent Pennsylvania politicians, of- Pampagna to connect with the forces of | Nclals. newspaper men and railroad men; M R e weaen 0L L fraveline in u ! special’:iconch.: pessbd o e e lead his | (o hgh Chicago to-night bound for the up, Lieutenant Webb was put in command | baeifie Coast to welcome home the Tenth of the Covagonda and sent up the Rio | Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. which Grande de Pampagna to 100k into the dis- | is expected to arrive in San isco position of the natives, and if it were not | from- Manila on Augus . The com- friendly to give them the ‘best he had, | mittee carries a fund of sed by From Calumpit up he found them peace- | cltizens of Western Pennsylvania _with e D e ot to o T peace | which to bring home the returning sol- Sl L ! diers and provide a welcome for them. In o the fire of 150 concealed rifles not | addition to the citzens' fund of $0.000 the twenty yards fro: bo It s here | Pennsylvania Railroad subscribe Sergeant Ford ¥ ed. pecial arrangement with the W “Ive turned loose the ‘Gats’ on them. | Partment there will be a pay car attached Lieutenant Webb, “and it took us fif- | 12, €a¢h of the milltary trains o Phax teen minutes to fire 5100 bullets and 100 | ¢ar will be the paymaster and Government percussion shells at them. We found over | officials, who will give the officers and fifty of them dead in the brush. men their pay and discharge papers. Over The natives of .ae district | $200,000 will be distributed in this manner. were all ami- © % %k Kk ek T I T T T Y P Y e rsxxs***tfi***’( WHERE AND WHEN THE UTAH BOYS WON FAMLE service HE fighting record of the “Utah boys” a g their vear of against the Spaniards and the Filipinos is one of which veterans of many campaigns might well be proud. Always at the front and ready for action. they bore a most prominent and efficient part in every flght in which Otis'’ and Hale's brigades, to which they were attached, were engaged. The two batteric ptain R. W: ond exped and B, commanded respectively by C: Young and Captain F. A. Grant, left San Francisco with the tion on June 15:0f last year and reached Cavite July 17. They were put i front of the Spanish lines below Malate, where they gave most gallant and efficient support to the Callfornia and Pennsylvania boys in the attack of the Spaniards on the night of July 31. For their conduct on this occasion thev received the official thanks of the commander in chief. In the three day continuous fighting which followed the Filipino attack on the night of February 4 last they did their full part. assisting in driving the enemy from Santa Mesa across the San Juan River in the capture of San Juan del Monte e reservoir, and in driving the enemy over the intervening hills and a the San Mateo River. and the capture of the water works located on that stream. ten miles from Manila. At this importani point a part of the battery remained on duty for five weeks, being under Are nearly all the time, and assi g in repelling the frequent attempts to capture the pumping station, so important to the troops and people in Manila. Battery B opened the fight at Caloocan on February 10, and did fine service with their guns throughout the battle. When MacArthur's division hegan northward movement..on March 24, the Utahs went with the brigades to which they belonged. taking full part in the fighting and capture of Mariquina, San Francisco del Monte, Bakrai and Palo, winding up on the third day in front of Mirelao. They participated in the capture of that place the next day, of Bacave on the 29th, in the battle of Guiguinto on the 30tn and in the capture of Malolos, the Filipino capital, two days later. In -he advance on Calumpit, which began on April 24, Company A accompanied Hale's column by way of Quinqua in the advance on the north side of the Quinqua River, and the other—B— went with Otis’ brigade direct from Malolos, both taking part in the almost continuous fighting along the road and in the capture of Calumpit. When MacArthur crossed the Rio Grande and continued the movement along the railroad to San Fernando, the Utah men, as before, were up in the advance, and did good service on the march from Apalit to St. Tomas and in the capture of the latter place, as well as at San Fernando just after. In the first days of the Fcbruary fighting Sergeant Harry Young. Corporal J. Young and Private Wilhelm Goodman were Kkilled, and two others were wounded. and so on until the end of their campaign their way across the Luzon hills and marshes was marked by the bioody results of flerce ngmln;: * B kKA Kk k ok ok T M M B e B T kA ARk kA k@ * * KKk Kk ok & T T I 0 T e e N T S N R R T Ak kA kK