| Show MAJOR YOUNG TO COLONEL BURTON Writes a Hasty but Interesting letter Let-ter on the Utah Batteries TltlltUTE TO FROM riSHEU 111 of 116 splendid 1 Wok 01 Oi I 11 list k 12 ul lonvordsoll Thl morntnga train from the West brought In a good many letters from t he buys In Id nll Mr C H Durton roctlveO a hastily written letter from lo IllcharJ W Young from which the News li I permitted lo nk the I following extract The letter loan Ition dale of Mar lllh at Han Pernando I says Of course IOU know In part what a merry lime ni have had her since Pebruary Mi I have not slept without my trousers have and stocking on more titan one Ines tile fracas started tour days hove I been toilsome and our night much disturbed Personally I haven have-n In over twentyfit engagement beside Mug under fire numerous uther llmei when we urn not replying our batteries hate I shot away I nAn MM n-An 4 wo round of ammunition We have Mown out tent nr vent und have had to hate new bnech bloot its u several of our gun We have had eleven mm die eight killed arms Ihree or natural death and hatt had seventeen or eighteen wounded The record would haw been much greater had It not boon for our wonderful luck and the fait that there Iona nlwaji len a art of the command lying Idle for the time guarding eom weak but threatened pan or the line On one of Crllchlow guns at Hog Stale the other day two men were killed one had his kne hot away two were muck with ei < enl bullet and the place was struck In wteral places 1 At the mine lime a corporal on another piece van killed and shortly after another man wounded wound-ed I fault work as that It I nearly annihilating an-nihilating We have commande the whit shall I MyT admiration of the Islontlm after time our boys have taken ill wllh our guru exposed up to In even I l rU 1 of entrenched tile eng but or nil tills I can better tell you rorno owning when you your wife Knit the Omur are ovated 1 Willi one at chalktalk t hoonue unit vve 1 ollovin tr a little rnitii rimimiH DEATH The tables letlm It I Ford Fisher you probably remember him a splendid gasoline big strong willing quick as clialn lightning Intelligent thorouih lie wan my choloe for a commlMlon Incase In-case of another vacancy worountr our unawares lliher nai varying Webl b gunboat rise Sent went ibmit een mile up the stream and was attacked I Wave very much an though we would given be I nleaeed 0 nent home Uedgewood Crllchlow and Naylor are with me here peninsula Is l In the barrack bar-rack llllM at the waterworks Grant anti Webb are making golden record In the river boat |
