| Show 1 CRUtCONfLGT SAYS MAJ YOUNG f 1 Desolation and Distress In the Philippines + S THOUSANDS OF NATIVES WILL SOON STARVE J Utah Officers Graphic Description of Scenes Near Manila S f Dead and Dying Men Mangled Bodies and Charred and Ruined Towns One American Soldier Worth a Whole City Full of Natives Na-tives Hundreds of Filipinos Are Killed But Hundreds of Thousands Thous-ands Are Left r The arrival of the transport Portland Port-land made a number of the friends oC Utah batterymen happy Several letter let-ter were received on this mal by people peo-ple whose dear ones are impatiently waitIng for the order to return honit lr II W Young had news from Major Young as well as from her nephew Captain Nelson MargettA Major Young writes under date of April 13 as follows This is one of my busy days I have been completing my report for March to General MaeArthur Captain Wedgewood has just arrived with two guns giving us now six of our regular guns here two of Critchlows two oC Flemings and two of Wedgewcods There is some sort of a forward movement on foot up to Calumpit a town five or six miles in advance Inasmuch In-asmuch as there are two rivers to cross or go along we expect considerable resistance and so the general has ordered or-dered up two more guns Our beds are not all roses Filipinos came in behind us two nights ago and ran away with four or five miles of telegraph wire killed five men and wounded nineteen General Wheaton went after them with a couple of regiments regi-ments and a couple of our guns under Fleming and burned a town or two for them The plucky little wretches surrounded some of our detached outposts out-posts and nearly cleaned them out Ve have had two night attacks here One a few nights since and quite a determined one last night This country Is full of rivers and deep ones too full of tide water and we are thus hampered in our movements move-ments About A this moraine they came up to within toe ogavi jarcis or our Third artillery friends and fired The light was keRtup ufijil noon today 1i1he So fNo day I sent one of Crltcnlows cnn down to the nearest bank of the river and he was able to give them sou e parting spots at long range Lieutenant Lieuten-ant Lanza was wounded in the leg and five men were shot two in the head one of whom poor wretch I saw him breathing his last has since died Wt whip them every time they run and never stop running as a rule but thr is not so very much satisfaction In this They always l and wound a few of our men every one of whom Is worth a whole city full of them General Gen-eral Lawton went out on the big lake the other day and played polo with ore of their big cities Santa Cruz He killed over 300 of them They can spare several hundred thousand or several million more if they all sympathize with them They still have formidable hands but very little In the way of arms and ammunition and they muse eventually get out entirely A Cruel War It is a cruel war We start out every few days trying to save their owns and houses that is such as the insurgents do not burn and we ven nvite the supposed amigos friends to come back to their homes Then our troops are fired on from these same nipa huts by these same amigos or some poor fellows skull is split open by an amigo and we get mad and burn everything in sight As a result hundreds of thousands of people will be are homeless and will soon be starving The country is > desolate and it will require years to restore it to its former condition And all this on account of the ambition iC Aggie and his ambitious companions The Filipinos are not prepared to govern gov-ern themselves An independent government govern-ment with them would mean the rule of a few a very few of the chief conspirators con-spirators and eventually perhaps an empire If in the meantime their fabric of government did not fall from internal inter-nal disorder or foreign interference Tools to resist the benign sway of our great republic whose only object would be to enlighten them to educate and enfranchise them and eventually to make them independent Desolation Everywhere The surroundings are nothing but desolation fire and flame every home tenantless every town charred and ruined every day the sight of dead and dying men shot and mangled horribly night alarms and the midnight tramp of armed men an occasional death hat comes home to one some friend The infernal ping of the Mauser and burr of the Itemingtoti the uncertain end of it all But we console ourselves with the bought that patience will bring the end One week passes and another > i month slips axvay and April will go and May will slip away and June will come and we shall be sailing homeward home-ward Writes About Fisher Miss Marpie Young has received a letter let-ter from Corporal Nelson Margetta with Captain Wedgowood under date of April 13 In which he speaks of haying hay-ing been out shooting chickens the day before with Sergeant Fisher He says We went out about two miles from camp and when the natives saw us coming they would fly before us In a short time the plain was covered with natives flying toward the hills We got eight chickens so you see we sometimes have a good meal The young soldier Is a nephew of Major Ma-jor Young and has seen some service with his uncle Ho was with the major when the waterworks were taken soon after the battle of Manila |
