| Show UTAH BOYS KNOW I I I HOW TO FIGHT Geo Backman Tells How He Went J I Through Four Engagements CAME OUT OF ALh UXIIUUr 1111alterlTvoied a rely leoluft 11 I h 1 elevator for Pim I a if 10 V 1111 circle tlatkman a member ef bat I fry A who li I now rn rout hum along with Is rutiif th Utah boys In u letter let-ter addril to hi brother lleeorder O II IKtkman date Pan IVrnando V L May II IIM write M follow lIta It attoorIt la now a little over a month HUM 1 k wrote my Ut letter to you and t thought would Interest you to hoar from m gain I have I liken part In four inommenti mine 1 I liil wrota you and am thankful lo oar that rny 1 hid is I lllll unpuncluwd DurIng Dur-Ing Dm nrgmfll Hire Ulan boys hav been killed and four wounded On the Itlh of April Captain Wedgwood Wedg-wood 1 with Mellon I and 2 of battery I A proceeded by rail from Calooean vhtr I wrote my list letter lo you to Maloloi the frmer ca Ital of the In urgnt which wax captured by our reaps I on March Both The artillery atM at-M a latest on our arrival was two M Inch rings and one JlolchklM revolving pan non under command of First Ikulen art Chrltchlow of liattiry II find the two a Inch rifles under the command of licensed Lieutenant KUmlna ut the Hlsih U H arlllltry th whol under command of Major It W Tounir chief of artillery We brought with u rv two M Inch titles A few day attar our arrival one of battery 1 II a big nun was > onl out orator command of First Hr In ant Anderson and the reel remained at MalakM think Hwmant Andersen want lo Join tan lwl m a command About 10 o clock a rn at Mail Dni We were iirdvred out to a Point nr five town of gulnqua alxiul eU 1 miles In an easterly direction from MIItins hour h-our trooiw are Ioumm TIll maiI Ion were IIrouly owitmarleI In rronl of II he town When we arrive near the well of action the bulllt began whlit I ling uncomfonably nr our hd and w 0 were onlend to halt and dlamiunl red one of the driver of battery Its eun cam back with the blond detonating I from Iua jb anl 1t to the J front lanot anl had It dred a bullet had lirnacd tile shoulder and Pafford thruuih hla 1 hand Viler a abort delay the mula Mere unhitched I from th P I ilec and mi adtnnead a hurt dltan r pulling our run by hotel In u point where w a could take fair aim at the I I cntniy And went Into action Th card I jest took part here were its two lent t < ry A nun onto llatlry II sun and out Plane nrllUry xunne Plater or tlllry gun and ilia llouhku rffiln sit famloloor un WOUNDIoa OK iirwnv DAVIS I Attar firing about fifteen reunite train oAch of the pIgmmmv tire Iournl Allen domed their trrnclm and rtralcd clearly puraud your Infantry anti cavalry II J 1111 waa aillnl No i of HCtlon I Oftol I of whlih I wa tile gunner knit wa Handing CIO to > nor tastily to insert the trlinr as ooon as I wa > through traffic after In rllnn Hi fourth load ohn allatunma illiht iilamallun tit pain rwapnl him ami he abandi nd big Past starting fur lit rr I looked around and MW the Mould I uotlnc fervors a small hole In him gains l lie was taken to the nmbu Unc und seat to five hsivital 1 at Manila It was u forty hot engagements Ihuuilll of hort duration I nmlrml more but late strike lilY gun un that attaltin than tin any trvvlou arid Pont of the ov bull t a truck no on II 1 > Rln In particular truck nm un the thigh Mill a UI painful deliver I thought for a oonl I vivis hol hut looking Iwn I MW here use no hoi In my truunvn nnl kmw that I was all o K I Tin liat waa Very 01 preeelv on field ore a Plan and a number or our lilt n were saintly overcome br II We advanced Into Ih town mail I stopped nor n later church about In the confer of the I town Captain Wodol Advanced n mil farther with amtln 9 gun Ila they fired or hot after lite flyinie noom vi lien t bushing i of rI the r blew t K rough tho vent anti enter CIt Wd wool body In tire plation I via hand stomach nil thlRh cuulntf painful I lm 1 Woundp thai made 1 It necessary for him to 10 la tho ho > i Hal at Manila TIIHKW A 1Itt S1I1UA In tho ernlnir the two Ilatlrry A guns and Ih flattery II gun viere taken luck to Maloloa awl tive Met nun of the Hlilh artillery area tire Hot h kind tint were loft lirhln I Kt Malol were taken lo Uulnquii thus lrulnit I ho Iwo Sixth artillery guns mail tin llotchkl1 nt gulnqua In charge of lleul llmlni Un our way back lo Malolo with ho Ihre Utah cuna no fit loppd and threw a few shells Into n fewer on floor north of the road but re celted no reply I Irul U C Naylor arrived In Jlullo during the dny unit loss hn nllh us ever lnw At 330 t tic following mornlnit we were Amused I from our lumber title orders it 1 break ramp unit about 410 we left ann a-nn 1 traveled a short dltanc In an ro vastirly I dirveltan anti stopped ill await l orders until nvn a no the Poison i Ing lay A hall we moved In 11 northerly illretllon arrhlnx near the nillma I cro tan of tire 1I01Ifbu river solvent U u m anti I stopped under heller from WIn 11s bullet about twenty ruin HIM when irsor voort ordered out 10 go Into motion The gun under ll gll t voininarld of Lleut Critc I Tow pulled out nrol trillion 1lIIon about LOW yard In front of the ervenlyvo Intronthorentim and was Ih first lo open lln Hnllim 1 gun of Ihttery A mil pulled i out anti I ndtnnrcd along n nald II I leading to tile right of tire direction taken by the II gun after advancing n short distance uionn tire road a regular Biiowiiit or nwtirru with ever nnd nnon n alien began whl never I over our had ilrlur ml can noneera wero ordered lo dlnmnunt anl I 00011 we era all flat on fear Ifround II wrom a strong experience tire fir wag coming train our left rur and vviev or 01 least I Name uf us began 10 think a ImJ c1 Into a trap anl Ih Insurgents jlaj a I A artillery Anil I Clatlllng Kuna but tile truth soon dawned on me find shortly aflernarli I heard our Major order n mnn tv Jump n film homo I Major ln I or to the nnmured train I anl jell them that Ihr arm hlIhO Into Ul Hhotlly aft rwnrOn tire firing Pttl Anil we adand it short ill I Ian I u and olwrvt M l fir IIhr the illro I lion I ofMalnr Young unit Iku Naylor to 11110 am V so 11o I It till 411un nl loll a 0110111 linedlat Ill un IIII 1 lieft or mr Ifun Vi lit 11A I he triveorheir lOt t the < T it V un tit oipoll bank of Iho river arid 110 wood beyond fir ab ut tw hu Jiut riemlne who had e 1110 up from I I QulnlUa loll Ih timov Hh are Illery I KU 0 ill I Iht M hi I Mil II 11 tlnli a Ireland I h dlin th rn 111iore I tl in llum I our right l I The force that mm up rom Qiiii iua vera folded frnm IIM hy t one lirai < h It river am So Town the them y I an hl nih other all oon so th lneurntn binin to assert their fcrtlnntl m the Infantry Infan-try forded the rfler maI I took porarMlnn of their work 40 J hnrtly aflirvfanla VlonninIV Wnrl Lieut Hemlnc tbllowtd with l ther Run under his cam and As ooon W IOt ord r to Paw fir Inlf I 1Pomr = that e1rdWoAt h eejTfie with the battery 11 Trieft hd boon shot one Madness IVAIIII KltIKp OtJTItlOIIT with n bullet thrtnlth hU nock Charnel ler wa hot through the holy nn1 11 linhman I throuah tSe krv t i > Jon > n throulh aVrm men of battery Jl who waa Kunnir nf the llotchklM lun wo hot thrn X h Ih bodynumlllr and Jn n illl 1 later I th aam day A = we had iron Into the park With mir nun a numlier or aa trip I an4 wam Ces the Money ami i vlewiil Imrmchnvni which w found to be the inlet Pulp lanllal that we had yt encountered Th earth bank In front wa from 10 to 10 feet in I thlrkncx and > in the Inside th trneh wage lInk about two rt below the surfaced or the eground W o found many families where the projee film of our still had penetrat hoar the toil of the Mrthbank hut where they had truck nearer the round they had hulled themrelvea In t he bank Without doing any damage We Second a conililerabl number 0 c our dually np nnt who had bn rendered harm I a during th eni > tnenl Nye camiod wllh mir three mm 1 near lh river huk until about 10 am Arwit still when the engineer corps had fill Ished a temporary Pirman In I r railroad firidge across the river ermatillost us IIi On April 1111th t take our pleerm arrived while listener In Pstallo Kmll 1 h > amr Coil i liallery A was SHOT TIIHOIIOH TUB BODY h > a Maueer but the bullet filled to inch any vital ornn arxt he la I now 11 I under wr tit rOn r-On April 11110 letter rrolInse file I11c I tarn river we advanced a dllnea or I about the Irvilles to TV paint nr tile Illn lIInd TH the opposite bank or which the enemy wr etronily In Irenrlied ln account of the arnv ureii train beyond the Ilaihac tire irntllna Iran wen dismounted trim Hie mr mail advanced wllh no Under time lion of Major Young j illlvt ills lool emitted hr the taink lit tire river bonl 114I yards In Ih fnl of the ony strongest Inlnebnl and we went to wok bulIlln 11 breastwork coca overlord from the rrVmy by a hark anti 10 tile Iwmtrao briuh a few fool In front or ua A ore towns of our sharpshooters taking a hot Iobtsivorsir an enemy n t > uMd hhlI W wer very frequently fre-quently ordered to Itio down on She ground r to devoted volley I that Were limit at 1 revision aharnthwwer Hoon Ono of them fell deal will a bullet through hU brain and In urgon arrive wllh a litter Carded hy Iwo China lo carry him away ollr attar olliy woo area nl them from the Insurgents frolicsome hut luckily no > one wall hurt Wo w fore ordered to bring Its gulls up and ira Into action and battery 11 gun se Hun t Kurt of battery A area ows galling gun was Iddapid behind Ihn breaatwprki which won only partlilly allotted and ofTenl froliitlun l only fur the legal on galling gun and my Rim Wag i lacxl In I he oran otmet lmm < II rely 111911h left of th others We openol nra lmullanoualy and the noiM that we created was almMt I dear mince the KatllnK prune wW very Pleasant runs In arllon on ngcount of their vormstAnt vthlrr It to I nopeox1110 lo hear ilia enemy bullets as they whllie point your mr l after about forty minutedillring whn the nr woo In full rolt and our transom iroMlna the bridge in pursuit we era iirtervd to rcaoe firing and element do shaft m lima me It takes to tell II we had uur clothes Off and went enjoying a swim In tire 11I0 nrandnr tire swint we l1noblered UI our pieces and rarchd a abort 11lame to the left n1 went Into a park near the Lalum pit mention whr wi > liters Joined ly Little Fleming and his Command we remained ramp there until May Ird In tile evening of April rth Call rdgwood cam out from Manila and load allies 1 mwlrwl with Uvr On a lilt morning of May lord Toe load good our placed one at a lime un 11 a raft built for rI the nglnir < orpoo and Crossed the lllo CIrand encamping i n the other fdoltie anl at t a rn tilt fool 1 vilng I day we alartid our aUane on Yo M IIf t this iilau out galling gun suit my gun I oftrre near he advance of the Iun Isnt 1 about D A tit we ailed and lIds a shelf fail the Tend ahead Jtif us and then advanced about DM yards farther I when we cam to a1 place In the mot when they had mad pllfalli with shares pointed bamboo allcka In the bottom of tho holes our Advance wits delayed lightly but no material I damag was dan lyl Ur n ntlinlier of the Infantry war deployel In n skirmish line tend advanced about 1000 yard further when they arrived at a atream anl tile enemy Mnd on them after passing round I the Part of the road that waa md Impossible Vi 0 dncod A 1110 ny llrcu nt a gallop until All Arrived on Ih firing tin oubon wo Immediately tinllmlnl and went Into action Seen Ponie of the other 11 Uce arrIved near the firing line n1 I also opened up when the fourth shot was limit l from the section 2 gun the bucking blew I out of place anti chokwl tile vent disabling the gun and the name thing happen 1 lo lilY gun after tiring forty thr < ii hall Tin Pintle of the llrcwh Marks Wrro ImmiKllately I rent lno to Ma title and the lent were borrd out and I ilia iplndUa returned la me the followIng follow-Ing day Al ooh aa the enemy hogan hlt nf l lo retreat our Infantry forded the To tream shot puraud Ibm until I they ar rived In this town whore they have Fine reinalnell toolve artillery its ohllgtd to remain behln I I until the en gleverrof constructed a raft to crown the trnm anti also mhlle they repaired abridge a-bridge arrived t he river farther In advance ad-vance We arrived here Iy fill and have net been In any orricarhoolent since Thin I a town 01 about 4M1o Inhh lInto II five about fly miles north tit Manila there go I more tarn I houses larre than In any lower we have own since we len Manisa All the troops are lIuurto1 In ballasts and As are 1Uy omrorlnbl In all rettricte 1 tI raIl our ration supply which to I very Ihnlll our lowebt ouresist rot 11 rw Inrul or canned tomatoes Prone huk and coffee IIImolln we have a pilris 01 boon or n row beans fur a chinalf NKUS or roiin riaimuB ni ATII Captain Vpdnnpnd Iran Jut now n relwl a lelfiiraiu announcing flat death of Here nnt Iord Visitor aboard f ihe river 1 gun boat Humor am rife her now that we ar swan seeing homo 1 hi I p they do not fire a Ionu lily 101110 I ana And I line this will and ou not frourge In OOod 101110 lr Wad tgo rd 0 10 411 II rolka I rate tot nuttier L April 17110 I hoped othe received Hoping to later from your noon I n main Your loving broiher OKOMUK I |
