Salt Lake Tribune | 1900-01-19 | Page 3 | Letter from Capt. Burt

I I LETTER FROM CAPT BURT I HE ARRIVED IN MANILA HARBOR HAR-BOR DECEMBER 7TH I Says tho Trip Over Was Enjoyable and Stay at Honolulu Very Pleasant Plea-sant Praise From Papers Gov Wells Is In receipt or an interest of ing letter from Cant Andrew J Burt the Thirtyninth U S volunteer Infantry which was written Immediately after the transport Pennsylvania which carried tho troops to Luzon had dropped anchor In Manila harbor Tile Governor also re tolvod copies of tho Hawaiian Star ami I Bulletin coplt Klvlng accounts of the shooting I of Sergt Jones by I Private James E 3Ic I Calluni while tho latter was acting as Cnlum hlo that tile provost guard during the time proo1t gllud durlug lme I troops were ashore nt Honolulu Capt Burls letter which IM 1 dated DC I cember 7 1SUO In I In part as follows I Vo navo just steamed Into tho harbor and hao dropped anchor near an Enpllsn manofwar and a Japanese cruiser which are anchored near us The lights I of the city of Manila aro plainly visible to us tonight I was near dusk when we I i dropped our anchor and the Oregon I the Baltimore and several other warships war-ships were In plain slpht as wo entered tho harbor We passed the Undaunted < an English manofwar In the harbor Our lsh played God Save tho Queen and tho bloody Englishmen responded with America Tho linglishmon stood nt attention while our band played and as the English band played America our men stood hat In hand and all attention also Capt Hurt then says that It had been rumored that tho Thirtyninth was to be I sent to hello In the southern part of tho Island The trip rom Portland he says was an Interesting one and Uial tho stay at Honolulu from October 15th to 17th was cry enjoyable In conclusion the Captain says The transport I ran Into tho bench near the northeast corner of lie Island of Luzon In the early morning of yesterday I and I It had been a coral reef wo strticjt there might have been trouble but yc d struck the sandy beach and weu > soon out of danger l Remember me to nil my friends I he Hawaiian paper which accompanied accom-panied Capt Burts letter hme many pleasant things to say of tho boys and also give brief accounts of tho killing of Jones by MKallum together with the I complete exoneration of McCullum who exonemlon ICCalln was rccommomlcd for promotion This promoton has slneo been done by apt Burt who I I killing was otllccr of tho day at the time of the